January 23, 2012
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Movie sales took a hit during the Rugby World Cup and after Christchurch’s February earthquake last year.The Motion Picture Distributors’ Association of New Zealand has released the box office figures comparing the 2010 and 2011…
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) This four-disc set from the Warner Archive resurrects the early (and most interesting part of) Robert Montgomery’s career. Circa 1930-31, he was the exemplar of the new young man, and as such he…
Albert Nobbs Declaration of War The Grey Man on a Ledge One for the Money Sing Your Song Sleeping Beauty We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Adventures of Tintin Director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson collaborated on this entertaining 3-D motion-capture adaptation of the classic Hergé comics, which follow an itinerant teen reporter (the…
Tuesday’s DVD releases include a high-flying film classic and a powerful tale about a man fighting cancer.
Francis Ford Cuppola is oft quoted as having said that “Cinema, Movies and Magic have always been closely associatedâ€. The magic of movies comes from their ability to make you forget that they are ‘make-believe’. Yet, movies today and those of the pre-digital age have one key difference – realism!
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) These 1974 20th Century Fox “neo noir” releases provide visions of the American underworld that move into deep psychological waters. In John Frankenheimer’s “99 and 44/100% Dead!” the waters…
Beauty and the Beast 3-D: This Disney classic was an enchanting feast of extraordinary animated film when it debuted in 1991. With catchy and amusing songs, and even a completely joyful Busby Berkeley-style precision…
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) 1911 The impressively big-scale war epic commemorates the centennial of the Xinhai Revolution, which brought Sun Yat-sen to power. The problem with the film (co-directed by Jackie Chan and Zhang…