Toni Collette shines in “In Her Shoes.†/ KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/AP “The Legend of Zorro”: Audiences snored some “Z’s” of their own for the return of Antonio Banderas’ Zorro, a box-office dud that reunited the actor with “The Mask of Zorro” co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones and director Martin Campbell.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are from stills provided by The Criterion Collection and promotional materials, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. It starts off as postcards and lulls you, with its eye-popping, rich ‘n warm views of Old-World Italy and the Mediterranean, into a wide-open tourist mode — all the better to guide you to some …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are from stills provided by The Criterion Collection and promotional materials, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. It starts off as postcards and lulls you, with its eye-popping, rich ‘n warm views of Old-World Italy and the Mediterranean, into a wide-open tourist mode — all the better to guide you to some …
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.
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…
“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.
Nona Gaye gets “The Gospel. / Chris Polk/Chris Polk “The Cave”: Hollywood went all the way to Romania to bore us with this derivative monster flick.