Highlights from this week’s film and TV show releases: Dredd 3D In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO. Frankenweenie (3D) Frankenweenie is a heartwarming tale about a boy and his dog. After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor harnesses the power of science to bring his best friend back to life—with just a...

Highlights from this week’s film and TV show releases: The Dark Knight Rises Eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, the terrorist leader Bane arrives in Gotham City, pushing it and its police force to their limits, forcing its former hero Batman to resurface after taking the fall for Harvey Dent’s crimes. Finding Nemo (3D) In the colorful and warm tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef, a Clownfish named Marlin lives safe and secluded in a quiet cul-de-sac with his...

Highlights from this week’s film and TV show releases: Titanic (3D,  Collector’s Set) After winning a trip on the RMS Titanic during a dockside card game, American Jack Dawson spots the society girl Rose DeWitt Bukater who is on her way to Philadelphia to marry her rich snob fiance Cal Hockley. Rose feels helplessly trapped by her situation and makes her way to the aft deck and thinks of suicide until she is rescued by Jack. Cal is therefore obliged to invite Jack to dine at...

Highlights from this week’s film and TV show releases: Battleship A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals. The Lucky One A Marine travels to North Carolina after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war. Headhunters Headhunters stars the talented Aksel Hennie (Max Manus) as Roger, a charming scoundrel and Norway’s most...

The Criterion Collection has announced that it will release four titles on Blu-ray this November. Criterion will be kicking off November with Akira Kurosawa‘s Rashomon on the 6th. A week later, it will release Jean-Luc Godard‘s Weekend and Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s Trilogy of Life. The eclectic distributor will cap-off its November slate with the release of Michael Cimino‘s Heaven’s Gate on the 2oth. Below is a breakdown of each film’s specifications,...

Highlights from this week’s film and TV show releases: Jaws A giant great white shark arrives on the shores of a New England beach resort and wreaks havoc with bloody attacks on swimmers until a part-time sheriff teams up with a marine biologist and an old seafarer to hunt the monster down. The Raid: Redemption A swat team arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord named Tama. The building has never been raided before, never been...

Highlights from this week’s film and TV show releases: Silent House From the directors of the hit film Open Water, Silent House is a uniquely unsettling horror thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen as Sarah, a young woman who finds herself sealed inside her family’s secluded lake house. With no contact to the outside world, and no way out, panic turns to terror to terror as events become increasingly ominous in and around the house. Directed by filmmaking duo Chris Kentis and Laura...

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has set an official release date for the newly remastered edition of David Lean‘s Lawrence of Arabia. The studio’s archivists meticulously restored the film from the original camera negative, which was scanned at 8K, in order to generate the most pristine theatrical and home entertainment release of the classic picture to-date. The ultimate result of the this restoration was the 4K digitally-restored version which premiered at the Festival de Cannes...