Chick Flicks and Bro Shows

This 2 disk special edition is to be released on March 2nd. Coming soon to your DVD players. I for one loved this, with an all star cast starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Woody Harrelson and Danny Glover. Roland Emmerich the director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow took it to the next step with this one.

This is a great movie to see at the Saturday matinee when you have a couple of hours and some time to contemplate the world and watch some crazy graphics. Emmerich this time is going to destroy the world by shifting plates under the crust of the earth. The governments of all nations are involved in hiding it all of course but it has to leak out to a few to make the story interesting.

Watching this movie made me think for movies when I was a boy made by Irwin Allen , The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno to name a couple. I must have seen them on TV or something because I was too young to see them at the cinema or maybe the second time they released it. Back then they did that before video tapes and DVDs.

I digress, I loved these kind of thriller movies when I was a kid and still do now, if you haven’t seen it do, you will want this one for your DVD collection.

Get it now here and watch it this week!

The Blind Side takes the true story of a young man who went from abandonment to success as a pro-football player and treats it with respect. The movie doesn’t oversell what is, on the face of it, already compelling. It’s almost impossible to describe the plot without sounding painfully inspirational: Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron, Be Kind Rewind), a hulking but gentle African-American teen in Tennessee, gets taken in by a well-to-do white family; the mother, Leigh Anne Touhy (Sandra Bullock), pushes and mothers the boy, who eventually wins a football scholarship to the University of Mississippi. In the wrong hands, this could have been maudlin, manipulative, and condescending. To the credit of writer-director John Lee Hancock, adapting Michael Lewis’s acclaimed book, the result is intelligent, genuine, and alternately funny and moving. Leigh Anne could easily have been grandstanding and virtuous, but Bullock doesn’t shy away from her vain and domineering side. The football scenes will be gripping even to non-sports fans because they’ve been so successfully grounded in Michael’s emotional life. The all-around solid cast includes country music star Tim McGraw, pint-sized Jae Head (Hancock), and Kathy Bates as the tutor who guided Michael’s academic success. Don’t be surprised if you can’t keep yourself from watching all the real-life photos of Michael, Leigh Anne, and the rest of the family that are featured in the credits; by the end of the movie, you will care about them all. –Bret Fetzer (Amazon reviewer)

(pre order on blu-ray now.)

(pre order DVD format here)

A classic Mike Myers film and hilariously funny, a story about how Guru Pitka (Mike Myers) goes to Toronto to fix the love relationship of a star hockey player (Romany Malco) and his wife (Meagan Good), who left him for rival Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake). At the same time, Pitka meets the owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs (Jessica Alba) and realizes that he must solve his own love problems as well. The movie had me laughing the whole time, especially about the jokes that included Coach Punch Cherkov (Vern “Mini-Me” Troyer). Plain and simple, if you liked Austin Powers, you’ll love this movie.

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