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The Makers of the ‘Atlas Shrugged’ DVD Should Probably Reread the Book

Atlas Productions LLC is recalling over 100,000 covers for its DVD version of ‘Atlas Shrugged’ because it mistakenly describes the work, saying “AYN RAND’s timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice comes to life…” As anyone who has read the book can tell you, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is not about self-sacrifice so much as it’s a defense of self-interest. In fact, the novel is penned by a …

November 12, 2011 No Comments

Cheesy or epic, movies of Greek myths endure

“Immortals,” which opens today, is hardly the first movie to raid the myths for screenplay material. And it’s hardly the first to squeeze a large man into tiny clothing as he flexes his will in a quest for undying glory….

November 11, 2011 No Comments

WWII in color: NY vet’s rare footage made into DVD

Edwin Fitchett, home movie camera in hand, had no plans to get close-ups of his boss that rainy, steamy day in the Philippines 65 years ago. He just wanted to capture the commotion of the Independence Day celebration in Manila.

November 11, 2011 No Comments

Radiohead to release ‘Live from the Basement’ DVD set

Famed British band Radiohead are releasing live DVD and Blu-ray versions of their 54-minute BBC Live from the Basement broadcast of The King of Limbs, which aired this July.

November 10, 2011 No Comments

Blu-ray Review: Cars 2

Cars 2 is not one of Pixar’s best, but it is their best looking film to date.

November 9, 2011 No Comments

China’s ‘soft power’ push stumbles at the movies

Everybody knows Oscar.

November 8, 2011 No Comments

DVD review: ‘The Four Feathers’

RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) This 1939 Technicolor film, from Zoltan Korda, is the best of the British colonial action-adventure films – the most rousing, the most nuanced and the most emotionally satisfying. It’s also the…

November 6, 2011 No Comments

New on DVD and Blu-ray, Nov. 4

RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Cars 2 This sequel to the 2006 Pixar animation comedy im-proves on the original with a spy story (involving a conspiracy of famous lemons) and the casting of Michael Caine as a British agent….

November 4, 2011 No Comments

Woody Allen documentary’s U.S. DVD and digital rights sold

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Submarine Entertainment has been busily selling the DVD and home entertainment rights to Robert B. Weide’s documentary on director Woody Allen.

November 3, 2011 No Comments

Bob Barker: â€˜Stay away from movies with animalsâ€™ [VIDEO]

In an interview with The Daily Caller, television personality Bob Barker, former host of â€œThe Price Is Rightâ€ urged people to â€œstay away from movies with animalsâ€ and said the federal government should ban the use of exotic animals in circuses. Barker also told TheDC that he will â€œnot criticizeâ€ animal rights activists who free wild animals from circuses if they think theyâ€™re being abused.