'Descendants' soars onto DVD
Droll American filmmaker Alexander Payne recently won his second Oscar, this time for collaborating with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash on the screenplay for The Descendants.
March 25, 2012
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Droll American filmmaker Alexander Payne recently won his second Oscar, this time for collaborating with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash on the screenplay for The Descendants.
This week’s home video releases range from a family film based on a classic cartoon character to a glitzy, international thriller starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.
IHS Screen Digest is forecasting that online streaming is going to beat out Blu-rays and DVDs for total viewers in 2012, but supply a lot less revenue.
Chris Knight: Koushun Takami is a former journalist with a degree in literature, but it’s easy to peg him as a disgruntled middle-school teacher. His 1999 novel Battle Royale was made into a 2000 film of the same name
DVD Talk Collector Series 2011 was, unquestionably, a fantastic year for fans of classic cinema.
Recommended The Film: Kathryn Stockett wrote her wildly-popular novel The Help as a way of fondly remembering the black women who helped raise her, and her close friend, director Tate Taylor, during and after the civil rights surge in the ’60s (and ’70s). Taylor obviously gets the fondness that Stockett crams into her book, because his film version follows a similar tone. While it’s still a …
The guilty joy and secret pleasure of indulging in cheap, buttered movie theater popcorn and a mystery-meat hot dog seem to be behind us.
The bad boys of Comedy Central, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, haven’t let their Broadway success go to their head. Their satirical series “South Park” is just as wickedly funny as ever. Season 15 arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, March 27.
Consumers will watch more movies online than on DVDs in 2012 for the first time, but will spend far less doing so, according to a new report.
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The screengrabs used here are taken from the standard-definition DVD included in the set, not the Blu-ray edition under review.