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09.30.08 by Widge @ 10:11 pm   Film: Written by: Mark Fergus, Matt Holloway, Art Marcum & Hawk Ostby, based on characters created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Don Heck & Larry Lieber Features:
Released by: Marvel/Paramount My Advice: Own it. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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09.27.08 by Widge @ 3:18 pm  Film: Written by: The Brothers Wachowski, based on the series by Tatsuo Yoshida Features:
Released by: Warner Brothers My Advice: Rent it. Speed Racer (Hirsch) is the bright and upcoming race car driver of the Racer family. He's got so much racing in his blood, you would think he had been grown in a vat with the express purpose of putting the pedal to the metal and the thing to the floor. Of course, he's got something to prove, since he's racing in the shadow of his older and now deceased brother, Rex (Scott Porter). There's also the fact that Racer Motors is an indie race car company when everybody else is owned by supamegacorporations. So when Speed starts to rise a little too high and gets offered a deal by one of these supamegas, what is he going to do? And what if they don't like his answer? Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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09.21.08 by Widge @ 3:51 am  Film: Written by: Stéphane Cabel & Christophe Gans Features:
Released by: Universal My Advice: Own it if you like the film. The French region of Gevaudan is getting its ass handed to it by a mysterious Beast. It's some sort of hideous monster that noms on people a bit and then leaves their corpses lying about. Into this chaos ride Grégoire de Fronsac (LeBihan) and his companion and brother Mani (Dacascos), ready to get to the bottom of the mystery. But there's plenty of mystery to go around. Everybody acts a little strange in town and to make things more clouded--at least as far as their mission goes--Fronsac hooks up with not just Marianne (Dequenne), the daughter of a local important family, but also Sylvia (Bellucci) a--sultry? Shall we say sultry?--sultry denizen of the local bordello. And, oh yeah, there's murders. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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07.14.08 by ScottC @ 10:34 pm
We are constantly told that we need to get up our lazy asses and work out. That we need to exercise to be healthy, to lose weight, and to be able to go upstairs without getting winded. I get it from my grandmother all the time. And it's not just grandmotherly concern, she has a Master's in Health Education. And she got very good grades. But deep down, we all know the real reason we jog that extra lap or work that extra set of crunches. We want to look good so we can have sex with other good looking people. Exercise can also prepare you when you get to have sex with that other person. Or persons. Improving cardio-vascular health gets more blood to all the right places and that is especially important when you need certain body parts engorged with blood. You get more stamina to perform all sorts of aerobic activities and getting winded in the middle of forming the Beast With Two Backs is a definite mood-killer. Categorized as: DVD
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06.02.08 by Widge @ 2:10 pm  Okay, you remember how we told you that the five-disc Blade Runner set was going for $28 and we thought that was completely mental? We retract that. This is now mental: $20. The full five-disc set which I bought on regular DVD in its limited edition briefcase thingy for $60-something is available on hi-def Blu-Ray for $4 a disc. That's nuts, folks. And it's not just films that you wonder why you would need hi-def for. Like, you know, Gosford Park. "BE BORED TO DEATH IN 1080P!" I'm talking 300, The Fifth Element, and, of course, Dawn of the Dead. Because nothing deserves to be in hi-def more than Crayola-bright spurting red blood. Categorized as: DVD
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