Review: Juliet, Naked
Juliet, Naked, the latest big screen adaptation of a novel from prolific British author Nick Hornby, is one of those character studies that works better on the page than it does blown up to a grander scale.
Review: ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’
Releasing quickly and with sudden fanfare onto Netflix after people had their fill of football last night, the B-movie sci-fi franchise entry The Cloverfield Paradox is an entertaining, if admittedly unexceptional piece of genre fluff.
DVD Tuesday: ‘The King’s Speech’ and ‘Gulliver’s Travels’
New releases on Blu-ray and DVD this week include: Tom Hooper’s Oscar winning historical drama, The King’s Speech, starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush; the modern comic remake of Gulliver’s Travels, with Jack Black; the drama Rabbit Hole with stars Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart; plus a look at Mortal Kombat on Blu-ray and Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure.
Film Friday: ‘True Grit’ and ‘Gulliver’s Travels’
Opening this week, just in time for the holidays: Jeff Bridges stars in the Coen brothers’ Western, True Grit; Jack Black is off to the land of the wee folk in Gulliver’s Travels; Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller are back for another round in Little Fockers; plus a look at Barney’s Version.