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Running Time: 109 minutes

The 1962 book, A Wrinkle in Time, was one that completely passed me by growing up. However, it has developed a fervent following, now large enough to warrant a $105 million dollar cinematic adaptation. What transpires is noble in its intentions to promote love and a positive approach to life. However, as a drama and adventure that spans the universe, it never manages to build up a great deal in the way of thrills.

Meg Murry (Storm Reid) is a young girl whose schoolwork and attitude change for the worse when her astrophysicist father (Chris Pine) disappears. After four years, her child prodigy brother, Charles Wallace (Deric...

Hello again. It’s another busy week with plenty of new releases arriving on Blu-ray and DVD.  Once again, they include blockbusters and Oscar nominees. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

Big New Releases!

The Breadwinner - After her father is taken away and put in prison by members of the Taliban, a young girl is forced to find a way to provide for her mother and siblings. She does so disguising herself as a boy and trying to make ends meet without being discovered for who she really is. This animated tale was nominated for an Oscar and earned impressive marks from almost all critics. The overwhelming majority...

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Running Time: 140 minutes

Based on a bestselling spy book, the new film Red Sparrow seems to hark back to Cold War thrillers of the past, although with one novel little twist. The operative is a Russian woman who uses the power of seduction to woo her targets before striking. It’s an interesting concept with a lot of potential, but this adaptation ends up looking and feeling too slick for its own good. It’s so polished, that ultimately it lacks the necessary gravitas or even provide pulpy thrills to grip viewers.

Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) is a Bolshoi ballet dancer who is struggling to make ends meet and care for her mother. An on-stage...

By Glenn Kay

For the Sun

It's time for yet another look at all of the highlights arriving on Blu-ray and DVD shelves. In fact, it seems like just about every genre is represented this time out, with something for everyone. So if you can't make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

Big New Releases!

78/52: Hitchock's Shower Scene - The three-minute shower scene from the 1960 classic Psycho is the subject of this documentary, which has been named after the number of camera set-ups and edits used in order to create the notable sequence. Film critics, movie makers and others detail the history of how it all came to be, as well as the technique and...