Chances are pretty good that if you went to the movies this weekend, you went to see something with Jessica Chastain in it. Her two current movies, Zero Dark Thirty and the horror film Mama, topped the box office this weekend.
Dozens of theaters will be shut down because of the cost of converting to digital projection.
Black Label Society will be filming a special show in Los Angeles which will be released on an upcoming DVD
DVD review: ‘West of Broadway’ A few years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine this 1931 MGM film ever coming to home video. Gilbert is known as the greatest casualty of the transition to sound, and it’s true, and yet I have always preferred his wry, wistful, proud talkie persona to his dashing silent incarnation.
DVD review: ‘Weekend’ of your opinion of his later work, “Weekend,” his 15th feature in nine years, was the last film of the first stage of his career, which began with 1959’s “Breathless” and produced most of his best-known works (“Contempt,” “Vivre sa vie,” “Alphaville,” “Band of Outsiders,” etc.). Featuring a set-piece of cinematic legend – a lengthy traffic jam sequence that goes for …
In the first minutes of a quick sitdown with Dustin Hoffman, the sprightly icon of 20th-century cinema – The Graduate, Marathon Man, Kramer vs. Kramer, All the President’s Men, Midnight Cowboy, Rain Man, Tootsie (come on, this is ridiculous!) – manages to reference Ireland, James Joyce, Ulysses, waiting tables, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and tortoise- shell glasses.
A hymn to adolescent self-absorption, Ol Parker’s Now Is Good stars Dakota Fanning as a teenage girl with one of those rare strains of terminal cancer which don’t make you look unhealthy.
DVD rental firm Blockbuster has announced plans to close 23 stores in Scotland with the loss of around 100 jobs as part of a phased Âclosure across the UK over the coming weeks.
New DVDs from VCI Entertainment resurrect the films of the British comedians Will Hay and Norman Wisdom.
Highly Recommended A pretty good B-Western featuring John Wayne, very early in his starring career, The New Frontier (1935) breaks no new ground but is well made for its budget level. Indeed, it’s fairly lavish by Republic Pictures’ standards, the studio then just getting started itself, the company having been founded earlier that year when Consolidated Film Laboratories president Herbert J …