August 26, 2013
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Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine are superbly funny in Richard Linklater’s Texan true-crime docu-comedy about a misanthropic widow (MacLaine) and the prim funeral director (Black) who becomes her inseparable companion.    Â
Borrowing one writer and two actors from the Danish television drama Borgen, A Hijacking is a mercilessly taut depiction of what happens when a gang of Somali pirates commandeers a Danish cargo ship, and how the bosses react in the shipping company’s swanky headquarters.    Â
Late Deep Purple legend Jon Lord’s ‘Concerto For Group And Orchestra’ is set to be released as Blu-ray/CD set and on double vinyl on September 3rd
The third seasons of the sitcom “Mike & Molly†and the gangster melodrama “Boardwalk Empire†lead…
“All I see out there is barbarity,” yells a gendarme at a French soldier. Â Â Â Â
Olympus has Fallen is much like another recent film that I reviewed about terrorists taking over the White House, G.I. Joe: Retaliation .  Except while that film had the kind of hokum you’d expect from a project based on a cartoon and toy line, Olympus Has Fallen has no such excuse on which to fall back, and yet, strangely…
The ’50s musical “April Love†is finally on DVD, but unfortunately the CinemaScope film is in pan and scan,…
DVD releases include local Adam Manarovich’s ‘Pawn Shop Chronicles’