Recommended The Movie: The Guest is a flat-footed genre exercise that's as straight and stripped as they come, but it's brimming with enough style, tension, mood, and technical creativity to successfully cover for its stunning lack of originality.
Each and every year the Tuesdays after Christmas, before New Years, feature next to nothing in Blu-ray and DVD releases. The big release this week is Denzel Washington’s The Equalizer
Recommended The Movie: Following the success of their first driving and eating tour film in The Trip , Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and director Michael Winterbottom all returned for an expected second trip of cars and food, with Italy being the backstop.
You’d think by now people might be tired of “The Hangover,†the raunchy 2009 comedy about four guys and the bachelor party from hell. After all, the movie has run 72 times on HBO and Cinemax, 46 times …
Recommended The Movie: Even when it was first released thirty-three years ago, On Golden Pond already felt dated, so it's no surprise that viewing it now makes it look older than it actually is.
Companies that release DVDs must be anticipating there being little money left after all the holiday shopping because there's an abbreviated list of new DVDs that have just hit stores. Here are some ideas from the small group of new releases.
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Highly Recommended Adapted from the eponymous 1975 play by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer—and in turn, Singer's earlier short story “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” —Barbra Streisand's Yentl (1983) is an uncompromising personal project that's held up quite nicely during the last three decades. Our story follows Yentl Mendel (Streisand) and her father (Nehemiah Persoff) in early 20th century …
Skip It The Movie: Written and directed by John Herzfeld and funded through a Kickstarter crowdsourcing campaign, revolves around the effects of a self-help book written by a mysterious writer named Teddy (Tom Berenger). As the book becomes increasingly popular, its effects can be seen in the lives of a variety of characters, all of whom live in Los Angeles
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released the box art and release dates for The Boxtrolls . The animated film is already racking up the nominations for the upcoming award season. If you missed at the box office you will have you chance to see it, soon…