Top 5 DVD gifts: cute animals, Cirque, ‘Oz’
Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson selects a roundup of gift-worthy DVDs for young and adult viewers.
December 15, 2013
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Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson selects a roundup of gift-worthy DVDs for young and adult viewers.
Only God Forgives | Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Man Of Steel | The Lone Ranger | The Phantom Of The Opera Only God Forgives Reading this on mobile? Click here to view “Drive was going to feel like really, really good cocaine and Only God Forgives will then be very strong acid,” says director Nicolas Winding Refn on the commentary to his latest team-up with Ryan Gosling
Kay wants to replace her bulky old TV set with a flat screen for watching movies on DVD. Can she use a PC monitor instead of a TV set and thus avoid having to pay for a TV license? I’ve been using a bulky analogue TV set as a screen for my DVD player.
Think silent films reached a high point with The Artist? The pre-sound era produced some of the most beautiful, arresting films ever made
Moving bits of paper around (the old way) or painting with billions of pixels (the new) has conjured up some of the greatest films of all time. From The Iron Giant to Persepolis, Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 best • Top 10 war movies • Top 10 teen movies • Top 10 superhero movies • Top 10 westerns • Top 10 documentaries • Top 10 movie adaptations • More Guardian and Observer critics …
JFK | The Wolverine | Nosferatu | Streets Of Fire | Milius Reading this on mobile? Click here to view As the 50th anniversary of John F Kennedy’s assassination approaches you’ll notice that, for such an important event, Hollywood movies on the subject are pretty thin on the ground.
My Sony DVD RDR player was wrecked by an automatic download – but Sony’s customer care doesn’t want to know Our Sony DVD RDR player was working perfectly until we came back from a break to find it downloading an upgrade that rendered it incapable of receiving a signal.
Pacific Rim | 8 1/2 | The Great Gatsby | Monster’s University | Fantastic Voyage/Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea Pacific Rim Reading this on mobile? Click here to view The main problem with blockbusters is that they cost so bloody much
Halloween | The Fury | Lifeforce | Rosemary’s Baby | Curse Of Chucky | American Horror Story | Carry On Screaming What would Halloween be without, er, Halloween ?
DVD releases for Tuesday, Oct. 8, include Joss Whedon’s take on “Much Ado About Nothingâ€; the thrillers “Europa Report,†“After Earth†andâ€The Purgeâ€; and “The Hangover Part III.â€