DVD review: Skyfall
James Bond’s 50th anniversary film was a phenomenal hit in the cinema, even by 007 standards – and fair enough.
February 17, 2013
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James Bond’s 50th anniversary film was a phenomenal hit in the cinema, even by 007 standards – and fair enough.
THIS DVD-CD release includes the remastered chart-topping original Arista album from the late Whitney Houston.
Silent-film star Douglas Fairbanks is at the height of his swashbuckling fame with 1924’s “The Thief of Bagdad.” The epic swashbuckler makes its Blu-ray debut Tuesday, Feb. 19.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Rarely does a modern horror film fill me with the kind of dread that makes pedestrian scenes feel ripe for a jolt
Today’s Movies in the Park is canceled due to inclement weather and will be rescheduled for a later date. Previously, Movies at the Park was held on Fridays at Skinner Plaza, but this year the event will be held on Saturdays at the park at Adelup.
Sure, Hollywood’s mostly do. But here’s why I can’t agree cinema is over.
“I just need another hit, just one more,†maintains Ethan Hawke’s true-crime author, Ellison, who has hauled his sweet little family to a house containing a horrifying secret.
Woody Allen’s latest very much feels like a bunch of half-baked ideas the auteur has been working on since he started out: a mortician who can only sing opera sublimely in the shower, an ordinary man (Roberto Benigni) who is thrust into the spotlight for no good reason.
After a first hour every bit as dreary as Quantum of Solace, this wildly successful slice of Bond (above) is rescued by Ben Whishaw’s amiable Q and by a bonkers turn (Brando in The Missouri Breaks springs to mind) from Javier Bardem as the vengeful former 00-agent hell-bent on offing M (Judi Dench).
“You’re an activist not a supplicant,†maintains Alessandro Nivola’s sleazy intellectual, Roland, to his idealistic teen daughter, Ginger (Elle Fanning, convincing), in Sally Potter’s disjointed but good-looking portrait of teenage hormones and family dysfunction in early 1960s London.