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Veronica Santiago and Neil Estep review Hairspray, Chuck & Larry, and Premonition in this episode of FilmCrunch.
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This Week on DVD and Blu-ray: October 27, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: 20th Century Fox, Disney, Lionsgate, Sony, Weinstein Company, Animation, Family, Horror, Science Fiction, Sequels, Comedy, Thrillers, Home Entertainment, Lists, New Releases

Orphan on Blu-rayHere are some of the options available this Tuesday:

  • Afterwards: DVD
  • Collision: Christopher Hitchens vs. Douglas Wilson: DVD
  • Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: DVD, Blu-ray
  • The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue: Blu-ray
  • Night of the Creeps: DVD, Blu-ray
  • Nothing Like the Holidays: DVD, Blu-ray
  • Orphan: DVD, Blu-ray
  • Stargate (15th Anniversary Edition): Blu-ray
  • Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure: DVD, Blu-ray
  • Whatever Works: DVD, Blu-ray
  • Z: DVD

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This Week on DVD and Blu-ray: August 4, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks, Disney, Magnolia, Lionsgate, Action, Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family, Music, Political, Remakes, Science Fiction, Comedy, Thrillers, Home Entertainment, Lists

The Soloist DVDHere are some of the options available this Tuesday:

  • August: DVD
  • Big Trouble in Little China: Blu-ray
  • Fragments: DVD
  • Mutant Chronicles: DVD, Blu-ray
  • My Cousin Vinny: Blu-ray
  • The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: DVD, Blu-ray
  • Obsessed: DVD, Blu-ray
  • Race to Witch Mountain: DVD, Blu-ray
  • Sling Blade: Blu-ray
  • The Soloist: DVD, Blu-ray
  • The Tigger Movie: DVD

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This Week on DVD and Blu-ray: April 7, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Disney, Magnolia, Miramax, New Line, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros, Action, Adaptation, Animation, Documentary, Drama, Family, Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy, Thrillers, Home Entertainment

Here are some of the options available this Tuesday:

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Death Proof Fails to Stand Alone in the UK

Posted by Johnny Mercedes Categories: Weinstein Company, Action, Thrillers, Box Office, Distribution, New Releases

Death Proof posterQuentin Tarantino’s Death Proof opened in the UK last week, its producers, Bob and Harvey Weinstein, hopefully anticipating the result of their decision to split the film from its counterpart, Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror. But without the nostalgia of a bygone B-movie tradition and the novelty of a rare double-feature bridged together with wonderfully cheesy trailers in a faux-intermission, the film didn’t manage to captivate British audiences; if it did, they certainly weren’t compelled to go to the theater in great numbers. The film debuted in a pathetic sixth place at the box-office (£407,525 or $821,623) behind only one other opener: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, which came in third.

As you may recall, Grindhouse walked away from the US box-office with a measly $24.9 million despite critical praise, something The Weinsteins chalked up to the uniqueness of the movie coupled with a long run-time and poor marketing. The decision to split the film into two separate entities for overseas distribution and DVD release was an attempt to recoup the losses incurred by that poor US performance. The marketing for the UK release of Death Proof hinged on Tarantino’s name and credibility, since he’d had successful openings in the past (Reservoir Dogs actually had better attendance there than in the US).

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This Week on DVD:  September 18, 2007

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Lionsgate, New Line, Picturehouse, Paramount, Warner Bros, Action, Drama, Family, Horror, Period, Romance, Sports, Thrillers, Home Entertainment, Lists, New Releases

Deathproof

Here are a few of the titles you can find on the rental shelves this Tuesday:

  • Grindhouse: Death Proof:  starring Kurt Russell, Rose McGowan, Rosario Dawson (watch our review here)
  • We Are Marshall:  starring Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox
  • Lucky You:  starring Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall
  • The Condemned:  starring ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin
  • Gracie:  starring Carly Schroeder, Elizabeth Shue, Dermot Mulroney
  • Saturday Night Fever (30th Anniversary Edition):  starring John Travolta, Karen Gorney
  • Flashdance (Special Collector’s Edition):  starring Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri
  • Wall Street (Special Collector’s Edition):  starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah

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FilmCrunch 054: Grindhouse, The Hoax, Notes on a Scandal, Jessica Biel

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Fox Searchlight, Miramax, Action, Adaptation, Drama, Horror, Period, Comedy, Thrillers, DVD Reviews, Full Episodes, Theatrical Reviews, Videocasts


Veronica Santiago and Neil Estep review Grindhouse, The Hoax, and Notes on a Scandal in this episode of FilmCrunch. Also, Veronica shares her disdain regarding Jessica Biel and her lack of clothing in movie trailers.


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Grindhouses Not Just Theatres With Tarantino

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Weinstein Company, Action, Horror, Thrillers, Box Office, New Releases

Grindhouse movie poster It’s so hard to find a good Grindhouse these days. Theatres that cater to the darker side of the psyche by showing grisly, gory violence just aren’t easy to come by. In fact, the days of most Grindhouse theatres are days gone by. What’s a movie maker that wants to grind violence into the minds of moviegoers to do in these post-Grindhouse days? To fill this grinding gap in current culture, Quentin Tarantino (with the help of Robert Rodriguez) decided to make his very own Grindhouse double feature. Always striving to take movies to a new level of violent chills and thrills, Tarantino’s signature movie style is most definitely in place for the new double-feature flick. Early reviews are in…will Grindhouse grind out?

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