Do you like DVDs? Do you want to know what’s good this week? Then please keep reading this article.
Grab ‘Em Right Away
An Education
Directed by: Lone Scherfig
Written by: Lynn Barber & Nick Hornby
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina & Olivia Williams
Why should you buy this? There have been few films about a woman’s life experience that I have been able to fully immerse myself in and feel like I get it. Even though I understand if women look at me and say that I don’t, this is one film that is worthy of my collection. Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard and Alfred Molina all give stellar performances in this film about a girl who’s started to see an older man and learning more and more about life. Seeing the glamorous side of the world now that she has someone to show her all these things she never knew about. It’s a fantastic story and a brilliant film. I still say that Ms. Mulligan should’ve won the Oscar over Ms. Bullock this year.
Sherlock Holmes
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Written by: Michael Robert Johnson & Anthony Peckham
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams & Mark Strong
Why should you buy this? Because it’s a really fun movie! Robert Downey Jr. gives a really great performance and Jude Law works so well alongside him. Watching Sherlock Holmes driving Watson up a wall with his alcoholism and obsessions is so entertaining that it might actually end up redefining the word before I finish this paragraph. Mark Strong is also fantastic as this supernatural villain that has Holmes at his best throughout the movie. Some may not like the simplifying end where everything is explained and quickly shattering all the fantastical elements of the movie, but it works. The only thing in this movie that feels wasted was Rachel McAdams. I know, she is pretty, but she was totally miscast. Overall a great fun adventure movie with some stellar performances = must buy.
Avoid like the Plague:
I Sell the Dead
Directed by: Glenn McQuaid
Written by: Glenn McQuaid
Starring: Dominic Monaghan, Larry Fessenden & Ron Perlman
Why should you just leave the corpses in the ground? It’s a poor attempt at a low budget unofficial story of Burke and Hare. I have no problem with watching low budget films, but in today’s world where technology is so affordable is insane to see movies that look this cheap. Somehow you have to ask why they bothered to shell out the cash that they had to pay for names like Dominic Monaghan (LOST) and Ron Perlman (Hellboy) when they could’ve paid for all the tech required and gotten lesser experienced actors. The film reeks of bad filmmaking. There are so many decisions which are so wrong that has made it clear to me that I probably will never watch another movie directed by Glenn McQuaid, and if this movie is any indicator I doubt I’ll have to.
Jordan’s Blu-ray Picks of the Week
Serenity [$9.99]
Run Lola Run [$9.49]
The Rest
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Alice in Wonderland (2-Disc Special Un-Anniversary Edition) (1951)
Weapons of Self Descrution
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Blu-ray
Collateral
The Killer
What are you picking up this week?