DVD Round-Up
Pick of the Week: Damages – Complete First Season
A ridiculousy entertaining, drunkenly convoluted and mean-spirited corporate thriller in which Glenn Close does her best bitch and Ted Danson turns the sleaze up to eleven. It starts slightly annoying but once you’re in, its quite a ride.
Also out:
St Trinians – I’ve not seen it but I really feel like it can’t possibly be worth its RRP even if The Daily Star gave it away free.
The Lookout – Neat thriller from Out of Sight-writer Scott Frank starring the ever-excellent Joseph Gordon Levitt.
30 Days of Night – Bloody graphic novel adaptation with a non-promising cast (Josh Hartnett and Melissa George) but an eminently promising director in David Slade (Hard Candy).
Silent Light – The new film from Carlos Reygadas, the director of the uncompromising and somewhat uncomfortable Battle in Heaven.
Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry’s beloved novel got an elegant adaptation but feels staid and irrelevant in a post-Deadwood age.
Nirvana on Film – A visual feast of grunge-nihilism and little-boy-lost promos from the most important rock band of the 1990s (take that Shed Seven!)
Ten Commandments: The Musical – I have no idea about this movie although I imagine what the tin says it what it does. More importantly though, it’s a religious musical starring Val Kilmer.
Region 1:
Juno – Very nice special edition of one of the strongest movies of this year (UK releases)
Blast of Silence – Classic idiosyncratic noir from Allen Baron which should really be seen my more folks.
American Dad: Season 3 – The best season yet of the ever-improving McFarlane creation which, whisper it, is sometimes better than Family Guy.
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead – Flawed Sidney Lumet character study with a brilliant performance from Philip Seymour Hoffman at its core.
Born In the Link.S.A
So the link ‘puns’ have somewhat been tampered with by Betty and we need to prevent this craziness. She’s always trying to stir things up, to break the status quo down with a towering fist of rebellion. So one last Springsteen today, then onwards and upwards next week.
Scott Tobias enters his favourite movie year choice: 1955. Also on The AV Club, Tasha Robinson compares page and screen as regards The Diving Bell & The Butterfly.
PopMatters enters its thirty favourite and ten most hated cinematic pieces of 2007.
The Onion reports on a young man with Wii on the brain.
You wanna talk about aging gracefully? Check this dude out.
Time lists its favourite sartorial movie moments.
Sasha Frere-Jones takes in the music of The Wire.
American Gladiators article. What more could you need to know?
Check out this blog about the fair and balanced (and true?) reporting style of Fox News.
Legendary post-Neu synth-krautrockers Harmonia are to play a one-off show in London.
Esquire has an online-only interview with Andy Samberg.
Who will have the cuter baby? Aguilera or Richie? Place bets now!
I have decided, in my infinite wisdom, to start BILSON-ALERT!! Here is the inaugural edition.
Tool’s Maynard James Keenan talks to SuicideGirls. The first good interview they’ve had in yonks.
One of my favourite comic writers, Adrian Tomine, talks to Mother Jones.
The Guardian weighs in on the current election story over in the US.
Steven Dalton interview The Coens whose new movie, No Country For Old Men, is something of a masterpiece.
Pitchfork has a new song by Jamie Lidell.
If your predeliction is more pop however, say hello to PopJustice’s songs of the week.
Tonight is the second episode of Damages on BBC One at 10.30pm. If you missed last week’s episode and have iTunes, you can download the first episode for free! Glenn Close, Tate Donovan, Ted Danson, Rose Byrne, Peter Facinelli are just a few of the cast members acting out the legal dramas.
Beth’s Top TV Shows 07
I’ve really enjoyed TV this year… there’s been some really great shows amongst a bunch of drivel. But what were my Top TV shows? Granted, one of them may have not been aired on TV this year, but they’re all shows that I have watched. Check them out below the cut…
Electricity & Lust 
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