DVD Review: The Tempest

As someone who has never had the opportunity to read Shakespeare’s final masterpiece, “ The Tempest “, I jumped at the chance to watch and review the modern retelling of it on Blu-Ray. Released this September by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, the film features many big names, including Helen Mirren ( The Debt , The Queen ), Russell Brand ( Forgetting Sarah Marshall , Get Him To The Greek ), Alfred Molina ( Prince of Persia , An Education ), Alan Cumming (“The Good Wife”, It’s Complicated ), and writer/director Julie Taymor (Broadway’s The Lion King and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark ). Given the expectations associated with such great names, though, “The Tempest” did not deliver on any account

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DVD Review: The Tempest

Gnomeo and Juliet Trailer Hits

From the studio that brought you Step Up 3D, When in Rome, and Surrogates, comes a movie with a classic tale of two families sworn to hate each other and a love that wouldn’t let their families stand in their way.

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Gnomeo and Juliet Trailer Hits

Disney unloads Miramax for $675 million

Reports from Hollywood are that Disney has sold it’s art house studio Miramax to a consortium of investors for $675 million. TheWrap.com had the scoop, although Disney refuses to confirm the report. This ends a long strange chapter for Disney that found the family entertainment studio sometimes faced with much more adult subjects coming out of Miramax

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Disney unloads Miramax for $675 million

FACTBOX-UPDATE 1-Full list of Academy Award winners

Herald de Paris Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight), music by AR Rahman, lyrics by Gulzar Walt Disney Pictures and Miramax Films are units of Walt Disney Co (DIS.N).

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FACTBOX-UPDATE 1-Full list of Academy Award winners