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UFC or ultimate fighting has been around since the early nineties and made an instant impact with fight fans but since the release of films like never back down and red belt mixed martial arts seems to have taken the world by storm and even threat tens to overtake boxing as the number one combat sport.

Coming so soon after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the release of a film like American Sniper assumes a contemporary relevance that it might have otherwise lacked.

Not exact matches

After large movie theater chains, like AMC (AMC.N) and Regal Entertainment (RGC.N), refused to screen the comedy following threats of violence from hackers who opposed the film, Sony stitched together a limited release in theaters and a $ 5.99 video - on - demand (VOD) rental and $ 14.99 purchase option on YouTube Movies, Google Play (GOOGL.O), Microsoft Xbox Video (MSFT.O) and a dedicated site starting Dec. 24.

This happens every year like clockwork because the esteemed award show tends to be focused around a select season of films released and marketed during a short period of time.

A good picture of the general squalor, cynicism, and despair in Soviet life was provided by a documentary film Tak Zhit Nel» zya (roughly «We can't go on living like this»), which was released into movie theaters in the summer of 1990.

And it's not like these co-productions will release two versions of a film, one standard American version and another edited to fit Communist standards.

A handful of films on this list, in fact, were produced by streaming services like Amazon, with some of them not even receiving a wide theatrical release.

The 17 - year - old allegations have largely overshadowed the upcoming release of the film, and have led to larger conversations about how audiences should attempt to separate the artist and their art (similarly to Hollywood names like Woody Allen and Bill Cosby).

Read books about delivering drug - free and watch films featuring no - med births, like The Business of Being Born, recently released on DVD.

«It's only when you got something like Birth of a Nation (the 185 - minute silent film released in 1915)...

For the scientific community, the release of public polls on contentious questions of science usually makes us feel like Bill Murray's character in the film Groundhog Day.

The film feels like it's been assembled by committee, and news stories about the film's troubled production bear this out: after an initial round of photography during which the ending was being crafted almost on the fly, the film's release was delayed so that a new ending could be written and shot in an attempt to glue together two halves of a story that still don't feel like a whole.

Such a film as this quite obviously has a number of layers, layers that could easily have been traversed via the DVD release; a film like Into the Wild is practically screaming for commentary, so that we, as viewers, could have some idea of the intent of specific shots.

Fans of the typical Judd Apatow special features will love the Blu - ray release of «The Five - Year Engagement,» which includes 45 minutes of deleted scenes, another 45 minutes of extended and alternate scenes, and other usual suspects like a gag reel, Line - O-Rama, and a DVD and UltraViolet digital copy of the film.

[Blu - ray Review] Looking and sounding like a million bucks (or more) and full of exhaustive bonus content new and vintage, the Blu - ray release of «The Jungle Book» is a must - own for anyone who loves animation, the Walt Disney studio, or film in general.

Well the film was wide release, so it makes sense there wasn't an entirety of focus on the specifics, but I still think it would have worked better if it was more like the trailers professed intentions; doco style, with vignettes of alien / human scenes that emphasized and helped explain, not found footage either, like for example, after talking about Wikus in the past tense, it could focus on him for a bit then move on, but it stuck with him, and the film changed gears, I just thought it would have been better to focus on other things, as opposed to dumbing the plot down to one man and his battle against the evil government / corporation, and still stay in the doco style, it could have worked, no?

It comes in a thin, clear, plastic, protective case which houses a 3D Blu - ray case in the shape (the film's star) Emmett; much like that of earlier Simpson DVD releases.

Like the J.G. Ballard novel that inspired it, David Cronenberg's study of the sexual dimension of man's relationship to technology was a magnet for controversy, drawing a NC - 17 rating and criticism from several sources, including studio owner Ted Turner, who attempted to prevent the film's American release.

Cutting Class like a few horror films of the 80's relies heavily on an overused idea, and by the films release in 1989, The slasher flicks were getting weaker.

On a basic level, for those of us with less free time (or spending money) than we'd like, and with a seemingly endless array of films always being released, there's always an element of benefit - cost ratio involved in our assessment of the films we drop our cash on and park our asses in a dark theater for two hours to see.

Having won the Golden Lion at this year's Venice International Film Festival and a Special Filmmaking Achievement Award (but no mention in the ten best films list) from the National Board of Review, Sofia Coppola's Somewhere is one of the more highly anticipated independent releases of December, especially if you liked her previous films.

Sadly, while the film is undeniably interesting on an anecdotal level, it often feels like an interesting special feature on a Criterion Blu - ray disc (it would have fit perfectly on their upcoming release of «The Graduate») more than it does a documentary feature that stands on its own.

-- The film's U.S. theatrical trailer, along with a handful of other previews for Sony Classics releases like the unmissable Before Midnight.

We now have a couple of international release dates, and it looks like we will definitely see the film in 2013.

Popular 3D titles from 20th Century Fox include Avatar and Prometheus and with older titles such as iRobot now re-mastered for 3D Blu - ray release it looks like we will be viewing more and more of our favourite 3D films at home this year.

