Still too nice outside to stay INside watching DVDs....although the heat wave may convince you otherwise (so long as you've got good air conditioning in the room with the DVD or Blu-ray player!) We're breaking down a new 120 DVDs and 23 Blu-rays out the week of Tuesday, 8/17.
PICK OF THE WEEK
Not much here, but something DID pique my interest...
Cemetery Junction (The W at Amazon) (UK, 2010) Written/directed by Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant, which means "automatically gets me interested" - didn't get much a theatrical run (if at all) over here and I SURE hadn't heard about it until now... Christian Cooke, Felicity Jones, Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan, Emily Watson, Ricky Gervais, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes Cemetery Junction [Blu-ray]
TV OF THE WEEK
(top ones here are listed roughly in order of how fast they were getting pre-ordered as this list was compiled)
Citizen Architect (Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio - KLRU, 2010) (8/23)
Batman: The Brave and the Bold - Season One, Part One (Cartoon Network, 2009) Hmm - I think it's a compilation of the previously released three volumes - maybe instead of breaking up the season, they could RELEASE THE WHOLE THING SOONER OR LATER
Extreme Survival Pack (Discovery) Compilation of a few episodes from a few series (list at Amazon)
TV MOVIES OF THE WEEK Temple Grandin (HBO, 2010) Claire Danes, Catherine O'Hara, Julia Ormond, David Strathairn - more info at HBO (hbo.com)
Burning Bright (2010) MEAT LOAF SIGHTING BIG LIONS GA Cash (2009) (Ws Sub Ac3 Dol) (Ca$h - 2010) Sean Bean, Chris Hemsworth, Victoria Profeta, Mike Starr - in theatres March and April, grossed a whopping $46,488 (boxofficemojo.com)
GET READY, NINJAS Big Money Rustlas (Ws Ac3 Dol) (2010) Insane Clown Posse, Tom Sizemore, Jason Mewes, Ron Jeremy, Brigitte Nielsen, Vanilla Ice, Todd Bridges, Dustin Diamond, Bridget Powers, Jimmie Walker, lots of wrestlers, and so on - really, no website? Let's go find a YouTube trailer (youtube.com)
Orlando (UK/Russia/France/Italy/Netherlands, 1992) Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane - yikes, what an unappealing cover image
The Conversation (1974) Gene Hackman, John Cazale - written/directed by Francis Ford Coppola
HMONG MOVIE FILMED IN FRESNO OF THE WEEK Daim Duab (Sub) (2008) Yia "The Bull" Mua (died of cancer after finishing the film), Dao "Phab Ej" Vue - in Hmong with English subtitles - more info (not MUCH more) at Celebrity (cvdistributes.com)
COLLECTIONS OF WHATEVER LOOKED PUBLIC-DOMAINY ENOUGH
These are all from Mill Creek Entertainment (millcreekent.com), who no longer let me direct link to their titles, so screw 'em. Fortunately, you can save yourself a visit as most of these titles are run down in detail over at Amazon. Unfortunately, many AREN'T. Fortunately, you probably don't really want to buy any of these ANYWAY, so let's stop wasting time yakkin' about it...
Finally, here's some of SLIGHTLY (not much) higher quality from Pop Flix!
Night of the Zombies (2pc) 5 films - Zombie Hell House, Night of the Living Dead, Last Man on Earth, WHite Zombie and Revolt of the Zombies - yep, that's a whole lotta zombies Dark Moon & Vampire Werewolf Collection (2pc) 6 movies - Fangs of the Living Dead, Grave of the Vampire, The Devil's Nightmare, Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory, Werewolf of Washington, Moon of the Wolf - howl with me Roger Corman Creature Collection (2pc) 5 movies - Attack of the Giant Leeches, The Wasp Woman, Creature from the Haunted Sea, A Bucket of Blood and Last Woman on Earth - that's just tremendous. Roger Corman Horror Collection 2 (2pc) 5 films - The Little Shop of Horrors, The Terror, Dementia 13, She Gods of Shark Reef, Swampwomen
AND THE REST OF THE MOVIES OF THE WEEK
Alice Goodbody (Alice Goodbody - 1974) Maybe more info closer to 8/17 at Code Red (codereddvd.com)
Wheelmen (2002) Hey look, somebody found a movie Rainn Wilson was in and now his name is top center on the cover! I bet he is NOT the lead! Unfortunately, not much info at Phase 4 but they ARE proud of their YouTube trailer (youtube.com)
The Assassin Next Door (Kirot - Israel/France/USA, 2009) Olga Kurylenko IS - minimal info at - hmm, I guess now they're called FirstLook (firstlookstudios.com)
Dumping Lisa (2009) Bridget Burke, Logan Lipton, Matthew Nicklaw, Al Thompson - who are ANY of those people?
Devils' Candy (2009?) "Movie" stars most of StreetLaw Records' roster - rescheduled from 8/3
Naked Truth (2010?) aka "Zalman King's Naked Truth" - wait a minute - Zalman King? Naked? That sounds EROTIC! I suspect this is an "anthology" of some of his TV episodes stitched together into a feature but you know... The Asylum (theasylum.cc) NEVER has a trailer when you WANT one
The Heart of the Peloton Box of three bicycler docs: "Blood, Sweat & Gears: Racing Clean to the Tour de France," "Hell on Wheels" and "Yell for Cadel: Backstage at the Tour de France with Cadel Evans" - more info at First Run (firstrunfeatures.com)
The Hard Times of RJ Berger: Season 1 (MTV, 2010) I dunno, dude - tv.com says this is out the day of the final episode? Then again....I've never heard of this show, so who cares? (8/23)
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It's also kinda surprising that it's De Niro's first nomination in 21 years. (At least until you think about most of the movies he's made in the last 21 years, I guess.)
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