DVD/Blu-Ray Releases: Anagram Edition

This animated caper made over $300 million at the global box office and still managed to come off as a bit of a disappointment, considering the talent behind it, but then it cost almost twice as much as Despicable Me, which made almost $530 million. It's managed to huffily avoid coming out today with the rest of the DVDs, instead choosing to hit shelves on Friday. In better hands, it might've been A Mind Gem, but it wound up more like a Dang Mime. 

I really love R-rated comedies, perhaps excepting the ones that star horny teenagers. I'll probably give Due Date a whirl, although I have to say that Zach G. is one more Hangover film away from wearing out his schtick's welcome. Make your money, dude, but please don't turn into Jack Black or, perhaps worse, a "Tea Dude."

Many people who've seen this report it being relatively touching. In other news, "Get Low" is an anagram for "Wet Log." Nice poster. 

I have to confess that I have a difficult time reading any comic illustrated by Frank Quitely, who's never met a female character he couldn't make look like a muscular transvestite. Hopefully the animators of this apparently excellent adaptation of the "Superman is dying" miniseries written by Grant Morrison figured out how to fix that. Superman's also an angram for "Amp Nurse", which I imagine to be a particularly dark female-fronted punk band.

Heard a lot about these French crime thrillers, and it looks like this and its sequel will be hitting Netflix streaming fairly soon, as well. When I have a chance to check out "Mere Sin", I'll be sure to do so.

"Ankh Fist" made me actually laugh out loud; I imagine it as the special finishing move of an Egyptian-themed wrestler. Fish Tank, on the other hand, should serve to supply the many fans of Michael Fassbender with a bit more meat for the grinder.

There's nothing quite like watching men put together elaborately filigreed cakes, only to have them fall apart in front of an array of intimidating judges. This documentary about a French pastry competition would seem to supply that delicious schadenfreude in spades. Also, "Farting Sky Ops", the elite commando team that always winds up giving away its position with inopportune toots.

A comic caper road movie from Brazil. "The Acid Roar Moth" is also one of Godzilla's deadliest foes.

One user review of this film describes it as having "some of the highest cinema peaks of our time" and that the director possesses "such visual brilliancy that you can't get irrelevant". I would say that's astroturfing, if I knew what the hell the guy was saying. Maybe he should try telling me about the Toasty Potent Mint he has for sale, as well?

Oh god, the trailer for this makes me want to do bad things to everyone involved in its production, perhaps especially because the tagline is "Rising voices. Rising hearts. Rising dreams." Rising bile, too. At least it lives up to its anagram; I can only imagine that the film is, indeed, "ass stirring."

The poster we have on the site for this makes it look like a gritty crime drama, but the DVD cover more closely resembles the kind of movie that should star Steven Seagal and a rap star, with Michael Madsen pointing an AK-47 at no one in particular and the almost unbelievably bad tagline of "Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Murder." From what I can tell, this is one of those "set in one location to save money" movies that's heading straight to DVD for a reason. Its best anagram, "A Jerk Thing Ill", might actually wind up being an accurate description of it as well.

I gather this Mickey Rourke/ Diane Lane vehicle might've been released before, but in any case, here it is again, in case you weren't one of the people who contributed towards its $15,000 box office total. The rest of its Sloth Ilk will be so very proud. 

"The Stieg Larsson Trilogy", with all three Girl Who Did Shit movies in one box. "Sarge Sin Slot" sounds like a porn star who makes a specialty of military-themed videos.

Among the films getting Blu-Ray releases today, we have 48 Hrs., Senso, Sweet Smell of Success, and Memento.