Rent It With an industry cranking out more product faster than ever, “middle class” cinema has all but disappeared, Between the major blockbusters and studio “independents,” there used to be a range of $20 and $30m comedies and dramas to help round out a studio’s release schedule, but these days such films are generally doomed to a DVD premiere, despite a cast and crew that would’ve warranted a …
The 1973 film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar will be released on Blu-ray by Universal Studios May 7.
By Garrett Conti, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review “The Master†(2012, R, 144 min., $29.98). The combination of director Paul Thomas Anderson with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Joaquin Phoenix is the …
Wesleyan’s Film Expert Jeanine Basinger Writes ‘I Do And I Don’t’ Jeanine Basinger has been happily married for 45 years, so she knows a lot about how to make a marriage work. Basinger, the founder and director of the Film Studies Department at Wesleyan University in Middletown, also knows a lot about marriage movies, and what makes them work.
Sarah Silverman, the Sklar Brothers, Dana Gould and Aziz Ansari are among the comedians who will be presenting their favorite movies at the 2nd Wayne Federman Film Festival Thursday through Saturday at the Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre.
In the latest collection of houses recognizable from their roles in films and television, we have homes made famous in 1980s horror and contemporary horror, one from a famous drug-lord movie, one from a classic sitcom, and of course the expected handful of reality-show late-model “McMansions.” Among those are few pedigreed mansions, estates that are up for sale, as well as high-end rentals …
Wesleyan’s Film Expert Jeanine Basinger Writes ‘I Do And I Don’t’ Jeanine Basinger has been happily married for 45 years, so she knows a lot about how to make a marriage work.
DVD Talk Collector Series All’s Well That Ends Well, at least for the 1970 film version of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar . Not a great success when it was new, this Panavision production had previously been released to DVD by Lions Gate/Artisan in 2004 and 2007, both times utilizing the same old, genuinely ugly and unpardonably panned-and-scanned video master.
10 art movies that you should see before you graduate–most can be found in the U of R media library.