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The pickings are a little slim among DVD releases this week.
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China is seeking to ban movies which stir up social instability, glamorise terrorism or promote opposition to the law, according to proposed new rules unveiled on Thursday, as the government seeks further controls on threats to its control. Films must also not promote drug taking, threaten religious harmony or propagate religious fanaticism, the government stated in the draft …
Genre: AnimationDirector: Jennifer Yu NelsonStars: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan**1/2Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson’s animated comedy sequel manages to have its fortune cookie and eat it, too, since it delivers both more action and fireworks (literally), while at the same time filling in the tragic back story of Po, the accidental panda warrior voiced by Jack Black.This is a franchise …
Genre: ActionDirector: Rupert WyattStars: James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freido Pinto***The world needs another Planet of the Apes movie like a circus acrobat needs a banana peel. After five original films, two TV spinoffs and Tim Burton’s failed 2001 “reimagining,†the franchise has fleas.
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (Fox) PG-13 RUSS “The Planet of the Apes†franchise began in 1968, and…
A look at some DVDs scheduled to be released in the weeks ahead.
Genre: ComedyDirector: Jesse PeretzStars: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel***Comic smartie Paul Rudd is theoretically out of his comfort zone in this wry comedy, in which he’s called upon to play a gentle soul, Ned by name, who is utterly without guile and thus always getting himself in trouble.
In “Super 8,” J.J. Abrams’ love letter to the Steven Spielberg films that inspired him as a kid, a chubby would-be director named Charles (Riley Griffiths) keeps running around his small Ohio hometown, framing its cul-de-sacs and tract homes with his hands and calling for “more production value.”