This Week's DVD releases 11/18/2008

In the mood for an animated love story with a strong environmental message? Disney Pixars' "WALL*E" is among this weeks new releases and not only does it include a theatrical "short" titled "Presto",the DVD has an amusing bonus "short" film called "Burn*E",as well as director commentary.WALL*E is a lonely "cleaner" robot left behind on an empty earth to clean up with only a cockroach for company,and he has a fixation on the musical "Hello Dolly",which he watches daily.Then he falls in love with EVE,a probe robot sent to earth to collect biological samples and literally follows her across the universe.I think this is quite possibly one of the best Pixar movies to date! Read on.....

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Major Releases

• "WALL*E"-98 Minutes,G-rated,animated,widescreen




• "Tropic Thunder"-107 Minutes,R-rated,widescreen,action/comedy,stars Jack Black,Robert Downey Jr. & Ben Stiller




• "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2"-117 Minutes,PG-13,widescreen,sequel to "chick flick" of same name,stars America Ferrera & Amber Tamblyn




• "Gonzo"The Life & Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson"-120 Minutes,R rated,widescreen,documentary

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TV on DVD

• "Bones - Season Three"-5 disc set of Fox forensic drama


• "Charmed - The Complete Series"-DVD set of witchy drama


• "Doctor Who - The Complete Fourth Series"-6 disc set,scifi series


• "Hannah Montana - The Complete First Season"-4 disc set of Disney teen hit


• "McHale's Navy - Season Four"-5 disc set of classic TV series


• "The Odd Couple - The Final Season"-3 disc set of classic TV series

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Other DVD releases this week

• "300 - Limited Collectors Edition"-3 disc set




• "Encounters at the End of the World"-Also in blu-ray




• "Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special "-Comedy Central special,widescreen,also on blu-ray




• "The Who At Kilburn - 1977"-2 disc set of The Who in concert




• "Paris Je T'Aime"-2 disc set,also on blu-ray




• "The Third Man (1949) Criterion Collection "-2 disc dvd set or blu-ray




• "Up the Yangtze"-Widescreen,subtitled




• "The Last Emperor (1987) - Criterion Collection "-Widescreen




• "Mirrormask"-Now on blu-ray




• "Mister Lonely"-Widescreen




• "Priceless"-Widescreen,also on blu-ray

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Thats all for this week and remember,as you are compiling your Christmas shopping lists,DVD's make great gifts and they always "fit"!See you next week!

This weeks DVD releases 5/6/08

Theatrical Releases this week:

• "First Sunday" -Allstar comedic cast makes this tale of a church heist irresistable.Katt Williams and Ice Cube star. Widescreen available.Also on blu-ray disc.

• "I'm Not There" -An offbeat movie that focuses on singer songwriter Bob Dylan, with an appearance by the late Heath Ledger.Widescreen.

• "P.S. I Love You"-This weeks obligitory chick flick stars Hilary Swank, who is widowed and discovers her husband is still very much with her through letters.Widescreen.

Other DVD's released this week....

• "The Bridges of Madison County"-Widescreen.
• "The Business of being Born"-Widescreen.
• "The Hottie and the Nottie"-Widescreen.
• "La Roue"(1923)-2 disc set
• "Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Movie"-Widescreen.
• "Speed Racer the Next Generation - The Beginning"-Fullscreen
• "Teeth"-Widescreen
• "Twister"(1996)-DVD and Blu-ray release

TV on DVD.....

• "The 4400 - The Complete Fourth Season"-4 disc set
• " Avatar the Last Airbender - Book Fire - Volume Three"-Fullscreen
• "Bewitched - The Complete Sixth Season"-4 disc set
• "Crossing Jordan - Season One"-5 disc set

Thats all for this week-these were released yesterday and so should be available at your local video store and all retailers today.Enjoy!

