If you’ve already lost interest in this year’s Oscar contenders, you can always pick up one of this week’s new Blu-ray and DVD releases. There isn’t an Oscar nominee in the bunch — but there’s plenty of action, adventure, and excitement.
New This Week: 2012 Where the Wild Things Are Ponyo
* Ninja
Gentlemen Broncos
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Cold Souls
Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story
Bollywood Hero
The Beaches of Agnes
The Penthouse
30 Years to Life
* My Neighbor Totoro
* Castle in the Sky
Kiki’s Delivery Service
The Wraith
Designing Women: Season 3
The 39 Steps
Plenty
New on Blu-ray: Clash of the Titans
The Neverending Story
Alice
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Kristin’s Rental of the Week:
This is the time of year when all of us could use a little bit of brainless entertainment — especially in my little part of the world. The weather’s cold; the skies are cloudy; the days are pretty drab and dull. So that makes it the perfect time for a big, explosive guilty pleasure like 2012.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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