This Week on DVD & Bluray (08-10-10)
This week’s DVD/Blu-ray releases have a lil something for everyone. Of special note, are two Criterion Collections featuring the work of filmmaker and comic book aficionado Terry Zwigoff. Both his first film, 1986’s “Louis Bluie” about blues and string band musician Howard Armstrong and then there’s 1994’s “Crumb” about the noted underground comic artist R. Crumb and his family. Both are given the Criterion deluxe treatment for the first time. That along with “In the Shadow of the Moon” are my picks, after that it’s all up to you. As usual, go forth and conquer! Rent or purchase as you see fit! Here’s the Rundown….
Trailer Tuesday (08-10-10)
The Other Guys (2010) **
Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) ***1/2
COMING SOON: August 2010
Trailer Tuesday (08-03-10)
This Week on DVD & Bluray (08-03-10)
Wow! There’s so much coming out in the world of DVDs and Blurays this week! From several Keeping It Reel reviewed films (linked), as well as a few new-to-Bluray Coen brothers films, and much more, there’s plenty to keep you entertained. If it’s too hot outside this week, head over to your rental spot and pick up one of the many new releases! Here’s the rundown…
Dinner for Schmucks (2010) **1/2
Countdown to Zero (2010) **
produced by: Lawrence Bender
directed by: Lucy Walker
rated PG (for thematic material, images of destruction and incidental smoking)
90 min.
U.S. release date: July, 23, 2010
All documentaries have a purpose and a perspective and are rarely entertaining. That’s at least my experience. And that’s fine when many of then are intended to educate, create awareness and motivate some form of action on the part of the viewer. Yet at the end of this film there’s not much we can do about nuclear proliferation or the fact that it is easier now to create a nuclear weapon than it was back in the cold war. What exactly are we to do with this information except be scared?
Trailer Tuesday (07-27-10)
