ArtsBeat: This Week’s Movies : March 8
Times critics on “Oz the Great and Powerful,†“Beyond the Hills†and “The We and the I.â€
March 8, 2013
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Times critics on “Oz the Great and Powerful,†“Beyond the Hills†and “The We and the I.â€
Internationally-acclaimed Oras Na, GMA News and Public Affairs’ thought-provoking documentary on the deteriorating state of the environment, is now out on DVD . After receiving the Martine Filippi Award for Discovery in the prestigious International Union…
Jeanine Basinger discusses her book “I Do and I Don’t,” a history of Hollywood’s portrayal of marriage.
FT Island took over a DVD chart in Japan with a concert DVD for its concert in Korea. The band′s 2012 Take FT Island in Seoul DVD managed to top Yamano Music′s weekly K-Pop DVD chart with sales from February 25 to March 3.
Romance movies come and go, but a crackerjack bank heist picture is a joy forever. Because of film’s unique power to manipulate time, the medi- um is ideally suited to tell stories in which a character races the clock. It’s a mechanism that really cannot, should not fail.
Rent It THE FILM: I have previously expressed how much I appreciate the wide variety of films I’ve been exposed to while writing for DVD Talk. Some of my favorite reviews to write have been for films I was not expecting to be great
Which movies to see this weekend, March 8 Beautiful Creatures This story of a mortal boy and the witch girl he loves, based on the popular novel, presses all the teenage-angst buttons that would seem to guarantee commercial success. Side Effects Steven Soderbergh’s well-acted, nicely plotted thriller tells the story of a young woman (Rooney Mara) whose psychiatrist (Jude Law) prescribes a mood …
Last November’s box-office rivals “Wreck-It Ralph†and the final “Twilight†film are doing…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 15-year-old girl from a fundamentalist Mormon family hears rock music for the first time and miraculously finds she’s pregnant in “Electrick Children,” the debut feature from writer-director Rebecca Thomas.
Chase Williamson in “John Dies at the End.†Rating: R for some sexuality, brief graphic nudity and some violence. In subtitled French.