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'Jack Reacher' among DVD releases for May 5-11

May 7th, 2013 No comments

A look at some DVDs scheduled to be released in the weeks ahead.

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Ontario police bust operation selling counterfeit DVD box sets worldwide

April 30th, 2013 No comments

OAKVILLE, Ont. – Three southern Ontario men are facing charges following an investigation in what’s being called the largest counterfeit DVD burning and manufacturing operation in Canadian history.

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DVD review: Jack Reacher

April 20th, 2013 No comments

Tom Cruise may seem like a curious choice to play the 6ft 5in hero of Lee Child’s vigilante novels, but, casting aside, Jack Reacher is a satisfyingly meaty whodunnit which has more in common with the private-eye thrillers of the 1960s and 1970s than it does with Mission: Impossible .        

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DVD review: Love Crime

April 20th, 2013 No comments

Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier; sex and murder; swanky Parisian boardrooms and bedrooms. Sounds enticing, doesn’t it?        

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Seven Psychopaths (15)

April 12th, 2013 No comments

Scene stealer Christopher Walken, once again, appears to be acting in an entirely different film (a better one) in Martin McDonagh’s absurd but entertaining black comedy.

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Seven Psychopaths (15)

DVD & Blu-ray review: Accident (PG)

April 12th, 2013 No comments

“I am surprised to hear that Aristotle is on the syllabus in the State of Wisconsin,” maintains a haughty don in Harold Pinter’s deft adaptation of Nicholas Mosley’s novel.        

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Mayday (15)

April 12th, 2013 No comments

Midsomer Murders meets David Lynch in the BBC’s ripe, horribly compelling five-part thriller. A 15-year-old May Queen goes missing in a provincial town and three disagreeable middle-aged men – Peter Firth’s grubby property developer, Aiden Gillen’s sneering layabout and Peter McDonald’s creepy cop – are the main suspects.        

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Why all the best sports movies are about baseball

April 12th, 2013 No comments

This weekend’s 42, which tells the story of Jackie Robinson, is the latest in a long string of cinematic odes to America’s Pastime

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Rentrak Announces Top DVD & Blu – ray Sales And Rentals For Week Ending March 31, 2013

April 8th, 2013 No comments

LOS ANGELES, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — RENTRAK CORPORATION (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu – ray sales and rentals according to the company’s Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials …

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Call the Midwife: Series 2 (12)

April 5th, 2013 No comments

BBC’s wildly successful Sunday-night entertainment is certainly preferable to the cloying Lark Rise to Candleford and it doesn’t flinch at portraying domestic abuse in late 1950s Poplar.

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Call the Midwife: Series 2 (12)