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Directed by Kinji Fukasaku/Kenta Fukasaku. Starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Ai Maeda, and Shûgo Oshinari. SYNOPSIS: 4K UHD box set featuring the violent and hugely influential Japanese action shocker, along with its not-so-influential sequel. It would take the hardiest of armchair grouches to grumble at the quality of the 4K releases that Arrow Video have been putting out since their loaded release of Pitch Black last summer, and that trend continues with the upgrade of one of their flagship Blu-ray titles from a few years back, which also happens to be one of the most ...

Owls Head — The Croods: A New Age (Universal, Blu-ray or DVD, PG, 96 min.). Seven years after the original movie, one’s second favorite Stone Age family – after “The Flintstones,” of course – meets the concept of neighbors and things do not always go smoothly, especially when the Croods eat the bananas. Yes, there is some monkey business going on in this sequel, which has a first-half geared more toward adults and an action-packed second half for the kids. Central to the story is orphan Guy (voiced by returning Ryan Reynolds, also of the “Deadpool” films), whose backstory beg...

Whenever you take a foreign cinema class at film school, you’ll be show the lofty titles that once played the fanciest of art houses in major cities. These are noble productions that made audiences feel like they needed to dress up for a screening. They expected to feel illuminated by deep meaningful productions about the human factor. They wanted real butter on their popcorn because nothing would be artificial on the silver screen as they read subtitles. When it came to the selection from Japan, your professor would make the hard choice of which Akira Kurosawa film would be put on the syll...

Exhibition at Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna celebrates Beethoven's 250th anniversary Rebecca Horn (*1944), Concert for Anarchy, 2006. Piano, hydraulic cylinder, compressor, 150 × 106 × 155 cm. Photo:© KHM-Museumsverband. VIENNA .-The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, in cooperation with the Archive of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, presents an unusual homage to Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), the great representative of the First Viennese School. Beethoven’s popularity remains unbroken, even 250 years after his birth. Beyond the music, his humanistic messages have influe...