New on DVD and Blu-ray, July 31 Feature: “ATM” (2012), “Body and Soul” (1947), “Cole Younger and the Black Train” (2012), “Dead Season” (2011), “Detention” (2012), “The Devil’s Feast” (2007), “Falling Overnight” (2012), “Fire With Fire” (1986), “Firstborn” (1984), “Force of Evil” (1948), “4.3.2.1.” Television: Costume Drama Classic Collection (various dates), Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids:
Which movies to see this weekend, July 27 While you can argue that the last thing the world needs is another reboot of a comic-book movie, the film gets off to a good start, with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone in the lead roles. Benh Zeitlin’s damply poetic debut follows 6-year-old Hushpuppy (the elemental Quvenzhané Wallis), a denizen of a dirt-poor community in the wetness of the Louisiana …
WWI in books, movies, songs and poetry WWI in books, movies, songs and poetry Here is a short list of some books, movies and music about World War I: Just a couple of selections by Tuchman, the historian who specialized in World War I. “The Proud Tower” covers the years 1890-1914
Which movies to see this weekend, July 20 International Black Women’s Film Festival: Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Ticket holders will have a chance to win limited supplies of movie posters and coconuts.
Movies now playing Vampire Hunter This crazy mashup, based on Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel, works because the filmmakers aren’t smirky about the gimmick but treat it with an illusion of seriousness: Abe Lincoln, the 16th president, is also an action hero dedicated to the proposition that the only good vampire is a destroyed vampire. The Amazing Spider-Man While you can argue that the last thing …
DVD review: ‘The Gold Rush’ The histories of literature and classical music contain many examples of artists going back years later and tampering with and diminishing their earlier work. Seventeen years later, wanting to rerelease the film, but finding himself in an era in which silent films had no audience, he eliminated the intertitles, made cuts in the story, changed the ending and added his …
Which movies to see this weekend, July 13 The Amazing Spider-Man While you can argue that the last thing the world needs is another reboot of a comic-book movie franchise, the film gets off to a good start, with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone in the lead roles. Part of Me Fun, at times exhilarating, at times revealing, this is about as good a documentary as can be imagined, considering that it …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, July 13 American Reunion The horny teens of “American Pie” (Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott et al) reunite as horny grown-ups for their high school reunion in this sequel, the fourth in the series, which is sloppy, witless and vacant. Being Flynn Robert De Niro plays the drunken father of a social worker in this well-acted but ultimately listless drama about the power …
4D movies are headed to North America, bringing more than 1,000 new sensations to your movie watching experience, including the ability to smell.