the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘2010: Moby Dick’
I love how the trailer touts Barry Bostwick’s Golden Globe win, as if there might be some potential viewers out there for whom this would tip them over into wanting to see this. Adorable.
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the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Barbie As Rapunzel’
This is actually an old DVD — dating back 2002 — that’s gotten a very minor redesign (of the packaging, that is) and is back as a “new release”… just in time to cash in on what is sure to be a Rapunzel craze with Disney’s Tangled about to open.
cinematic roots of: ‘Megamind’
In Megamind, Will Ferrell’s big-headed blue alien genius supervillain takes on Brad Pitt’s annoyingly ultragood Metro Man one last time. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘Due Date’
In Due Date, odd couple Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis try to drive from Atlanta to Los Angeles without killing each other. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘For Colored Girls’
In For Colored Girls, Tyler Perry makes his first foray into serious drama — instead of asinine comedy — about the lives of contemporary black Americans. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘Catfish’
In the documentary Catfish, a New York photographer falls in love with a woman he meets on the Internet, only to have his expectations about her dashed once he meets her in person in ways he never could have imagined. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘Saw 3D’
In Saw 3D, the latest go-round in the torture-porn franchise, crazy person Jigsaw brutally punishes those people he believes deserve it. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘Never Let Me Go’
In Never Let Me Go, Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, and Andrew Garfield are childhood friends destined to be organ donors in a dystopic parallel England where such things are a matter of bureaucracy and custom. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘Buried’
In Buried, Ryan Reynolds’ contractor in Iraq wakes up in a coffin with nothing but a Zippo and a cell phone for company, and learns that his captors want a ridiculous ransom to release him. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘Hereafter’
In Hereafter, Matt Damon sees dead people, but doesn’t want to, and is on a collusion course with a French woman (Cecile De France) and a British boy who have also had a taste of the afterlife. This flick sprang from (among other films):
