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Pick of the week: Battle In Seattle (8/10): A solid movie with a star-studded, stellar cast. True story about the events surrounding the World Trade Organization’s conference in Seattle in 1999, and the protests that disrupted it and led to chaos in the streets.
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Canadian movie of the week: Honey, I’m In Love (8/10): Actually called Le Grand Depart, it’s a French-language movie from Quebec. The DVD box calls it “Quebec’s American Beauty“, and that’s an apt description. Suburban dissatisfaction and infidelity presented in a very funny manner.
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TV series of the week: Mission: Impossible Season Six (7/10): Leonard Nimoy was gone by Season Six, as was Leslie Ann Warren, but the series added another three-named hottie to fill her shoes, and Lynda Day George will certainly do. William Shatner guest stars in the fifth episode of the season. Which did make me miss Nimoy more…
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Blu-Ray of the week: Star Trek: The Original Series, Season One (9/10): A suitably nerdy set, crammed with extras and retouched marvelously. Nerds, your ship has come in!
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The Uninvited (3/10): An absolutely dreadful “horror” movie that is not only terribly NOT scary, but also features one of the worst endings in recent memory.
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Hotel For Dogs (3/10): So, if you like cute dogs looking cute, and complicated gadgets doing complicated unnecessary things, you might like this movie. But do you really think you can watch just those two things for an hour and twenty minutes?
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Ron White: Behavioural Problems (6/10): The Redneck Comedy Tour veteran goes solo on this DVD, which has some solid moments. He isn’t one of the greats, but he’s good.
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Affaire De Famille (7/10): A French film, from France, that has no English dubbing or subtitle options. Too bad, because it’s a really fun, pretty good crime-comedy thriller. Watch it if you’re Francophone.
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Toute La Beaute Du Monde (4/10): Not nearly as good. Also available only in French, but this time it can be skipped by Francophones as well. Two uninteresting people fall in love with each other while doing uninteresting things in a spectacular location – Bali.
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Elmo And Friends: Tales of Adventure (5/10): Teaches kids the alphabet, kind of. And the names of shapes. Well…the names of three shapes. And one of them is a triangle. Also Big Bird gets shrunk and hitches a ride on a lady bug.
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Romeo Et Juliette / Aurore (7/10): Worth it just for Aurore, the story of a girl who died of child abuse in rural Quebec at the turn of the century. Heartbreaking and hard to watch, but very well done. Romeo Et Juliette is good too, but Aurore is the clear winner on this double-sided DVD release.
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Monica La Mitraille / Dans L’Oeil Du Chat (4/10): In English, that’s Machine Gun Molly and In the Eye Of The Cat. Machine Gun Molly is the only one worthwhile, a true story about a female bank robber in Montreal in the 1960s, a solid period piece. In The Eye of the Cat is just a terrible erotic thriller with no selling points outside nudity.
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Bride Wars: I like Anne Hathaway…but this movie looks just awful. Weddings AND comedy AND Kate Hudson? Where’s McConnaughey?
JCVD: Could be awesome. Jean Claude Van Damme realizes how ridiculous he is, and plays himself in a movie? Cool. If only Seagal were this self-aware!
While She Was Out: Kim Basinger is a suburban housewife stranded in the woods with murderous young thugs…haven’t I seen this before? Like, every single week for the last four years?
Legally Blondes: Two non-name girls star in what I believe is a prequel? to the Reese Witherspoon Legally Blonde series of movies. Ugh.
Grimm Love: Keri Russell is a student doing a report on this serial killer, and she becomes obsessed with him, see…then she starts to live her life like he did – or does – I don’t know. But this could be alright. I like Keri Russell.
Also out:
Never Surrender
Sex and Lies in Sin City
The Spectacular Spider-Man Volume 4
On Blu-Ray this week:
100 Feet
Amazing Journeys
Bride Wars
Connected
The DaVinci Code
The DaVinci Code Blu-Ray Gift Set
Green Day: Bullet in a Bible
Handel: Giulio Cesare
Handel: Orlando
Hotel For Dogs
In The Realm of the Senses
JCVD
The Reader
Star Trek: The Original Series Season One
Torroba: Luisa Fernanda
The Uninvited
What Doesn’t Kill You
New release DVD next week:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Last Chance Harvey
Nothing But the Truth
Smother
Living Proof
Wendy And Lucy
Dorothy Mills
Flirting With Forty
Cargo 200
Derriere Moi
Scooby Doo Where Are You? Volume Two
Chandni Chowk to China
The Note II: Taking A Chance on Love
Secret Societies
Jake and the Fatman Season Two
A Plumm Summer
Jon And Kate Plus Eight Season Three
On Blu-Ray Next week:
Amazon
The Big Blue Sea Trilogy
Big
Bleak House
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Dexter Season Two
Dog Soldiers
Elton John: The Red Piano
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
From a Place of Darkness
Grease
Heroes of World Class
Incendiary
It Could Happen to You
Journey Into Amazing Caves
Last Chance Harvey
The Magic of Flight
Over Ireland
Roxanne
Saturday Night Fever
There’s Something About Mary
Twilight
Twilight Ultimate Collector’s Set