DVD

Not a bad selection of films this week, overall, with Super probably being my Pick Of The Week, if I have to call any movie that. Apologies for the short list below; my usual video site is acting a bit funky today and I'm having a bit of a hard time finding out what all the movies coming out actually are. I can tell you that Big Bust Covergirls: Volume Six is not about lady cops.

One thing not on the list below that you might be "interested" in is Raging Boll, a documentary about the worst filmmaker in the world. That's actually a lie; there are plenty of people making Nollywood films that are far worse than anything Boll has ever put out. Still, his reputation is so bad that a filmmaker apparently spent three years off and on following him around and making a movie about him. A movie about Uwe Boll. One can only hope that it, itself, is transformatively bad, so that a little justice will have been done in the end.

	1. Paul I feel a little weird for not liking this one as much as everyone else seems to have, but hey - I thought it was mostly a weird pastiche of references and not-super-funny jokes. In my defense, I was super super tired when I happened to see it, so perhaps it'll be better on a second go-round. I will say that Kristin Wiig was hysterical in it.
	2. Jumping the Broom Oh, the Uptowns and the Downtowns are going to get married and I guess there'll be a little bit of friction between them! I'd like marriage movies before if easily half of them weren't about how the wacky families don't like each other at first but then they all wind up getting along in the end.
	3. Your Highness One of the two real bombs on this list, Your Highness managed to bring back something like half its budget at the box office; the bulk of the tickets were no doubt sold on the strength of that Portman ass.
	4. Mars Needs Moms! The second and much larger bomb of the week, Mars Needs Moms managed to make less than $40 million back on the strength of a $150 million budget. That is...pretty stunning, especially when you consider the studio only gets half of that money and that they probably spent another few dozen million on marketing it. Ouch!
	5. Super I don't think anyone's going to say that Super is one of their favorite films of all time, but I liked it more than I thought I would, not being the biggest Rainn Wilson fan. It's got some great moments and some unexpected twists (although, again, don't read Ebert's review of the film if you don't want some huge, as-yet-unremoved spoilers), but is fairly uneven nonetheless.
	6. The Last Godfather This film from Korean director Hyung-rae Shim has Harvey Keitel and Jason Mewes, and tells the story of a mob boss who has to rein in his retarded son! Just when you thought you couldn't make fun of the mentally deficient anymore, here comes South Korea to show us all how it's done again. It's currently rocking an impressive 2/10 rating on IMDB, so I'm guessing it's truly excellent.

wow im kind of surprised they are sinking more money into mars needs moms and releasing it on DVD.

I think you guys need to be more consistent with these weekly articles titles. If I do a search for "DVD/Blu-ray," the main title of this article, I don't get an exhaustive list of all your articles on this subject. I don't really think it would be too hard to do this, since it is just the title of the article. You seem to have a pretty consistent format for the rest of the article though.

Whenever I see "Mars Needs Moms", I can't help but think of "My Stepmother's An Alien" or "Mom & Dad Save The World." There's the seed of a Serious About Series "aliens and parents" idea in there somewhere.

It's sounding like the South Koreans remade Gigli? I guess they're making fun of Hollywood's liberal "borrowing" of eastern cinema.

Mirroring the appreciative comments with DVD/streaming release coverage. I'd suggest knocking down the "What to Watch" to a weekly overview alongside those for box office figures and DVD releases so you and Alex have more time to review stuff and make videos. It's not like there's anything to watch besides Futurama, Louie and Breaking Bad right now anyway.

Want to see Super. That is all.

I'll back you up Rorie and say that I also thought that Paul really sucked.

Wait, did Super ever come out in the UK? I genuinely don't remember seeing any promotion for it at all. Might have to check that out on dvd. Natalie Portman isn't enough for me to do the same for Your Highness though, I think I can give that one a miss.

I gave Your Highness a chance because i loved Pineapple Express (same director), and i didn't like it at all. Terribly unfunny while trying too hard to be funny.

The Battle of Algiers is also out on Blu-Ray today. Probably the most important political film of all-time.

Sucker Punch is out in the UK now, is it not in the US yet?

@Bass: Good point. Usually I just type in something and the headline auto-fills it. Unfortunately our sites aren't well set-up for finding older content. I'll see if I can get more consistent with it.

I think Uwe Boll gets a lot of undue shit. He certainly doesn't make good movie, but he's not the worst director in the world. And he definitely hasn't done anything to warrant death threats.