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DVD shuffle: 01/03/06 – New Year Edition

January 3, 2006 /

Ringing in the New Year on DVD this week:

1) Wedding Crashers – BUY: It’s been a long time since an R-rated comedy has done so well at the box office, and the unrated version (with an additional 8 minutes of footage) will surely be funnier, or at least raunchier.

2) Broken Flowers – RENT: Fans of director Jim Jarmusch will undoubtedly love his latest drama/comedy starring Bill Murray. Everybody else, however, will not.

3) The Cave – PASS: Do you really need a reason NOT to see this film? Okay… then click the link.

4) Dumb and Dumber: Unrated Edition – BUY: For those of you who still don’t own this movie need to run out and pick up this copy, but there’s not enough special features on the single-disc release to warrant replacing your older copy. A handful of alternated scenes and endings just isn’t a big enough selling point. Where are the commentary tracks by Carrey and Daniels?

Movie DVDs, Movies, Reviews

Let’s all hope Showtime isn’t crazy like a Fox

January 2, 2006 /

In the final episode of “Arrested Development,” creator Mitchell Hurwitz and crew went for broke with a hilarious episode about the Bluth family throwing a Save Our Bluths fundraiser named after the real-life website campaign (www.SaveOurBluths.com) designed to save the comedy series from cancellation.

The episode includes tons of ingeniously blatant cries for help, including narrator Ron Howard’s plead to “tell your friends about this show.” Later in the episode, Michael Bluth (played by Jason Bateman) says this: “Our backs are against the wall… It’s just hard for me to accept that it’s really come to begging… [but] we’ve had plenty of chances. Maybe the Bluths just aren’t saving. Maybe we’re not that likeable. Who’d want to spend a half-hour with us if they didn’t want to?” The character is of course only talking about the fictional family that the series revolves around, but we all know what he REALLY means, don’t we?

Other brief jokes include the possibility of other networks picking up the series, including a moment when George Sr. says that HBO won’t be able to make the party, but it doesn’t matter because it’s still show time! (read: Showtime, as in the premium channel that has expressed interest in buying the rights to the series). Touche, cast and crew of “Arrested.” Fox, it’s your move…

TV, TV Comedies

DVD shuffle: 12/27/05

December 27, 2005 /

Out on DVD this week:

1) Dark Water – RENT: Please, no more horror films imported from Japan! That being said, this psychological scarefest is actually pretty good. Then again, what more can you expect from a cast made up of Jennifer Connelly, John C. McGinley, and Tim Roth? To those who have seen “Aeon Flux,” don’t answer that.

2) Into the Blue – RENT: For as much as I hated this underwater treasure-hunter popcorn flick, you can’t deny watching the mesmerizing Jessica Alba in a skimpy bathing suit for 90 minutes.

3) The Shield: Season 4 – BUY: Perhaps the next best season of the series since it’s sophomore year, season four gets back to the good ‘ol days of Vic and the Strike Team taking down the baddies.

Also out this week is the direct-to-DVD movie “American Pie Presents: Band Camp,” a special edition of “Toy Story 2,” and Wong Kar-Wai’s latest, “2046.”

Movie DVDs, Movies, Reviews

From Oscar to Oswald

December 23, 2005 /

Comic book movies used to be the biggest joke of Tinsel Town, but nowadays it seems like every actor is trying to nab a role in the next big comic film to the hit the big screen. It also helps if you’ve recently won a prestigious award (like, say, an Oscar), so the recent rumors that “Capote”-nominated actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is up for a small villainous role in the next “Batman” film is really no surprise. And who exactly might he be playing, you ask? None other than the fish man himself, The Penguin…

Actors, Gossip, News

One retard, two crooks, three geishas and a room full of gays

December 22, 2005 /

With the holiday weekend fast approaching, movie studios are releasing their last batch of this year’s films. Among this week’s releases are Oscar hopefuls “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “The Producers,” the lighthearted comedy “The Ringer,” and the Jim Carrey/Tea Leoni comedy “Fun With Dick and Jane.” All four of these films are excellent holiday additions, but I wouldn’t expect anything more than a good time from any of them. Both “Memoirs” and “Producers” have grabbed a combined six Golden Globe nominations, but not nearly as many as most had anticipated, while “Brokeback Mountain,” which slowly opens wide over the next ten days, secured seven nominations.

Also in wide release (and opening Christmas Day) is the “The Graduate”-themed comedy “Rumor Has It…” and the Aussie horror flick “Wolf Creek.” Both the Steven Spielberg film “Munich” and the Heath Ledger STRAIGHT romance “Casanova” open in limited release, while Terrence Malick’s “The New World” debuts as a special extended cut of the film – the real version won’t be released for another two weeks while the director wraps up editing on the final product.

Movies, Reviews

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