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MANBORG... LIZ & DICK... CHINA BEACH: THE COMPLETE SERIES... PAUL SIMON: LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY... The Problem with the #Olympics: It's Us.... Charlie Sheen Changes Name; Uses Latino Birth Name 'Car... Report: Tim Curry 'recovering' from stroke... Jennifer Aniston Plays a Stripper in 'We're the Millers... Mariah Carey suffers wardrobe malfunction as her dress ... Cannes: Matt Damon & Michael Douglas Are Fierce, But 'B... DIRTY MARY, CRAZY LARRY/RACE WITH THE DEVIL (BLU-RAY)... NAKED LUNCH (BLU-RAY)... A WHISPER TO A ROAR... ESCAPEE (BLU-RAY)... WILFRED: THE COMPLETE SERIES... COMMANDO... A HAUNTING: THE 2012 SEASON... BADLANDS (BLU-RAY)... THE LONELIEST PLANET... SANSHO THE BAILIFF (BLU-RAY)... THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (BLU-RAY)... PURPLE NOON (BLU-RAY)... WEEKEND (BLU-RAY)... JUAN OF THE DEAD... THE DEVIL'S NEEDLE AND OTHER TALES OF VICE AND REDEMPTI... DOWNTON ABBEY SEASONS ONE & TWO LIMITED EDITION... FLORENCE AND THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE... NAZI COLLABORATORS... KATT WILLIAMS: KATTPACALYPSE... BARACK OBAMA: FROM HIS CHILDHOOD TO THE PRESIDENCY... STORAGE WARS: VOLUME THREE... Take Part in a Film Restoration... THE 39 STEPS (BLU-RAY)... DARK SHADOWS: THE BEST OF BARNABAS... STORAGE WARS: SEASON ONE... SUNSET BOULEVARD... SALO, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM... TABLOID... CUL-DE-SAC... 3 WOMEN... YOJIMBO/SANJURO... SUMMER HOURS (L'heure d'ÈtÈ)... WIZARD OF OZ... WINGS OF DESIRE... HORTON HEARS A WHO!... REVANCHE... LAST DAYS OF DISCO... NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS... STARGATE SG-1: CHILDREN OF THE GODS... STARGATE ATLANTIS: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON... THE STEPFATHER... THE HILLS RUN RED... MANAGEMENT... NIGHT OF DEATH... GNAW... Freddy Got Fingered... Secure The Second Season of The Border on DVD August 25... THE WALTONS: THE COMPLETE 9TH SEASON... Dance Me Outside kicks onto DVD May 6, 2008... Film-Fest 4: Sundance 2000 & Hawaii... Saving Private Ryan... |
Keyword View: film festival DVD Review MANBORG  Half-man, half machine and all cheese. If you like your science fiction with a big slice of tongue-in-cheek on occasion, then fire up for Manborg. Go back to those days when you were young and would believe just about anything. Not a bad place to be. Read More... PR The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights on DVD Apr 30  During the 1960s, as the executive director of the National Urban League, Whitney Young was one of the few African Americans who had the ear of those who controlled the levers of power: Fortune 500 CEOs, governors, senators, and presidents. He used these relationships to gain better access to employment, education, housing, and healthcare for African Americans, other minorities, and those in need. Read More... PR Barrymore on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital May 7  adapted by writer-director Erik Canuel from the 1996 Broadway production for which Plummer won a Tony(TM) Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in 1997. Plummer, 82, has long had a fascination with the title character, and it shows. Special features on the Blu-rayTM and DVD include a behind-the-scenes documentary, Backstage With Barrymore, featuring Helen Mirren, Julie Andrews and Zoe Caldwell. Read More... PR Stitches on VOD, Digital, Blu-ray & DVD Apr 2  Years after a cruel kids' prank during a birthday party for 8-year-old Tommy (Tommy Knight) left hired clown Richard 'Stitches' Grindle (Ross Noble) dead on the kitchen floor, the childhood friends gather to plan a birthday bash to end all bashes. But they haven't counted on the degenerate jester rising from the grave... Read More... PR Robert Mitchum Is Dead on DVD May 21  This hilarious addition to the road-movie genre follows a desperate agent (Olivier Gourmet) and an insomniac actor of questionable talent as they make their way in a stolen car across Europe to a film festival in the Arctic Circle. Hoping to get the actor a meeting with a famous director, they encounter a series of bizarre encounters, and it's uncertain whether their dreams of fame will come true. Read More... PR The Other Son on Blu-ray & DVD Mar 19  Lorraine Levy won the Best Director award at the 2012 Tokyo International Film Festival As he is preparing to join the Israeli army for his national service, Tel Aviv resident