A look at what's new on DVD this week:
"Fubar: Balls to the Wall"
Directed by Michael Dowse
Released by Screen Media Films
Following up the 2002 cult comedy about lifelong metalhead pals Terry and Dean, this sequel, which recently premiered to much acclaim at SXSW, finds the duo down on their luck when they decide to head up north to work in the oil industry, but when their best laid plans go awry, Dean attempts to get on worker's comp, leading to the kind of exploits best enjoyed with a cold beer.
"Born to Raise Hell" (2011)
Directed by Darren Shahlavi
Released by Paramount
Steven Seagal not only stars as an Interpol agent named Samuel Axel in this Dtv thriller, but also wrote the script, so you know it has to be good. In it, Axel must bring down a gun trafficking ring in the Balkans where the stakes become personal...
"Fubar: Balls to the Wall"
Directed by Michael Dowse
Released by Screen Media Films
Following up the 2002 cult comedy about lifelong metalhead pals Terry and Dean, this sequel, which recently premiered to much acclaim at SXSW, finds the duo down on their luck when they decide to head up north to work in the oil industry, but when their best laid plans go awry, Dean attempts to get on worker's comp, leading to the kind of exploits best enjoyed with a cold beer.
"Born to Raise Hell" (2011)
Directed by Darren Shahlavi
Released by Paramount
Steven Seagal not only stars as an Interpol agent named Samuel Axel in this Dtv thriller, but also wrote the script, so you know it has to be good. In it, Axel must bring down a gun trafficking ring in the Balkans where the stakes become personal...
- 4/19/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Better late than never -- much better, as it turned out.
Bumped by Paramount from fall to winter release, Martin Scorsese's Leonardo DiCaprio starrer "Shutter Island" docked at the high end of pre-release projections with an estimated $40.2 million. The R-rated suspense thriller's outsize bow gave the film's director and topliner new personal bests.
The previous weekend's boxoffice champ -- romantic comedy "Valentine's Day" from Warner Bros. -- fell a big 69% from its opening tally but still wooed $17.2 million in second place for a 10-day cume of $87.4 million. Fox's family adventure "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" dropped a modest 51% in its sophomore session to $15.3 million in fourth place with a $58.8 cume, while Universal's Benicio Del Toro starrer "The Wolfman" shed 69% from opening grosses for $9.8 million in fifth with a $50.3 million cume.
Collectively, the weekend's top 10 finishers rung up $118 million, or 5% more than top performers in the comparable frame last year,...
Bumped by Paramount from fall to winter release, Martin Scorsese's Leonardo DiCaprio starrer "Shutter Island" docked at the high end of pre-release projections with an estimated $40.2 million. The R-rated suspense thriller's outsize bow gave the film's director and topliner new personal bests.
The previous weekend's boxoffice champ -- romantic comedy "Valentine's Day" from Warner Bros. -- fell a big 69% from its opening tally but still wooed $17.2 million in second place for a 10-day cume of $87.4 million. Fox's family adventure "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" dropped a modest 51% in its sophomore session to $15.3 million in fourth place with a $58.8 cume, while Universal's Benicio Del Toro starrer "The Wolfman" shed 69% from opening grosses for $9.8 million in fifth with a $50.3 million cume.
Collectively, the weekend's top 10 finishers rung up $118 million, or 5% more than top performers in the comparable frame last year,...
- 2/21/2010
- by By Carl DiOrio
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fans of Ewan McGregor, Kristen Stewart and James Van Der Beek (!) will be seeing double this spring, as arthouses and multiplexes host an array of indie films ranging from the travails of septuagenarian New Yorkers looking for love ("The Last New Yorker") to 13-year-old assassins on the hunt for their first kill ("Kick-Ass"). If real life is more your speed, there are new documentaries about reviving animation strips (the Disney doc "Waking Sleeping Beauty") and stripping down (the burlesque history "Behind the Burly Q"), while foreign wonders like the French crime epics "A Prophet" and "Mesrine" mix with Korean treasures "Mother" and "The Good, The Bad and The Weird."
But of course, why limit yourself to just what's playing in the first-run theater near you? We've also included a look at the films that will be playing Anywhere But a Movie Theater (online, on demand, and on DVD) in the next few months,...
But of course, why limit yourself to just what's playing in the first-run theater near you? We've also included a look at the films that will be playing Anywhere But a Movie Theater (online, on demand, and on DVD) in the next few months,...
- 2/16/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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