A new Kinect motion-sensing device, Blu-Ray support, and augmented reality glasses may top the list of new features of the next generation of Microsoft’s popular Xbox gaming console, a gaming site reported this week.
Life of Pi and Cloud Atlas are two complicated, ambitious novels recently adapted for the big screen. NPR’s Elizabeth Blair explores what makes some singular narratives workable on film — and what makes some fail.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Nov. 20 Movie Collection” (various dates), “Another Kind” (2011), “Backslasher” (2012), “Black Magic” (1949), “Bringing Up Bobby” (2011), “The Captain’s Table” (1959), “Cinderella” (1950), “Cinderella II & Cinderella III” (2002, ’07), “Dragons: When Horror Came to Shochiku” (various dates), “The Expendables 2” (2012), “Eyewitness” (1956), “Gingerdead Man Trilogy Box Set …
DVD and Blu-ray sales were dominated by the debuting “The Amazing Spider-Man,” while rentals were ruled by the returning “Prometheus.” Holdovers “The Campaign” and “Disney Fairies: Secret of the Wings” were strong sellers, and “Magic Mike” and “The Avengers” were still strong rentals after many weeks on the charts.
Disney is shutting down its Disney Movies Online service, which failed to catch on with users.
The brand new Friends: The Complete Series Blu-ray set boasts more than 20 hours of bonus material, including three hours of never-before-seen features, but it’s what’s missing from the collection that has some fans disappointed: deleted footage.The extras were included in previously released DVD versions of Friends, but producers opted to only feature the original broadcast episodes of the show …
Twenty years ago, Quentin Tarantino directed Reservoir Dogs. Chances are you didn’t see it in a theater then — it