DVD Review: Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated – Season One, Part 2
The final fourteen episodes of the first season of the fun new Scooby-Doo reboot.
The final fourteen episodes of the first season of the fun new Scooby-Doo reboot.
Music DVD Review: Todd Rundgren – Todd Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
A toy company sees that the sales benefits of toys tied to movies and TV shows can work in both directions.
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) There is nothing more buoyant, dangerous or irrepressible than James Cagney in his first years of stardom. Every film he did between 1931 and 1934 is worth seeing. Each one is a delight
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Produced and directed by Capt. James T.
Hi Mick: Why do quality actors like Geoffrey Rush and Robert Downey Jr., who presumably have long ago achieved financial comfort, take part in bad movies?
Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus is not your typical toga-and-sandals Shakespeare. It’s camouflage-and-combat boots Shakespeare, it’s gritty, it’s graffitied. Although the actor and first-time director is faithful to the Bard’s text, setting his tale of usurpation and political upheaval in the city-state of Rome, it looks more like Bosnia, or Beirut.
‘Take Shelter’; ‘Frontline: The Interrupters’; ‘The Rum Diary’; ‘Tiny Furniture.’ Also: “Frontline: The Interrupters,” “The Rum Diary” and “Tiny Furniture.”
This month’s column looks at Shakespeare on screen in “Anonymous” and “Shakespeare in Love”; newly-mastered releases of David O. Selznick’s “A Star Is Born” and “Nothing Sacred”; and three manufactured-on-demand attractions.
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from an earlier standard-definition DVD, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I’m starting to feel a surge of ’90s nostalgia lately, which is something I thought I’d never say. Though, to be fair, it’s really only for the cinema of the decade, and mainly due to the recent spate of Miramax films making their way to Blu …
