A scene from the So Yong Kim film “For Ellen,†featuring Paul Dano as a struggling musician estranged from his wife (Margarita Levieva) but seeking to remain a part of his daughter’s life.
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time: a scenic comedy based on a hit comic novel, with a romance between Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt at its heart.
As in Suzanne Collins’s zillion-selling, post-apocalyptic novels, a teenage girl (Jennifer Lawrence) has to fight 23 other teens to the death in a televised contest.
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Which movies to see this weekend, Aug. 31 Robot & Frank Frank Langella finds one of his best roles in this story of an old man suffering from the beginning stages of dementia who is given a robot as part of his health care
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Aug. 31 Battleship This humongous alien-invasion flick, based on the bombs-away Hasbro naval guessing game, is loud, large, stupid and stars Taylor Kitsch as the idiot/slacker Navy officer who needs to save the Earth after aliens respond to a beacon by paying a visit. Darling Companion Lackluster characters can’t hold up the spare story, at least not completely, but this …
It’s a refurb, and it doesn’t do Wi-Fi out of the box, but that’s still a smokin’ deal on a streaming-friendly set-top. [Read more]
Over the past week, Marvel has released a bevy of promo videos for the upcoming Avengers Blu-ray pack. read more
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