This week’s DVD releases are highlighted by a comic-book adaptation from writer-director Frank Miller and the post-World War II drama that helped Kate Winslet land her first Oscar.
Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow sits in King Kong’s hand atop New York’s Empire State Building in a scene from director Peter Jackson’s “King Kong.†The DVD came out this week. Two versions are available and RGJ film critic Forrest Hartman suggests the two-disc set is the better buy.
What’s different about about the Newtown Massacre? Not very much. On top of the Columbine tragedy, “The Dark Knight Rises†shooting and so on and so on, it still doesn’t even have its own Twitter hashtag
This week is relatively light on major video releases, but the quality of the titles more than makes up for the slight number.
The 1998 version of “Les Miserables,†starring Liam Neeson, arrives on Blu-ray this week, along with a few other…
Our kooky, hair-splitting, possible skull-cracking, debate-inducing, week-long project of asking people to nominate all things best in science fiction and fantasy continues.
“Valiant”: Walt Disney Pictures’ story of heroic carrier pigeons helping the Allied cause during World War II received a theatrical release, but it would have been better suited as a direct-to-video title.
“I didn’t even know who Laurence Olivier was,†admits a wonderfully entertaining Michael Gambon of his audition for the National Theatre.
Everybody knows the classic winter holiday movies, from older ones like It’s a Wonderful Life to newer ones like A Christmas Story , to ones that get remade over and over (and over) again like A Christmas Carol . Whether or not you like such movies, you must admit that it does get a bit repetitive watching the same stories over and over again every year, with the possible exception of the …
W. Rated PG-13 for language including sexual references, some alcohol abuse, smoking and brief disturbing war images.