For those who’ve seen the buzziest of buzzy holiday movies, Spike Jonze’s “Her,†you probably left the theater with much to think about. One of the biggest questions, at least from a filmmaking standpoint: How did Jonze and his team arrive at the future we see on the screen?
A mutant comic book hero and a crew of little blue children’s characters ruled the home video sales chart in their first weeks in release. Â Â Â Â
Plan B Entertainment has released only three movies with Paramount since signing a 2005 first-look deal with the studio, which has said it is comfortable with a new, leaner business approach. The impending departure of Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment from Paramount Pictures would seem like a blow to the Hollywood studio, which is suffering from a perception problem. Â Â Â Â
It looks like there will be plenty of computer animated movies underneath Christmas trees this year.
The three African American-made Christmas movies cap a banner year for black cinema and tweak Hollywood’s usual holiday look. Time was when Christmas movies were as reliably white as a North Pole winter.
Two new boxed sets feature splendid work from Britain, and a new single DVD presents a classic view of France. Â Â Â Â
Disney’s 3-D animated summer movie “Planes” appears to have some lift as a home entertainment title, soaring to the top of Rentrak’s DVD and Blu-ray sales chart in its first week in release.
Also new: ‘Drinking Buddies,’ ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman: The Complete Series,’ Robert Altman’s ‘Nashville’ and more.
The jazz artist is well past his prime in ‘Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969,’ but there are many surprises and glimpses of his greatness. Is a document of an artist in the twilight of his career as vital as one that captures his prime?