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STAKE LAND ($34.98 BluRay or $27.98 DVD; Dark Sky)
PAUL ($34.98 BluRay combo or $24.98 DVD; Universal)
YOUR HIGHNESS ($39.98 BluRay combo or $29.98 DVD; Universal)
EASTBOUND & DOWN SEASONS 1 AND 2 ON BLURAY ($39.98 BluRay; HBO)
GROW LIKE A PRO ($19.95 DVD; High Times)
AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE ($19.95; Lorber) -- Ah, cult films. Is the easy description for any oddball
movie that flops at the box office. But "cult" is also tossed around for movies that were rather big box
office successes but simply don't follow the usual formula, not to mention movies that simply didn't workon any level.
Stake Land is a grim, deadly serious vampire movie that has all the makings of a future cult classic. It
honors the genre it is set in. It features a strong cast (including an excellent Connor Paolo of Gossip Girl
and the terrific Michael Cerveris has a villain). It's the work of a very talented co-writer and directornamed Jim Mickle who will have future success, thus shining a light back on his earlier work. it didn'tclick at the box office but it was beloved and championed by hardcore horror fans like Colin Geddes, themastermind behind Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival. Cult in the making?You bet. Paul looks similarly promising. It stars the two leads from cult classics Shaun of the Dead
(almost too successful to be a cult, really) and Hot Fuzz (which flopped and definitely does deserve cult
status). It's an offbeat comedy mashing up aliens and road trip movies to stellar results. Nobody couldquite figure it out or how to market the movie; but that's exactly what DVD is made for. Your Highness
would love to be a cult movie. But this stoner medieval comedy starring Danny McBride and James
Franco can only hope the high cannabis quotient makes it a must-see for stoners. In an entirelyunrelated note, High Times presents Grow Like A Pro, a straightforward documentary about cultivating
marijuana for those with the legal right to do so. Ultra-violet lights and secret hot rooms that can bespotted via thermal imaging are so 20th century. I'm not a McBride fan, but for those who still missArliss, HBO has McBride in a comedy about a washed up pro baseball player who becoms a high schoolcoach in season one and heads to Mexico to coach a local baseball team in season two. Not for me, butMcBride's character is enjoyable asinine. Finally, fans of cult movies can dive into American Grindhouse ,
one of those impossible to resist looks at the grindhouse genre that has loads of clips, interviews withJohn Landi, Joe Dante and the like and is even narrated by Robert Forster. What's not to like?
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So tell us, what is your favorite cult film of all time? Me, I'm partial to the wildly quotable British comedy
Withnail & I. Thanks Cyndi, for recommending it to me!
THE FOX AND THE HOUND I AND II ($39.99 BluRay combo or $29.99 DVD; Disney)
MARS NEEDS MOMS ($39.99 BluRay combo or $29.99 DVD; Disney) -- How times change. Back in
1981, The Fox and the Hound was a fascinating movie from the moribund Disney animation department.
It was gentle and quiet, not based on any well-known property or bursting with action. Just a simple tale,beautifully told. It wasn't classic Disney, but it showed there was life in the old fella. That was reassuringsince it had been 14 years since the great score for The Jungle Book , 20 years since the smash hit One
Hundred and One Dalmatians and a quarter of a century since their last undisputed classic The Lady
and the Tramp. (Nope, I don't consider Sleeping Beauty a classic but even that was 22 years in the past.
The Fox and the Hound gave you hope, with The Great Mouse Detective (an even better movie) just five
years away and then the dramatic debut of The Little Mermaid in 1989. Now here it is in 2011. Disney
needed reviving again. Pixar is a wonder for the ages (and deep in Disney's debt creatively). But Disneyitself had floundered badly in animation. It came roaring back with Tangled , their best film since Tarzan
more than a decade earlier. And hoping to build on that success was Mars Needs Moms, another
unconventional film that didn't seem to follow a formula, this one created by Robert Zemeckis, who hasgrown passionate about animation. And yet, it was almost toxic, with audiences staying away with thatinstinctive sense for a movie that just doesn't work. Sadly, they were right but hopefully Disney can buildon Tangled instead of gettin sidetracked by MNM .
