Movies slated in fall at Original headframe
From the trudging of miners to the crowds of folk festivals, the Original mine yard has seen a lot of action over its century of existence.
August 18, 2012
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From the trudging of miners to the crowds of folk festivals, the Original mine yard has seen a lot of action over its century of existence.
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 …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Aug. 17 The Hunger Games Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson star as teens forced to fight to the death in Gary Ross’ solid, faithful (if unexceptional) adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ bajillion-selling young adult novels. Tonight You’re Mine In a twist on Boy Meets Girl, Luke Treadaway and Natalia Tena play rockers who get handcuffed together, literally, at a Scottish …
August 15, 2012 Though it will forever be known as ‘that cricket film’, director Boyd Hicklin insists Save Your Legs isn’t really about sport. August 15, 2012 Pablo Lorrain’s film, starring Gael Garcia Bernal, traces the end of Chile’s ruling junta while questioning democracy.
The record-breaking blockbuster is to debut on Blu-ray 3D this October.
This week brings at least one masterpiece to Blu-ray, one of the year’s biggest films, the year’s best action film, some great popcorn trash, and some Criterion classics. If you want to get everything good, you might need a bigger boat, or something.
“The Hunger Games” will enter the DVD/Blu-ray arena on August 18, and as we intimated in our sneak peek piece last week, there’s a cornucopia of fascinating special features to feast on. So much so, in fact, that one of the film’s stars even gleaned new tidbits from the discs
THE Friends of the Maribyrnong River have launched a DVD, which is on display to visitors at Brimbank Park.
Once Upon a Time Warp… before there was Family Guy and Robot Chicken, there was a spoof on Star Wars called Spaceballs .