This week’s offerings on DVD and Blu-ray include a cool cat and a powerful dog, a religious pilgrimage, a portrait of a lawman and a goofy caper.
Much variety in this week’s DVD and Blu-ray offerings
February 18, 2012 Leave a Comment Filed under: Featured, Featured 2, Movies, On Screen, Rich Heldenfels
Short Oscar-nominated films get a showcase in Cleveland
Movie review: ‘The Secret World of Arrietty’
The new anime version of The Borrowers, titled The Secret World of Arrietty by screenwriter and “supervisor” Hayao Miyazaki, has the fascination with household “spirits,” the same lovely color palette and attention to detail for which his films are famous.
Stars make ‘This Means War’ tolerable
Having great-looking stars who can actually act makes the noisy romp This Means War more tolerable than it ought to be.
Nicolas Cage continues to do things his way
Video: ‘Rum Diary,’ Woody Allen documentary, ‘All Quiet’ among new releases
February 12, 2012 Leave a Comment Filed under: Featured, Featured 2, Movies, On Screen, Rich Heldenfels
Tuesday’s new offerings on DVD and Blu-ray include Johnny Depp delving again into Hunter S. Thompson’s works, Woody Allen offering a peek into his writing process, the original Israeli version of a British film and more.
‘Twilight’ actor talks DVD release, martial arts, music
February 10, 2012 Leave a Comment Filed under: Featured, Featured 2, Movies, On Screen, Rich Heldenfels
When Booboo Stewart passed through Cleveland earlier this week, the nominal reason was to talk about The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1.
Adults might wish to escape juvenile ‘Journey 2: Mysterious Island’
By Roger Moore McClatchy-Tribune News Service Cast and crew err on the side of silly in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, the amusingly childish sequel to that unlikely 2008 hit Journey to the Center of the Earth. They’ve rendered Jules Verne’s novel into a jokey lark, with broad, corny wisecracks, comic sidekicks and everybody riffing…
Fans of espionage tales at home in ‘Safe House’
He must have joined ‘‘The Agency’’ with an eye toward excitement, exotic locales and danger. But in Capetown, a backwater as far as foreign intrigue goes, agency newcomer Matt Weston is stuck — a one-man show, running a never-used “safe house” in the CIA’s real-estate portfolio.
‘Chronicle’ edges Radcliffe’s ‘Woman’ with $22 million
LOS ANGELES: Some unknown kids with superpowers have nudged out the world’s most famous teen wizard at the weekend box office.
Movie review: Woman in Black
Movie review: ‘Big Miracle’ is film family can enjoy
The title isn’t an exaggeration. It was something of a Big Miracle, the way the plight of a family of gray whales, stranded under the Alaska ice, captivated the country and forced oil men and environmentalists, natives and Cold War foes to team up back in the waning days of the Reagan administration.