Former drug addict makes warning DVD for teenagers
A FORMER drug addict has made a DVD warning young people about the dangers of dabbling in alcohol and other illegal substances.
February 1, 2013
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A FORMER drug addict has made a DVD warning young people about the dangers of dabbling in alcohol and other illegal substances.
Silent films – 40 movies will screen Silent films – 40 movies will screen Some 40 silent films, all projected on 35mm, will be screened in the Bay Area through February (three unrelated film series plus the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum’s usual weekly fare). Most intriguing is a traveling Pickford series, with author Christel Schmidt presenting a program each of the next three nights …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Jan. 29 The Dark Knight Returns, Part Two” (2013), “Best of Warner Bros.
Movies opening Friday, Jan. 25 Witch Hunters Fairy tale figures Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) bust out of that old-school gingerbread world with weapons blazing
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Jan. 22 Inferno (2012), Dirty Energy (2012), Don Giovanni (1979), End of Animal (2010), End of Watch (2012), Fat Kid Rules the World (2012), For a Good Time, Call ..
DVD review: ‘West of Broadway’ A few years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine this 1931 MGM film ever coming to home video. Gilbert is known as the greatest casualty of the transition to sound, and it’s true, and yet I have always preferred his wry, wistful, proud talkie persona to his dashing silent incarnation.
DVD review: ‘Weekend’ of your opinion of his later work, “Weekend,” his 15th feature in nine years, was the last film of the first stage of his career, which began with 1959’s “Breathless” and produced most of his best-known works (“Contempt,” “Vivre sa vie,” “Alphaville,” “Band of Outsiders,” etc.). Featuring a set-piece of cinematic legend – a lengthy traffic jam sequence that goes for …
Movies opening Friday, Jan. 18 The Last Stand The Governator pumps up his acting resume with this tale of a cartel honcho who busts out of federal custody and makes a run for the border. The Law in These Parts This documentary examines the legal system of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, established more than 40 years ago by the Israel Defense Forces
Film director Jim Sheridan has described most modern movies as “crap†and has accused the big studios of abandoning serious filmmaking.