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For a limited time, Amazon.com is offering three Blu-ray discs for the price of two form a select group of recent titles.
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The Pixar-like roll of Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad) continues with another sure-fire hit. In charting the meteoric rise, catastrophic fall and Lazarus-like rise of rocker Dewey Cox, Walk Hard parodies the classic Hollywood bio-pic, cashing in mostly on Walk the Line. John C. Reilly, one of Hollywood’s most solid character actors, makes the most of his Golden Globe-nominated star turn as Dewey, whose road to stardom is paved with a childhood tragedy that claims the life of his prodigiously talented brother (”The wrong kid died,” is his father’s mantra), instant stardom (his first record is a hit just 35 minutes after it was recorded), sex and drugs, and the inevitable “dark (effen) period” that leads him to rehab. Reilly gets solid backup from current and former Saturday Night Live alumni, including Kirsten Wiig as his incredibly fertile first wife who has no faith in his musical aspirations (”You’re never going to make it,” she cheerily ends one phone call); Tim Meadows, never better, as Dewey’s drummer, who, in one of the film’s best scenes, does a poor job of dissuading him from trying marijuana); and Chris Parnell as his bass player. Continue Reading…
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Director Joe Johnston has always had an entertaining sense of adventure, and with Hidalgo he proves it in spades. It’s yet another underrated film for Johnston (along with such enjoyable popcorn flicks as The Rocketeer and Jurassic Park III), dismissed by many critics but a welcome treat for anyone drawn to good ol’-fashioned movie excitement. Continue Reading…
Sales of Blu-ray titles have begun to have a measurable impact on the sales figures of standard DVDs, especially since the demise of the HD-DVD format, the non defunct high definition disc format. The recently release “No Country For Old Men” (Walt Disney Home Entertainment) has seen 9.8 percent of overall disc sales in the emerging Blu-ray format according to Nielsen VideoScan statistics. “Hitman” from 20th Century Fox released at the same time scored even higher Blu-ray sales with 12.6 percent of overall disc sales. Continue Reading…
