July 14, 2009

It's another rough week when it comes to DVD releases...

Unfortunately, this is another week when nothing particularly amazing comes out on DVD, but as always, there are things, regardless of quality, and luckily my PICK OF THE WEEK this year is a decent piece of genre film-making. It's:
[REC]
This Spanish horror film was remade into Quarantine last year, but this original feature is much better, tenser, scarier, and above all else, more worth your time. It's a solid POV horror flick that you won't be disappointed in.
-Also out this week of even a little quality is the Dennis Quaid suspense flick Horsemen, which all but skipped theaters, and while it isn't fantastic, it isn't terrible either. There's also the period romance The Edge of Love, which is fairly average, and the HBO movie Grey Gardens, which was ok, but nothing more.
-Out this week of considerably less quality is The Haunting in Connecticut, which haunted me for all the wrong reasons, and the Direct-To-DVD Van Wilder: Freshman Year, which the less said about that flick, the better.
-Again, I'll offer up a few films for my Vintage pick in order to soften the blow of a lack of good films to pick up. We'll go with a John Cusack theme this week (for no real reason except that I'm a fan), and here are a few films of his that not everyone has seen, but are real good: The Sure Thing, Better Off Dead, City Hall, The Ice Harvest, Martian Child, and Grace is Gone. The latter film especially features an Oscar worthy performance by him, so check it out.
-What will you be watching on DVD this week?

3 comments:

  1. In honor of Ingmar Bergman's 91st birthday I will be watching "Smiles of a Summer Night" and my favorite Bergman "Cries and Whispers"

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  2. I'd have to take Wild Strawberries as my favorite Bergman, with Seventh Seal a close second.

    -Robbie

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