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…
Argo is further proof, after the excellent Gone Baby Gone and efficient The Town, that Ben Affleck is an accomplished film-maker. The 1979 Iranian hostage crisis is the catalyst for this bizarre true story, in which a CIA agent (Affleck) sets up a fake fantasy film in order to smuggle six Americans, hiding at the Canadian embassy, out of Tehran. He recruits a foul-mouthed producer (Alan Arkin …
PORTLAND, Ore., March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the top ten movies-on-demand titles based on consumer transaction rate. Movies-on-demand are transactional …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, March 1 The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare This well-crafted documentary by Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke offers an X-ray of what’s wrong with this nation’s health care system and suggests solutions – among them, that the medical industry needs to switch its focus from intervention to prevention and that patients should change their lifestyles.