New on DVD and Blu-ray, Aug. 3 Detention This high school comedy morphs into a slasher movie, then morphs into a time-traveling/body-switching/world’s-about-to-end science fiction story.
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After the Colorado massacre, film contributor Milos Stehlik asks: What is the responsibility of our blood-soaked movie culture for consuming – to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars – such violent scenarios on film?
POLICE have worked with the Prince’s Trust to create a DVD to tackle shoplifting in Somerset.
Which movies to see this weekend, July 27 While you can argue that the last thing the world needs is another reboot of a comic-book movie, the film gets off to a good start, with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone in the lead roles. Benh Zeitlin’s damply poetic debut follows 6-year-old Hushpuppy (the elemental Quvenzhané Wallis), a denizen of a dirt-poor community in the wetness of the Louisiana …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, July 27 Footnote Two Talmudic scholars – a frustrated, traditionalist father (Shlomo Bar-Aba) and his successful, cutting-edge son (Lior Ashkenazi) – lock horns in writer-director Joseph Cedar’s vivacious, quirky film, a tale of academic maneuvering and mystery that has its little fun with suspense-film conventions.
There’s something about the dark and quiet of a movie theater that allows us to make ourselves vulnerable.
Though Variety might have scooped them a bit early, the Toronto International Film Festival, which takes place in Degrassitown from September 6-16th, has announced its slate of films and, as always with this increasingly exciting festival, we’re intrigued about many of the films making their world premiere.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, July 24 Untouchable” (2012), “Footnote” (2012), “Girl From the Naked Eye” (2012), “Girls’ Night: Spaghetti Western Collection (various dates) Treasure Island (2012).