What Doesn't Kill You News

Switzerland's Ascot Elite Entertainment has picked up all German rights to a series of U.S. indie titles, including Richard Gere starrer "The Hoax" and boxing feature "Resurrecting the Champ" with Samuel L. Jackson, gangster title "What Doesn't Kill You" with Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo and polit-drama "Nothing but the Truth" starring Kate ...

Let's face it, dramas involving gangsters and thieving criminals are a dime a dozen.

The Legend Of Fong Sai Yuk Jet Li kicks ass and Josephine Siao steals the show as his daffy cross-dressing mother in Corey Yuen's high-energy/low-comedy martial arts period piece.

The Cake Eaters Kristen Stewart once again proves she's worlds above her current Twilight material with this winning, if slight, film, which finally sees the DVD light after years of making the festival rounds .

The entertainment world, at least where it pertains to technology, morphs, twists, turns, and fires so fast it's hard to keep up.

For nearly two hours, a pair of life-long pals engage in a silly grudge match because neither one will move their wedding date to accommodate the other.

This week's new-to-DVD movies are led by a newspaper yarn that might have given "State of Play" a run for its money if it had gone to theaters instead of straight to video.

"HOTEL FOR DOGS" and "Bride Wars" arrive on DVD this week, and I guess the thinking is that every grown male in the country will be at "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." Slim pickings for those who cannot bear one more bridezilla or one more talking animal Research into other releases is not encouraging, although I can tell you that "Legally Blondes" is ...

Dorchester native and "Bunker Hill" actor Donnie Wahlberg, on a brief hiatus from touring with with his New Kids on the Block bros, plans to launch his latest music venture, Donnie D Music Group at Boston's Hard Rock Cafe, 22-24 Clinton St.

All of the new DVD releases hit stores on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday , I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue.

Run a Quick Search on "What Doesn't Kill You" starring Mark Ruffalo to Browse Related Products: Review New York Times, 12/12/2008, "[I]t tells a good story well, and in the process quietly says a little something about what it means to look at the American dream from the bottom up." Entertainment Weekly, 12/12/2008, p.54, "[A] tough, authentic ...

Jack will play Gulliver and it has previously been reported that Catherine is set to play the Queen of Lilliput.

Also: "Pulling: The Complete First Season," "The Wedding," "What Doesn't Kill You," and "While She Was Out" April 28, 2009 >> Zeitgeist Films, 2008 The famous story of Uruguayan rugby players who survived 72 days after their plane crashed in the Andes is told by the 16 survivors in this astonishing documentary.

Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson star as two best friends who become rivals when they schedule their weddings on the same day.

In a case of an excess of riches, Boston also hosts the seventh annual Independent Film Festival Boston .