Archive for April, 2008

New Releases and New Arrivals - April 29

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

New Releases:

  • Bernard and Doris
  • The Cats of Mirikitani
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  • The Golden Compass
  • The Guatemalan Handshake
  • Pistoleros
  • Slant: Vol. 1
  • 27 Dresses
  • 2012 The Odyssey

New Arrivals:

  • The Fall of the Roman Empire
  • The Hardly Boys in Hardly Gold
  • The Living End
  • Paddle to the Sea
  • The Red Balloon
  • Saludos Amigos / The Three Amigos (Double Feature)
  • Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Granada Collection
  • White Mane

Sorry Wesley Snipes

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Monsters!

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

In honor of this week’s release of Giant-Monster-Movie Cloverfield, here is a link to an examination of the biology of B-Movie monsters, from Godzilla and his friends to the giant ants of Them! to E.T. the extra-terrestrial.

New Releases and New Arrivals - April 22

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

New Releases:

  • The Book of the Dead
  • The Case of the Grinning Cat
  • Charlie Wilson’s War
  • Cloverfield
  • Dam Street
  • Fine Dead Girls
  • Garbage Warrior
  • Hannah Takes the Stairs
  • My Boy Jack
  • Nina’s Heavenly Delights
  • The Orphanage
  • The Savages
  • Wholphin #5

New Releases (TV Series):

  • Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Season 1
  • Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Season 1

New Arrivals:

  • Death of a Cyclist (Criterion)
  • Easy Living (Cinema Classics)
  • The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto
  • The French Lieutenant’s Woman
  • Hypocrites / Eleanor’s Catch
  • I Was Born, But… (Silent Ozu Collection)
  • The Major and the Minor (Cinema Classics)
  • Midnight (Cinema Classics)
  • Passing Fancy (Silent Ozu Collection)
  • She Done Him Wrong (Cinema Classics)
  • Tokyo Chorus (Silent Ozu Collection)
  • Wholphin #1
  • Wholphin #4

New Releases and New Arrivals - April 15

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

New Releases:

  • Alien vs. Predator: Requiem
  • Bamako
  • Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
  • The GMO Trilogy
  • I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
  • In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Seige Tale
  • Inlaws & Outlaws
  • Juno
  • Lars and the Real Girl
  • The Pied Piper of Hutzovina
  • Running With Arnold
  • War Dance

New Releases (TV Series):

  • American Dad: Vol. 3
  • Five Days

New Arrivals:

  • Blast of Silence
  • A Passage to India
  • Sleepers (1991/BBC)
  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

New Releases and New Arrivals - April 8

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

New Releases:

  • Lions for Lambs
  • Lookng for Cheyenne
  • Nana
  • Reservation Road
  • Sense & Sensibility (2007)
  • Sharkwater
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Wakeful Nights
  • Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
  • The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
  • The World According to Shorts

New Releases (TV Series):

  • Meerkat Manor: Season 2

New Arrivals:

  • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Special Edition)
  • All About Eve (Special Edition)
  • Born to Dance / Lady be Good (Classic Musicals)
  • Broadway Melody of 1936 / Broadway Melody of 1938 (Classic Musicals)
  • Deep in My Heart (Classic Musicals)
  • Hit the Deck (Classic Musicals)
  • Kismet (Classic Musicals)
  • Kissing on the Mouth
  • Moulin Rouge (1952)
  • Nancy Goes to Rio (Classic Musicals)
  • No Deposit, No Return
  • Solomon and Sheba
  • Zen Noir

Only You Can Prevent Uwe

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Here is an online petition which asks modern-day-Ed-Wood Uwe Boll to please stop making movies.

Uwe Boll himself responds, in this FearNet interview, that if the petition reaches one million signatures, he will be convinced to quit.

Come on, gang!  We can do it!

From his cold dead hands…

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Charlton Heston (1924-2008)

Top 10 Rentals - March 2008

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

What were you watching last month? Here are March’s best-renting movies at Film is Truth!

  1. The Darjeeling Limited
  2. No Country for Old Men
  3. Eagle vs. Shark
  4. Into the Wild
  5. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  6. Michael Clayton
  7. American Gangster
  8. Beowulf
  9. Once
  10. Margot at the Wedding

New Releases and New Arrivals - April 1

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

New Releases

  • Alvin and the Chipmunks
  • Dynamite Warrior
  • The Good Night
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • War Made Easy
  • Zebraman

New Releases (TV Series)

  • John From Cincinnati: Complete Series

New Arrivals

  • Bob Marley: Legend
  • Bob Marley: Music in Review
  • Candleshoe
  • Fiorile
  • Kaos
  • The Night of the Shooting Stars
  • The Parent Trap / The Parent Trap II (Double Feature)
  • The Tomorrow Show: John, Paul, Tom & Ringo
  • The Ugly Dachshund