Weekly Preview – April 14 2008
DVDs
Juno – Oscar winner for best writing, stars Ellen Page and Michael Cera in the funniest move about teen pregnancy in recent memory. Directed by Jason Reitman, who also directed the brilliant Thank You for Smoking. A great movie, worth a trip to the rental store.
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead – Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman are brothers plotting to rob the family jewelry store when all goes awry. Pulled a 7.9 on IMDB and an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. Certainly worthy of a watch.
Also out this week, Aliens vs Predator: Requiem, Lars and the Real Girl, and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, if you’re into crappy monster movie mash-up sequels, goofy indie-flicks about love dolls or wretched Uwe Boll abominations, respectively.
Save the World – Stop Uwe Boll
Uwe Boll, the certified hack most likely responsible for whatever wretched video game to movie adaptations you’ve seen in the last decade has said he will quit single-handedly ruining entertainment if 1 Million people request it. Please, I implore you. For the many who have been hurt by Uwe’s crimes and the many more we can spare, please sign the fucking petition.
Uwe Boll Will Quit Making Movies with One Million Signatures | /Film
Weekly Preview – April 7 2008
DVD’s
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story – How can you go wrong with John C. Reilly starring in the latest Judd Apatow film? You can’t. Reilly is supported by a tremendous cast and many many cameos. Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Harold Ramis, shit even Frankie Muniz show up as character in Dewey’s amazing life. Walk Hard is simultaneously smart-funny and stupid-funny, so there’s sure to be a little of something for everyone. If you haven’t seen Walk Hard yet, do yourself a favor, as it was easily one of the funniest movies of last year.
There Will Be Blood – Daniel Day Lewis’s Oscar winning performance as an oil baron at the turn of the century, There Will Be Blood is a bit more serious in nature than Walk Hard, but certainly worth checking out. Lewis takes few roles and tends to do amazing things with them.
Also releasing this week, Lions For Lambs, The Water Horse, and Reservation Road, that is, if you’re into crappy movies or kid’s flicks. Or possibly just watching the trainwreck that is Tom Cruise.
IGN Video: Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer
One of the better April Fool’s Pranks of the day, in my opinion. IGN’s Legend of Zelda Trailer is sheer brilliance.
Weekly Preview – March 31 2008
This week we are kicking off several new weekly features here at dwot, including our Weekly Preview. Each Monday we’ll give you the low-down on the best new releases in Video Games & DVD’s, the Movie and Television premieres you don’t want to miss and more.
DVD’s
The only real DVD release of note this week is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The Tim Burton musical starring Johnny Depp, and Helena Bonham Carter. Certainly worth a rental and watch, at the least.
The other new releases this week include such invigorating titles as Alvin & The Chipmunks, Murder She Wrote: Season Eight, and Becker Season One. Yikes!
The Ten Best Films of Sundance ‘08
A rundown of the top 10 films from the Sundance Film Festival from Film School Rejects
Quite of few of these look great. I’ve been looking forward to Please Be Kind and Choke was an entertaining read, so it looks like 2008 may have some tasty movies. Hopefully these find some wide-scale release.
dwotClassic: IMSDB
Original dwot Posting: 5/18/2005
What we said then: Awesome. Scripts to all your favorites.
And today: You of course know it’s more well known cousin, the IMDB, this one is just as awesome.