“New Releases This Week” Archive
Chris Cummins | New Releases This Week
This week's new releases include critically acclaimed favories, riveting documentaries on topics ranging from capitalism to the legendary siblings who changed the way movies were made, unoriginal comedic shenanigans from John Travolta and Robin Williams, and a one-season TV wonder finally making its DVD debut.
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
Yes, it's common knowledge that Lee Daniels' acclaimed drama is an incredibly well-acted, emotionally involving tour-de-force. But can we all agree that the lengthy title is a bit much? Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz and Mariah Carey's phony mustache star.
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Chris Cummins | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases: Amongst this week's new offerings are Spike Jonze's adaptation of a children's classic, the latest disaster epic from the director of Independence Day and John Carpenter's tribute to the King.
Where the Wild Things Are
It was no easy task translating Maurice Sendak’s legendary (and largely dialogue-free) picture book to the big screen, but director Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) and screenwriter Dave Eggers were up to the challenge. This visually stunning film somehow manages to capture the exquisite pain, hope, fear and wonder of childhood. Those looking for an Alvin and the Chipmunks-styled kids flick packed with pop culture references were disappointed with the movie’s gentle pacing and ruminations on how it feels to be a child—thus its underwhelming performance at the box office. But for anyone who wants to remember the emotional roller coaster of adolescence, Where the Wild Things Are is essential viewing. Max Records, Catherine Keener star; with the voices of James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Catherine O’Hara, Paul Dano, Chris Cooper and Forest Whitaker.
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Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include two very different supernatural thrillers, The Box and Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant. Also, a very fine remake of an Italian film, Everybody's Fine with a great ensamble cast, and John Hurt is back as Quentin Crisp in An Englishman In New York, a "sort of" sequel to The Naked Civil Servant. There are new TV series, including the complete first season of Nurse Jackie but it's the older entries that take the spotlight: George Bernard Shaw on Film includes three classic masterpieces from Shaw, who was both a Nobel Prize-winner and Oscar-winner. Along with these other older classic films is Make Way For Tomorrow, a highly requested tearjerker from director Leo McCarey.
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Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include Gerard Butler in the riveting crime thriller, Law Abiding Citizen and there's lots of laughs in Black Dynamite, a send-up of the 1970's blaxploitation movies -- and Josh Brolin doesn't know whether to laugh or cry in the comic drama, Women In Trouble. Also truth seems like fiction in the gruesome thriller, Freeway Killer and the life story of fashion icon Coco Chanel is played out by Audrey Tautou and Marie Gillain -- truth be told, it's all been done before but this new French drama, Coco Before Chanel is a crowd pleaser. Clint Eastwood fans will be glad to see Clint get his due in the new Warner Brothers box set, Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years which, as expected, contains lots of "good stuff." TV shows are newly released this week like Buddy Ebson's Barnaby Jones and Chuck Connors' Branded plus a very fine Italian feature film release from 1975, Profumo Di Donna, is sure to please movie enthusiasts who haven't had the pleasure of seeing the original version of Al Pacino's Scent Of A Woman.
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Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include Vince Vaughn in the romantic and very funny comedy Couples Retreat, Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana in The Time Traveler's Wife and action fans will be happy to see the return of Steven Seagal in A Dangerous Man... plus one of the most controversial films from The Coen Brothers will cause viewers to decide if A Serious Man is the best work to date from Joel and Ethan or is this one movie that is way over the top?
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Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include Woody Harrelson having lots of fun in Zombieland, gorgeous Jennifer Aniston in the romantic comedy Love Happens, and two-time Oscar-winner Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart in Amelia - plus The Incredible Hulk is back, albeit in animated form, in Planet Hulk. Classic movies from the vault at Universal Studios take the spotlight this week with the exclusive release of Cary Grant: The Early Years containing 3 of Cary's movies from the 1930s, "Devil and the Deep," "The Eagle and the Hawk," and "The Last Outpost."
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Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include Drew Barrymore's very funny roller derby movie Whip It, and Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames appear together again in Surrogates, the recent sci-fi thriller. Along with this week's full slate of new-to-video releases is last summer's mega-hit, Michael Jackson's This Is It which includes the last performances from the "King of Pop." And a classic trio of Foreign wartime movies makes it way to DVD: Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy from the 1940s.
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Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include the recent thriller Gamer, starring TV's Dexter, Michael C. Hall, the suspenseful Whiteout with Kate Beckinsale and the Dennis Quaid sci-fi shocker Pandorum. Also new this week: Jennifer Garner fans will rally round The Invention Of Lying and one of Brittany Murphy's last movies is the 2009 noirish movie, Across The Hall plus an interesting Foreign release, My Fuhrer from Germany, will have people talking and laughing. Benicio Del Toro stars as "Che" Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's Che from 2008 and a pre-Priceline William Shatner is back in the re-release of Kingdom Of The Spiders. Yikes!
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Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include the extremely tense Iraq War thriller, The Hurt Locker and another "Medea" outing from Tyler Perry, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, where he wrote, directed, and co-starred plus two remakes slither their way to DVD: Fame and Halloween II. Also available for the first time on home video is a pair of serious musical dramas from the 1960s starring high profile musical performers in rare dramatic roles -- A Man Called Adam stars Sammy Davis, Jr as a trumpeter spiriling out of control and Ballad In Blue stars Ray Charles as himself, trying to help a young blind boy.
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Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include the animated hit, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, The Final Destination and the quirky romantic comedy, Falling Up featuring Cordazar Calvin Broadus, better known by his stage name as Snoop Dogg plus Disney is re-releasing the 10th Anniversary Edition of 10 Things I Hate About You...Heath Ledger fans will enjoy seeing him before he became a mega-star. And for die-hard fans of the Dragnet TV show, Universal is releasing the first season of Dragnet 1967.
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Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include Paranormal Activity, A Perfect Getaway and the very sexy and wickedly shocking, Jennifer's Body starring America's sexiest bad girl, Megan Fox plus Facing Ali, a new documentary giving insight into the life of Muhammad Ali. Also making its' debut this week is the complete first season of Showtime's runaway hit TV series, United States Of Tara starring Toni Collette.
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Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include Extract, the very funny new comedy from Mike Judge and humans discover they are not welcome in District 9, produced by Peter Jackson; then there's the remake of Fritz Lang's 1954 thriller, Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper are back in All About Steve. And, for fans of uniquely offbeat romantic comedies, (500) Days Of Summer is sure to please. Also making its' debut this week is one of TV's most entertaining comedy shows, Taxi: The Complete Series.
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