This weeks DVD releases:4/29/08

"27 Dresses" movie poster

Theatrical releases:

• "27 Dresses"-Classic "always the bridesmaid,never the bride" chick flick romantic comedy stars Katherine Heigl-Widescreen
• "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"-cinematic French film-Widescreen
• "The Golden Compass"-dark fantasy stars Nicole Kidman & Daniel Craig,who also worked and appeared together in last years "Invasion". (trivia tidbit!)-Widescreen

Other movies released this week on DVD:

• "First Knight"(1995)-Blu ray disc also available
• "A Generation Apart"(1984)-Widescreen
• "How She Move"-With featurette
• "Oceans Eleven"(2001)-Blu ray disc also available
• "Oceans Twelve"-Blu ray and DVD

TV on DVD this week:

• "The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones"-DVD set
• "Beverly Hills 90210-The 4th Season"-8 disc set
• "Paranormal State - Season 1"-3 disc set
• "The Waltons-The Complete 7th Season"-5 disc set

Thats all for this week!

This weeks new DVD releases 4-22-2008

I am totally late with this, thanks to technical problems, but just in time for considering what to check out this weekend on DVD.Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has the rare luck to be billed in two of this week's theatrical releases!Read on...

Theatrical Releases:

• "Cloverfield"-The shaky"home movie" type filming of this actually made people dizzy in theaters!It's still a decent horror flick!-Widescreen
• "The Savages"-A deep family drama starring Philip Seymour Hoffman & Laura Linney -Widescreen
• "Charlie Wilson's War"-Cold War era political comedy starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and....Philip Seymour Hoffman!-Widescreen

Other DVD releases this week:

• "The Orphanage"-Widescreen
• "One Missed Call"-Fullscreen

TV this week on DVD:

• "Laverne & Shirley-The 4th Season"-Break out the milk and Pepsi!-4 disc set
• "Friday Night Lights-The 2nd Season"-NBC teen drama-4 disc set

Thats it for this week!

Smokey & The Bandit Trifecta

I am in redneck heaven tonight-Starz Channel is airing "Smokey and the Bandit" and it's two sequels back to back tonight! I remember seeing this at the drive-in when I was a kid, the original first movie that is, and it is still as much fun 30-odd years later. I can even recall alot of guys back then wearing those faux leather "TransAm" jackets with the stripe on it ala Burt Reynolds. Some of the best lines in movie history can be culled from the movie and the car chase scenes are legend. And its got The Great One, Jackie Gleason! Take a trip back to an era where instead of cell phones, people yakked on CB Radios and with gas cheaper than water, muscle cars still ruled the roads.

This weeks DVD releases:4/15/08

Juno on DVD

New on DVD this week for the first time:

• "Juno"-(I saw it and loved it!)
• "Alien vs Predator:Requiem"
• "Lars and the Real Girl"

Other DVD releases:

• "Laurence of Arabia"(1962)-2 disc set
• "A Passage to India"(1984)-2 disc set
• "Retribution"
• "War Dance
• "The Clash Live - Revolution Rock"

TV on DVD

• "Melrose Place-The Fourth Season"-9 disc set
• "How the Earth Was Made-History Channel"

"Juno" (2007)

One of the best movies coming out on DVD this week will be Jason Reitmans "Juno", and the title character is a sarcastic and independent-minded 16 year old girl who gets pregnant by her best guy-friend and decides ultimately to give her baby up for adoption. She selects an uber-yuppie couple played by Jason Bateman & Jenifer Garner to adopt her child and develops a deep bond with them over the course of her pregnancy.

Juno, played by Ellen Page, is already ostracized at her high school because she is a noncomformist and she encounters alot of judgemental people in school and out as she gets bigger. In one outstanding scene, she is the target of an ultrasound techinicians' scorn for being a teen mother and her stepmother tells the tech off.Juno also experiences ups and downs in her relationship with Bleeker,the father of her child.Their platonic friendship gets strained, naturally and eventually she discovers she loved him along.

This movie impressed me because it portrayed a very positive and responsible solution to a common social problem.Movies like last years "Knocked Up" make for a hilarious comedy, but how many yuppie fast track women are going to raise a baby with a drunken out-of-work slacker who impregnated them during a boozy encounter? On the other end of the spectrum, characters on TV and movies getting abortions have become the norm in liberal with-it Hollywood. It's just nice to see a story about someone faced with the same problem who takes the high road.

