An unsubstantiated new report claimed on Monday that Microsoft’s next Xbox console will in fact not house a Blu-ray player inside. The new Xbox, expected to be unveiled this year by Microsoft, has alternately been referred to as the “Xbox 720” and its reported codename, “Durango.” Previous reports have claimed that it would include a Blu-ray player. Monday’s report came from the site Gaming …
DVD review: ‘The Jazz Singer’ Historically, the most important scene in the film is the one in which Al Jolson, as a cantor’s son turned secular entertainer, ad libs dialogue as he plays the piano and sings for his mother. The naturalness of that interchange followed by the stiffness of the silent sequence that followed was said to have doomed silent films.
DVD review: ‘Fear and Desire’ Fans of the great director Stanley Kubrick will want to have “Fear and Desire,” his first film, made 50 years ago and until recently available only in bootlegged copies. Four soldiers – their country is not identified – crash-land behind enemy lines and then develop a plan to get back to their unit. Look for Paul Mazursky as a private named Sidney who cracks under …
Which movies to see this weekend, March 1 Two unforgettable portraits of prostitution, early 1930s style, make up this Sunday double-header. The first features the lovely Mae Clarke, as a destitute American showgirl stranded in London and forced into prostitution in order to survive
New on DVD and Blu-ray, March 1 The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare This well-crafted documentary by Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke offers an X-ray of what’s wrong with this nation’s health care system and suggests solutions – among them, that the medical industry needs to switch its focus from intervention to prevention and that patients should change their lifestyles.
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Black Label Society’s long-talked-about Unblackened DVD will now be filmed March 6 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles
Movies under the Stars presented by Fred Astaire Dance Studio, a free community event kicks off Saturday March featuring the movie†Here Comes the Boomâ€, at Kingwood Town Center Park.
DVD review: ‘Smash: Season One’ “Smash hit” is the only way to describe this visually compelling show depicting the struggle to produce a musical about Marilyn Monroe and get it to Broadway. this set with 15 episodes comes just when executive producer Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” is up for numerous Academy Awards
DVD review: ‘The Duellists’ The film was considered a low-budgeter of limited popularity by the releasing company, Paramount. what made the movie for critics were its impeccable Napoleonic-era costumes and pastoral settings, and photography resembling paintings of the early 19th century