If you’re familiar with my tastes at all, you probably know that a quirky number like The Freebie is right up my alley. At least, theoretically. Whether it all comes together is another thing entirely, but just from the description, trailer, and some of the background info (like the involvement of Mark Duplass), I’m on board.
The response to Predators was rather lukewarm, but enough critics were behind it that it warrants a look, especially when it comes to your home. Adding to the interest, the release is getting a pretty solid treatment, and includes a good mix of bonuses.
It’s a WWII-fest, with five films starring the legendary Errol Flynn. These adventures from 1942-1945 are a solid showcase of not only the star, but era itself, and the DVD set adds to the effect with some great bonuses.
It’s been a while since Woody Allen really piqued my interest, and to be honest I’m not sure he’s done it here, but… he’s done something. There’s a certain “just crazy enough to work” feature to all his best films, and even if I’m not completely convinced that I want to see You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, I’m curiously moved to want to want to see it.
In partnership with the latest edition of The Rough Guide To Cult Movies, which you should check out when you get a chance, because it’s a great work, 20th Century Fox and MGM recently kicked out a slew of cult classics on Blu-Ray.
The Last Song, a treacly affair that is virtually unwatchable outside its target demographic (which is about 5 years younger than the film thinks it is), is the next great bit of glorious banality for both Nicholas Sparks and Miley Cyrus. Sparks, who really likes himself, aims at a somewhat younger crowd this time around, apparently in the hopes of proving that the laughably nonsensical appeals to a more diverse age range than was previously believed.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, based on the successful children’s book series of the same name, is an amusing effort, but one which is perhaps fighting a losing battle from the start. While a decent helping of fun, and sure to provide a handful of laughs for the appropriate audience, something seems lost is translation here, and it may be a result of the book’s specific imagination-friendly positives.
Bringing together a cast designed to target a wide, generationally-appropriate viewers, Galt Niederhoffer’s The Romantics is hitting theaters soon, and the semi-pseudo-indie film looks as though it may deliver.
With all the charm, and most of the hipster references, his generation can muster, Scott muddles through the initial stages of being aware someone else exists with the studied lack of aplomb that very nearly defines the video, video game (and dare I say, screening) reared youth of today.
It’s actually a fine enough way to spend an evening, but so much of it is average and routine that there is almost some meta effort going on.
There are films that test a movie critic, and I imagine that Eat Pray Love is going to become a solid example of such a film.
If you tried to sell me the premise for The Switch, you wouldn’t have a lot of luck. Even after telling me that Jason Bateman was going to be in it, as he’s a personal favorite, you’d probably have to tough time of it. But, something about this quirky bit of nonsense is becoming more and more convincing.
Narrated by Ryan Reynolds, an impressive documentary is coming your way November 9th.
If anyone can pull off this odd comedy effort, it just might be Sam Rockwell. Having impressed me even more than I already was in the last few years, I am by now interested to watch anything he’s in. That’s not to say that there isn’t something intriguing about this effort before focusing on Rockwell.
The trailer is about to remind you that someone called this book “the best of the decade,” and that might not even be the most hyperbolic endorsement you’ve heard of it, but now I want to hear your side of the story.
I may have come away from Percy Jackson with a general feeling that much more could have been done, but hopefully I would leave the source with something like a similar feeling, and I’m not sure that outmaneuvering a children’s work is any mark of superiority.
For the first time download consumers can attain additional content with the feature including three featurettes: “The Making of Superman: Doomsday”, “The Clash of the Juggernauts”, and “Behind the Voice”.
I’m not one to talk up a movie more than once, especially when there isn’t any pressing reason to do so, but I was playing around with some images, and find myself moved to throw out another mention of Easy A.
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