It also has an offbeat soundtrack with tunes by Lou Reed and The Kinks, just to name a couple. "Juno" will be released in two days on DVD and I totally recommend it!

This weeks DVD releases:4/8/2008

"Walk Hard:The Dewey Cox Story"(starring John C.Reilly) is among this weeks DVD releases and having seen it,I have to say it was as bad as I expected but in a good way-it spoofs practically ever "Behind the Music"-style movie about the rise and fall of a famed musician that has ever been made.It borrows heavily from "Walk the Line" and also incorporates scenes from others like "The Doors".

Any "rock star-movie" cliche you can think of is satired here.Look for cameos from very famous faces,including a hilarious turn as a young Elvis by musician Jack White and Jack Black as Paul McCartney.I loved this movie but sadly admit some people will not find it funny.BTW,the unrated DVD version has a gratuitous male full-frontal nudity shot in deference to "Boogie Nights" (John C.Reilly also starred in this!)but this guy is not as developed as Dirk Diggler.

As each decade brings a different music style,Dewey adapts and does a "crossover" between stints in rehab.Hysterically funny movie!

Available in widescreen.

Other Theatrical Releases this week:

• "There will be blood"-deleted scenes on DVD
• "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep"- widescreen DVD
• "Lions for Lambs"-widescreen DVD

Classic re-releases

• "The 6th Day"-Bluray release
• "All about Eve"(1950)-2 disc DVD set

Tv on DVD

• "Matlock-The 1st Season"-7 disc DVD set
• "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-Season Six" Animated TV series on DVD

Also,George Romeros' "Day of the Dead" remake (2007) will be released this week on DVD,it stars Ving Rhames,Nick Cannon,and Mena Suvari(American Beauty).A must-see for true horror-philes.

Flashback Movies:"Return of the Living Dead"(1985)

If you like the kind of uber-gory horror movie that is also satirical,campy and at some points utterly ridiculous then "Return of the Living Dead" is a good bet.It has been called "splatstick"and Joe Bob Briggs often hosted it on TNT Monstervision some years ago.

The loose plot revolves around two guys working in a medical supply warehouse who accidently unleash a chemical from a US Army 55 gallon drum and the vapor cloud promptly re-animates human and animal cadavers in the warehouse "cooler" and the chain reaction that ensues.A bunch of 80's punk-rocker kids are pals with one of medical supply employees and they decide to party in an adjacent graveyard while waiting for his shift to end-and then the "party" begins!Zombies abound!This movie spawned several equally campy sequels,but nothing holds a candle to the original!Unlike all other similar movies,being bitten by a zombie will not transform you-only exposure to the lethal gas will do that.Like many movies of that genre,there is an implication that some secret government conspiracy is behind the outbreak.Its not to be taken serious but its worth a look!

This weeks DVD releases: 4/1/2008

"Alvin and The Chipmunks" is my favorote new release for this week.Having seen it,I think it was a decent family flick and Jason Lee is one of my favorite actors.And who can resist Alvin,Simon & Theodore?

Other theatrical releases:

• "The Good Night"-stars Gwyneth Paltrow & Danny Devito-widescreen
• "Sweeney Todd:The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"-Graphic Tim Burton Victorian era tale,stars Johnny Depp-2 disc set

TV on DVD:

• "Martin-The Complete Fourth Season "-4 disc set
• "Father Knows Best-Season One"-4 disc set
• "Murder,She Wrote-The Complete Eighth Season"-5 disc set
• "The Wrong Medicine-60 Minutes"
• "The Science of Sleep-60 Minutes"

Other DVD releases this week:

• "The Osmonds-in Las Vegas - Collector's Edition"-2 disc set
• "Hidalgo"-Bluray release
• "Blue Man Group - How to Be a Megastar Live!"-2 disc set

Thats all for this week.By the way,I am impressed to see that older black&white TV shows like "Father Knows Best" are becoming available on DVD.For those of you who do not buy alot of movies-alot of larger libraries carry TV series on DVD that most rental stores would not carry.

