New on DVD and Blu-ray, Feb. 12 New DVD and Blu-ray releases Feature: Aladdin and the Death Lamp (2012), Alpha Males Experiment (2009), Babar: Official Fifth Season, Volume Two” (1964), “Bully” (2011), “Croczilla” (2012), “Dangerous Liaisons” (2012), “Girl Model” (2011), “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? (2011), Jedi Junkies (2010), The Kid With a Bike (2011), Kill for Me (2013), The Man …
Movies opening Feb. 10 Opening Thursday Beautiful Creatures Escape From Planet Earth A Good Day to Die Hard Safe Haven Opening Friday 56 Up A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III Yossi
DVD review: ‘West of Broadway’ A few years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine this 1931 MGM film ever coming to home video. Gilbert is known as the greatest casualty of the transition to sound, and it’s true, and yet I have always preferred his wry, wistful, proud talkie persona to his dashing silent incarnation.
DVD review: ‘Weekend’ of your opinion of his later work, “Weekend,” his 15th feature in nine years, was the last film of the first stage of his career, which began with 1959’s “Breathless” and produced most of his best-known works (“Contempt,” “Vivre sa vie,” “Alphaville,” “Band of Outsiders,” etc.). Featuring a set-piece of cinematic legend – a lengthy traffic jam sequence that goes for …
Movies opening Friday, Jan. 18 The Last Stand The Governator pumps up his acting resume with this tale of a cartel honcho who busts out of federal custody and makes a run for the border. The Law in These Parts This documentary examines the legal system of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, established more than 40 years ago by the Israel Defense Forces
Movies opening Friday, Jan. 11 Amour This Cannes Film Festival and critics’ favorite depicts retired music teachers Georges and Anne doing their cultivated thing in their 80s.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Jan. 8 New DVD and Blu-ray releases Feature: After Fall, Winter (2011), The Assassins (2012), Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best (2011), Collaborator (2011), Compliance (2012), A Dangerous Place (2012), Dredd (2012), Frankenweenie (2012), Game Change (2012), Ghoul (2012), Girls, Guns and Gambling (2011), Hit & Run (2012), Hitler’s Children (2011), Jack & Diane (2012), Love …
DVD review: ‘Rashomon’ yes, it belongs in any serious movie collection, and its debut on Blu-ray – using a 4K restoration supervised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in collaboration with the Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation in Tokyo and Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation – is a cause for celebration.
Movies to see this weekend, Jan. 4 Tristana A restoration of Luis Buñuel’s 1970 masterpiece stars Catherine Deneuve as the title character, a young innocent corrupted by her guardian (Buñuel regular Fernando Rey), who seeks escape with her lover (Franco Nero). Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti Western, about an escaped slave (Jamie Foxx) who teams up with a bounty hunter (Christoph …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Jan. 4 Cosmopolis This latest from David Cronenberg, based on a novel by Don DeLillo, follows a 28-year-old billionaire through a dystopian urban landscape of his own creation, in this intermittently imaginative and yet ultimately disappointing film.