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DVD Review: CHRONICLE

By CARL CORTEZ | 05/27/2012
CHRONICLE | ©2012 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Stars: Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan Writer: Max Landis, story by Max Landis and Josh Trank Director: Josh Trank Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Suggested Retail Price: $29.98 (DVD), $39.99 (Blu-ray) Release Date: May 15, 2012 One of the more refreshingly original found footage movies to come out this year is CHRONICLE, which just hit DVD and Blu-ray. It’s a superhero/super villain origin story told through the perspective of an introspective teen named Andrew (Dane DeHaan) whose only way of communicating seems to be through his video camera. He has a cousin Matt (Alex Russell) who tolerates […]Read On »


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DVD Review: CHUCK – THE COMPLETE FIFTH AND FINAL SEASON

By CARL CORTEZ |
CHUCK - THE COMPLETE FIFTH AND FINAL SEASON | ©2012 Warner Bros. Home Video

Stars: Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua Gomez, Adam Baldwin, Vik Sahay, Scott Krinsky, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Ryan McPartlin, Sarah Lancaster Suggested Retail Price: $39.98 (DVD), $49.99 (Blu-ray) Distributor: Warner Home Video Release Date: May 8, 2012 If NBC didn’t have the kind of executive and management woes it’s had over the last five years, perennial bubble series CHUCK would have not made it past its second season, let alone reached five seasons total. Yet, amid all of NBC’s internal turmoil, there was a solid fan base for CHUCK that fought for it to the end – including letter writing campaigns and sponsorship saviors like […]Read On »


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CD Review: DAMSELS IN DISTRESS soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
DAMSELS IN DISTRESS soundtrack | ©2012 Milan Records

When it comes to Whit Stillman’s arch comedies of manners, the filmmaker has found a pleasant cocktail partner in composer Mark Suozzo, who’s brought musical class to the classy quips of METROPOLITAN, BARCELONA and THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO. But Suozzo’s stylings for Stillman’s bon vivants have never been more cutely enjoyable then when he hits the college campus of DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, as abetted by Adam Schlesinger (MUSIC AND LYRICS). On a campus whose not-so mean girls speak and behave as if they were from an era well outside the 21st century, Suozzo and Schlesinger come up with the […]Read On »


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CD Review: THE BLACK CAULDRON

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
THE BLACK CAULDRON soundtrack | ©2012 Intrada Records

Even if Disney animation didn’t exactly get their answer to THE LORD OF THE RINGS with this 1985 fantasy spectacle, THE BLACK CAULDRON did brew up the last epic genre score that Elmer Bernstein would compose for a major studio. There’s certainly no mistaking his inimitable touch during the era, as CAULDRON‘s theremin-like Ondes Martenot, playful electronics and bold, brassy statements are part of the same, tasty brew from whence the likes of SATURN 3, SPACEHUNTER and HEAVY METAL sprang. But if there’s one Bernstein score that THE BLACK CAULDRON really shares its lifeblood with, then it’s the over-the-top sound […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING Los Angeles Premiere

By SUE SCHNEIDER |
Cameron Diaz at the Los Angeles Premiere of WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING | ©2012 Sue Schneider

Lionsgate and Alcon Entertainment held the Los Angeles Premiere of WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING on May 14th at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING features an A-list star cast and they all showed up to walk the black carpet, which included: Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Banks, Chace Crawford, Brooklyn Decker, Ben Falcone, Anna Kendrick, Matthew Morrison, Rodrigo Santoro, Joe Manganiello, Amir Talai, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Rob Huebel, Tom Lennon, Rebel Wilson, Taboo, Whitney Port, Kirk Jones (Director), Mike Medavoy (Producer), and from the soundtrack Alison Sudol. Joining them were guests, which included: […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MEN IN BLACK 3

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/26/2012
MEN IN BLACK 3 movie poster | ©2012 Sony Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emma Thompson Writer: Etan Cohen, based on the Malibu Comic by Lowell Cunningham Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Distributor: Columbia Pictures Release Date: May 25, 2012 When it came out back in 1997, MEN IN BLACK was delightful, pitting Tommy Lee Jones’ formidable deadpan as the ultimate secret government agent against Will Smith’s forthright persona as a new recruit against satirical alien spectacle. It was funny, it was inventive and it felt like the creation of people who had things they wanted to say and jokes they wanted […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: MAGIC CITY star Olga Kurylenko has the magic touch

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Olga Kurylenko in MAGIC CITY - Season 1 | ©2012 Starz

In Starz’s new Friday night series MAGIC CITY, created by Mitch Glazer, Miami’s Miramar Hotel is where it’s all happening. Hotel manager Ike Evans, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, has thought his job was a dream, but with the return of his silent partner, gangster Ben “the Butcher” Diamond (Danny Huston), it’s turning into a nightmare. Further complicating Ike’s life is his gorgeous new immigrant wife Vera, played by Olga Kurylenko. Kurylenko, who hails from the Ukraine, has been best known until now by U.S.audiences for her action roles in HITMAN and the most recent James Bond film QUANTUM OF […]Read On »


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CD Review: BEL AMI soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
BEL AMI soundtrack | ©2012 Varese Sarabande Records

Rachel Portman, the mistress of costume drama scoring, takes on the French Bell Epoque era for BEL AMI. And in the stylistically seamless company of Indian co-composer Lakshman Joseph De Saram, Portman shows off her musical trademark of dance-like rhythms and emotive, feminine strings. Her Baroque classicism very much suits AMI‘s elegant social stratification a few centuries hence, and the seductive cunning of the ex soldier who finds his way to success through society’s hemlines. Going for a tone that contrasts poetic beauty with the darkness that lies under the characters’ finery, Portman and De Saram’s music is impressively fashioned […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the BATTLESHIP American Premiere

By SUE SCHNEIDER |
Taylor Kitsch and Liam Neeson at the American Premiere of BATTLESHIP | ©2012 Sue Schneider

Universal Pictures held the American Premiere of BATTLESHIP recently at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live in Los Angeles. The “sea blue” carpet had special sections for the fans around the carpet. As the stars of the film and the guests walked the carpet they stopped to sign autographs and take pictures with the fans. Walking the carpet were the stars of the film, which included: Liam Neeson, Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker, Tadanobu Asano, Hamish Linklater, Adrian Bellani, Dante Jimenez, Michael Meldman, Jackie Johnson, Stephen Bishop, Leni Ito, Writers Eric Hoeber and Jon Hoeber. Joining them were […]Read On »


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CD Review: WHITE FANG soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
WHITE FANG soundtrack | ©2012 Intrada Records

Just like the confident bear who tangles with an upstart white wolf, Basil Poledouris’ old-fangled orchestral score was given a proper mauling by the Disney execs, who make their period Jack London adventure seem a lot more contemporary. But where it’s usually the veteran creature who’d lose the fight when thrown into the fight pit of studio politics, quite a bit of both composers’ work ended up in WHITE FANG, making the movie most notable for its stylistic clash of scores in the long run (even if Zimmer somehow went uncredited). Yet props can also be given to Disney for […]Read On »


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