Foreign movies lead the way for new DVD releases this week
Lyrical, touching new film from Hong Kong leads foreign films that dominate this week’s new DVD releases.
March 3, 2013
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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.
Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning “Schindler’s List†and the musical classic “Easter…
In the latest collection of houses recognizable from their roles in films and television, we have homes made famous in 1980s horror and contemporary horror, one from a famous drug-lord movie, one from a classic sitcom, and of course the expected handful of reality-show late-model “McMansions.” Among those are few pedigreed mansions, estates that are up for sale, as well as high-end rentals …
Activist Sridhar Gowda released a DVD containing graphic testimonies of victims of endosulfan pollution in Dakshina Kannada district, in the City on Wednesday. Gowda said the DVD was a way of spreading awareness about the victims of endosulfan pollution in the State and to highlight the lack of proper measures to address the problem.
Perhaps in the haze of the post-Oscar season, there wasn’t a lot of pressure to put out films on Blu-ray this week, but we are getting two of the best films of last year, and one of the Coen Brothers ’ most underrated films (partly because it was a bomb on release).