Foreign movies lead the way for new DVD releases this week
Lyrical, touching new film from Hong Kong leads foreign films that dominate this week’s new DVD releases.
March 3, 2013
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Lyrical, touching new film from Hong Kong leads foreign films that dominate this week’s new DVD releases.
Highly Recommended *All images in this review taken from the Blu-ray discs in this set. Click on all images to view full size caps.
Argo is further proof, after the excellent Gone Baby Gone and efficient The Town, that Ben Affleck is an accomplished film-maker. The 1979 Iranian hostage crisis is the catalyst for this bizarre true story, in which a CIA agent (Affleck) sets up a fake fantasy film in order to smuggle six Americans, hiding at the Canadian embassy, out of Tehran. He recruits a foul-mouthed producer (Alan Arkin …
This week’s video releases range from a family friendly fantasy starring Brendan Fraser to an R-rated animated film that won a Golden Globe.
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DVD Talk Collector Series All’s Well That Ends Well, at least for the 1970 film version of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar . Not a great success when it was new, this Panavision production had previously been released to DVD by Lions Gate/Artisan in 2004 and 2007, both times utilizing the same old, genuinely ugly and unpardonably panned-and-scanned video master.
Our DVD Giveaway no. 11 from MagnaVision Home Video consists of an inspiring musical, high-octane action and Oscar-winning thriller. 3 sets of ‘Sparkle,’ ‘Premium Rush,’ and ‘Argo’ DVDs are up for grabs! SPARKLE Musical prodigy, Sparkle (Jordin Sparks) struggles to become a star while overcoming issues that are tearing her family apart.
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Perhaps in the haze of the post-Oscar season, there wasn’t a lot of pressure to put out films on Blu-ray this week, but we are getting two of the best films of last year, and one of the Coen Brothers ’ most underrated films (partly because it was a bomb on release).