DVD review: ‘A Summer in Genoa’ Within a few years of his Oscar nomination for “A Single Man” and his win for “The King’s Speech,” a busy Colin Firth made two other movies – “A Summer in Genoa” and “Dorian Gray.” Neither film was released in the United States, and “Summer” can only now be seen on home video, four years after its completion. Firth stars in “Summer” as a professor in Chicago whose …
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.
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
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 …
Other movies opening in fall 2012 There are multiple horrors to be found in “V/H/S” (Oct. 5), about a group of thieves who must view a series of terrifying videotapes; Anna Kendrick joins a college glee club in “Pitch Perfect,” by “Avenue Q” director Jason Moore; Kevin James is a biology teacher-turned-MMA cage fighter in the comedy “Here Comes the Boom” (Oct
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
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Aug. 31 Battleship This humongous alien-invasion flick, based on the bombs-away Hasbro naval guessing game, is loud, large, stupid and stars Taylor Kitsch as the idiot/slacker Navy officer who needs to save the Earth after aliens respond to a beacon by paying a visit. Darling Companion Lackluster characters can’t hold up the spare story, at least not completely, but this …
DVD review: ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ Singin’ in the Rain This beautifully restored 60th anniversary DVD/Blu-ray of the 1952 film is a wonderful parody of the birth of talkies that has great wit, an intelligent script, terrific music and dancing that can’t be beat. The movie, directed by its star, Gene Kelly, and Stanley Donen, tells the story of Don Lockwood, a slightly full-of-himself silent movie …