“Rush,†Ron Howard’s drama about the 1976 Formula One racing season and the bitter rivalry between racers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, is opening in theaters this weekend to much acclaim (visit ColumbusAlive.com for our review on Friday).
New DVD releases for Tuesday, Sept.
New Star Was movies will include origins tales as well as standalone films featuring characters from original trilogy Disney has confirmed that its planned spin-off Star Wars movies will be origins stories . The studio, which bought all rights to the long-running space opera saga last October with its purchase of LucasFilm for $4.05bn, has long said it plans a new film each year from 2015
New DVD releases for Tuesday, Sept. 17, include “World War Z,†about a man (Brad Pitt) trying to save civilization from a zombie apocalypse; the spy drama “The Eastâ€; the dark Internet tale “Disconnectâ€; and “The Bling Ring,†about teen robbers.
A reader says video files in VOB format play on his computer, but seems to be overlooking the need to burn them to DVD as video files, rather than as data files.
New DVD releases for Tuesday, Sept.
From superhero movies to techy sitcoms to captains of industry, geeks have been running the show for years.
BFI, retail Night and the City is the stand-out title here, a top-quality example of the genre with the unusual feature that the mean streets through which smalltime hustler Richard Widmark plies his trade are the still-familiar ones of postwar London. Like his lead character, Jules Dassin, whose direction is exhilarating, was on the run – from the McCarthy witchhunt in Hollywood. He’s best …
Anchor Bay, rental and retail Produced largely by the same team as the delightful Little Miss Sunshine, this is never as successful or as funny as that surprise hit, but does have the performances of Amy Adams and Emily Blunt to commend it. Not only are these strong and empathetic, but they are playing very much against type: the usually imperious Blunt is the family screw-up, while Adams, sunny …
Senior Sky Movies executive’s comments follow Ofcom’s warning not to overestimate VOD operators’ importance The UK pay-TV market for films has changed dramatically since Ofcom began its inquiry into BSkyB’s dominance of the sector in 2010, a senior Sky Movies executive has said. Simon Rexworthy, the Sky Movies controller of acquisitions and on demand, co-hosting a London event to publicise …