This week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases offers mostly newer titles, but there’s a Criterion release, and one of the best picture nominees, and some turkeys (literally, there’s a film about turkeys).
This was a bad year for movies, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t see at least 25 good ones. It bothers me that my list consists of a few foreign films and documentaries, since most people won’t even know those …
Last weekend, we had two movies that brought in more than $25 million but as we get to the middle of August and the end of summer, we’ll be lucky if we get any that gross more than $20 million over the weekend. Between people going on vacation and some schools starting up early, the rest of the summer is generally a bit of a wash, although the studios aren’t going to give up that summer box …
‘Elysium’ and ‘Lovelace’ receive 2 1/2 stars.