DVD Review: Star Trek
Posted on Nov 21, 2009 @ 10:12AM - Add a comment
More than 40 years after the USS Enterprise first launched, J.J. Abrams sexed up Star Trek for the modern age with his big-screen edition, banking more than $75 million from the opening weekend alone. Mixing sleek production value, high-voltage action and a nubile cast of fresh faces, Abrams managed to make the film his own, while paying tongue-in-cheek homage to the original, minus derision.
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DVD Review: The Ugly Truth
Posted on Nov 15, 2009 @ 09:31AM - Add a comment
All men are really dogs trying to get women to disrobe. All women really are mushy romantics, hopelessly waiting for Mr. Right. If ladies would just wear tighter clothes and grow longer hair, dating would be easy.
Phew! Once The Ugly Truth gets all those conventional male-female jokes out of the way, it’s time for the real story. The film, which was just released on DVD, features Katherine Heigl as Abby Richter, aka the Most Uptight Woman on Earth. High-strung and perpetually single, the pretty news producer is great at her job, but terrible at finding love.
DVD Releases for the Week of November 9, 2009
Posted on Nov 15, 2009 @ 09:27AM - Add a comment
The Ugly Truth (PG-13)
Abby Richter is a perpetually single TV producer who’s on a quest to find Mr. Right. When her boss teams her up with TV personality Mike Chadway, a battle of the sexes ensues as he insists on exposing the real stuff that makes men and women tick. [Katherine Heigl (Abby Richter), Gerard Butler (Mike Chadway)]
DVD Review: Chéri
Posted on Nov 12, 2009 @ 06:10PM - Add a comment
Cougars aren’t hard to miss. Sipping top-shelf martinis at the bars, strutting in new Manolos, and joy-riding in shiny BMWs: their pursuit of virile, young prey is often overt. With shows like ABC’s Cougar Town and the summer’s first national cougar convention, these lusty ladies have officially come into their own, emerging from their lairs to find fresh meat that’s guaranteed to be AARP-card-free.
DVD Review: Whatever Works
Posted on Oct 30, 2009 @ 05:06PM - Add a comment
“People make life so much worse than it needs to be,” opines Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David) in the opening scene of Whatever Works. And Boris should know: He’s the ultimate curmudgeon, relentless in his efforts to hate humanity, flaunt his sense of superiority and insult anyone who crosses his path -- from his young chess students to the women in his life.
DVD Review: Transformers Revenge of the Fallen
Posted on Oct 24, 2009 @ 10:03AM - Add a comment
It’s been de rigueur to moan about director Michael Bay and his behemoth blockbusters, ripping his work to shreds faster than a summer movie season. But a reexamination of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, now out on DVD, reveals that the master of blowing stuff up might actually be on something.
DVD Review: Drag Me to Hell
Posted on Oct 15, 2009 @ 03:47PM - Add a comment
Leave it to Sam Raimi to find humor in even the scariest of prospects, like being cursed, harassed by evil spirits and destined to go to hell in three days. In the director’s cut of Drag Me to Hell, which was just released on DVD, the master of goofy horror (not to mention those little Spider-Man films) offers a full dose of his creative vision. Thoughtfully, the DVD release includes the theatrical version of the film and Raimi’s unrated version, which is, apparently, not intended for the squeamish -- nor to be enjoyed with a meal.
DVD Review: The Proposal
Posted on Oct 15, 2009 @ 03:41PM - Add a comment
Finding a husband in New York is tough. Even tougher? Finding a husband when you’re a powerful, socially awkward woman who’s universally hated -- not to mention on the cusp of deportation. Lucky for Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock), she’s got her hunky assistant, Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) who can fit the bill. Not only is he a United States native, but he’s also dedicated and malleable, as his professional fate depends on his boss’s continued reign of the publishing world.
DVD Releases for the Week of October 12
Posted on Oct 13, 2009 @ 02:08PM - Add a comment
Drag Me to Hell (PG-13)
Horror guru Sam Raimi brings us the story of Christine Brown, a young woman who seemingly has it all. That is, until she becomes the recipient of a supernatural curse. (Alison Lohman [Christine Brown], Justin Long [Clay Dalton])
Every Little Step (PG-13)
Filth and Wisdom: Madonna's Directorial Debut Arrives on DVD
Posted on Oct 02, 2009 @ 01:44PM - Add a comment
Madonna may be the queen of reinvention, but sometimes it's OK to leave well enough alone. Her 2008 directorial debut Filth and Wisdom arrived on DVD in the United States this week, but curiosity is the only factor that might motivate even the most diehard of fans to rent it -- that, or an affection for attempts at avant-garde film, no matter how messy.
The film is narrated by A.K. (Eugene Hutz), a Ukrainian immigrant who has a penchant for speaking to the camera, sitting in the bathtub (pants on) and offering trite little tidbits that usually start with "They have a saying in my country..." and end with -- you guessed it -- some variation on the paradox of attaining salvation by getting your hands dirty (Get it? Filth and Wisdom?). A.K. lives with beautiful roomies (ahem, "flat mates"), Juliette (Vicky McClure) and Holly (Holly Weston), in London, where they're all struggling to make their way. Juliette's a pharmacist who hopes to save children in Africa, while Holly's a ballerina -- at least, until A.K. goads her into becoming a stripper to pay the bills.
Criss-crossing the roommates' lives are a handful of wacky characters, including Juliette's lascivious, harried boss Sardeep (Inder Manocha), Holly's new stripper-bestie (Francesca Kingdon) who imparts her industry knowledge, and their blind neighbor Professor Flynn (Richard E. Grant), who sports weirdly fake gray tufts of hair and is prone to fondling his books in the dark. Plus, there's A.K.'s myriad clientele who pay him for S&M sessions that are more laughable than lustful. It's cool, though, because A.K.'s just playing horsey with leather-bound, grown men until he gets a record contract.
As a piece de resistance, Filth and Wisdom is more experimental play-time than impressive cinematic oeuvre. The writing sometimes hurts, impairing whatever quality acting that might have been. But the movie also showcases facets of the Material Girl that we all know and love, with several montages that are constructed like music videos and wink-wink nods to Madonna's various personae -- from her groundbreaking role-playing in "Like a Prayer" to her more recent turn as an adoptive mommy who digs Malawi. Eventually, even A.K. kind of grows on you, perhaps in part because he's a rock star in real life. Once he gets out of the bathtub and stops talking, we get some great frenetic footage of him and his acclaimed band, Gogol Bordello.
And let's not forget that Madonna, while a little misguided in this instance, isn't stupid. Filth and Wisdom, for all its play-acting and awkwardness, doesn't take itself so seriously that it misses out on fun to be had. In the movie's best scene, Madge borrows from recent pop culture to pay homage to herself, reminding us, again, how she got to be so wise -- unfortunate debuts and all.
Lymelife DVD Review: In Suburbia, Sex, Drugs & Growing Up Never Get Old
Posted on Sep 25, 2009 @ 12:36PM - Add a comment
The raw material is familiar: It’s the 1970s. Two suburban couples are struggling with marital and monetary issues, while their kids are angsty, experimenting with drugs and alcohol and lusty as hell. Mix in some infidelity, a son who’s enlisted and a pretty young thing, and you’ve got John Cheever meets Beautiful Girls -- and moves to Weeds’ fictional Agrestic.
