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Bulletin from the Ministry of Naughty Bits: A Saucy Italian Trio From Tinto Brass
Posted on 02.16.08 by ScottC @ 11:50 pm

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All Ladies Do it. Diana has a wonderful relationship with her husband Paolo. So according to the rules of narrative causality, she has urges to have hot nasty sex with lots of men. All her female friends are indulging their lust and there are plenty of men to take advantage. Paolo is torn between understandable jealousy over his wife's infidelity and being turned on by his wife's slutty behavior. Can Diana have her cake and sleep with it to? Auteur Tinto Brass gives us an Italian sex comedy with plenty of la dolce vita, scandalous irreverence, and copious amount of ass. Included is an interview with the director, outtakes, a photo gallery, and filmographies of the director and the luscious star Claudia Koll. Click here to buy it from Amazon.

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Shrek the Third (2007) - DVD Review
Posted on 01.20.08 by ScottC @ 8:58 pm
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Film:
DVD:

Written by: Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Chris Miller & Aron Warner, based on the book by William Steig
Directed by: Chris Miller & Raman Hui
Starring: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Rupert Everett, Julie Andrews, Justin Timberlake

Features:

  • Worcestershire Academy yearbook
  • Big Green Goofs
  • Lost Scenes
  • Donkey Dance
  • Meet the Cast
  • Shrek's Guide to Parenthood
  • Tech of Shrek

Released by: Paramount Home Video
Region: 1
Rating: PG
Anamorphic: Yes

My Advice: Catch it on cable.

Once upon a time, there was a loveable ogre couple named Shrek (Myers) and Fiona (Diaz). They were visiting a land called Far Far Away which was ruled by Fiona's father, King Harold the Frog. Now King Harold was very sick and Fiona and Shrek were temporarily helping out with the royal duties. But being ogres, their performance of said duties left something to be desired. When at last the King hopped off this mortal lily pad, Shrek realizes that this temporary duty could become permanent. Fortunately, there's another heir to the throne, Arthur (Timberlake), currently at Worcestershire Academy high school. So with his trusty sidekicks, Donkey (Murphy) and Puss in Boots (Banderas), Shrek goes to retrieve the king-to-be. Unfortunately, Artie is a bit of a dweeb and believes the burden of being king is too heavy for his adolescent shoulders. To make matters even worse, the erstwhile Prince Charming (Everett) has gathered the villains of the land to take over the kingdom. So who will get the happy ending?

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DVD Headsup: Koch in January
Posted on 01.13.08 by Widge @ 1:40 am

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Two DVDs to chat about here: first up, we've got Needcoffee fave John Malkovich playing painter Gustav Klimt. And you know Klimt, even if you don't know you know Klimt. Raúl Ruiz directs, and along with Malkovich you've got Saffron Burrows and Veronica Ferres playing his loves. Now, all is not balm in Gilead, since we have an edited version that leaves off a lot of necessary context (if reviews of the extended cut are to be believed). And I think the film suffers because it's a bit disjointed and I feel like I'm missing a lot here--since there's a half-hour missing. Still, fans of the artist will want to give it a rental, and Malkovich completists as well. Comes with a making-of featurette. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)

Also, there's Lars Von Trier with The Kingdom: Series 2. Now, to explain for those who don't know--Kingdom was the basis for Kingdom Hospital, which aired as a miniseries in the states, with Stephen King backing it up. It would have gone for a second series, but King doesn't have a good track record with television, sadly (Golden Years, anyone? I weep.) Anyway, here you've got the next round of four episodes here, with a documentary, audio commentary and more. Fans of the show will want to snag this, because apparently we've lost a lot of the cast since this aired, and a third series (though planned), will probably never happen. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.

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Sawdust and Tinsel: Criterion Collection (1953) - DVD Review
Posted on 01.10.08 by Widge @ 6:30 am
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Film:
DVD:

Swedish Title: Gycklarnas afton

Written & Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Åke Grönberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman, Anders Ek, Gudrun Brost

Features:

  • Running audio commentary by Bergman scholar Peter Cowie
  • Video introduction from Bergman, recorded in 2003
  • Booklet: An essay by critic John Simon and an appreciation by filmmaker Catherine Breillat

Released by: Criterion Collection
Region: 1
Rating: NR (some sexy stuff, but nothing that would excite Scott)
Anamorphic: N/A; appears in its original 1.33:1 ratio.

My Advice: Buy it. It's Criterion.

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Ding Dong, HD-DVD is Dead. Oh What a World, What a World.
Posted on 01.08.08 by Widge @ 12:32 pm

The Financial Times reports that HD-DVD may be on life support if Paramount does indeed drop the format in favor of Blu-Ray, this after Warner Brothers went Blu-Ray exclusive.

Paramount, which is owned by Viacom, is understood to have a clause in its contract with the HD DVD camp that would allow it to switch sides in the event of Warner Bros backing Blu-ray, according to people familiar with the situation.

If I'm reading this article correctly, that leaves Dreamworks Animation and Universal still on the other side of the fence. But basically this means it's good night Gracie for the format war.

I'd like to point out that we have no dog in this fight. I think the vast majority of the Needcoffee staff wears corrective lenses and I'm personally so damn blind that if my contact lenses were to get any thicker, I would no longer be able to blink. It's because of this you have to get to something like Sony's SXRD technology to make a picture that I can tell is better than a normal television. If I ever buy one of those SXRD big mama flatscreens, I will never ever leave my house again. Just warning you in advance. Whether that provokes you to start a fund so that I stay in here or not is up to you.

Direct link for the feedreaders.

Found via Slashdot.

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