Half of the movies to be exhibited at the 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York to be held in April this year have been announced today. From…
One of the year’s most critically acclaimed and best reviewed motion picture dramas of the year, DreamWorks Pictures and Steven Spielberg’s “LINCOLN” arrives in North America on Blu-ray Combo Pack, Digital and On-Demand platforms on March 26, 2013 and Internationally on Digital HD beginning on April 24th and Blu-ray/ DVD on May 8th. With two Academy Award®-wins for “Best Performance By An Actor …
When Warner Brothers sent Mania the complete A Nightmare on Elm Street box set on Blu-ray I knew it was going to be a monumental task. How does one review seven films in such a franchise? Obviously, these films are not for every one.
It’s easy to ignore Steven Spielberg’s movies when musing on the greatest film projects of all time. He makes great, family films, often amongst the…
In the 1950s, as movie directors were trying to offer TV watchers something they couldn’t get on a small screen, Cinerama films threw three simultaneous images onto a curved screen to create peripheral vision. Two classic Cinerama films — This Is Cinerama and Windjammer — are now out on DVD.
“21 and Over” is the latest movie about wild and crazy college students to hit theaters. “Animal House,” “Old School” and others give the new comedy big shoes to fill.
DVD review: ‘The Jazz Singer’ Historically, the most important scene in the film is the one in which Al Jolson, as a cantor’s son turned secular entertainer, ad libs dialogue as he plays the piano and sings for his mother. The naturalness of that interchange followed by the stiffness of the silent sequence that followed was said to have doomed silent films.
DVD review: ‘Fear and Desire’ Fans of the great director Stanley Kubrick will want to have “Fear and Desire,” his first film, made 50 years ago and until recently available only in bootlegged copies. Four soldiers – their country is not identified – crash-land behind enemy lines and then develop a plan to get back to their unit. Look for Paul Mazursky as a private named Sidney who cracks under …
Lyrical, touching new film from Hong Kong leads foreign films that dominate this week’s new DVD releases.
KANSAS CITY, MO – 1) THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG-13) RUSS While no masterpiece, the finale to the…