This weeks DVD releases 3/25/2008

This week "The Mist" based on the short story by Stephen King,is released to home video and I can hardly wait to go rent it tomorrow!I read the original story many years ago and always thought it might make a good movie-I shall see!"The Mist" is available on DVD with deleted scenes.

Other theatrical releases this week:

• "The Kite Runner"-A story about two boys growing up together in Kabul.Largely Middle Eastern cast-widescreen
• "Wristcutters:A Love Story"-Strange black comedy about afterlife for suicidees.-Commentary,widescreen

Other Releases this week:

• "Bonnie & Clyde"(1967)-also on blu-ray
• "Control"
• "Lost Highway"-widescreen
• "Solomon & Sheba"(1955)-widescreen

New TV on DVD this week:

• "Wings-The 6th Season"-4 disc set
• "Sliders-the 4th Season"-5 disc set
• "Party of Five - The Complete Third Season"-5 disc set
• "Daybreak-The Complete Series"-4 disc set

That wraps up this week!It seems like every week more and more television shows from both present and past are being released on DVD-all of us have at least 2 or 3 Tv shows we love so much we would sit and watch every episode if it were on DVD!

Flashback Movies:"American History X"(1998)

While surfing the channels this evening I happened upon "American History X"(1998) airing on FX.One of the most controversial modern films dealing with race relations,it follows the story of an angry young white man,Derek(Edward Norton) who becames entangled with a neo-Nazi movement in Venice Beach,California after his father is killed in the line of duty by a black man he was trying to rescue from a fire.It comes to a boil when a group of black youths comes around to rob Derek and he kills one of them,and goes to prison for 3 years for manslaughter.He joins the Aryan Brotherhood for protection behind bars and comes to disagree with their practice of dealing drugs with minority gangs,which in his opinion is sleeping with the enemy.Derek is sexually assaulted by AB members after speaking his displeasure over their dealings and befriends a black inmate named Lamont-who keeps Derek safe from black gangs after the AB dumps him.
Derek comes home a more mature and changed man and he is disappointed to see that his younger brother Danny has fallen in with the neo-Nazi groups and with the help of a dedicated black teacher that both brothers respect,Derek attempts to save his brother from the same violent and hate-filled lifestyle he once led-but he might be too late.There is a graphic prison shower rape scene,and two violent death scenes but the overall story that plays out makes me cry everytime.It is offensive to some,but it accurately portrays what goes on in the streets of alot of cities everyday and it proves once and for all that people CAN change.It is brutal,raw and almost real.All of the scenes portraying flashbacks are filmed in black & white and show the destruction of Derek and Dannys family,as well as happier times when their patriarch was alive.Ten years later,it remains a powerful film.

This week's DVD releases-3/18/2008

"I Am Legend",starring Will Smith,and based on a 1954 sci-fi novel of the same name by Richard Matheson,will be among this weeks DVD releases.It is actually the 3rd film adaptation of the novel,the movies "The Last Man on Earth"(1964) and "The Omega Man"(1971)are also based on the "I Am Legend" novel.Alot of CGI effects,nevertheless a great film.Widescreen

Other Theatrical Releases this week:

• "Atonement"-Keira Knightley and James McAvoy star as tragic lovers seperated by a lie-widescreen
• "Enchantment"-Live action Disney romantic comedy/real-life fairytale stars Patrick Dempsey-widescreen,also on Blu-ray

Other releases:

• "After Dark Horror Fest-8 Films to die for"-Second installment of "Horror Fest" films-great independent horror-Consists of the following titles:

"Borderland "
"Crazy Eights "
"The Deaths of Ian Stone "
''Lake Dead ''
"Mulberry Street ''
"Nightmare Man ''
"Tooth & Nail ''
''Unearthed ''