Joseph (Jules Sitruk) discovers he is not his parents' biological son, and that he was inadvertently switched at birth with Yacine (Mehdi Dehbi), the son of a Palestinian family from the West Bank. Two young men from opposite sides of a bitter social and religious divide discover that they are really not who they were brought up to be in the powerful drama. Read More... PR This Must Be the Place on Blu-ray & DVD Mar 12  When legendary Goth rocker Cheyenne (Sean Penn), long-retired in Dublin with his firefighter wife, Jane (Frances McDormand), learns his estranged father is dying, the childlike recluse travels to New York to seek reconciliation -- only to arrive too late. Upon discovering his father's unfulfilled quest for revenge against an ex-Nazi war criminal taking refuge in America, Cheyenne embarks upon his own journey of reawakening in this engaging and unpredictable road adventure from internationally acclaimed director Paolo Sorrentino. Read More... News Steven Spielberg Will Be Jury President at Cannes Film Festival Posted by: News Editor - March 1, 2013, 5:40 am - News PR Eva Longoria Directs and Star in film for Project Imaginat10n  Eva Longoria just directed AND starred in her short film, Out of the Blue as part of Canon's Project Imaginat10n - a user generated photo contest helmed by Ron Howard where celebrity directors are directing short films inspired by consumer photos. Read More... PR Marine 3: Homefront on Blu-ray & DVD Mar 5  WWE superstar Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin delivers a knock-out performance in the most explosive, action-packed Marine adventure yet. After returning to his hometown on leave, Sgt. Jake Carter learns that his sister has been abducted by a band of violent extremists. To save her, Carter launches a daring one-man assault on their base of operations...only to discover the group's ruthless leader is plotting a deadly terrorist strike. Read More... PR Silent Souls on DVD & Digital Feb 26  An Official Selection of the Toronto, New York and Venice Film Festivals, this breathtakingly beautiful road movie garnered tremendous critical accolades upon its 2011–2012 U.S. theatrical rollout from Shadow Distribution. Read More... News Beasts comes to Oscars with tiny budget, first-time director Posted by: News Editor - February 22, 2013, 6:46 am - News PR The Loneliest Planet on DVD Feb 26  Alex (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Nica (Hani Furstenberg) are young, in love and engaged to be married. While backpacking in the Caucasus Mountains in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, they hire a local guide to lead them on a camping trek. Venturing into the stunning wilderness, the trio's peaceful adventure takes a dark turn when they encounter an armed man and his two sons... Read More... PR The Thief of Bagdad on Blu-ray Feb 19  One of biggest blockbusters of the silent era, is a dazzling Arabian Nights adventure fantasy and one of the most imaginative of all movies. The elaborate and lush backgrounds and the massive sets by William Cameron Menzies (who would later design Gone With the Wind) all have an expressionistic quality unique for American films of the time. The amazingly acrobatic and energetic Fairbanks is at his impudent best as the dashing Ahmed, the thief who wins a princess. Read More... PR Robot and Frank on DVD Feb 12  The critically-acclaimed buddy caper about an elderly ex-jewel thief and his new caretaker robot features an all-star cast, including Academy Award(R) nominee Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler & Jeremy Strong. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Read More... DVD Review THE DUELLISTS (BLU-RAY)  I'm not sure how this, Ridley Scott's first film, never made it onto my radar, but what better way to watch it for the first time than via this potentially excellent new Blu-ray disc from Shout Factory. Read More... PR Independent Lens: More Than a Month on DVD Jan 29  Examines what the treatment of history tells us about race and power in contemporary America and asks the questions: How do we justify teaching American history as somehow separate from African American history? What does it mean that we have a Black History Month? What would it mean if we didn't? Read More... News Ashton Kutcher landed in hospital after following Steve Jobs's fruitarian diet Posted by: News Editor - January 28, 2013, 6:57 am - News |
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