DVDReviewGroup

DVD news, Movie news, Entertainment news, DVD reviews, DVD contests and DVD information source.

A William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

It all begins when Hermia and Lysander flee deep into the forest to escape Hermia’s father, Egeus, who wishes Hermia to marry Demetrius. Demetrius himself bicycles into the woods to follow his true love Hermia. Demetrius is soon followed by yet another desperate lover: Helena, who adores Demetrius but finds her affections dreadfully unrequited. Crashing and flailing, and falling into mud puddles, the foursome find themselves near the secret home of the fairies, where water nymphs and satyrs party into the night at the fairy bars and cafes. Chaos ensues when the trickster Puck (Stanley Tucci) administers a secret love potion-causing the lovers to mix-and-match with outrageous results. Meanwhile, a band of actors come to the same woods to put on a play-a play that is interrupted when its star actor Bottom becomes a strange pawn in the love battles between Oberon, King of the Fairies, and Titania his Queen. (1 hr. 56 min.)

More: continued here

Madagascar

This movie focuses on four residents and “stars” of the Central Park Zoo in New York City who are also best friends: a lion (Stiller), a zebra (Rock), a giraffe (Schwimmer) and a pregnant hippo (Smith). When one of them goes missing, the other three break out of the zoo looking for him, and eventually all four are captured and put in boxes to ship them back to the continent their species are originally from: Africa. An accident at sea, however, strands them on the shore of Madagascar. Having had humans take care of them their entire life, the four know nothing of surviving in the wild, or that one of them, the lion, is genetically predisposed to eat his three best friends. Exploring their surroundings, the four friends soon meet the Malagasy locals (a type of lemur given to having loud “rave-like” dance parties) and their carnivorous enemies, the fousas. As the two sides try to use these four new, strange (and large) friends to their benefit, our heroes are also confronted with the reality of their predestined roles in nature. (1 hr. 26 min.)

More: continued here

Christina Applegate Battling Breast Cancer (E! Online)

Here's to a speedy recovery.E! Online - Here’s to a speedy recovery.


More: continued here

Lonesome Dove

LONESOME DOVE is the acclaimed TV Western saga based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Larry McMurtry. As the story begins, two former Texas Rangers (Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones) leave the Texas town of Lonesome Dove on a 3,000-mile cattle drive to the unsettled ranch country of Montana. This epic film features outstanding performances by an impressive cast that also consists of Anjelica Huston, Danny Glover, Frederic Forrest, Chris Cooper, and many more. This comprehensive release includes: “Part 1: Leaving,” “Part 2: On the Trail,” “Part 3: The Plains,” and “Part 4: Return.”

More: continued here

TV actress Christina Applegate fighting cancer (Reuters)

Actress Christina Applegate from 'Samantha Who?' arrives at the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, January 27, 2008. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)Reuters - Actress Christina Applegate, famed for playing ditzy daughter Kelly Bundy on TV comedy “Married … With Children,” is fighting breast cancer, but expected to make a full recovery, her spokeswoman said on Saturday.


More: continued here

Bestsellers



Weekend Box Office

Sunday, November 16, 2008
1. Quantum of Solace - $70.4 mil
2. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - $36.1 mil
3. Role Models - $11.7 mil
4. High School Musical 3: Senior Year - $5.9 mil
5. Changeling - $4.2 mil

Source: Box Office Mojo www.boxofficemojo.com

FireStats icon Powered by FireStats