History of River Tyne celebrated with DVD
THE history of the River Tyne is being celebrated in a DVD which features the cream of North East talent.
THE history of the River Tyne is being celebrated in a DVD which features the cream of North East talent.
This week’s top DVD picks range from a close encounter by director J.J. Abrams to a sequel for
Reviewed by Walter Addiego, Amy Biancolli, Peter Hartlaub and Mick LaSalle RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Beginners Writer-director Mike Mills zigzags over the decades for this story of a sensitive cartoonist (Ewan McGregor),…
The magnificent Art Deco tower of the El Rey Theatre has long been an important landmark in Alex Mullaney’s life. “My grandparents lived in Ingleside Terrace,” Mullaney says, recalling his childhood in the early 1990s
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 Amateurish in direction and confused in its writing (unless you’ve read the Ayn Rand novel you’ll be lost), this low-budget feature, though at times a preachy right-wing…
In Time In a future world in which no one ages and immortality can be bought, the poor die and the rich live forever. Justin Timberlake plays a man who decides to challenge the system, in the most effective metaphor for…
“Immortals,” which opens today, is hardly the first movie to raid the myths for screenplay material. And it’s hardly the first to squeeze a large man into tiny clothing as he flexes his will in a quest for undying glory….
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) This 1939 Technicolor film, from Zoltan Korda, is the best of the British colonial action-adventure films – the most rousing, the most nuanced and the most emotionally satisfying. It’s also the…
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Cars 2 This sequel to the 2006 Pixar animation comedy im-proves on the original with a spy story (involving a conspiracy of famous lemons) and the casting of Michael Caine as a British agent….
Brainstorm: This late film noir, from 1965, is one brilliant, twisted movie.