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DVD: Gamera is Bradley Cooper is Jayne Mansfield — In Praise of the Also-Ran

Shout! Factory finished off its series of DVD debuts for original Japanese Gamera movies this week with the release of Gamera vs. Zigra and Gamera: The Super Monster , and it’s a long-overdue recognition of these entertaining Japanese giant monster (or kaiju) flicks. You’ve gotta feel for the fire-breathing, flying giant turtle — no matter what he accomplished on the big screen, he spent his entire career in the shadow of the more popular Godzilla. Ahead, four other Hollywood also-rans who quietly toil in the shadows.

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DVD: Gamera is Bradley Cooper is Jayne Mansfield — In Praise of the Also-Ran

DVD: Gamera is Bradley Cooper is Jayne Mansfield — In Praise of the Also-Ran

Shout! Factory finished off its series of DVD debuts for original Japanese Gamera movies this week with the release of Gamera vs. Zigra and Gamera: The Super Monster , and it’s a long-overdue recognition of these entertaining Japanese giant monster (or kaiju) flicks. You’ve gotta feel for the fire-breathing, flying giant turtle — no matter what he accomplished on the big screen, he spent his entire career in the shadow of the more popular Godzilla. Ahead, four other Hollywood also-rans who quietly toil in the shadows.

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DVD: Gamera is Bradley Cooper is Jayne Mansfield — In Praise of the Also-Ran

Is IFC Midnight’s Brutal Pick-Up Kill List the Dogtooth of SXSW ’11?

The psycho-sexual anthology Little Deaths made a minor splash at SXSW as the Serbian Film of this year’s fest, leaving many searching for the film most analogous to Ben Wheatley’s even better-loved SXF antastic buzz film Kill List . But while parallels to previous SXSW hits like Monsters and Wheatley’s own Down Terrace have been drawn, another entry from last year’s festival circuit instead comes to mind: Yorgos Lanthimos’ crazypants domestic drama Dogtooth .

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Just When Will Katherine Heigl’s Next Film Get Released?

Tough times for Katherine Heigl. Not only was she put on full-blast by Mila Kunis in the trailer for summer rom-com Friends With Benefits , but her own summer film has been yanked from the schedule altogether. The Heigl-led adaptation of Janet Evanovich’s One of the Money had been set for release on June 3 (opposite X-Men: First Class ), but Lionsgate pulled it off the calendar with the hopes of finding a date that felt “right.” The studio is apparently still looking; Money is currently scheduled for TBD. [ EW ]

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DVD: Clint Eastwood’s Tsunami Movie, and 3 Other Examples of Bad Pop-Culture Timing

Given that it opens with a tsunami so realistic that it got an Oscar nomination for its special effects, Hereafter (out this week from Warner Home Video) got yanked from theaters in Japan even as it hits video store shelves in the United States. But that sort of ouchy coincidence happens all the time in every corner of pop culture. For instance:

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DVD: The Humor (and Angst) of Peanuts Lives On in Its First Two Films

Charles Schulz’s landmark comic strip Peanuts has occupied a unique niche in American pop culture. It’s part of a medium often aimed at children, and its cast is a group of kids under the age of 10, doing normal child-like activities like playing baseball, going to school, and ice skating. But these kids also talk about Beethoven, theology, and The Brothers Karamazov . They throw around words like “depressed” and “neurotic,” and one of them puts up a “Psychiatric Help” stand instead of selling lemonade. The strip balances hilarity with the fragility of life and the pain of existence, and that balance surfaces in Peanuts’ first two big-screen adventures, A Boy Named Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Come Home (both available this week as a two-disc DVD from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment).

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Sexcalibur Unleashed: DVD Roundup 3-8-11

It’s a slow week for nudity on DVD & Blu-Ray, with The Walking Dead shuffling onto DVD, Rachel McAdams keeping her Morning Glory under wraps, and Carla Gugino taking all day, Every Day to lose her bikini bottoms. Your best opportunities for onanism this week come from Blu-Ray, where the medieval mammaries of Excalibur go hi-def. Your sword will be brandished and in hand when Excalibur (1981) gets the Blu-Ray treatment. Director John Boorman never bores, thanks in part(s) to Helen Mirren as the evil Morgana, who shows off her breasts through a fishnet top. Cherie Lunghi also shows her Lunghis as Guenevere, and Katrine Boorman adds another chesty scene to prove that the Time of Arthur was full of boobs. Rachel McAdams is Becky Fuller, a television producer who tries to revive a struggling morning show by bringing on new anchor Mike Pomeroy ( Harrison Ford ) in the 2010 comedy Morning Glory , not nude on DVD. We may not get to see Rachel’s morning glory, but we do get a juicy jiggle in Rachel’s McButt when she rolls around in her McPanties. Glorious. Liev Schreiber and Helen Hunt are a couple in crisis in the 2010 comedy-drama Every Day , nude on DVD. He’s bored with his job, troubled that his son is gay, and losing his relationship with his wife, while she’s trying to care for her dying father. Amidst all these real-life problems, we also get a quick peek at Carla Gugino ‘s bare butt. Now there’s something you could get used to seeing every day! Ravenous flesh-eating zombies have overtaken the planet and it’s up to Rick Grimes ( Andrew Lincoln ) to lead his people to safety in the FX series The Walking Dea d , nude on DVD. Don’t look for any skin here, but this is FX, so expect sexy content from female costars like Sarah Wayne Callies . Now you can inspect Sarah’s post-apocalyptic panties frame by frame, searching for the elusive Walking Nip.

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Thandie Newton Slips a Nip in For Colored Girls

If you thought Tyler Perry was all about emotion-laden family drama and a moralizing cross-dresser named Madea, then you’ve got another nip coming. In his 2010 flick For Colored Girls , based on the play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuff , the topics du jour are rape, down-low homosexuality, illegal abortion, and hoarding—pretty heavy stuff. But things start looking up an hour and 19 minutes in when we get a look down Thandie Newton ‘s dress and see her left nipple. And now it’s out on Blu-ray so you can see it in glorious high definition. This one’s for horny boys.

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Report: Mila Kunis to Join James Franco in Sam Raimi’s Oz

Everyone’s favorite Oscar-snubbee Mila Kunis is reportedly set to join Sam Raimi’s Oz, the Great and Powerful , the lonnnnng-gestating Wizard of Oz prequel with James Franco attached as the title character. Kunis would play Evanorah, the young witch-in-training who develops into the Wicked Witch of the East. Of course. Shooting is rumored to begin in July, but I think we all know Raimi’s protracted dawdling really portends an awesome Oz / Sex and the City 3 Memorial Day showdown in 2016. Or something. [ Vulture ]

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DVD: The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who May Have the Most Outrageous Movie Title Ever

With Shout! Factory releasing the Mystery Science Theater 3000 take on Ray Dennis Steckler’s horror musical The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies on DVD this week — coming on the heels of the widespread acclaim for Sundance midnight entry Hobo with a Shotgun — it seemed like as good a time as any to look at some of the most unwieldy, memorable, and occasionally even poetic movie titles ever concocted. Such as:

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