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OUTSIDE THE LAW ($27.98 BluRay or $24.98 DVD; Palisades Tartan)
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS ($49.95 BluRay; Criterion) --Outside The Law is a very conventional
movie about three brothers fighting for the independence of their country in different ways. But in France
it's almost shocking to see these brothers as heroes since the country they want to free is Algiers, acountry France had been occupying. But unless you're French and have a special attachment to Algiers,the movie is utterly routine. One brother fights for the French army in Indochine, reasonably expectinghis courage to be rewarded. Another fights in the Algerian resistance/independence movement. The thirdmakes a shady living in Paris. It's quite ho-hum unless the politics punch your buttons. On the otherhand, the modern classic The Battle of Algiers is a stunning, gripping movie about the same battle forfreedom. It somehow manages to show the French occupying Algiers but without demonizing them. It
also manages to show resistance fighters employing methods we'd soon despise (suicide bombing, etc.)
but without denouncing them. And it's all so excitingly done, this doesn't feel like a political film so muchas a thriller. Indeed, it remains a training film for soldiers around the world who want to mount or fight aresistance movement. The Criterion edition looks terrific and is bursting with historical data, afascinating documentary about the making of the movie and much more.
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THE MINNESOTA TWINS 1991 WORLD SERIES COLLECTOR'S EDITION ($69.95; A&E) --
ESPN calls the 1991 World Series the greatest of all time and no wonder, with both teams coming from
last place the season before to the World Series in 1991. Four games were decided on the last pitch, fivegames were won by one run, three went into extra innings -- heck, it probably also set a record for mostfans heading to the hospital with high blood pressure. The Twins versus the Braves are seen complete,with fans getting to choose between the national TV broadcast or the Twins radio call. (Really, couldn'tthey include the Braves radio call as well? Isn't that just salt in the wound?) It's manna from heaven forbaseball fans. Now bring on the Miracle Mets!
JUMPING THE BROOM ($35.99 Bluray and $30.99 DVD; TriStar/Sony)
SOUL SURFER ($38.99 BluRay combo or $30.99 DVD; Sony) -- Tyler Perry isn't the only game in
town. Producer T.D. Jakes (who also has a small role) brings in the quiet moral grounding of this comedyabout a self-made millionaire from Brooklyn marrying a Martha's Vineyard rich girl and the culture clashof their two families. Angela Bassett is no pushover, but I think Loretta Devine as the groom's mothercan take her down. A strong cast with Paula Patton and Laz Alonso up front make this go down easy. An
even stronger message about the power of faith is present in Soul Surfer, a family friendly movie about
the surfer who had her arm bitten off by a shark but found the strength to get back in the water and startcompeting right away. Helen Hunt and Dennis Quaid are the supportive parents and Carrie Underwoodcertainly has a better vehicle here in a supporting role than Kelly Clarkson ever selected.
CLASH ($19.97; Vivendi) -- Just as Ong-Bak showed Thailand cinema was ready for primetime, the
Vietnamese box office smash Clash shows Vietnam has the ability to match Hollywood in stunts andaction. The tale of a mother whose daughter is kidnapped and must therefore track down an all-important harddrive is too silly for words. But it's just an excuse for some inventive stunts and the hard-boiled antics of the mysterious but ferocious Johnny Tri Nguyen. Puts Nam on the map.
ZEN: VENDETTA/CABAL/RATKING ($39.98 BluRay or $34.98 DVD; BBC/2Entertain) -- I haven't
caught up with this new mystery series. But friends who gobble up those shows on PBS and the like saythis adaptation of the best-selling novels about Italian detective Aurelio Zen are top-notch and a great fitfor actor Rufus Sewell. They know what they're talking about so I'm looking forward to watching thesethree tv movie-length episodes.
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HEY ARNOLD! SEASON 1 ($29.93; Shout) -- I always bemoan the repackaging of kid's TV, with
studios teasing out a season of episodes over three or four discs released in waves. It means tons of cost
and bulky packaging and bad karma all around. This is the way to present a TV series: the entire season
in one set, with four discs nicely packaged by Shout and at a reasonable price. As a bonus, the show is
good enough to deserve some extras like audio commentaries, but let's not get greedy. It looks very good,
by the way and that's what matters most -- the shows themselves.
Thanks for reading. Michael Giltz is the co-host of Showbiz Sandbox , a weekly pop culture podcast that
reveals the industry take on entertainment news of the day and features top journalists and opinion
makers as guests. It's available free on iTunes. Visit Michael Giltz at his website and his daily blog.
Download his podcast of celebrity interviews and his radio show, also called Popsurfing and alsoavailable for free on iTunes. Link to him on Netflix and gain access to thousands of ratings and
reviews .
NOTE: Michael Giltz is provided with free copies of DVDs to consider for review. He typically does notguarantee coverage and invariably receives far more screeners and DVDs than he can cover eachweek.
