DVD review: ‘Jolene’ A decade later he cast a Juilliard graduate named Jessica Chastain in her first movie role as the title character in “Jolene.” A magnet to men, she winds up married to a bigamist and to an abusive religious zealot and in relationships with a Las Vegas mobster (a compelling Chazz Palminteri) and with a female warden (Frances Fisher) at a mental hospital where Jolene is …
Movies to see this weekend, Nov. 23 Flight One of the best plane-crash sequences in all of film highlights this drama about a gifted pilot, suffering from alcoholism, on a collision course with authorities and his own illness. Directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Denzel Washington, the film is also notable for Kelly Reilly, who does strong work as a heroin addict struggling with her own …
Last year I gave you my list of the best movies to watch for Thanksgiving, and even a list of the best “alternate” movies to watch for Thanksgiving. This year, I’ve got you a list of a very different sort — movies about American Indians, to add to your viewing list this holiday season.
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Movies to see this weekend, Nov. 21 The Sessions John Hawkes plays a polio victim who can’t move his arms or legs but wants to experience sex for the first time, so he hires therapist Helen Hunt in this well-acted, humane and sexually explicit drama. A Royal Affair This fascinating story, straight out of Danish history, is about a doctor who ends up dictating Denmark’s politics through the …
RASCAL FLATTS: ALL ACCESS & UNCOVERED DVD is available today and Gary LeVox talks with Detroit station 99.5 WYCD about the DVD documentary, the inner struggles, and something new in the works.
Failing to Capture a Revolution Ten years ago, the WWE released a DVD/VHS documentary called NWO : Back in Black. It was a pretty bare bones, hour-long documentary that glossed over a lot of the group’s incredibly popular run. Earlier this month, WWE released an entirely new DVD/Blu Ray collection on the infamous group.
Blu-ray review: ‘Umberto D.’ Umberto D. One of the masterpieces of world cinema – and a supreme example of Italian neorealism at its very best – Vittorio De Sica’s 1952 classic is now available in pristine Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection. Battisti (who died in 1977 at age 94) achieved screen immortality on the basis of a single film
DVD review: ‘Secret Beyond the Door’ Secret Beyond the Door In the mid-1940s, Fritz Lang and actress Joan Bennett combined for a trio of magical film noirs that proved important to both careers.