This week, it's another slooooooow summer Tuesday with none of the big distributors figuring people are indoors enough to bother with brand new DVDs....at least that's my guess. Only 217 DVDs, 14 Blu-Rays, nothing terribly notable, and only a sick compulsion keeps me even bothering to put a list together. Well, to be fair, when the numbers are this low it's a heck of a lot easier to get excited about starting and finishing knowing that it will be HOURS less than usual.
So enough of me talking, let's get right to it!
EVERYTHING comes out Tuesday (8/12) except where noted!
The pickings were so slim that I pretty much went totally random in pulling a title to call my
PICK OF THE WEEK Ninja Cheerleaders (The W at Amazon) (2008) That title certainly helped me, though. But I dunno, maybe those concepts should have remained separated - BUT AGAIN! George Takei AND Max Perlich are in it! So...there you go. Trailer at www.ninjacheerleaders.com
TV OF THE WEEK
The Wire - The Complete Fifth Season (HBO, 2008) This is the last one, right? I want you to know I keep buying these seasons (usually during Best Buy's "$20 a season" sales) and I DO intend to watch them....someday...
DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures (CBS, 1967) Every mini-episode from "The Superman/Aquman Hour of Adventure" that isn't Superman or Aquaman - which means: Justice League of America, Teen Titans, The Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman and (yes) The Atom
Aftermath: Population Zero (National Geographic) What the world would look like after all the humans are off it - from day 10 to the end of the first year
SHAW BROTHERS WIN AGAIN Kiss of Death (Du Nu - Hong Kong, 1973) Image says it was an inspiration for "Kill Bill" - now they wouldn't just SAY that, would they? Check out the trailer at Image (image-entertainment.com)
THE REMAINING FURN FILMS OF THE WEEK Kabhi Kabhie (Kabhi Kabhie: Love is Life - India, 1976) (8/14) Gun Crazy: Collection Compilation of earlier releases - 2 discs Jagoda In The Supermarket (Jagoda u Supermarketu - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/Germany/Italy, 2003) Watch what you say in the supermarket, lest you find yourself on the wrong end of an invasion - more info at Cinequest (cinequestonline.org) Wide Awake (Ri-teon - South Korea, 2007)
Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club (2006) Shari Headley, Ed O'Ross, The Game, Michael K. Williams - how can this not be in the IMDb? Big Fish in Middlesex (direct to DVD, 2006) More info at Sub Rosa (b-movie.com) Outside Sales (2006) Survival (2006) To raise funds to make this movie, "Executive Producer" credits were auctioned off on eBay - well, shoot, if I had known that was my ticket into the IMDb *I* would have bought a credit - more info and trailer at York (store.yorkentertainment.com)
Frank (2007) SPOILER ALERT: FRANK is the DOG - Jon Gries, Cynthia Watros, Brittany Robertson, Ashton Dierks - more info at First Look (firstlookstudios.com) I'm Through With White Girls (The Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks) (2007) More info and trailer at Image Irina Palm (Belgium/Luxembourg/UK/Germany/France, 2007) Marianne Faithful IS - more info and trailer at Strand (strandreleasing.com) Juncture (2007) Kristine Blackport - more info and trailer at MTI (mtivideo.com) Legend of God's Gun (2007) The Orange Thief (2007) More info and trailer at Lightyear (lightyear.com) The Secret (Si j'étais Toi - France, 2007) David Duchovny, Olivia Thirlby, Lili Taylor More info and trailer at Image Watching the Detectives (2007) Cillian Murphy, Lucy Liu
COMEDY OF THE WEEK Yes to Running: Bill Harley Live Laughing Out Loud Five discs of....we'll presume comedy (8/16) and if you missed it, there's another season of "1st Amendment Comedy" out up in the TV section.
This Is Our God Hillsong (DVD FOR KIM OF THE WEEK) Raw Spice "The Unofficial Story of the Making of the Spice Girls" - wow, talk about striking while the iron is hot!! Shout! Factory (shoutfactorystore.com) (rescheduled from 7/1) (DVD FOR KIM OF THE WEEK RUNNER-UP)
AND FINALLY... John Deere Country, Part 1 "How a John Deere combine is made" (8/18) I don't know about you, but I would pay ANY amount of money to sneak into the John Deere factory - but now I don't have to! GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Well, it's hard to believe, but another list is just about in the books. Come back Monday when we'll do our final edits based on what happens this weekend. We'll also confirm that "The Wire" is still at the tippy top of the top preorders list. Or, on the off chance we've miraculously found something you're interested enough in to actually TALK about, leave your reply RIGHT NOW!
I can recommend "Smart People" as a pretty decent film. Thomas Haden Church is excellent in it, Dennis Quaid does Dennis Quaid things and that never can be too bad. Ellen Page plays another totally unrealistic teenage character, but she doesn't annoy me nearly as much as she did in Juno. And Sarah Jessica Parker actually comes close to acting.
I know this sounds kind of dismissive, but it really was a pretty good movie. Church's work alone is enough to justify a watch.
El Luchador Implacable (The Relentless Fighter) (Mexico?, 2006?) Dos Caras Jr. - I got nothing except the description at Navarre - how about you, Cubs?
You know as much as I do on this one. For a while, there seemed to be people doing cheap direct to video movies using CMLL wrestlers in starting rolls - if you click thru Dos Caras' profile, there's someone selling a double feature of another Dos movie and Atlantis feature.
Atlantis' movie got some decent press, because (being Atlantis) it was about kids and how spending time with dolphins was helpful therapy for developmental disabled children. Much more common was a quick note in a lucha column about so and so wrestler having been busy the previous week filming a movie, and that's the last you hear about it. I presume that's what this is.
Originally posted by CRZJohn Deere Country, Part 1 "How a John Deere combine is made" (8/18) I don't know about you, but I would pay ANY amount of money to sneak into the John Deere factory - but now I don't have to! GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Laugh if you want, but I could take this to my son's 3rd grade class and all of the boys would love it as well as a fair percentage of the girls. It may be a South Georgia thing, but I doubt it. Kids that age are fascinated by big machinery, farm equipment, and stuff like that.
Originally posted by CRZNinja Cheerleaders (The W at Amazon) (2008) That title certainly helped me, though. But I dunno, maybe those concepts should have remained separated - BUT AGAIN! George Takei AND Max Perlich are in it! So...there you go. Trailer at www.ninjacheerleaders.com
You forgot Trishelle Cannatella from the Real World!
Originally posted by CRZJohn Deere Country, Part 1 "How a John Deere combine is made" (8/18) I don't know about you, but I would pay ANY amount of money to sneak into the John Deere factory - but now I don't have to! GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Laugh if you want, but I could take this to my son's 3rd grade class and all of the boys would love it as well as a fair percentage of the girls. It may be a South Georgia thing, but I doubt it. Kids that age are fascinated by big machinery, farm equipment, and stuff like that.
Not just in Georgia, kids love that stuff. My buddy Ben's son is 4 and has videos of dump trucks and heavy equip that he watches while getting ready to play. Then he assaults the outdoors with a variety of Tonka-type trucks in the yard and the sandbox for hours. Where my brother lives in Jersey, when the Fire Department rolls the big trucks in the Fourth of July parade, the kids go bananas.
"Well, you can't involve friendship with business. It has to be one or the other. It's either business or friendship, or hit the bricks!" --Life Lessons from Bobby the Brain Heenan WCW Uncensored 2000 preview
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