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Get Reel Digital: February

Entertainment Feb 16, 2014

by Matthew Currie

Five February DVDs that will break your heart, tickle your funny bone and make you believe in love again.

Diana (Now available, Entertainment One)

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Director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s biopic of the dearly departed Princess of Wales comes to home video.

Based on Kate Snell’s 2001 biography Diana: Her Last Love, the film chronicles the final two years before the titular royal’s (Naomi Watts) death when, following her divorce from Prince Charles, she met and fell head over heals for charming heart surgeon Hasnat Khan (Naveen Andrews), by many accounts, the love of her life.

The Armstrong Lie (Now available, Sony)

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A hero to millions around the world for his unprecedented dominance in the sport of cycling as well as his inspirational battle against cancer, Lance Armstrong was poised to make history again in 2009, coming out of retirement to reclaim his Tour de France title.

At least, that’s the story Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney set out to tell; but when a subsequent doping investigation led to a lifetime ban, revocation of all of his titles and allegations of reprehensible behaviour in defense of his personal empire, the narrative shifted. Changing course along with his subject, the director brings viewers behind the scenes with an absorbing account of one pop-culture icon’s staggering fall from grace.

All Is Lost (Now Available, Entertainment One)

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J.C. Chandor, director of acclaimed ensemble drama Margin Call, only cast one actor in his follow-up. But when that actor is Robert Redford, you don’t really need much else. The veteran leading man plays a nameless joy-boater, who awakens alone on the deck of his 39-foot yacht to find that he’s taking on water.

Things only get worse from there, as a raging storm and myriad mechanical malfunctions leave him stranded in the middle of the Indian Ocean, with little hope of rescue, desperately struggling to keep his wits (and some small shred of hope) amidst encroaching hunger, thirst and madness.

Nebraska (February 25, Paramount)

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After elderly Woody (the Oscar-nominated Bruce Dern) is picked up by police wandering the highway muttering about his apparent sweepstakes win, his son David (Will Forte) agrees to drive his out-of-sorts pop from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska to collect “a million dollars.”

It’s clear to everyone but Woody that his winning “ticket” is nothing more than junk mail, but David figures it’s the easiest way to get the old man to drop it. What ensues is a funny, poignant tale of unintentional father-son bonding, and yet another quietly absorbing character-driven road trip from helmer Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt).

Blue Is the Warmest Colour (February 25, Mongrel Media)

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Winner of the top prize at Cannes in 2013, Abdellatif Kechiche’s authentic, uplifting, heart wrenching romance is a coming-of-age tale centred on young French woman Adèle (newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos), and her sexual awakening after a chance encounter with alluring blue-haired artist Emma (Léa Seydoux).

As Adèle begins gingerly exploring her burgeoning new feelings, the two fall madly in love and spend the next few years in one another’s loving embraces, but a plethora of obstacles, from differing ambitions to different family backgrounds to personal insecurities will gradually chip away at their young love.

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Matthew Currie

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A long-standing entertainment journalist, Currie is a graduate of the Professional Writing program at Toronto’s York University. He has spent the past number of years working as a freelancer for ANOKHI and for diverse publications such as Sharp, TV Week, CAA’s Westworld and BC Business. Currie ...

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Get Reel Digital: February

by Matthew Currie

Diana (Now available, Entertainment One)

The Armstrong Lie (Now available, Sony)

All Is Lost (Now Available, Entertainment One)

Nebraska (February 25, Paramount)

Blue Is the Warmest Colour (February 25, Mongrel Media)

Matthew Currie

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