New on DVD and Blu-ray, Sept. 18 Feature: Adventures in Plymptoons! (2011), The Babymakers (2012), Bait (2012), Beauty (2012), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 (2012), Black Sunday: Widescreen” (1978), “The Cabin in the Woods” (2011), “Chico & Rita” (2010), “Children of Paradise” (1945), “Conception” (2011), “Cyrano de Bergerac” (1950), “Dawn of the Dragonslayer …
DVD review: ‘Force of Evil’ a Blu-ray edition is out with a banner quote from Scorsese calling the film a major influence on my work … particularly on ‘Mean Streets,’ ‘Raging Bull’ and ‘Goodfellas.
More fo the Night He Came Home © Shout! Factory Going into my fifth year of writing this column, I have had a lot of DVD and Blu-rays come across my desk. By far, my favorites have been the Criterion Collections.
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New on DVD and Blu-ray, Sept. 7 Atonement This is director Joe Wright’s adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel about a cruelly interrupted love affair in England, set before and during World War II. High School It’s well shot, but this blunt-as-a-blunt stoner movie – about two kids who, doomed to fail a drug test, scheme to get the whole school baked on high-grade pot – is too cognitively impaired …
NEW YORK — Ben & Jerry’s is suing the maker of “Ben & Cherry’s” X-rated DVDs, saying the “hardcore pornographic” films have smeared the ice cream maker’s reputation. The trademark lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in New York City.
Which movies to see this weekend, Aug. 31 Robot & Frank Frank Langella finds one of his best roles in this story of an old man suffering from the beginning stages of dementia who is given a robot as part of his health care
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Aug. 31 Battleship This humongous alien-invasion flick, based on the bombs-away Hasbro naval guessing game, is loud, large, stupid and stars Taylor Kitsch as the idiot/slacker Navy officer who needs to save the Earth after aliens respond to a beacon by paying a visit. Darling Companion Lackluster characters can’t hold up the spare story, at least not completely, but this …
Movies opening this week, Aug. 30 Danish journalist Mads Brügger pulls off a daring stunt in a bid to expose the corruption overflowing in the Central African Republic. The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate A fabled city of gold existing in a sea of sand – that’s what the plunderers posing as lawful citizens prowl for at the site of the reborn Dragon Inn.