Not a huge amount to report today, unfortunately; there's a million DVDs coming out, but they're mostly of the mid-level indie variety rather than any blockbusters. I'm not going to watch Rio, so I suppose I'll have to make do with the intriguing-looking Cold Weather when I can get it from Netflix. I love me some understated mystery films.
Also on the docket for me for rental is YellowBrickRoad, the found-footage horror film that has gotten pretty savage reviews thus far. I'm a fan of found footage, what can I say? Even if that's about all of the films from this week's crop that I actually want to see, I can at least rest assured that we're just weeks away from getting into the realm of the summer blockbusters hitting DVD. I, for one, want to see X-Men: First Class again.
DVD
 | 1. Rio If all this movie ever resulted in was Angry Birds: Rio, I'd be happy with it. Now, WHERE ARE THOSE LAST TWO EPISODES ROXIO! I need to knock some stuff over and this DVD isn't going to help me in that regard. Unless I throw it at a cat. |
 | 2. Soul Surfer I have to give the studio credit here for releasing the DVD of their shark attack movie during Shark Week. I give it no credit for the movie itself, however. |
 | 3. Cold Weather Oh, this is out on DVD? I remember being really intrigued by the trailer for it, so I'll give it a whirl on Netflix. |
 | 4. Last Night I don't know how you make a movie with Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes, and Keira Knightley and then only put it in 10 theaters. What do I know, though? It's not like I've made any movies lately. At least, not movies that I want to have wind up in theaters. |
 | 5. The Music Never Stopped I like J.K. Simmons and wish him well. This movie looked a bit cloying, though, but I suppose I'll give it a whirl nonetheless. |
 | 6. YellowBrickRoad An entire village vanishes after they all decide to walk along the same path into the nearby forest at the same time. A group of investigative journalists come along years later and...do the same thing. I'm guessing bad things are going to happen. |
 | 7. Stake Land If you enjoy post-apocalyptic films, you'll probably find something to like in Stake Land. It's not great, by any means, but it deserves credit for being unrelentingly bleak. |
 | 8. Quarantine 2: Terminal While Quarantine was almost a shot-for-shot remake of [REC], it looks like this diverges from the plot of [REC]2 by taking the action to an abandoned airport terminal. Bizarrely, it also abandons any attempt to adhere to the series' found-footage format. I'm guessing there's a virus and people die. |
 | 9. Pure Country 2: The Gift What, they made a sequel to Pure Country? 18 years after the first movie came out? And it was written by Dean Cain and his father? What kind of bizarro-world landscape am I in? |
 | 10. Eastbound & Down In TV dvds this week, we have: Eastbound & Down: The Complete Second Season, Everwood: The Complete Fourth Season, United States of Tara: The Third Season, Everwood: The Complete Series and Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost. |
