Another Tuesday coming up means another week of collecting and watching awesome movies that have hit shelves at your local video store. Here’s what’s good, okay and horrible:
Grab ‘Em Right Away:
Vengeance Trilogy Bluray
Directed by: Park Chan-Wook
Written by: Park Chan-Wook
Starring: Min-sik Choi, Yeong-ae Lee & Kang-ho Song
Why should you buy this? Because it’s without a doubt the greatest revenge trilogy ever made. Made up of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, each film does its best to surpass its previous installment and succeeds. Even though none of the films have recurring characters, the universal theme keeps everything on the same playing field rather brilliantly. Chan-wook has one of the most demented and twisted minds in cinema. His films have such a unique style visually and narratively, upped by brilliant and satisfying endings you can’t help but love.
Give it a Chance:
Youth in Revolt (check out our theatrical review here)
Directed by: Miguel Arteta
Written by: Gustin Nash & C.D. Payne
Starring: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Steve Buscemi, Zach Galifianakis, Ray Liotta & Justin Long
Why should you rent this? Because it’s Michael Cera’s apology for Year One. Cera, in my mind, has been pigeon-holed into this one character; sometimes it’s hard to remember that he started doing this in 2003 (Arrested Development). It’s been over seven years and we’re ready to see him be more than socially awkward around females. Enters Francois Dillinger, one of the most awesome characters that Cera could ever play on screen. He causes mischief of epic proportions just so he can get his alter-ego, and inhibited virgin, Nick Twisp, laid.
Avoid like the Plague:
The Book of Eli (check out our Blu-ray review here)
Directed by: Albert & Allen Hughes
Written by: Gary Whitta
Starring: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman & Mila Kunis
Why should you not walk to path? Because it’s a meandering two hour film that lacks anything interesting at all. Along with a pretty ridiculous twist ending that only M. Night Shyamalan could be proud, full of annoyingly heavy religious themes to boot, I couldn’t help but feel completely lost while watching this movie. Throw in some horrible acting from Mila Kunis and you definitely have a recipe for disaster. If you saw the trailer for this and thought it looked interesting, don’t watch it. Just go and watch The Road for a much better film that handles the apocalypse with so much more care. Check out my theatrical review for more insight.
Jordan’s Blu-ray Pick of the Week
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford [$9.99]
The Rest
Family Guy, Vol.8
Sanctuary: The Complete Second Season
When in Rome (check out our theatrical review here)
Everwood: The Complete Third Season
MacGuyver: The TV Movies
Unthinkable (check out our Blu-ray review here)
American Dad Vol.5
Mary and Max
Blu-ray
Showgirls (15th Anniversary Sinsational Edition)
Flash Gordon (1980)
Supernatural: The Complete First Season
Darkman
What are you watching this week?