Guillermo del Toro’s giant-robot-versus-giant-monster science fiction flick was the highest grossing original movie of the summer, yet it’s Blue-ray package art is … not all that original, it turns out.
Here’s what I learned, having been away so long.
If you liked “Wedding Crashers,” and wanted to see Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson do their thing again, but in a different, less funny film, then find your way to this all right comedy about two old, out-of-work salesmen who get internships at Google. But they’re old, you exclaim!
Grade • A DVD • If you haven’t seen the BBC/PBS series “Call the Midwife,†you don’t know what you’ve been missing. This fact-based drama is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth (Jenny Lee), who arrives in London’s downtrodden East End in 1957 and is horrified by what she discovers. It’s like something out of the 19th century — including pregnant women who have venereal diseases and one woman …
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu-ray sales and rentals according to the company’s Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials …
Grade • A DVD • Richard Linklater’s “Before†films have been a revelation over the last two decades, checking in every nine years on one couple’s life from first kiss through second thoughts. The third installment, “Before Midnight,†finds American author Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and French activist Celine (Julie Delpy) with two daughters, spending a summer vacation in Greece, and contemplating their …
Grade • B+ DVD • “The Conjuring†is proof that a nerve-shaking horror movie need not be wall-to-wall blood. Director James Wan (“Saw,†“Insidious: Chapter 2â€) takes the story of true-life demon hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), the folks behind the “Amityville Horror†case, as they investigate a creepy house in Rhode Island
All Is Lost (PG-13) Solo sailor Robert Redford faces mortality after his boat is badly damaged.
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –Â Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT), the leader in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced the top ten Movies on Demand (MOD) titles based on consumer …