By John C. I finished my review of Secretariat by writing that “the film races past the finish line and emerges a bona fide winner.” I found this to be endlessly true of the movie’s entertainment value, but I sincerely hoped this would also be the case with it’s financial success. The Disney film opened… Read More “Secretariat” is off to a slow start, but can it pick up speed?
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Secretariat – A Walt Disney Pictures’ Release http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/secretariat/ Release Date: October 8th Rated G Running time: 123 minutes Randall Wallace (dir.) Mike Rich (screen story) Based on the book Secretariat: The Making of a Champion by William Nack Nick Glennie-Smith (music) Diane Lane as Penny Chenery John Malkovich as Lucien Laurin Dylan Walsh as Jack… Read More Movie Review: Secretariat
Life as We Know It – A Warner Bros. Release http://lifeasweknowitmovie.warnerbros.com/ Release Date: October 8th, 2010 Rated PG for sexual material, language, and some drug content. Running time: 114 minutes Greg Berlanti (dir.) Ian Deitchman (screenplay) Kristin Rusk Robinson (screenplay) Blake Neely (music) Katherine Heigl as Holly Berenson Josh Duhamel as… Read More Movie Review: Life as We Know It
The Trotsky – An Alliance Films Release http://www.thetrotskymovie.com/ DVD Release Date: October 5th, 2010 Rated 14A for coarse language and substance abuse. Running time: 113 minutes Jacob Tierney (dir.) Jacob Tierney (writer) Malajube (music) Jay Baruchel as Leon Bronstein Domini Blythe as Mrs. Danvers Geneviève Bujold as Denise Archambault Colm Feore as Principal Berkhoff Emily… Read More DVD Review: The Trotsky
Today Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing the financially successful remake of the 1984 classic, The Karate Kid, on Blu-ray & DVD. Although the level of violence amongst young kids is quite disturbing and it tries too hard to copy the great original, there is still some good stuff in this uneven Jaden Smith/Jackie Chan… Read More DVD/Blu-ray Release: The Karate Kid
From the director of such acclaimed TV dramas as A Bear Named Winnie and Pope John Paul II, comes When Love is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story – on DVD today from eOne Home Entertainment. Starring Winona Ryder and Barry Pepper, When Love is Not Enough is based on the true story of Al-Anon… Read More DVD Release: When Love is Not Enough
Some of these releases are quite a bit out of date, but are still worth mentioning… Some of these are great titles for the fall, with Thanksgiving coming up this weekend and Halloween at the end of the month, while others are classics that would make great gifts either now or later on in the… Read More Now Available from Warner Home Video
By John C. David Fincher’s The Social Network has been getting ‘friended’ by critics since the first screenings, and the film opened this weekend to strong box office returns. On its way to a Best Picture nomination, it is, of course, the brilliant and controversial bio-pic of Mark Zuckerberg who created the ever-popular social networking… Read More The Social Network – Keeping it real without Facebook
The Social Network – A Sony Pictures’ Release http://www.thesocialnetwork-movie.com/ Release Date: October 1st Rated 14A for substance abuse, language may offend Running time: 120 minutes David Fincher (dir.) Aaron Sorkin (screenplay) Based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich Trent Reznor (music) Atticus Ross (music) Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg Andrew Garfield as Eduardo… Read More Movie Review: The Social Network
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