New segment for At The Movies
In their 25th year Margaret and David are adding a new segment to their much-loved movie review show.
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At The Movies is introducing a new segment: ‘The DVD Classic’ where Margaret and David will each, alternatively, choose movie classics now available on DVD to revisit.
It begins from Episode 2 (Feb 16) with Margaret’s review of the 1960 Billy Wilder film The Apartment starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine and Fred MacMurray.
The first episode on February 9 will include the results of the viewers poll on their favourite movie of 2010 (any guesses?) and a “holiday wrap” – short reviews of four films that were released over the summer break that were too late for inclusion in the summer special:
TRUE GRIT – starring Jeff Bridges Matt Damon and Hailee Steinfeld, and directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen.
TAMARA DREWE – Directed by Stephen Frears and starring Gemma Arterton, Roger Allam and Dominic Cooper.
THE FIGHTER starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, Amy Adams and directed by David O. Russell.
HOW DO YOU KNOW – starring Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd and Jack Nicholson.
Full lengths reviews on eb 9 are:
127 HOURS – starring James Franco, Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara, and directed by Danny Boyle. A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
NO STRINGS ATTACHED – starring Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman. A guy and girl try to keep their relationship strictly physical, but it’s not long before they learn that they want something more.
HEREAFTER – Directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Matt Damon, Cecile de France and Bryce Dallas Howard. A drama centered on three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — who are all touched by death in different ways.
SANCTUM – starring Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffud and Rhys Wakefield. James Cameron Executive Producer. A drama inspired by the film’s co-writer Andrew Wight’s near-death experience of leading a diving expedition miles into a system of underwater caves, then having to find a way out after a freak storm collapsed the entrance.
It airs 10pm Wednesday February 9 on ABC1.
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Their style of reviewing is old hat, but if people still enjoy it then very good. They should really do Blu-ray reviews, however; DVD is a little early-2000s.
on the off-chance that Margaret and / or David read this page….welcome back guys!
Sounds great! Can’t wait for the new season, love Margaret and David.
@Kevin You obviously did not watch SBS’ The Movie Show after Pomeranz and Stratton left…
Goody, I look forward to it. I hope they give the oldies a star rating.
A much better idea would be making this their last year as hosts and let 2 younger hosts take over, as 25 years is a pretty good run.
I’d rather see them include more current releases or some indie flicks from local film producers that need more support.
As a non-peep, I love this idea!
I wonder though whether they mean region 4 DVDs or all regions? One of the main reasons I buy TV Week each Monday is to read the reviews David gives movies airing on television that week that were produced before 2004 – that was the year they moved from SBS to their current home & ABC’s At The Movies website maintains all their old reviews from that year on.
I can’t believe peeps still watch this show…
@Jeremy says: DVD, how quaint
Aaww Jeremy don’t be like that, they’re old. I’m impressed they’ve moved on from VHS video tapes to the new-fangled DVDs.
@MillerT1 – notwithstanding the 6.00pm repeat on a Sunday on ABC1; the 6.00pm repeart on Saturday on ABC2; and that you could watch it online whenever you please; I think the original telecast time is everything to do with film classification, and what they can and cannot show. D&M were both delighted to be on a later slot on ABC than SBS for this very reason.
I oppose the idea of including classic movies – please, they can’t spend enough time on the current releases as it is.
DVD, how quaint. How about just classic movies in general? There are so many available from different sources (DVD, iTunes Rental, CASPA/Tivo, iTunes purchase, Bigpond movies, etc), it seems strange to pick DVD.
Looks like a good first episode of At the Movies coming up. They are all movies I am wanting to hear their thoughts about.
Winner for the viewers poll is probably Inception or The Social Network.
I’ve never understood why the show is on in such a late timeslot. It deserves to be at 8pm and move The New Inventors to another night.