This week sees the release of the fantasy film The Golden Compass. The other big release is the Oscar-nominated French film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
For those of you who enjoy romantic comedies, you could out 27 Dresses, which also released this week.
Finally, on the Blu-Ray front, you can now pick of a high-def version of the 1995 Sean Connery film First Knight.
And that’s the DVD picks for this week
Two comedies open at the box office this weekend. The first one is the tv show adaptation Get Smart with Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway. The other release is The Love Guru with Mike Myers. All the reports are stating the Get Smart is the film that is more worth watching. Indeed, it is the…
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For the last few weeks I thought this film was very well-advertised for a foreign-language film and my curiosity was peaked. The book is based on the novel of the same name and it is the first in a series of three films (the rest are scheduled to be released later this year). Essentially the…
This weekend, the second film of the Chronicles of Narnia, Prince Caspian runs unopposed in the box office. Well, it’s unopposed in terms of new films. However Iron Man continues to do very well and it will probably be Caspian’s main competition. I’m going to check out the film even though I’m feeling hesitation about…
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