New on DVD: From macabre to Broadway
This week’s DVD picks range from the macabre to the musical.
January 4, 2013
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This week’s DVD picks range from the macabre to the musical.
Movies to see this weekend, Jan. 4 Tristana A restoration of Luis Buñuel’s 1970 masterpiece stars Catherine Deneuve as the title character, a young innocent corrupted by her guardian (Buñuel regular Fernando Rey), who seeks escape with her lover (Franco Nero). Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti Western, about an escaped slave (Jamie Foxx) who teams up with a bounty hunter (Christoph …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Jan. 4 Cosmopolis This latest from David Cronenberg, based on a novel by Don DeLillo, follows a 28-year-old billionaire through a dystopian urban landscape of his own creation, in this intermittently imaginative and yet ultimately disappointing film.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. You’d be forgiven for forgetting Resident Evil: Retribution’s super generic subtitle, as it may as well be called “This Year’s Resident Evil 3D.” This is the fifth Milla Jovovich-lead film in the franchise, and directly follows the events of last year’s Resident Evil: Afterlife , which marked the return of …
Paramount Home Media Distribution announced today that Robert Zemeckis’ Flight , starring Denzel Washington, will be available on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Download and On Demand on February 5th.
Walt Disney Animation Studios announced today the debut of the hit arcade-game-hopping adventure Wreck-It Ralph marking a Disney first with the early release of the HD Digital and HD Digital 3D on February 12, followed by the 4-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack, 2-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, SD Digital and On-Demand release on March 5.
NEW YEAR’S TWEETS PAVE THE ROAD TO DISNEY’S “OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL† FANS JOURNEY TO DISNEY’S “OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFULâ€
Highly Recommended The Blue Lagoon (1980) is the story of two children, a boy and girl, marooned on a South Seas island paradise. Completely cut-off from civilization, as teenagers they instinctively learn about love and sex. Although it was an enormous hit, earning ten times its cost, it’s also quite odd in that it was marketed as one kind of film, received by audiences as something altogether …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution.
Skip It “Anger Management” is a sitcom for the FX cable channel starring Charlie Sheen. A brief note at the end of each episode states that it is based on the movie of the same name, but does not show any resemblance. Sheen plays a character also creatively named Charlie who was once a major-league baseball player but had to leave due to his anger issues.