• "Bull Durham"(1988)-commentary added
• "The Ice Storm"(1997)-2 disc set
• "Love in the time of Cholera"-deleted scenes,alternate scenes
• "Revolver"-widescreen
• "Don't Drink the Water "(1969) -widescreen
• "Mafioso" (1962) - Criterion Collection -widescreen

Tv on DVD this week:

• "McHale's Navy-Season Three "-5 disc set
• "Married With Children - The Complete Eighth Season"- 3 disc set
• " The Wild Wild West - The Fourth Season"-6 disc set
• " Battlestar Galactica - Season Three "Commentary,6 disc set
• "Bionic Woman - Volume One "-2 disc set
• "Go Diego Go! - Moonlight Rescue "-fullscreen,Nickelodeon childrens show movie length episode

Thats all for this week!

MOVIE TRIVIA:George Romero was inspired to create his breakout film "Night of the Living Dead"by the novel.

Flashback Movies:"Joe Dirt"(2001)

"Joe Dirt" DVD cover
David Spade as "Joe Dirt"

I had the opportunity today to watch one of my favorite movies on Comedy Central,the 2001 comedy "Joe Dirt",starring the sarcastic dry comic & SNL alumni David Spade.In a departure from his usual smart-aleck characters,he plays a loveable white-trash mullet wearing orphaned janitor who is "discovered" by talk radio DJ Zander Kelly(Dennis Miller),who encourages Joe to share his life story with listeners.Joe Dirt was abandoned by his parents as a child at the Grand Canyon and spends 20 years roaming the country,seeking his parents and meeting a variety of colorful characters,including a former mob accountant in Witness Protection(Christopher Walken) and a beautiful country girl named Brandy(Brittany Daniel),and even spends time in a basement dungeon pit reminiscent of "Silence of the Lambs"after meeting a man calling himself"Buffalo Bob".The soundtrack is chock full of classic rock tunes by the likes of Bachman-Turner Overdrive,Bob Seger,Lynyrd Skynyrd and Joe Walsh,to name a few.He sports a variety of cool T-shirts,including one that says"I choked Linda Lovelace"!

Despite his being bullied and disappointed at every turn,Joe remains positive and his mottos are "Lifes a Garden,Dig It!' and "You cant have "NO" in your heart".He goes on to meet his awful parents,and realizes that he had a family all along,in his friends AND there is a happy ending!He not only gets the girl,he gets his Hemi Plymouth convertible back and in the closing scene,leaves bully and romantic rival Robby(played very badly by Kid Rock) and his "slant-six" Firebird in the dust.

While the movie cost 33 million to make and only made 30 million at the box office,DVD sales were phenomenal and it is a modern cult classic.In my opinion,Spade hasn't done anything nearly as funny since this film!

The movie also features appearances by comic Bob Zany,actress Rosanna Arquette and Kevin Farley,brother to the late comic and Spade sidekick Chris Farley,as well as Kevin Nealon from SNL.And heres a bit of trivia-in the scene where Joe meets Indian firecracker vendor "Kickin' Wing",there are two huge arrows sticking out of the ground that are actually all that is left from the abandoned"Twin Arrows" Rest Stop ,a former landmark on the famous Route 66.

If you have never seen it,give it a chance.It is a hysterical and heartwarming comedy.

This weeks DVD releases 3/11/08

This week "Bee Movie" will be released,much to the delight of kids and kids at heart!Its another cute Pixar flick,with comic Jerry Seinfeld voicing the main character.Also,one of my all-time favorite 90's movies,"Dogma" is being re-released on DVD with extra features on board.It is Kevin Smith at his best!There are also a few new titles on the HD and blu ray format for the 1st time.Rent a movie this week!!!!!

