Tuesday, June 24, 2014

New Release Tuesday

A movie about a 'typical' day in the life of the Beatles which includes many of their famous songs and is from director Richard Lester of Superman II fame.  This movie was made with a final cost of about $500,000 and a box office take of about $8,000,000 in the first week, and is still among the most profitable (percentage-wise) films of all time.  This is from Criterion so it will be packed with goodies and will also look and sound fabulous.  It will be well worth the extra price.

Greek general Themistokles leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.  I read it does not quite stack up to the original but it has kept the same visual look and hey what’s wrong dudes beating each other up?  


FX is putting some of the best TV shows out right now.  I caught the pilot of this and it was pretty good as someone leaves a body on a U.S/ Mexico bridge and makes it to where half the body is on the U.S. side and the other half on ol’ Mexico.  Pretty clever stuff there as it gets both sides involved.  The question is which side really cares?  Watch and find out.



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