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I wonder what your average Hot Topic is like the day that the new Twilight movie comes out on DVD. Do they even sell DVDs or do they just move a lot of plus-sized Jacob t-shirts on days like today? These are the things that keep me up at night. 

1. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

I don't know if I'm looking forward to the rumored "intense" sex scene in the next Twilight movie or I'm dreading it. I'm leaning to the latter. If K-Stew and R-Pat have sex on camera, how big of a black hole of anti-charisma would form?

2. Knight and Day

People gave this movie a lot of shit, but it still made $76m in the U.S. and $260m worldwide. Gotta give Tom Cruise credit, he took a weird screenplay and made it into a movie that at least made some money back.

3. The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Now, this movie probably didn't make Disney any money, but that's probably because someone thought it'd be a good idea to spend $150 million on a movie that stars Jay Baruchel.

4. Vampires Suck

N-O-L-O-L.

5. Going the Distance

Now here's a movie that didn't do as well as it should have, alas. If you're in the mood for a semi-raunchy, semi-sweet romantic comedy, I know what you'll be doing Tuesday night. Well, I actually don't, but hopefully it involves this movie somehow.

6. Cairo Time

Did I say Going The Distance was raunchy? Well, it's got nothing on Cairo Time, let me tell you that. Nothing but the old in-and-out, if you know what I mean. (I mean sex.)

7. Peepli Live

A comedy from India relating to farmers who commit suicide. Apparently it's great; it's India's official entry to next year's Oscars.

8. The Sicilian Girl

Inspired by a true story of a girl from a Mafia family who denounces the Mafia system that's killed her brother and father to a judge. Yay! But then the Mafia comes to extract vengeance on her. Boo!

9. Standing Ovation

This made a grand total of $531,000 dollars at the box office and has 11 producers (!). From the writer/director of Mac And Me. I'm watching the trailer right now and I had to rouse myself from a catatonic stupor after it was over. Although it might be good for something, as YouTube user "ValiumAlleyoop" says "i was the only one in the theatre and fapped like a champ".

10. Valhalla Rising

Is there a better name for a badass character actor than Mads Mikkelsen? I mean, the dude's so crazy, the government made him put it right there in his name!

11. Waking Sleeping Beauty

Although the repetition of the suffix in the title grates on my nerves (even Nabokov had the good sense to change the English title of "Invitation to an Execution" to "Invitation to a Beheading"), this is an apparently fascinating look at the Disney films of 1984-1994, which is regarded as the company's second great period. Worth checking out if you want a look at the behind-the-scenes scheming of the Eisner/Katzenberg years.

12. Meet John Doe

The 70-year-anniversary edition of one of Capra's "little man gets screwed by the system" films.

13. Fantasia

Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 come back in a combo pack, apparently to celebrate the appearance of their spiritual successor, The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

14. Kill Zone

A Donnie Yen movie from 2005 comes to Blu-Ray. I hope it's...awesome?

15. Shadowland

Not the C.S. Lewis biopic that starred Anthony Hopkins, but rather some kind of low-budget, direct-to-dvd vampire film. Well-liked on Amazon, but less so elsewhere.

16. Life in Flight

I consider myself to be on the bandwagon of Patrick Wilson, that dimpled, suave motherfucker. Movies he shot two years ago heading straight to DVD? Maybe I'll skip this one so as to not remove my rose-colored glasses.

17. Space: 1999

Remember when the Sci-Fi Channel first started up and they played Space: 1999 over and over and over? To think that they would somehow move on to Megacat versus Octosquid. Relive the good old days with this Blu-Ray set of Season 1.

Parsnipon Nov. 30, 2010 at 10:55 a.m.
Best part if Twilight are the HUGE WOLVES.
jessej07on Nov. 30, 2010 at 11:26 a.m.
I think Eclipse is actually coming out on Saturday. 
 
... Just don't want those of you rushing out to the store to be disappointed.
RahRahRoboton Nov. 30, 2010 at 11:41 a.m.
Kill Zone was kinda cool from what I remember.
LiquidSwordson Nov. 30, 2010 at 12:06 p.m.
  >Valhalla Rising is a must buy for me! The movie is dark and has an awesome look to it. I hope this doesn't have the horrible 300 rip off art work as the cover!
 
> SPL (Kill Zone) is an awesome over the top action movie! But I haven't watched it since my all region DVD went Kaputt.
MEBBINon Nov. 30, 2010 at 12:12 p.m.
OoOo  Valhalla Rising is streaming on Netflix. I'll be watching it soon. :)
LackLusteron Nov. 30, 2010 at 12:52 p.m.
I actually like Jay Baruchel won't see sorcerers apprentice though
TheOtherGuyon Nov. 30, 2010 at 1:03 p.m.
I lol'd at you thinking "Mads Mikkelsen" a badass name. Here in Denmark "Mads" and "Mikkelsen" are possibly some of the most common first and last names to come across.
Kinda like out version of a name like "John Smith"
Hot_Karlon Nov. 30, 2010 at 1:05 p.m.
Saw Knight and Day and was disappointed. Rental at best, if only for Tom Cruise's manic & enormously fun perfomance. 
 
Renting Going the Distance and Sorcerer's Apprentice solely for Charlie Day and Nic Cage, respectively. 
 
Definitely buying Eclipse on Blu-Ray...but Amazon isn't selling it until next Tuesday... :(
Daemonon Nov. 30, 2010 at 1:43 p.m.
Yes indeed Sha Po Lang (Killzone) is one of the best Donnie Yen films that one can watch actually. This is the movie in which Donnie started incorporating modern mixed-martial arts fighting techniques into his movie fighting choreography. Stir in the next best martial artist Jing Wu in for one of the best fights ever, a highly capably scary Sammo Hung and an actual decent script and you have one of the best martial arts films ever made.
JA050Non Nov. 30, 2010 at 2:23 p.m.
donnie yen fighting sammo hung is worth watching spl
listerfeendon Nov. 30, 2010 at 6:18 p.m.
Cairo Time is " Rated PG for mild thematic elements and smoking" 
 
Guess they forgot to mention the virulent, graphic sex.
Feigron Dec. 1, 2010 at 4:27 a.m.
Ultramarines The Movie was released on November 29 as well, so I guess it should be in the list maybe.
Teaser Trailer: Skyfall

Hoping anticipation's not the best part.

Trailer: The Master

I'm mean ya, it's gonna be great.

BOX OFFICE: You sunk my Battleship....

Thanks a lot Avengers.

Trailer: The Great Gatsby

I want to go to there...

G.I. Joe Retaliation: Release date moved so it is not a summer movie anymore.

Why? So it can be converted to 3D. Smart move or suspicious?

What to Watch: Monday

House...series finale...enough said.

Red Band Trailer: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

Not another ridiculous vampire story. Please don't force me to click play... wait, what? This actually looks cool.

3D...will it ever go away?

I mean, can we all just admit it sucks already?

G.I. Joe Retaliation: Release date moved so it is not a summer movie anymore.

Why? So it can be converted to 3D. Smart move or suspicious?

3D...will it ever go away?

I mean, can we all just admit it sucks already?

Trailer: The Master

I'm mean ya, it's gonna be great.

BOX OFFICE: You sunk my Battleship....

Thanks a lot Avengers.

Teaser Trailer: Skyfall

Hoping anticipation's not the best part.

What to Watch: Tuesday

Summer slump is here...grab some discs and start a marathon instead.

What to Watch: Wednesday

The Wire and the finale of Modern Family...very different, but great in their own ways.

DVD/Blu-Ray: May 22nd

So many choices, so little time...what to do?

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