DVD review: ‘A Summer in Genoa’ Within a few years of his Oscar nomination for “A Single Man” and his win for “The King’s Speech,” a busy Colin Firth made two other movies – “A Summer in Genoa” and “Dorian Gray.” Neither film was released in the United States, and “Summer” can only now be seen on home video, four years after its completion. Firth stars in “Summer” as a professor in Chicago whose …
DVD review: ‘La Promesse’ they are very attuned to the specifics of every environment – how people live, what they do, their routines, their transportation, their clothing, their path to work, the buildings they inhabit. Who knows what they’re like in real life, but in their work you get the feeling that they must be saints, because their films are unusually compassionate, keyed into human …
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Movies to see this weekend, Sept. 28 he focuses on the bleak tone, simplicity of character and cathartic violence of the comic-strip source material. The result is a B-movie success – and the rare superhero film that revels in its carnage instead of stifling it for a PG-13 rating
This has to be the biggest and best release day of the year.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Sept. 25 Feature: After Porn Ends (2010), After the Dawn (2012), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (1997), Another Life (2001), Any Last Words (2011), Asylum Blackout (2011), Before We Say Goodbye (2010), Bond 50: Complete 22-Film Collection” (various dates), “The Bucks County Massacre” (2012), “Damsel in Distress” (2012), “Delicacy” (2011), “Deposition” (2011), “Eating Raoul” (1982 …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Sept. 21 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel A top-shelf English cast (Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith) highlights this story of adrift British retirees searching for something better in life in the Indian city of Jaipur. The Cabin in the Woods This satirical horror film defiantly follows its own muse – and that muse is a zombie carrying a bear trap on a …
Movies opening Friday, Sept. 21 End of Watch L.A. cops Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Zavala (Michael Peña) trust their instincts and each other – witness what goes down on their patrol car’s mounted camera.
Sony Pictures has released the official word on the Men In Black 3 Blu-ray and DVD. They have also released that there will be a box set collecting the entire trilogy.Â
I had first heard about Cabin in the Woods at Comic Con. That is, Comic Con of 2010