Every October for most of the last two decades, director Adam Green and his production company Ariescope have released a new Halloween - themed short film, resulting in classics like Jack Chop (2009) and the hilarious Halloween «deleted scene» Driving Lessons (2012), and this year's 18th annual film, Don't Do It, has just arrived.

Sadly, Kubrick died prior to the release of «Eyes,» his last film, and «A.I.» seemed to be a lost cause much like Kubrick's other inevitably great unfinished work, a biopic based on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.

To celebrate the DVD release of «Call Me Mrs. Miracle» & «The Shunning», Media Mikes would like to giveaway ONE copies of each film on DVD.

Fulci has a massive body of work and we'll likely never see it all get proper home video releases, but it seems like every few weeks or so an announcement of a new Fulci film hitting Blu - ray surfaces and I get giddy.

While the PC version used low resolution pixel art, the XBLA release has very well drawn and animated assets that look like cartoonized versions of pulp adventure films, the sort that inspired Indiana Jones.

The film was shot after The Act of Killing was edited but before it was released, and Oppenheimer's canny stewardship (and brinksmanship) is not irrelevant to their achievement; like Lanzmann, Ophuls, and Panh before him, in purely formal terms he's set a high bar for chroniclers of violence when it comes to galvanizing an audience.

Much like Universal's other prominent awards hopeful Unbroken (which was covered in our previous installment), a trailer for Get On Up has been released, which provides us some insight on the tone of the film and how it will portray Brown.

Ryan Coogler's Marvel movie is drawing in audiences at a pace only a few films ever released can match, and within the next week it is likely to pass the domestic runs of some of last year's big superhero hits like «Thor: Ragnarok,» «Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Ang Lee's next film «Life of Pi» is released December 2012 but you'd never know because the film is flying like a stealth bomber wrapped in a blanket under the radar.

Right now, «The Wolf of Wall Street» is my favorite film but there's still some 2013 releases I'm eager to see like «Upstream Color», «Her» (which I'll see on Sunday), «The Past», «Like Father, Like Son», «Labor Day», and several othlike «Upstream Color», «Her» (which I'll see on Sunday), «The Past», «Like Father, Like Son», «Labor Day», and several othLike Father, Like Son», «Labor Day», and several othLike Son», «Labor Day», and several others.

Well, don't worry on missing out: it looks like the film's home release will include the alternate version of the film, too.

To be honest, I also look at films that I grew up with like Dark Crystal and Labyrinth and for Jim Henson at the time they were flops in terms of their theatrical release, but they went on to become classics that people still buy to this day.

Of course, everyone connected with this film probably realized that Cheney would be out by the time the film was released and a Cheney - like character would seem dated.

Pirates of the Caribbean is the first film ever released under the Walt Disney Pictures brand to receive higher than a PG rating (the film is rated PG - 13), and the team assembled to make the film is a virtual Who's who of hot properties: Director Gore Verbinski had a huge hit last year with the spook fest The Ring, Writers Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott were the writing team behind Shrek, Actor Johnny Depp is so extremely selective in his roles no one would ever imagine he'd do a Disney film, Orlando Bloom is fresh off the Lord of The Rings Trilogy, Geoffrey Rush has at least one Academy Award under his belt, and Keira Knightley has become a hot property after her performance in the run away indie hit Bend It Like Beckham.

Three years ago one of my favorite films of the year, Paris Je» Taime was released to theaters and I was actually taken aback at how much I liked the piece.

To celebrate the digital HD release of Season 1 of «Vice Principals», Media Mikes would like to give two of our fans a chance to win a digital HD copy of the film.

For example, prior to digital distribution, horror films from filmmakers working in countries like Japan, Spain, and Italy were traded on VHS and DVDs by American fans of the genre, including movies that never saw an official theatrical release in the United States.

The film earned a ton of initial critical acclaim, but dropped like a rock during the season after failing at the box office in wide release.

It felt like I was waiting a decade for this film, and that last gentle push that nudged its Australian release date into January meant that its foretold (but hardly inevitable) place in my end - of - year list would be delayed by another full calendar year.

Despite reports of September, it looks like we have a solid, reported release date for Wonder Wheel, the upcoming film written and directed by Woody Allen.

I do wish Warner Bros. had also released the film on the new 4K UHD format, if only to take advantage of the high dynamic range on a movie like this, but with that being said, this is still a beautiful looking Blu - Ray disc!

«In the end, the self release felt less like a choice and more of the obvious answer for what the film needed to be successful.»

Though I didn't really like Tom Hooper's big screen adaptation of the popular stage musical or Judd Apatow's quasi-sequel to «Knocked Up,» there are still plenty of new releases worth checking out, including one of 2012's best films and the most anticipated prequel since «The Phantom Menace.»

Along with its Rambo pedigree, Homefront definitely feels like a film that would have been par for the course as a release in the 1980s, when Stallone himself, along with Arnie, Chuck Norris, Van Damme, and the rest of the Expendables ilk, would all make films with this very basic formula.

Anderson has long been a proponent of shooting on celluloid and releasing his films theatrically, which puts him on an anti-streaming team that also includes directors like Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino.