The classic children’s fairy tale gets reworked with a lot of money but little heart in “Jack the Giant Slayer,” directed by Bryan Singer. The fantasy adventure climbs onto DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, June 18.
The fifth season of HBO’s vampire series “True Blood” maintained its spot atop the DVD and Blu-ray sales chart, while the action crime film “Gangster Squad” knocked off Tom Cruise’s “Jack Reacher” to take the top spot in rentals. Â Â Â Â
With a pre-fest screening of ‘Man of Steel’ followed by Pedro Almodóvar’s airplane farce ‘I’m So Excited,’ the event opens this week with a broad selection of films. The Los Angeles Film Festival occupies a unique and challenging middle ground
Also recently released on DVD and Blu-ray is the early Western talkie “In Old Arizona,” from 1928, directed by Raoul Walsh.
“Oz the Great and Powerful” looks fantastic, as it should at a cost of $215 million. They just forgot to make the story interesting. The prequel to “The Wizard of Oz” comes home on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, June 11.
How do you turn a fairy tale into an action thriller without really trying? Jeremy Renner shows the way in “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters,” splattering onto DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, June 11.
“Oz the Great and Powerful” (PG, 130 minutes, Disney): Oscar Diggs (James Franco) is a sideshow conjurer with a traveling circus in 1905 Kansas, captured in the black-and-white, square-framed format of old-timey cinema. He’s forced to make a quick escape from the midway via hot-air balloon, at which point he’s caught in a cyclone that plops him down in a brightly colored, wide-screen world. If …
Bryan Cranston stars as meth maker Walter White in the critically acclaimed TV drama series “Breaking Bad.” The first half of the fifth and final season arrives Tuesday, June 4, on DVD and Blu-ray.
If you’ve been on the Web or social media the past 24 hours, you no doubt have caught some of the arguments about the Writers Guild list of the 101 best TV shows of all time. “The Wire†should be higher! “Seinfeld†over “Sopranos”! And many such unresolvable issues.
Aliens visit from outer space all the time in the movies, but what if we saw their arrival through their eyes? That’s the special twist in this manic animated comedy “Escape From Planet Earth,” landing Tuesday, June 4, on DVD, Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3-D.