DVD review: 'Jaws'
DVD review: ‘Jaws’ Jaws “When I think of ‘Jaws,’ I think of courage and stupidity,” recalls director Steven Spielberg in the extras on this brand-new Blu-ray.
August 24, 2012
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DVD review: ‘Jaws’ Jaws “When I think of ‘Jaws,’ I think of courage and stupidity,” recalls director Steven Spielberg in the extras on this brand-new Blu-ray.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Aug. 24 A Separation This intense, verbally combative movie from Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi is about a failed marriage, a father with Alzheimer’s and a chain of events that almost lands several folks in jail.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Aug. 21 Special Edition” (1970), “Attack of the Killer Backpacks” (2012), “Bernie” (2012), “Bilitis” (1977), “Bindlestiffs” (2012), “Black Magic Rites” (1973), “Bonsai” (2012), “California Indian” (2011), “Captain Carey, U.S.A.” (1950), “Deadly Renovations” (2010), “The Dictator: Remastered” (1982), “Let Go” (2011), “Lovely Molly” (2011), “My Son John” (1952), “One in the …
DVD review: ‘Films of Fury’ none of that Chinese body-flying, butt-kicking attitude is missing in this amusing, eye-popping documentary based on the “Films of Fury” book by Ric Meyers, a World Martial Arts Hall of Fame inductee. An expert on genre movies in general, Meyers traces the Peking Opera origins of kung fu through the latest in CGI American-made pandas.
Which movies to see this weekend, Aug. 17 The Beauty of the Real: The 14-film festival of women in contemporary French cinema begins Friday night with a double feature of two crowd-pleasing films, never released in the United States: “Anthony Zimmer,” about an innocent man targeted for assassination by a femme fatale (Sophie Marceau); and “Prix a Payer,” a brutal comedy, with Nathalie Baye as a …
Movies opening this week, Aug. 17 Beloved Christophe Honoré’s three-decade escapade depicts the flirtations, deceptions and liberation of a mother (Ludivine Sagnier/Catherine Deneuve) and daughter (Chiara Mastroianni) attempting to heed their hearts.
DVD review: ‘Give Me the Banjo’ Giving us Steve Martin as narrator for this documentary history of the stringed musical instrument was a wise choice, given that Martin won a Grammy for his bluegrass album “The Crow” and has used the banjo as a comedy tool since his early years.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Aug. 10 Blue Like Jazz This entertaining spiritual dramedy, about a religious Texas schoolboy who tries to ditch his Christian roots for liberal Reed College in Portland, Ore., tackles existential struggles without being too preachy. Marley This is an overlong, rigidly chronological and intermittently boring documentary about an interesting person, reggae master Bob …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Aug. 3 Detention This high school comedy morphs into a slasher movie, then morphs into a time-traveling/body-switching/world’s-about-to-end science fiction story.
Movies opening Friday In the 1930s, he co-founds the groundbreaking Alcoholics Anonymous, shifting this addiction out of the dark realm of lobotomies and shock therapy and into the 12-step way of life.