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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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Toni Basil Bares Spice Rack and Basil Bush in Easy Rider

You may remember Toni Basil as the one-hit wonder babe who dressed up like a cheerleader in the early 80s to sing, “Oh Mickey, you’re so fine, you’re so fine, you blow my mind.” But do you remember the song’s veiled reference to backdoor banging (So come on and give it to me anyway you can/ Anyway you want to do it, I’ll take it like a man)? Gimme an A! And if you really want something to cheer about, check out Toni’s appearance in the counterculture classic Easy Rider . She’s not wearing a cheerleader’s uniform, but we can still see her pom-poms and rah-rah-siss-boom-bush. Check out this crystal clear HD find from the Blu-ray edition of the movie. The resolution is so find it’ll blow your mind. I mean load .

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Toni Basil Bares Spice Rack and Basil Bush in Easy Rider

Where Have We Seen Chris Evans’ Skinny Captain America Before?

Depending on your mileage for superhero origin stories, the trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger was either totally awesome (Red Skull!) or totally blah (Red Skull?), but no matter how strong your geek heart beats, one part of the slick, 30-second spot demanded universal attention: Chris Evans’ transformation from bulky real-life actor to wimpy fictional soldier to bulky fictional superhero. As has been echoed at Internet watercoolers all day: How’d they do that? Perhaps the answer lies ahead.

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DVD: For Colored Girls and 5 Other Disastrous Adaptations of Great Source Material

There’s many a slip twixt the page and the screen — just ask fans of Ntozake Shange’s powerful 1975 theater piece For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf who recently had to suffer through Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls (on DVD and Blu-Ray this week from Lionsgate), a ham-handed and tone-deaf adaptation that managed to drain almost all of the poetry, wit, and majesty from a great play. But Perry is just the latest filmmaker to obliterate a great work of art by turning it into a dreadful movie; Other examples abound. Such as…

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PHOTO: Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man Left His Prada at the Cleaners

DVD: This Super Bowl Sunday, Treat Yourself to a Good Cry

While the appeal of televised sports has generally eluded me, I do understand how events like the Super Bowl provide much-needed emotional release for football fans. Whether you’re cheering your team to victory, yelling at that stupid ref, or keening over a botched play, it’s a way to release tension and bottled-up feelings in a socially acceptable way. I get the same purgative experience with a good tearjerker, so if you’re not into football, watch those commercials later on Hulu and curl up with a good three-hanky DVD instead.

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Welcome to the (Vertical) Smileys: DVD Roundup 2-1-11

This week on DVD and Blu-ray, the skin haul includes Kristen Stewart ‘s full moon, Keira Knightley topless, and the naked flasher chicks of the slasher flick Hatchet II . Racktastic. Never Let Me Go Nude on Blu-ray, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield play a pair of clones raised to be organ donors in the sci-fi drama Never Let Me Go . We don’t see Keira’s rear-a, but fortunately Ms. Knightley does flash her lefty and her righty at the 51-minute mark. When Keira says, “Never let me go,” fortunately, she doesn’t mean, “Never let me go topless!” Hatchet II Splattering in Hi-def on Blu-ray, former child actress and current scream queen Danielle Harris stars in the blood- and flesh-filled horror sequel Hatchet II . But I’ve got an axe to grind with this movie: there’s not a single one of Danielle’s dairybombs in sight! Fortunately, Danielle’s costars pick up the slack. Sally Agor bares boobs, butt, and bald beaver seven minutes in, and Alexis Peters takes her top off at the 59-minute mark. When it comes to slasher flicks, it’s all about those flasher chicks. Welcome to the Rileys Nude on DVD, James Gandolfini is a plumbing supplies contractor who goes to New Orleans on a business trip and tries to save a young prostitute and stripper played by Twilight babe Kristen Stewart in the drama Welcome to the Rileys . I’m sorry to report that Kristen doesn’t actually get topless to play a topless dancer, but one hour in, her microscopic thong rides so far up her butt crack we get an unobstructed view of her full moon. Welcome to the Heinie!

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Do the Latest Fan Photos of Spider-Man Reveal Another Mystery Villain?

We’re psyched for Andrew Garfield’s gig as the littlest Spider-Man , but we’ve been worried about the world surrounding the hero. Who’s out to get him? What are the stakes? Luckily, the newest candid photos of Spider-Man ‘s shoot give us a glimpse of at least one potential enemy. He’s quite dastardly!

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The Conspirator Trailer: James McAvoy and Robin Wright Star in Robert Redford’s Cinematic Ambien

Remember that two-year period when James McAvoy was a sexy up-and-coming actor capable of carrying great films like The Last King of Scotland and Atonement ? Apparently the Scot took time off from such award-worthy projects to star in Penelope and Robert Redford’s The Conspirator , a historical drama about the only female co-conspirator charged in the Abraham Lincoln assassination (played by a haggard-looking Robin Wright). The trailer for the latter was released today, and judging from those two minutes, The Conspirator will play out like a lesser History Channel movie and put you to sleep like a box full of Benadryl. Although there is one exciting moment, courtesy of a very unlikely actor.

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DVD: Glee and Our Other Favorite Singin’ Teens

Glee Season 2, Volume 1 is out this week from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, giving you the opportunity of watching Chord Overstreet’s shower scenes and Darren Criss’ Blaine singing “Teenage Dream” to Chris Colfer’s Kurt over and over again. (And by “you,” I mean me.) But once you’ve seen these 10 episodes again and watched the extras (which include a salute to the wit and wisdom of Heather Morris’ Brittany S. Pears and a look at the making and unveiling of Jane Lynch’s Madame Tussaud’s wax figure), where else can you turn to see photogenic teens make music? So glad you asked:

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