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),…
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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…
With its 3-2-1 Plan, Blockbuster Express is the third DVD rental company to kick in a higher fee this year. (Credit: Blockbuster Express) The trifecta is now complete: NCR’s Blockbuster Express service has hiked DVD rental prices. Starting Tuesday, customers who want to rent films from Blockbuster Express will be locked into the new 3-2-1 Plan.
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….
Treasures from the vaults: a platinum blonde, a duck and the acid-laced author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Feature: “Angel Collection” (various dates), “Benji Christmas Collection” (various dates), ” Cars 2″ (2011), “Christmas Carol: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition” (1951), “Crazy, Stupid, Love” (2011),”Essential Daffy Duck” (…
Each Tuesday, several hundred DVDs of new, recent, repackaged, classic and defiantly anticlassic movies and TV shows are issued in whatever video stores are called now and on sites like amazon.com. Each week in this space we aim to shine a light on a few big, worthy or just plain weird releases. Think of us as the prescreening committee for your weekend watching.