DVD Review: Revenge of the Boarding School Dropouts
PEACH ARCH Street: March 17 Prebook: now > Weak wintry comedy redeemed by some extreme snowboarding sequences. This silly snowbound comedy finds a snowboard promoter ( Jackass ’ Dave England) and his team hitting the slopes to film an extreme video and coming up against a rival promoter (a bored-looking Tom Green) as well as a luscious PR babe (Amber Borycki).
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Online Video Review: Angel of Death
REVIEW: SONY Available now at www.crackle.com > Hit woman Zoe Bell kills in this fast-paced online thriller series.
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Blu-ray Review: Akira
BLU-RAY REVIEW: HONNEAMISE Street: Feb. 24 Prebook: now > BD version of anime classic looks good and sounds even better.
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DVD Review: John Steinbeck’s East of Eden
ACORN Street: March 3 Prebook: now > Sprawling ’80s miniseries of Steinbeck’s multi-generational epic. A literature-based miniseries of the early ’80s, East of Eden is a lavishly produced saga that remains true to the text of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck’s classic, as it follows the biblically-metaphorical lives of three generations of California’s Trask and Hamilton families.
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DVD Review: American Scary
CINEMA LIBRE Street: Feb. 17 Prebook: now > Geeked-out tribute to the horror movie TV hosts of yesteryear. This affectionate look at horror movie TV hosts from the ’50s through today is the kind of fun, heartfelt small documentary that could only be made by a fan.
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno
WEINSTEIN/GENIUS Street: Feb. 3 Prebook: now > Kevin Smith’s raunchy rom-com aims for the Judd Apatow jugular. With Zack and Miri Make a Porno, director/screenwriter Kevin Smith sidesteps the mallrat stylings of his Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob flicks and takes the saucy rom-com route that has been working wonders lately for Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin).
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Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge
DIGITAL PLAYGROUND/MTI Street: Feb. 24 Prebook: now > Re-edited version of popular adult title loses the sexiness but retains big-budget visuals. Just as the company did with Digital Playground’s big-budget adult film Pirates in June 2006, MTI has acquired Digital Playground’s inevitable sequel, Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge , and re-edited it into an MPAA-certified R-rated film.
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Alien Raiders
RAW FEED/WARNER Street: Feb. 17 Prebook: now > Clever low-budget sci-fi/horror hybrid delivers suspense and shocks. The latest entry in Warner’s “Raw Feed” line of low-budget horror titles, Alien Raiders takes a simple, high-concept idea—aliens invading a supermarket—and serves it up with suspense, shocks and wit to spare.
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Zodiac Director’s Cut Blu-ray
REVIEW: PARAMOUNT Street: Jan. 27 Prebook: now > David Fincher serial killer procedural looks simply stunning on Blu-ray.
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Rona Barrett’s Hollywood: Nothing But the Truth
INFINITY Available now > Collection of clips of the ’70s Hollywood gossip columnist/interviewer and her prey. Last summer, Infinity acquired the DVD rights to celebrity interviewer Rona Barrett’s library, yielding this collection of Miss Rona’s greatest hits of the ’70s.
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Choke
FOX Street: Feb. 17 Prebook: Jan. 21 > Darkly comic look at a sex addict’s sad, steamy world. Based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club), Choke follows the exploits of sex-addicted theme park worker Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell), who pays for his Alzheimer-ridden mother’s (Anjelica Huston) healthcare by pretending to choke in upscale restaurants and bonding with the weal...
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The Gene Generation
LIONSGATE Street: Jan. 27 Prebook: now > Good-looking future-shocker finds sexy Bai Ling getting naked and nasty. In the cyberpunk-styled future of this DVD premiere, Michelle (Bai Ling) is a sexy assassin who hunts down DNA hackers who deal in the genetic manipulation black market.
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El Norte Blu-ray
REVIEW: CRITERION/IMAGE Street: Jan. 20 Prebook: now > Arthouse epic about the immigrant experience arrives on Blu-ray.
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
WEINSTEIN/GENIUS Street: Jan. 27 Prebook: now > Laughs, lust and fun under the sun in Woody Allen’s latest—and sexiest—comedy. The 39th feature film from the world’s most prolific writer/director is a diverting and funny look at modern love (and lust), what it could be, and what it is in reality for a trio of very good-looking people.
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Captains and the Kings
KOCH Street: Jan. 13 Prebook: now > Classic ’70s TV miniseries about a Kennedy-like family. Based upon Taylor Caldwell’s 1972 bestseller, Captains and the Kings was one of the premiere TV miniseries of the ’70s. Clocking in at 8½ hours, the miniseries concerns the life of penniless Irish immigrant Joseph Armagh (Richard Jordan), who comes to America in the late 1800s ...
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Operation Filmmaker
REVIEW: ICARUS Street: Dec. 16 Prebook: now > Engrossing doc on an Iraqi film student takes surprising turns.
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The Third Man Blu-ray
REVIEW: CRITERION/IMAGE Street: Dec. 16 Prebook: now > Stellar high-def presentation of the classic noir thriller.
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Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer
REVIEW: FLICKER ALLEY Available now > Exhaustive (and exhausting!) collection of Douglas Fairbanks’ earliest film adventures.
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A Hole in a Fence
FIRST RUN Street: Dec. 9 Prebook: now > Flavorful curio about a ‘hidden’ patch of urban landscape in Brooklyn. Concerning a slice of concrete-covered land that lurks behind a fence in the decaying section of Brooklyn, New York’s Red Hook neighborhood, A Hole in a Fence tells a big story in its relatively short running time.
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