New on DVD and Blu-ray, March 1 The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare This well-crafted documentary by Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke offers an X-ray of what’s wrong with this nation’s health care system and suggests solutions – among them, that the medical industry needs to switch its focus from intervention to prevention and that patients should change their lifestyles.
Vampires, Wolverines and video game characters populate this week’s new DVD releases.
Rent It With an industry cranking out more product faster than ever, “middle class” cinema has all but disappeared, Between the major blockbusters and studio “independents,” there used to be a range of $20 and $30m comedies and dramas to help round out a studio’s release schedule, but these days such films are generally doomed to a DVD premiere, despite a cast and crew that would’ve warranted a …
The 1973 film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar will be released on Blu-ray by Universal Studios May 7.
By Garrett Conti, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review “The Master†(2012, R, 144 min., $29.98). The combination of director Paul Thomas Anderson with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Joaquin Phoenix is the …
Wesleyan’s Film Expert Jeanine Basinger Writes ‘I Do And I Don’t’ Jeanine Basinger has been happily married for 45 years, so she knows a lot about how to make a marriage work. Basinger, the founder and director of the Film Studies Department at Wesleyan University in Middletown, also knows a lot about marriage movies, and what makes them work.
In the latest collection of houses recognizable from their roles in films and television, we have homes made famous in 1980s horror and contemporary horror, one from a famous drug-lord movie, one from a classic sitcom, and of course the expected handful of reality-show late-model “McMansions.” Among those are few pedigreed mansions, estates that are up for sale, as well as high-end rentals …
Wesleyan’s Film Expert Jeanine Basinger Writes ‘I Do And I Don’t’ Jeanine Basinger has been happily married for 45 years, so she knows a lot about how to make a marriage work.