This week, the fifth and final Best Picture nominee from last year makes its DVD debut, and a whole lot of TV and Blu-Ray releases hit the market.
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This week brings a cavalcade of crap from the lean seasons of 2008. But if you’re willing to wade through it, there are treasures to be found.
The seemingly endless run of crappy spring releases continues unabated this week, as I reach into last week to select a noteworthy release I somehow overlooked.
Now here's some news you can use: Lionsgate is making a sequel to Crank. This one pins Jason Statham against "a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working." Um, awesome. But the same story drops still-more-intriguing news: Michael C. Hall (Six Feet Under, Dexter) will star in a futuristic thriller called Game with 300's Gerard Butler. Michael C. Hall rules. The latest movie in the Philip K. Dick adaptation wave, Radio Free Albemuth, stars. . . Alanis Morissette. I will not make jokes. I will just say that Alanis Morissette almost single-handedly ruined the mid-nineties, and I wish she had gone away forever. That is all.Heath Ledger and Sean Penn will costar in Terrence Malick's next film, Tree of Life. — Peter Smith
This week, the fifth and final Best Picture nominee from last year makes its DVD debut, and a whole lot of TV and Blu-Ray releases hit the market.