Pick of the week: Home (9/10): A remarkable European movie about a family who live in idyllic happiness until a freeway moves in next to their home and they all start to slowly go insane, eventually walling themselves up inside their house. Absurd, and strange, but well worth it if you speak French (no English version is available). Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
TV series of the week: Galapagos: Les Iles Qui Ont Change Le Monde (8/10): Seriously beautiful nature photography of the creatures and land masses that make up the Galapagos Islands. Again, available only in French. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Blu-Ray of the week: Do The Right Thing: Still Spike Lee’s best, still an all-time classic, race relations have never had such a serious look that looks so good or is as entertaining. A masterpiece.
Columbus Day (3/10): Val Kilmer is a thief who has just pulled off the heist of a lifetime. Now he’s going to spend an entire movie on the phone. Yawn. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Stone of Destiny (4/10): Not an action movie, or a comedy, or a dramatic film, or a good film. Just a true story about some Scottish nationalists who steal a stone. Meh. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
La Jeune Fille Et Les Loups (4/10): Even the occasional glimpse of a cute wolf cub and Laetita Casta’s nipples can’t save this movie that doesn’t have the guts to go all out. In French only. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
12 Rounds: After The Marine, they still let John Cena make movies? Really?
The Code: Jewel thief movie that stars Morgan Freeman (not always a good sign), Antonio Banderas (not always a good sign), and Radha Mitchell (she’s promising).
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li: Apparently there have been like thirty movies in this series since Jean-Cluade Van Damme and Raul Julia lit up the big screen in that awful, awful first one. This one stars that chick from Eurotrip.
Entourage: The Complete Fifth Season: Still one of the best shows on television.
Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience: Do I need to describe this one? Get your ten year old girls in front of the TV, and go to the garage to drink beer.
The Education of Charlie Banks: I like Jesse Eisenberg, but this movie was directed by Fred Durst. Previously seen directing The Longshots, and planning a Limp Bizkit comeback tour. Expect awful things.
Also out:
Kaidan
Pedro
The Human Contract
Stargate Atlantis: Season Five
Tunnel Rats
I.O.U.S.A.
Octane
Princess Protection Program
Tokyo!
On Blu-Ray this week:
12 Rounds
Barbra Streisand Live in Concert 2006
Bigonzetti: Caravaggio
Chopin: La Dame Aux Camelias
Flawless
How The Earth Was Made
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers and Friends: The 70th Birthday Concert
The Jonas Brothers 3-D Concert Experience
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos
Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li
Tan Dun: Marco Polo
Ted Nugent: Motor City Mayhem
Tokyo!
Transmorphers: Fall of Man
Two Lovers
Wagner: Die Walkure
Out next week:
Knowing
The Unborn
Five Fingers
Night Train
The Prodigy
Skate or Die
My Faraway Bride
The Saddle Club: Horseback Riders
The Saddle Club: Back In The Saddle
Before Tomorrow
Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy
Petticoat Junction Official Second Season
Reno 911! Complete Sixth Season
Matlock Season Three
Modern Love
On Blu-Ray next week:
The Deep
Grumpy Old Men
In Memory of My Father
Iron Maiden: Flight 666
Knowing
Legends And Lyrics Vol. 1
Legends And Lyrics Vol. 2
Night Train
Push
The Unborn
The Universe: Complete Season Two