Are romance movies more desirable when people are cold? Building on research on (bodily) feeling-as-information and embodied cognition, we hypothesize that physical coldness activates a need for psychological warmth, which in turn leads to an increased liking for romance movies. Four laboratory experiments and an analysis of online movie rental data provide support for our…
In an exclusive clip from the bonus material off the St. Vincent Blu-Ray and DVD, Bill Murray does some splendid seat-dancing in a car. Murray is almost a mythic figure in Hollywoodâjust read what it took to get Murray to star in the movieâand the video below gives a taste of what Murray…
Recommended NOTE: This Blu-ray is available exclusively at Best Buy until May 5th, but can be pre-ordered at Amazon and other outlets. Based on George Jonas' 1984 book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team (much like the 1986 made-for-TV movie Sword of Gideon ), Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005) is a fictional account of the…
After a genuinely terrific cinematic year in 2013, we were probably due for a letdown in 2014, and we got it. There were of course many very good movies last year, but almost all were flawed in one way or another: too narrow, too unfocused, too emotionally remote, or what have you. I’m not sure whether a single one would have cracked my top five of the previous year.
York Minster's Lent Course series for 2015 will discuss how movies such as Love Actually (2003), The Railway Man (2013), The King's Speech (2010) and Calvary (2014), can help us to reflect on the reality of loss and suffering and, perhaps help us to relate to Jesus' ultimate sacrifice: his suffering and death on the cross. Running for four Thursdays from 26 February in the Minster's North …
Foo Fighters will release their HBO series, Sonic Highways, on DVD/Blu-ray and digital on April 7.
Foo Fighters have announced that a DVD version of the “Sonic Highways” miniseries is on the way, building on the success the distinctly American recording project has seen at home and abroad. Earlier this week, the band led by Dave Grohl was voted Best International Act at the UK's NME Awards, and the same night they announced a headlining spot at the Glastonbury Festival — an elusive goal even …
Maine native Elizabeth Strout won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her episodic novel Olive Kitteridge, a collection of 13 thematically connected stories set in Crosby, a coastal town in her state.
Highly Recommended The Movies: Before developing The Walking Dead into successful TV show and after co-writing A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors , Frank Darabont enjoyed a career as the prestigious writer/director of Stephen King dramas, as well as the director of a Frank Capra send-off that bombed at the box office. But hey, being the talent behind the #1 movie on IMDB pretty much …
MGM Tomorrow, Kevin Costner 's eighth sports film, McFarland, USA , hits theaters. It's a Disney-produced drama that stars the 60-year-old actor as a track coach whose job history lands him at tiny McFarland High School in California