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American Hustle official, plus Philip Seymour Hoffman & Maximilian Schell RIP
All right, let’s get the new week started...
First up today, our own Todd Doogan has turned in his weekly Doogan’s Queue column over in Gripe Soda, running down all this week’s most interesting Blu-ray and DVD releases. Do check it out.
Also today, Russell Hammond has updated the Release Dates & Artwork section with all the latest Blu-ray and DVD cover artwork and Amazon.com pre-order links. As always, a portion of anything you order from Amazon after clicking through our links goes to help support our work here at The Bits and we really appreciate it! [Read on here...]
Great New Movies in Theaters, A Christmas Story review, Captain Phillips official & more!
So it turns out The Desolation of Smaug is pretty good. I mustered up the energy to catch a double-feature screening last night with a friend, and it was a fine evening’s entertainment. If you enjoyed the first Hobbit film, I think you’ll like this one a great deal more. The pacing is much more engaging. Fans of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy will definitely feel more at home here, as in this film the prequel trilogy really begins to reveal its connections to the previous films more strongly… and not just in the fact that Legolas (Orlando Bloom) features prominently. As one would hope, Smaug himself is wonderfully realized.
Smaug aside, with any luck you have a good art house theater in your neck of the woods, because there are a number of fine indie films worth seeing this holiday season: American Hustle, the Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis, All Is Lost, Nebraska, Her, 12 Years a Slave and many more. This is the time of year when all the great dramas get dumped into limited theatrical distribution so they quality for Oscar nominations, so be sure to head out to your local theater over the next 2 or 3 weeks. [Read on here…]
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Bluray Disc
- Adam Jahnke
- A Christmas Story Bluray review
- American Hustle
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- All Is Lost
- Nebraska
- Her
- 12 Years a Slave
- Captain Phillips
- Charlie Countryman
- 20 Feet from Stardom
- Superman 35th Anniversary
- Michael Coate
- Jeff Morey
- The Gunfight at the OK Corral soundtrack
- La La Land Records
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Sanitarium
- 1000 to 1: The Cory Weissman Story