Theatrical Releases:

• "Bee Movie"-widescreen
• "Dan in Real Life"-Quirky romantic comedy starring Steve Carell-widescreen
• "No Country for Old Men"-The latest of the Coen Brothers efforts,stars Josh Brolin,Tommy Lee Jones-also on blu-ray disc
• "August Rush"-Blu ray disc

Other DVD releases this week:

• "Dogma"(1999)-Deleted scenes,blu ray disc
• "Michael Clayton"-HD DVD/Standard DVD Combo
• "I,Robot"-Blu ray disc
• "The Mod Squad-Season One Volume Two"-4 disc set
• "Stargate:The Ark of truth"-widescreen
• "Gattaca"(1997)-Blu ray disc
• "Hitman"-2 disc set
• "Dangerous Crossing" (1953) -fullscreen
• "Black Widow" (1954)-featurettes
• "Daisy Kenyon" (1947) -Fullscreen

Flashback Movies:"Say Anything"(1989)

Movie poster from "Say Anything",of John Cusacks famous serenade scene.

One of my favorite movies from the fabulous 80's was "Say Anything",a teenage love story between a Lloyd(John Cusack),a wannabe kickboxer and ordinary guy and Diane(Ione Skye),a beautiful and highly intelligent "rich Daddys girl" who has a scholarship waiting for her to study abroad.Of course Dianes father meddles and encourages their breakup and then they get back together and fly off to England at the conclusion.More than anything,the scene where Lloyd stands in front of his beater car(70's Malibu)in a trenchcoat,with his boombox lifted high over his head,playing Peter Gabriels"In Your Eyes" in front of his girls house to woo her back,stands out as a classic movie moment.It spawned many spoofs on shows like "Family Guy" & "South Park",and the "Drew Carey Show" & "Greys Anatomy" and I admit I have a gigantic black & white poster from that scene,identical to the photo above,hanging in our den next to all the beer signs and Giants posters lol.

And its funny to note that in 2008,standing in a girls yard with a loud radio would get you locked up for stalking,nevertheless in this movie,at that time,it was romantic!We have a copy of the movie and whenever we have "date-night" it is a favorite flashback movie.John Cusacks onscreen sister,with whom he lived,was played by none other than his REAL offscreen sister,actress Joan Cusack!If you have never seen it,it plays on WE and AMC networks alot-in fact it airs on AMC tomorrow morning at 9:30 EST!

This weeks DVD releases

This is a big week for childrens DVD's and the dark horror film "30 Days of Night"-this weeks theatrical releases:

• "30 Days of Night"-Very bloodyand long vampire flick starring Josh Hartnett as Sheriff in a Alaskan town that has a month of darkness and based on a graphic novel-I saw it and it was OK,but it never explained a lot nor did it have a satisfying ending.Still worth a watch.-widescreen
• "Beowulf"-The mystical animated looking action film atarring Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins-a "fairy tale" type story-widescreen
• "The Darjeeling Limited"-From the makers of "The Royal Tennenbaums" stars Anjelica Huston,Owen Wilson and Adrian Brody-widescreen

Other DVD releases this week:

• "Max & Ruby:Berry Bunny Adventures"-Animated childrens favorite on Nickelodeon and Noggin
• "Barbie:Mariposa"-Barbie as flying fairy-animated-widescreen
• "Bratz:Kidz Fairytales"-another little girl favorite-widescreen animated
• "1968 With Tom Brokaw"-Interviews with Brokaw
• "Newhart:The Complete First Season"-featurettes
• "The Fugitive Season One Volume 2"-4 disc set
• "Comanche Moon - The Second Chapter in Lonesome Dove"-2 disc set

Flashback Movies:"Who framed Roger Rabbit?"(1988)

Eddie & Roger

DVD cover

Last week the 1988 animated and live action movie "Who framed Roger Rabbit?" came on one of the cable channels and my little girl goes"Mama,theres real people in a cartoon!!!!"That is part of what propelled this movie to the number 2 spot on the top movies of 1988,just below "Rain Man".It combined animation and live action in a whodunit style plot that featured "cameos" from dozens of current and past characters from Disney,MGM,Warner Brothers and Paramount.

In the film,which takes place in "Toon Town",Marvin Acme,the owner of Acme Company(where Wile Coyote gets all his rockets!)and owner of Toon Town,is murdered and Roger Rabbit,a character for "Maroon Studios" is framed for the crime.His wife is the sexy Jessica Rabbit.He,along with washed up human detective Eddie Valiant(Bob Hoskins) ,must find a way to clear his name and stop Toon Town from being taken over and torn down.

