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DVD New Releases – 7/13/2010
These are my DVD and Blu-Ray picks that are getting released this week.
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Terribly Happy
– This Danish movie is commonly and understandably compared to Blood Simple, and it is truly just as disturbingly well-crafted. I bet I buy it again someday on Blu-Ray, hopefully from Criterion.
- Insomnia – It’s embarrassing that I haven’t seen this, but I’m intrigued that they changed the packaging to feature Al Pacino instead of Robin Williams. Added to queue.
- Greenberg – Will the cover — specially designed to counter the downer-buzz of the theatrical release — with the EXTREMELY LARGE font saying “EXTREMELY ENTERTAINING” cause people to forget this is a Baumbach movie? (I’m not being fair. I haven’t seen it because I’m not ready for another soul-crushing Baumbach movie.)
- Chloe – This weekly post is turning into “here are the movies I missed”. Some people loved this movie, most hated it, but a naked Amanda Seyfried is all I need to know to buy it.
- Greatest – I have no memory of this movie ever coming out, but I have such a crush on Carey Mulligan’s talent that I will have to see this.
- In Bruges – A great movie, but I don’t know why it needed the upgrade to HD.
- Assault on Precinct 13 – This is the 2005 version (with Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne) which got 60% on Rotten Tomatoes. I liked it ok, but I hear it’s not as good as the original 1976 version directed by John Carpenter, which has a 75% on RT.
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America the Beautiful
– I’ve been in a lot of conversations about body image and the media lately — mainly because of feministfrequency’s latest video, with which I take some issue — so I’m intrigued by this “acclaimed” documentary.
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Artois the Goat
– Nerd/internet fan favorite Stephen Fry co-stars in this comedy which had a lot of good festival buzz, so I’ll add it to my queue.
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Don’t You Forget About Me
– (No, really, I should call this post “so many movies I never got around to seeing.”) Is it a recent fad of documentaries to turn from a popular subject — John Hughes, in this case — to the obsessive fans of the implied title? Queue, added.
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The Girl By the Lake
– The Amazon description says “… swept Italy’s Academy Awards, won the Venice Film Festival s top acting prize…” so I’m intrigued.
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The Scarf
– Should I feel bad making light of what I see as overt ridicule-attracting Christianity? (Particularly when I consider myself to be a Christian?) Check out this synopsis: Produced in 2009, this new feature length film is a Faith [note their capitalization of the word] based sci-fi drama is about two high school friends Daniella and Krista who are assigned to a science project on UFO’s. While working together on research, their minds and imagination are stretched farther than their teacher could have ever foreseen. With an over-obsessive drive to gain attention and a good grade, Daniella starts to believe she is connected with a UFO and the spirited powers of her aunt. This project soon threatens to tear apart her friendships, family and even her own life. But in the end it is the power of prayer and the lesson that God never leaves you that saves her from the unknown. Wha?!?
DVD New Releases – 7/6/2010
These are my DVD and Blu-Ray picks that are getting released this week.
- A Single Man – This is why I sort of dread “Oscar season”. The trailer for this movie and all of the buzz spoke to me in a very deep fashion, yet I never found the time to see it then.
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – I also neglected to catch this in the theater. I heard it was beautiful, but hard and tragic. I’m a bad movie consumer.
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Battle League Horumo
– One of my favorite films at Fantastic Fest last year. It’s silly and romantic, and all the fun you can imagine.
- Ladybugs – What?!? The list of movies that need be converted to High Def before this one approaches infinity.
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Bitten
– I’m so angry about the last time I bought a movie because it said “Jason Mewes” on the cover that I refuse to believe it this time. Unless they also green screened him into this.
DVD New Releases – 6/1/2010
These are my DVD and Blu-Ray picks that are getting released this week.
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Undisputed III: Redemption
– This movie has the best non-Asian fight choreography that can be arranged today. The story is sometimes not right but OMG the fighting is amazing, and Marko Zorar (the villain) will be a big star someday soon.
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Rampage
– When an Uwe Boll movie gets 3 of 5 stars at Fantastic Fest then something is going on, because most genre fans hate Uwe just for being Uwe. I couldn’t fit this into my schedule last year, but I’ll be seeing it now.
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Alice in Wonderland
-The build-up and culmination of a particular Mad Hatter scene aside, this was a good movie with some discussion-able themes. Although, releasing it in 3D was pointless.
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The Wolfman
– There were a few CGI moments that spoiled this movie, but the homage to classic monster films almost worked.
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The Man with No Name Trilogy [Blu-ray]
- This is spaghetti western at its finest. Yes, it sucks that I just recently had to buy TGTB&TU but it’s great to get the Fistful pair added to my collection.
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Bad Boys
– Classic Michael Bay movie just before he became his own cliche.
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Barton Fink/Miller’s Crossing/Raising Arizona
– I usually don’t comment on these redundant-release bundle sets, but you gotta admit that is one compelling triple feature.
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Life (with Oprah)
or Life (with David Attenborough)
– Since (most) Americans won’t watch a BBC documentary, they re-edited this UK release with Oprah on the voice-over. This is the same team that did Planet Earth, so you know it’s amazing, but which should I choose?!?
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Live Nude Comedy
– I’m not gonna buy this, but Shannon Elizabeth doing sikmpy stretches before Andy Dick does stand-up intrigues me.
DVD New Releases – 5/18/2010
Every week I make a list of notable discs being released so I can figure out what I “need” to buy. ;)
DVD New Releases – 5/11/2010
Every week I make a list of notable discs being released so I can figure out what I “need” to buy. ;)
DVD New Release – 5/4/2010
Every week I make a list of notable discs being released so I can figure out what I “need” to buy. ;)
DVD New Releases – 4/27/2010
Every week I make a list of notable discs being released so I can figure out what I “need” to buy. ;)
DVD New Releases – 4/20/2010
I haven’t been slacking. I promise. There just hasn’t been anything released that caught my eye these past few weeks. There is one shining star on tomorrow’s horizon.
K-20: Fiend With Twenty Faces (Ws Sub Ac3 Dol) – I saw this at Fantastic Fest 2010, and loved it. It takes so long […]
DVD New Releases – 3/30/2010
Every week I make a list of notable discs being released so I can figure out what I “need” to buy. ;)
An Unkept Promise with NYC Museums
DVD New Releases – 3/23/2010
Every week I make a list of notable discs being released so I can figure out what I “need” to buy. ;)
DVD New Releases – 3/16/2010
Every week I make a list of notable discs being released so I can figure out what I “need” to buy. ;)
DVD New Releases – 3/9/2010
Every week I make a list of notable discs being released so I can figure out what I “need” to buy. ;) Congratulations to all the winners of the Oscars. One Oscar winner made their DVD release date this week, and one nominee. Both are deserving of my (and your) cash.
DVD New Releases – 3/2/2010
Every week I make a list of notable discs being released so I can figure out what I “need” to buy. ;) There’s only two movies releasing this week that I have anything to say about. One I recommend, the other I dislike quite a bit. I’ll let you figure out which […]