Movies Now Showing, 1/20/2012
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January 20, 2012
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Some reviews originate at newspapers that do not award star ratings; some movies are not screened in advance for critics.
Washington, D.C. (January 19, 2012) — Redbox is now the nation’s leading renter of DVD and Blu-ray discs thanks to the continued decline of video stores and recent missteps by the online video service, Netflix.
The Adventures of Tintin Director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson collaborated on this entertaining 3-D motion-capture adaptation of the classic Hergé comics, which follow an itinerant teen reporter (the…
Highly Recommended The Movie: La Rose De Fer , or The Iron Rose , one of Jean Rollin’s most obscure films at least in terms of visibility, is short on plot but high on atmosphere. A young man (Hugues Quester) and a young woman (Francoise Pascal of The Grapes Of Death ) are drawn to each other after they meet and soon head off on a bicycle ride that leads them to a creepy old cemetery.
Tuesday’s DVD releases include a high-flying film classic and a powerful tale about a man fighting cancer.
“Red Tails,” in theaters this weekend, is about the first black fighter pilots in the United States: the Tuskegee Airmen who finally saw battle in the skies over Europe during World War II. It’s a story that’s very much worth telling; the film itself, however, is hokey and old-fashioned.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 (UPI) — Brad Pitt’s baseball picture “Moneyball” is the top-selling DVD in the United States, Rentrak reported Thursday.
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Redbox’s kiosks are now the leading source of physical DVD rentals in the U.S., and video-on-demand accounts for one out of three paid movie rentals.
The decline in DVD sales has been the primary culprit for a weak quarter and resulted from the consumer shift to Internet streaming. Our price estimate of $40.20 for Time Warner, implies a premium of little under 10% to the market price.