Numerous injoke references to other cartoons appear in this movie and there are alot of rumors swirling around supposed"hidden messages" in this movie,as well as a crotch-shot by Jessica Rabbit.Allegedly if viewing on laser disc or DVD,you can see the phone number of Disneys Michael Eisner onscreen.The alleged crotch-shot is semi-truth.In an earlier edition of the laser disc and VHS,when Jessica tumbles out of the wrecked cab,she appears to have no undies on and Disney attributed this to a "badly painted animation cel",Subsequent editions are altered,with the 1999 release cels showing her wearing white panties and the 2002 DVD releases edited to keep her skirt discreetly covering her undies.Try it out and see for yourself-the Tv version always has the undies!

Also,Just before Eddie falls off the building, the words "For Good Times, call Allyson 'Wonderland'" can be seen on the wall behind him.
A brief scene consisting of the toon Baby Herman passing by a female (human) extra on the set of the opening cartoon and sticking his middle finger up her dress, and then coming back from under the dress with a drool of spit on his lip. This was edited out of the first DVD edition of the movie, though it can be found on editions of the VHS and laserdisc.Pretty funny,eh?

Some even swear that Daffy Duck utters the "N" word in this movie but he does not-with closed captioning you can clearly see what he is saying and it is NOT "N".

However if you look close during a scene where Eddie is falling from the sky with Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny,you can clearly see Bugs flipping off Mickey with a one-finger salute!I am not lying,its there if you look!

While there were plans to do a second film,which would be a prequel set in 1940 and with a Nazi plot,as of 2007 it is not in development,mostly due to high production costs but Frank Marshall has expressed interest on producing it.

The movie also spawned toys,comic books and other collectibles-McDonalds partnered with Disney to distribute dolls from the movie-which have become bona fide Disney Collectibles.

All in all,it is a one of a kind movie and it was quite different from what we were used to in 1988.Disney gambled with it,and it was a success.If you have never seen it,I recommend it-its appropriate for kids as well as adults.

This weeks new DVD releases 2/19/2008

This weeks theatrical releases

• "American Gangster"-extended unrated film also on DVD,stars Denzel Washington,Russell Crowe and Josh Brolin
• "Michael Clayton"-George Clooney in legal drama,widescreen
• "Rendition" War epic stars Reese Witherspoon & Jake Gyllenhal

Other DVDs released this week

• "Chaos"-widescreen
• "Catacombs"-widescreen
• "George W. Bush: Fighting to the Finish"
• "Kurt Cobain - About a Son"-widescreen
• "In the Valley of Elah"-widescreen and HD DVD

Also an exciting gangster movie collection is being released this week

Gangsters - The Ultimate Film Collection DVD

Nine-Disc DVD Set - Includes the Movies
Scarface (1983)
Carlito's Way (1993)
Casino (1995)
American Gangster (2007)

Rent some movies this weekend!!!!

FORTY candles for Molly Ringwald!

Actress of stage,television and movies Molly Ringwald,will be turning 40 on Monday.She made her acting debut on stage at the age of five and by age six she had recorded songs with her fathers jazz band.Ringwald starred briefly in TV's "The Facts of Life" and then gained notoriety in the mid 80's for her performances in John Hughes teen angst movies.She and other "Brat Packers" starred in Sixteen Candles,The Breakfast Club & Pretty in Pink and those are my absolute favorite Ringwald roles.She also dated Dweezil Zappa,Anthony Michael Hall and Beastie Boy Adam Horowitz during her Brat Pack years.

She is now the mother of a 5 year old girl and she has been quite busy since her daughters birth juggling motherhood and acting with a national touring company in musical stage shows.She had a brief cameo a few years ago in Not Another Teen Movie,which was a satirical comedy that spoofed the teen angst film genre,and she delightfully made herself the in-joke reference to those movies we loved like Pretty in Pink!Unlike her Sixteen Candles character Samantha Baker,I hope nobody in her family forgets her birthday!