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STAKE LAND ($34.98 BluRay or $27.98 DVD; Dark Sky)
PAUL ($34.98 BluRay combo or $24.98 DVD; Universal)
YOUR HIGHNESS ($39.98 BluRay combo or $29.98 DVD; Universal)
EASTBOUND & DOWN SEASONS 1 AND 2 ON BLURAY ($39.98 BluRay; HBO)
GROW LIKE A PRO ($19.95 DVD; High Times)
AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE ($19.95; Lorber) -- Ah, cult films. Is the easy description for any oddball
movie that flops at the box office. But "cult" is also tossed around for movies that were rather big box
office successes but simply don't follow the usual formula, not to mention movies that simply didn't workon any level.
Stake Land is a grim, deadly serious vampire movie that has all the makings of a future cult classic. It
honors the genre it is set in. It features a strong cast (including an excellent Connor Paolo of Gossip Girl
and the terrific Michael Cerveris has a villain). It's the work of a very talented co-writer and directornamed Jim Mickle who will have future success, thus shining a light back on his earlier work. it didn'tclick at the box office but it was beloved and championed by hardcore horror fans like Colin Geddes, themastermind behind Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival. Cult in the making?You bet. Paul looks similarly promising. It stars the two leads from cult classics Shaun of the Dead
(almost too successful to be a cult, really) and Hot Fuzz (which flopped and definitely does deserve cult
status). It's an offbeat comedy mashing up aliens and road trip movies to stellar results. Nobody couldquite figure it out or how to market the movie; but that's exactly what DVD is made for. Your Highness
would love to be a cult movie. But this stoner medieval comedy starring Danny McBride and James
Franco can only hope the high cannabis quotient makes it a must-see for stoners. In an entirelyunrelated note, High Times presents Grow Like A Pro, a straightforward documentary about cultivating
marijuana for those with the legal right to do so. Ultra-violet lights and secret hot rooms that can bespotted via thermal imaging are so 20th century. I'm not a McBride fan, but for those who still missArliss, HBO has McBride in a comedy about a washed up pro baseball player who becoms a high schoolcoach in season one and heads to Mexico to coach a local baseball team in season two. Not for me, butMcBride's character is enjoyable asinine. Finally, fans of cult movies can dive into American Grindhouse ,
one of those impossible to resist looks at the grindhouse genre that has loads of clips, interviews withJohn Landi, Joe Dante and the like and is even narrated by Robert Forster. What's not to like?
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So tell us, what is your favorite cult film of all time? Me, I'm partial to the wildly quotable British comedy
Withnail & I. Thanks Cyndi, for recommending it to me!
THE FOX AND THE HOUND I AND II ($39.99 BluRay combo or $29.99 DVD; Disney)
MARS NEEDS MOMS ($39.99 BluRay combo or $29.99 DVD; Disney) -- How times change. Back in
1981, The Fox and the Hound was a fascinating movie from the moribund Disney animation department.
It was gentle and quiet, not based on any well-known property or bursting with action. Just a simple tale,beautifully told. It wasn't classic Disney, but it showed there was life in the old fella. That was reassuringsince it had been 14 years since the great score for The Jungle Book , 20 years since the smash hit One
Hundred and One Dalmatians and a quarter of a century since their last undisputed classic The Lady
and the Tramp. (Nope, I don't consider Sleeping Beauty a classic but even that was 22 years in the past.
The Fox and the Hound gave you hope, with The Great Mouse Detective (an even better movie) just five
years away and then the dramatic debut of The Little Mermaid in 1989. Now here it is in 2011. Disney
needed reviving again. Pixar is a wonder for the ages (and deep in Disney's debt creatively). But Disneyitself had floundered badly in animation. It came roaring back with Tangled , their best film since Tarzan
more than a decade earlier. And hoping to build on that success was Mars Needs Moms, another
unconventional film that didn't seem to follow a formula, this one created by Robert Zemeckis, who hasgrown passionate about animation. And yet, it was almost toxic, with audiences staying away with thatinstinctive sense for a movie that just doesn't work. Sadly, they were right but hopefully Disney can buildon Tangled instead of gettin sidetracked by MNM .
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OUTSIDE THE LAW ($27.98 BluRay or $24.98 DVD; Palisades Tartan)
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS ($49.95 BluRay; Criterion) --Outside The Law is a very conventional
movie about three brothers fighting for the independence of their country in different ways. But in France
it's almost shocking to see these brothers as heroes since the country they want to free is Algiers, acountry France had been occupying. But unless you're French and have a special attachment to Algiers,the movie is utterly routine. One brother fights for the French army in Indochine, reasonably expectinghis courage to be rewarded. Another fights in the Algerian resistance/independence movement. The thirdmakes a shady living in Paris. It's quite ho-hum unless the politics punch your buttons. On the otherhand, the modern classic The Battle of Algiers is a stunning, gripping movie about the same battle forfreedom. It somehow manages to show the French occupying Algiers but without demonizing them. It
also manages to show resistance fighters employing methods we'd soon despise (suicide bombing, etc.)
but without denouncing them. And it's all so excitingly done, this doesn't feel like a political film so muchas a thriller. Indeed, it remains a training film for soldiers around the world who want to mount or fight aresistance movement. The Criterion edition looks terrific and is bursting with historical data, afascinating documentary about the making of the movie and much more.
