Despite the success of ‘Bridesmaids’ and other female-driven movies, female representation in films is at its lowest level in five years, a USC report says. There’s one mountain in Hollywood that even “The Hunger Games'” scrappy heroine Katniss Everdeen hasn’t been able to move: the number of roles for women.
“Resistance is futile,” the Borg first warned in the two-part episode “The Best of Both Worlds,” a cliffhanger linking the third and fourth seasons of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” A special Blu-ray release now available combines the two memorable episodes.
The most interesting aspect of “Escape” is that it is set in lawless Norway in 1363, a decade after the Black Plague killed millions.
Cleveland’s own Tom Hanks and Halle Berry pair up for the first time in the centuries-spanning drama “Cloud Atlas.” The provocative film lands on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, May 14.
Watching Movies With the Sound Off.
“Jack Reacher” is gritty enough, if you can forgive the Cruise-isms.
Quentin Tarantino’s bloody slave revenge epic “Django Unchained†fought off gangsters, ghosts and a tsunami to hang on to the No. 1 spot in DVD sales and rentals — for the second week running. Also, with “Jurassic Park 3-D†in theaters and “Jurassic Park 4†in pre-production, the 1994 release of “Jurassic Park†made a surprise reappearance on the rental chart — in its 968th week.
Catch the last season of “30 Rock” starring Tina Fey, landing Tuesday, May 7, on DVD.
A young woman tries to get to know a retired widow in “Starlet,” starring Dree Hemingway, arriving on DVD on Tuesday, May 7.
Garth Brooks may have ended his three-year residency at the Wynn Las Vegas hotel, but apparently, the relationship that led to the engagement is alive and well. Brooks will return to the Wynn’s Encore Theatre venue where he had held court for those three years for stints over Memorial Day and Independence Day weekends that will be filmed for subsequent DVD and Blu-ray release.