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DVD/Blu-ray Breakdown: November 30th, 2010

Mike Eisenberg — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:10:40 +0000

This week presents some summer blockbusters on DVD and Blu-ray alongside a pair of instant classics. You may not get a lot of choices this week, but there is definitely something new to watch.

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz get a second chance to earn bank with Knight and Day, while The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is just happy to be out of Inception‘s limelight – a problem it had when it released in the same week as Chris Nolan’s mind-bending blockbuster.

There is also a sneaky champion amidst the three new releases this week; the best film of the trio actually made the least at this summer’s box office.

The following movies can be found on DVD and Blu-ray:

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DVD/Blu-ray Breakdown: November 30th, 2010

Screen Rant’s 2010 Fall Movie Preview

Kofi Outlaw — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:17:36 +0000

Summertime and all that easy living is now done, and unless you’re one of those people who lives where the sun is always shining then the onset of Fall means four things: colder weather, earlier sunsets, heavier clothing and movies galore.

Yes, the summer has all those big blockbusters we’ve been waiting all year to see, but Fall is the time when we actually want to be in the movie theater: when being outdoors is no longer an attractive alternative and the cinema offers many, many, award-worthy films. A few of them even stand the chance of being pretty good.

Of course the Fall movie landscape has been changing pretty radically in the last few years: September is now a “showcase for unique genre films” instead of just a studio dumping ground ; ...

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Mid-Week Movie News Wrap Up – March 19, 2009

Niall Browne — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:38:47 +0000

This week:
Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman look at Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry; Justin Long is Going the Distance; Joel Silver knows an Unknown White Male; Lionsgate, Rhys Meyers and Travolta love Paris and Harris hangs in Dante’s Inferno.

1. Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman will star in and produce Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry.

According to Variety:

“The book takes the form of a Sotheby’s-like estate auction catalog, with 325 entries and photographs depicting items that reveal the private moments and the rise and fall of a four-year relationship between the fictitious couple Hal Morris (a 40ish photographer) and Lenore Doolan (a New York Times food columnist in her late 20s).”

The film, which will be a romantic comedy is based on a novel by Leanne Shapton.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and ...

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