September 2008

Leatherheads on DVD

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Leatherheads
  • IMDB: link

“You’re only as young as the women you feel.”

In 1925 college football was king and professional football was struggling to get by.  Here we join Dodge Connelly (Geroge Clooney) and his desperate last attempt to save the league by wooing college star and war hero Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski) into professional football.

Those familiar with the screwball comedy know what to expect as we’re given fast-talking dialgoue, phsycial hyjinks, and a love story between a footballer and a reporter (Renée Zellweger).  For more on the film itself read the original review.

If you missed Leatherheads in the theater it’s worthy of at least a rental.  The extras alone, though nice (at least on the regular DVD edition), don’t scream must have however.  The special features are nothing special and the commentary gives little added insight to the making of the film.  Fans of Clooney, screwball comedy, and 1920’s era style films will still want to take a long look at this good, though not great, DVD edition.

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Pushing Daisies

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Pushing Daisies – The Complete First Season
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“I was born into the life of windmillery.”

Ned (Lee Pace) is a pie maker.  He also has an unexplained ability to return all manner of dead things (people, vegetation, animals) back to life.  He can do this for 60 seconds at a time, any longer and something or someone else must die.  And if Ned ever touches a second time permanent death is the result.

Ned discovered these abilities, their limitations, and their consequences as a child living next door to Chuck (Anna Friel), his boyhood friend and first love.

Years later when Chuck is killed mysteriously over some ceramic monkeys Ned brings his childhood love back to life and invites her into his life much to the dismay of his private eye business partner (Chi McBride) and his friend and co-worker (Kristin Chenoweth).

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This Week in Film

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  • Title: Miracle at St. Anna
  • IMDB: link

Spike Lee directs this adaptation of the James McBride novel inspired by true events about a murder committed by a post office worker (Laz Alonso) which uncovers a forty-year-old secret centering around African American soldiers (Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Omar Benson Miller) stationed in Italy during WWII.  Piefrancesco Favino, Valentina Cervi, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Turturro, D.B. Sweeney and Kerry Washington also star.  Check out the official site.  The film opens in theaters on Friday.

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This Week in Independent Film

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  • Title: Choke
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Based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk, Sam Rockwell stars as a sex-addict con man known to fake choking in upscale restaraunts who attempts to solve the mystery of his father’s identity with the help of his mother’s physician (Kelly Macdonald) and his best friend (Brad William Henke).  Anjelica Huston, Kathryn Alexander, Clark Gregg, and Bijou Phillips also star.  We’ve seen it, and we’ll have the review for you when the film opens in limited release in select cities on Friday.

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