TV
Video
Weird Animals
Astronomy
Food
Fashion
MORE BIG NEWS PAGES »
THE MINNESOTA TWINS 1991 WORLD SERIES COLLECTOR'S EDITION ($69.95; A&E) --
ESPN calls the 1991 World Series the greatest of all time and no wonder, with both teams coming from
last place the season before to the World Series in 1991. Four games were decided on the last pitch, fivegames were won by one run, three went into extra innings -- heck, it probably also set a record for mostfans heading to the hospital with high blood pressure. The Twins versus the Braves are seen complete,with fans getting to choose between the national TV broadcast or the Twins radio call. (Really, couldn'tthey include the Braves radio call as well? Isn't that just salt in the wound?) It's manna from heaven forbaseball fans. Now bring on the Miracle Mets!
JUMPING THE BROOM ($35.99 Bluray and $30.99 DVD; TriStar/Sony)
SOUL SURFER ($38.99 BluRay combo or $30.99 DVD; Sony) -- Tyler Perry isn't the only game in
town. Producer T.D. Jakes (who also has a small role) brings in the quiet moral grounding of this comedyabout a self-made millionaire from Brooklyn marrying a Martha's Vineyard rich girl and the culture clashof their two families. Angela Bassett is no pushover, but I think Loretta Devine as the groom's mothercan take her down. A strong cast with Paula Patton and Laz Alonso up front make this go down easy. An
even stronger message about the power of faith is present in Soul Surfer, a family friendly movie about
the surfer who had her arm bitten off by a shark but found the strength to get back in the water and startcompeting right away. Helen Hunt and Dennis Quaid are the supportive parents and Carrie Underwoodcertainly has a better vehicle here in a supporting role than Kelly Clarkson ever selected.
CLASH ($19.97; Vivendi) -- Just as Ong-Bak showed Thailand cinema was ready for primetime, the
Vietnamese box office smash Clash shows Vietnam has the ability to match Hollywood in stunts andaction. The tale of a mother whose daughter is kidnapped and must therefore track down an all-important harddrive is too silly for words. But it's just an excuse for some inventive stunts and the hard-boiled antics of the mysterious but ferocious Johnny Tri Nguyen. Puts Nam on the map.
ZEN: VENDETTA/CABAL/RATKING ($39.98 BluRay or $34.98 DVD; BBC/2Entertain) -- I haven't
caught up with this new mystery series. But friends who gobble up those shows on PBS and the like saythis adaptation of the best-selling novels about Italian detective Aurelio Zen are top-notch and a great fitfor actor Rufus Sewell. They know what they're talking about so I'm looking forward to watching thesethree tv movie-length episodes.
Paul Rudd In
Playboy: Self-
Loathing, Nudity
And...
'Butter' Screening:
Weinstein Takes On
Bachmann,
Garner...
'We Bought A Zoo'
Trailer: Matt
Damon,...
Cher Lashes Out At
Chaz Bono Haters...
HEY ARNOLD! SEASON 1 ($29.93; Shout) -- I always bemoan the repackaging of kid's TV, with
studios teasing out a season of episodes over three or four discs released in waves. It means tons of cost
and bulky packaging and bad karma all around. This is the way to present a TV series: the entire season
in one set, with four discs nicely packaged by Shout and at a reasonable price. As a bonus, the show is
good enough to deserve some extras like audio commentaries, but let's not get greedy. It looks very good,
by the way and that's what matters most -- the shows themselves.
Thanks for reading. Michael Giltz is the co-host of Showbiz Sandbox , a weekly pop culture podcast that
reveals the industry take on entertainment news of the day and features top journalists and opinion
makers as guests. It's available free on iTunes. Visit Michael Giltz at his website and his daily blog.
Download his podcast of celebrity interviews and his radio show, also called Popsurfing and alsoavailable for free on iTunes. Link to him on Netflix and gain access to thousands of ratings and
reviews .
NOTE: Michael Giltz is provided with free copies of DVDs to consider for review. He typically does notguarantee coverage and invariably receives far more screeners and DVDs than he can cover eachweek.
Follow Michael Giltz on Twitter: www.twitter.com/michaelgiltz
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