New on DVD and Blu-ray, Sept. 21 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel A top-shelf English cast (Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith) highlights this story of adrift British retirees searching for something better in life in the Indian city of Jaipur. The Cabin in the Woods This satirical horror film defiantly follows its own muse – and that muse is a zombie carrying a bear trap on a …
Movies to see this week, Sept. 21 Musician-screenwriter Nick Cave and director John Hillcoat join forces in this Depression drama, set in rural Virginia, about three bootlegging brothers coming up against corrupt government agents.
Movies opening Friday, Sept. 21 End of Watch L.A. cops Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Zavala (Michael Peña) trust their instincts and each other – witness what goes down on their patrol car’s mounted camera.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Sept. 18 Feature: Adventures in Plymptoons! (2011), The Babymakers (2012), Bait (2012), Beauty (2012), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 (2012), Black Sunday: Widescreen” (1978), “The Cabin in the Woods” (2011), “Chico & Rita” (2010), “Children of Paradise” (1945), “Conception” (2011), “Cyrano de Bergerac” (1950), “Dawn of the Dragonslayer …
Movies to see this week, Sept. 14 There’s a familiar appearance to Pixar characters – oversize eyes, chubby cheeks – but their real secret lies in their smart-aleck souls. A Disney movie like “Treasure Planet” may have the look of an oil painting, but leave it to Pixar to work in a G-rated joke about breaking wind
Stories set against the backdrop of bustling newspaper offices with hard-bitten reporters have provided many great movies.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Sept. 11 Feature: Adoption Terror (2012), Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010), Certain Prey (2011), Chillers (1987), Cleanskin (2012), Curse M (2012), Dark Night of the Scarecrow: Deluxe Collector’s Edition (1981), Dead Soon (2012), Elles (2011), Entrance (2012), Girl in Progress (2012), Goats (2011), In the Devil’s Garden (1971), The Loved Ones (2009), Rosewood Lane (2011 …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Sept. 7 Atonement This is director Joe Wright’s adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel about a cruelly interrupted love affair in England, set before and during World War II. High School It’s well shot, but this blunt-as-a-blunt stoner movie – about two kids who, doomed to fail a drug test, scheme to get the whole school baked on high-grade pot – is too cognitively impaired …
Which movies to see this weekend, Aug. 31 Robot & Frank Frank Langella finds one of his best roles in this story of an old man suffering from the beginning stages of dementia who is given a robot as part of his health care