Two-time Oscar-winner Jason Robards, the flinty, craggy-faced star recognized during a half-century in show business as the consummate interpreter of playwright Eugene O’Neill has died at age 78. Robards, whose last big-screen role was as the dying [...]
Anchor Bay Entertainment is cooking up a feast for edgy movie lovers with their upcoming DVD of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989). The wife of an borish restaurant owner and crimelord grows tiresome of her husband and considers an affair [...]
The busy folks at Anchor Bay Entertainment are preparing the DVD for Ole Bornedal’s original version of Nightwatch (Nattevatgen) (1994). The director remade his own film in 1998 for an American audience, but this version, universally considered to be [...]
Warner Home Video has just announced the April release of several terrific comedies from their extensive catalog. The list includes George Roy Hill’s The World According to Garp, Hal Ashby’s Being There (featuring what is surely one of the most [...]
DTS today announced plans to begin shipment of the first DVD-Audio music recordings produced by its company-owned DTS Entertainment record label, by late February. Each DVD-Audio title will be marketed as a ‘DTS Music Experience,’ and will include MLP [...]
We’ve just received word that Paramount Home Entertainment is delaying the release of their DVD of Curtis Hanson’s Wonder Boys. The delay is apparently due to the film’s garnering several Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor [...]
Until recently, French authorities have tolerated the sale of Region-1 DVDs when they were in English only, on the assumption that few French people would bother to buy them. But a new controversy is raging in France over a government crackdown on the [...]
We’ve received word that DreamWorks is readying the DVD release of Almost Famous, the critically acclaimed biographical comedy of Cameron Crowe. Based on his own experiences as a 15 year old journalist, Crowe tells the story of a young reporter who has [...]
DreamWorks is getting ready to release the political thriller The Contender to DVD this February. When the Vice President dies in office, a female Senator gets the nomination to replace him. But power comes at a stunning price, and soon information and [...]
After the uber-hype machine and subsequent fortunes that were made with the original ‘Blair Witch Project’, it was a given that the media moguls would try to replicate that success. Unfortunately, it’s almost impossible to catch lightning in a [...]
