Highly Recommended THE CONCERT: I have to admit right off the bat that, while I count Mahler among my favorite composers, I am at best a classical-music dilettante whose first exposure to and interest in his music came from hearing alluring snatches of it in movies, from Husbands and Wives to In a Year with 13 Moons to Velvet Goldmine ; the performance of his second symphony that is under review …
Above: Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford star in the sci-fi/ western flick, “Cowboys & Aliens.”
Almost everyone except for the most Scroogiest among us loves music and movies, so DVD, Blu-Ray and CD box sets always make for a popular gift.
Almost everyone except for the most Scroogiest among us loves music and movies, so DVD, Blu-Ray and CD box sets always make for a popular gift.
Highly Recommended Within our lifetimes we’ve marveled as biologists have managed to look at ever smaller and smaller things; And astronomers have looked further and further into the dark night sky, back in time and out in space. But maybe the most mysterious of all is neither the small nor the large; it’s us, up close. Could we even recognize ourselves, and, if we did, would we know ourselves …
 The big day is coming and the rush for those last minute holiday gifts is on. Last week was a sad DVD Shopping Bag list of titles. There wasn’t much there
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 1999 DVD release and reflect neither the corrected aspect ratio nor the improved image quality of the Blu-ray edition under review. All the excitement leading up to the 1998 release of Velvet Goldmine , Todd Haynes’s ( I’m Not There ) epic meditation on the “glam rock” pop-music movement of the early 1970s …
The Salvation Army is releasing a free DVD to help Queenslanders still struggling after last summer’s floods and cyclones.
There are always one or two names on your holiday shopping list that cause trouble.
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Another Earth A mirror Earth pops up in the night sky – and a young woman (co-writer Brit Marling) stares at it, crashing into a family and killing all but the dad (William Mapother). In its most…