New on DVD and Blu – ray , Oct. 26 Vampire Hunter This crazy mashup, based on Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel, works because the filmmakers decided not to be smirky about the gimmick but to treat it with an illusion of seriousness: Gerrymandering While the tone is sometimes breezy, the content of this advocacy documentary by Jeff Reichert is likely to enrage the viewer – it’s about how politicians …
Movies opening Friday, Oct. 26 All Together Five old friends’ bones are creaking, their memory fading – can the retirement home be far off?
What is it? An asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, due to arrive in just a couple of weeks.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Oct. 23 Vampire Hunter” (2012), “Booley” (2010), “Breaking and Entering” (2010), “Cargo” (2011), “Claustrophobia” (2011), “Conned” (2010), “Crooked Arrows” (2012), “Dropping Evil” (2012), “Esposito” (2011), “Fanny, Annie & Danny” (2010), “Fatherless” (2011), “Fear and Desire” (1953), “Freight” (2010), “From Beneath” (2012), “Gerrymandering” (2010), “Gringo” (2012), “The …
Which movies to see this weekend, Oct .19 The latest edition of the Roxie Theater’s annual celebration of all that is noir and noirish kicks off Friday with a 20th anniversary screening of Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs,” playing alongside one of its principal inspirations, the little-known 1971 “Day of the Wolves.” Cumulatively, what you get is what you get from noir, only in an updated …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Oct. 19 When the patriarch kills a neighbor, the family members become, by ancient custom, prisoners in their own home. Europe’s Most Wanted The “Madagascar” films have never been realistic, or moved at a snail’s pace, but this speed-freaking latest installment – in which our anthropomorphic Zoo Yorkers swim from Africa to France – is frenetic to the point of incoherence …
Movies opening Friday, Oct. 19 Alex Cross Tyler Perry goes all cops and killers in this adaptation of the James Patterson thriller, as a homicide detective dancing a dangerous tango with a sly serial killer (Matthew Fox) who makes it personal.
DARWEN history and heritage group Darwen Days launched its new DVD, Real to Reel, at a coffee morning at Darwen Library.
DVD review: ‘Crimson Petal and the White’ Gillian Anderson (“Bleak House”) plays the heartless madam of Sugar’s brothel, and Amanda Hale is the sickly, delusional wife of Sugar’s regular patron, played by Chris O’Dowd. The miniseries is sexy but, like Faber’s novel, uses the format of the Victorian novel to explore the theme of sexual and emotional repression.