NEW ON DVD and BLU-RAY “50/50,” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen. While few would regard the subject of cancer as a potential laugh riot, director Jonathan Levine and writer Will Reiser (who draws on his own personal experience) manages to evoke at least as many guffaws as tears in this refreshingly candid story of […]

“The Grey” is an old-fashioned survival tale harboring pretensions that it is something more. Not a lot more — just a hint of the psycho-cerebral here, a smidgen of the primal and primitive there. Liam Neeson stars in director Joe (“Smoking Aces”) Carnahan’s latest splash of testosterone, about a wintry plane crash in the Alaskan […]

OPENING FRIDAY “40 WEST” (NR) Stars Jennifer Nichole Porter, Scott Winters and Brian A. White. Directed by Dana Packard. A blues musician finds herself trapped in a sordid East Texas motel room with her violent husband, who was released from prison early. The film contains strong language and violence. There will be Q&A session with the […]

NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY “ABDUCTION,” starring Taylor Lautner and Lily Collins. Intriguing, briskly paced thriller wherein a young man (Lautner of the “Twilight” series) discovers his baby photo on a missing persons website, putting everything he thought he knew about his upbringing into question and setting him on a quest for answers that could […]

This very gritty bit of greased action does a decent job of shaking the sluggish out of January.

It’s still glorious, from story to songs to vocal performances to the message: Don’t let custom and social restrictions hold you back. Be yourself, girls.

There’s no literal blood, no entrails or visible battle wounds. But they titled this one right.

Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah play two big belters with competing visions of how their integrated small-town church choir can win the big Joyful Noise choir contest.

Batman, Bella, Bourne, Bond and Black (as in, ‘Men in …’) are among the familiar names out there. Also: Cusack as Edgar Allen Poe, Di Caprio as Gatsby and a certain hobbit. And for the kids, more ‘Madagascar’ and ‘Ice Age,’ and plenty o’ 3-D.