Apr 23rd, 2008
DVD Releases
A hard-to-shake story of a massive monster squeezing the Big Apple to its core with bone-crushing apocalyptic attacks, “Cloverfield” taps into primal fears of twisting, shifting nightmares. Whether its exhaustive thrills play on a small screen remains to be seen, but it’s a great B-movie.
Using a hand-held-camera structure, this movie from the J.J. Abrams (“Alias,” “Lost”) crew follows a handful of New York yuppie 20-somethings that flee from a party in terror. That’s because the city is being decimated by something that’s every animal and no animal all at once, classifiable only as a behemoth your brain might conjure in REM sleep.
Extras include commentary, featurettes, additional scenes, alternate endings and Easter eggs.
‘Charlie Wilson’s War’
In the 1980s, long before terrorism’s permanent stamp on American life, Kabul easily could have been mistaken for a city in Uzbekistan or even India. Yet for Charlie Wilson, a Congressman from a rinky-dink Texas district, helping Afghanistan rebels in Kabul to fight the Soviets became his mission — one conceived while sitting naked in a Vegas hot tub filled with strippers and cocaine.
Mike Nichols’ tale is a cautionary one of political playmaking amid international tensions — a story of how a playboy politician (Tom Hanks), a rich Texan belle (Julia Roberts) and a misanthropic CIA agent (Philip Seymour Hoffman) increased America’s aid to Afghanistan by almost 10,000 percent. But this crackling, acidic and sharply scripted satire is more comic than condemning.
Featurettes and interviews with Nichols, Hanks, Roberts and the real Charlie Wilson are offered.
Also next week
Produced and presented by Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth”), “The Orphanage” boasts an intriguing subtext, an ending that achieves everything the overrated “The Others” failed to do and, best of all, a fierce lead performance by Belen Rueda. She’s Laura, an adoptive mother whose young, HIV-positive son Simon goes missing amid supernatural happenings at an orphanage Laura is rehabbing into a home. DVD and Blu-ray releases include featurettes, stills and more.
Tags: cloverfield, easter, eggs
16 Responses to “DVD Releases”
Serever Eradicated
Zombie Jesus!.Best news since newyear.
Sites back online!
Hopefully they’ll pick up where the series left off… I loved that last episode, but it was soo unfulfilling as a series end-er!!!Timmay
“Good news everyone”
This is great stuff… The Simpsons is starting to smell up the joint!Futurama is probably the best show around. I mean, how can you NOT like Zoidie?
Futurama was great, but I fear it’s time has passed. Too much time has gone by since it went off the air, and unlike “Family Guy” new eposides don’t really seem necessary.And no, I’m not a troll - just stating my opinion.
hmm, i wonder how this relates to this story:http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/2966/2/
diggfooked
“Good News Everyone…..”I have been following the development of the future of Futurama.Indeed, this is good news.
who cares…the show got boring really fast…. - digg
[insert quote here]I saw this in the queue last night and ignored it…thinking it was another lame link to imdb or that variety article…
WOOOOOT!!!!Futurama is teh *****.
The latest in our weekly series contains listings for 8 new Blu-Ray, 3 HD DVD, 1 UMD and 386 new DVDs for sale Tuesday - look closer for the Mirko Cro Cop action film, the 3D movie, the French softcore, Degrassi High and…Elvis, the Jew?
oops the Servers dead, my finger slipped