DVD review: ‘The Films of Jay Rosenblatt’ Rosenblatt, who is program director for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, will take snippets from instructional, industrial and education films from the middle of the 20th century and put them together with music and narration to achieve profound emotional effects. To see a Jay Rosenblatt movie is to come into contact with something deep and true …
New TV shows on DVD this week are led by a couple of very adult series from cable channels Showtime and Comedy Central,…
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) And Everything Is Going Fine Seven years after Spalding Gray took his own life, director Steven Soderbergh has put together what amounts to the monologuist’s last show. Naturally, Gray does…
In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of Steve Carell’s best-reviewed films. His latest film, “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World”…
A mid-season series that just finished its abbreviated initial outing leads these TV programs new to DVD.
RATING: (SNOOZING VIEWER) A Little Bit of Heaven Kate Hudson is charming, but the movie is positively ghastly, a travesty about a young woman dying of colon cancer who somehow never loses her hair or her sunny…
This week’s DVD selections range from stories of trapped whales to talking dogs.
Fans of older movies will be happy to see four favorites get Blu-ray upgrades while several vintage titles are released on…
WEST FRANKFORT – The Southern Illinois SCARE Association has announced the first showing of the annual Movies in the Park event in West Frankfort, a free event open to the public. The first movie showing will take place 8 p.m
In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of director Ridley Scott’s best-reviewed films.