DVD Round Up
Pick of the Week: Rescue Dawn – Terrific true-life POW adventure story starring a method Christian Bale and directed by the greatest of all eccentric geniuses, Werner Herzog. Manages to be a straight-ahead exciting adventure, blackly comic character study and uplifting humanist drama all at once. One of last year’s most underrated films.
Also Out:
Enchanted – Charming post-modernist Disney adventure with Amy Adams sparkling and James Marsden a square-jawed Prince Charming of the highest order.
The Darjeeling Limited – Decent Wes Anderson effort but below par by his standards. Performances are all great but a mixed tone and sense of thematic deja vu wear down a potentially marvellous film.
Mike Leigh Collection: Auterist oeuvre of one of Britain’s finest purveyors of the human spirit.
Hard Eight – Rerelease for Paul Thomas Anderson’s flawed but promising debut film.
Futurama; Bender’s Big Score – Pretty decent feature length effort from Futurama with enough quality gags to keep it from running out of steam.
Entourage Season 3 – Some people like this.
Region 1: There Will Be Blood – The Americans have a two-disc edition of this coming out on Tuesday. There don’t appear to be many extras for a double-disc but honestly, they could just put the film on there twice and I’d still buy it.
I’m The Scat-Link!! Link ba ba bada bom!!
Pitchfork kicks of the listy-ness of the day with the twenty worst albums covers.
PJ Harvey talks with The AV Club.
Best singer-songwriter albums of the year you say? PopMatters will oblige you.
I Am Legend reviewed and Slate has its favourite books too.
Jodie Marsh and her recent husband Matt have split. Is anyone surprised?
The Spice Girls now have a plane… and Baby’s on crutches.
It girl and Presidential niece Lauren Bush talks to The Guardian.
PopSugar asks if Britney Spears should be punished for missing her deposition. We think it’s time she faces the music.
Hey parents – talk to your kids about cooties. Or watch this video and smile!
Wanna know how to show her you love her? Amy Adams stars as a Disney Princess Giselle in modern New York in Enchanted… this also includes the wonderful James Marsden in an amazing turn as the Prince…
This song shows the animals of New York City helping Giselle get things cleaned up…
If you haven’t seen Enchanted yet, make sure you do. It’s a great, funny movie!
The Links Have Eyes
JustJared is featuring Arrested Development‘s Will Arnett and Amy Poehler’s GAP ad. Cute.
Judging by the way Heroes is going this season (teen issues are not right for this show!) it’s probably a good thing the spin-off Heroes: Origins has been cancelled.
Thank the freakin’ Lord! Joss Whedon has announced he’ll be back with a new Eliza Dushku series – Dollhouse. Just as soon as the Writers Strike is sorted… I’m doing my happy dance right now!
PopJustice is all about the new ballad-free Girls Aloud album, Tangled Up.
Britney is continuing to publicise her album in her own shy, retiring, way.
Zac Efron is, shock-horror, apparently ‘growing up…’. Someone tell Disney, sharpish…
Oooh, don’t Jack and Kelly Osbourne look gorgeous?
Martina Hingis has retired from tennis after testing positive for cocaine use at Wimbledon.
Meatloaf beaten by Newcastle? Surely not.
Stephen Colbert has paid up and filed to have his name on the ballot in South Carolina.. (EDIT – Damn it, the dream’s over…)
A serious breach of national security occurred yesterday, says The Onion.
Slate espouses it’s opinion on American Gangster, the new Denzel/Russell Crowe/Ridley Scott epic movie thing.
Warren Ellis, comic writing genius, takes his first stab at prose fiction and PopMatters judges.
President Bush and his big business-loving group of chumps want to hurt the good even more, says Salon.
The Guardian questions the decision to take Spaced to America.
Bat Link
The trailer has been released for the star-studded Extras Xmas special. George Michael, David Tennant, Barry from Eastenders, Lisa Scott-Lee, Clive Owen, Gordon Ramsay, Ashley Jensen are starring alongside Ricky Gervais!
Steve Carell and other The Office stars are filmed behind the scenes of a photo shoot for Entertainment Weekly.
The Guardian debates who should play George W. Bush as Peter Morgan decides yet again to avoid making up a story.
Ron Paul, everyman Republican, is discussed on Slate.
Tony Kaye may be a shamless self-publicist, but he’s made a documentary about abortion in America and it should be seen. That’s what the New York Times thinks at least.
More importantly though, the only sequel anyone cares about has been greenlit. No one is breakin’ free just yet.
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