One front-liner and but a slew of curiosities in this week’s DVD releases. Top of the food chain is George Clooney’s THE IDES OF MARCH. Clooney directed and stars as a presidential candidate, with the drama generated by his aide’s (Ryan Gosling) growing realization that the politician may have feet of clay. Adapted from a play by Beau Williford called [...]
This week, the money’s on MONEYBALL, the story of the renegade Oakland Athletics General Manager, Billy Beane, his sabermetric consultants and their attempted upheaval of Major League baseball. While Beane, his track record, and the whole Moneyball approach has never dominated the game, it certainly has gained a place at the big league table, and this movie about its origins [...]
There are a variety of interesting DVD releases this week – both feature films and great tv. The biggest (and scariest, by any standard) is CONTAGION. You’ve seen other variants and plenty of tv and straight-to-video versions of various supervirus-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it (and the end of all hyphens), but none directed by a talent like Stephen Soderbergh and the likes of a [...]
The two most (actually only) interesting discs released this week come to us from overseas. Romania has been spinning out a number of interesting films as that country has recovered slowly after getting out from under the thumb of a despot. Many of their films favor real, human stories as opposed to sensational fictions, and many of them have been [...]
Celebrating the holiday with a glorious return to critical form and favor from Woody Allen. His MIDNIGHT IN PARIS has captured reviews and audiences like little he’s done in the past 30 years, and is testament to keeping your head down and working away. As such, it is a serious contender for Awards categories of Best Picture, Director and Writer. [...]
Just a couple of Discs worth mentioning releasing this Tuesday, both are remakes (or at least line extensions) and both are worth watching. RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Who would have thought that this franchise could be revived, and in such an exciting fashion. Inventive and thrilling (and there’s at least one sequel on the way.) With James [...]
BIG FILMS FROM HOLLYWOOD, LITTLE INTEREST Major releases this week, though most of these fell flat (though there’s one foreign release and a couple of documentaries of real interest.) Most interesting from any angle is probably THE HELP, from the little best-seller by Kathryn Stockett that could. Set in the 1960’s, this is this year’s feel-good Oscar contender, a story [...]
This Week’s New Releases (These are scheduled DVD releases. Netflix should have most of them (on disc and/or instant viewing), you’ll find some at Blockbuster, Red Box, Amazon, etc, but most will be available somewhere. These are not reviews, just one man’s feelings/instincts/etc) Tuesday November22 Of super interest this week is SUPER 8, the apocalyptic union of JJ Abrams and [...]
Tuesday November 15 (These are scheduled DVD releases. Netflix should have most of them (on disc and/or instant viewing), you’ll find some at Blockbuster, Red Box, Amazon, etc, but most will be available somewhere. These are not reviews, just one man’s feelings/instincts/etc) Slim Pickings (not Slim Pickens) for this week’s DVD releases. Two standouts couldn’t be more different from each [...]
This Week’s New Releases (These are scheduled DVD releases. Netflix should have most of them (on disc and/or instant viewing), you’ll find some at Blockbuster, Red Box, Amazon, etc, but most will be available somewhere. These are not reviews, just one man’s feelings/instincts/etc) Tuesday November 8 UNGUILTY PLEASURE Best new disc out this week is the Blu-Ray release (finally) of [...]
This Week’s New Releases (These are scheduled DVD releases. Netflix should have most of them (on disc and/or instant viewing), you’ll find some at Blockbuster, Red Box, Amazon, etc, but most will be available somewhere. These are not reviews, just one man’s feelings/instincts/etc Tuesday November 1 This must be the week where folks will be busy finishing up the horror [...]
This Week’s New Releases (These are scheduled DVD releases. Netflix should have most of them (on disc and/or instant viewing), you’ll find some at Blockbuster, Red Box, Amazon, etc, but most will be available somewhere. These are not reviews, just one man’s feelings/instincts/etc Tuesday October 25 Foreign Born A number of films from across the ocean and beyond are the [...]
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