Monday, January 24, 2011

Video Releases Of The Week

THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST (2010)
Director: Daniel Alfredson

In the final chapter of Stieg Larsson's "Men Who Hate Women" trilogy, Lisbeth Salander comes back to. . .  do something?  Yeah, I checked out after the first one.  At this point, you're either on board, or you're not.





RED (2010)
Director: Robert Schwentke

Ya know, I've heard some hesitantly good praise for this one, and you certainly can't fault the cast.  Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich and Morgan Freeman play Ex-Covert Operatives who have to band together after being targeted for termination by their former employer.  If you've ever wanted to see Mirren blowing people away with a machine gun (and honestly, who hasn't?), this might be your only chance.





SECRETARIAT (2010)
Director:  Randall Wallace

From the writer of Pearl Harbor and the director of The Man In The Iron Mask (Same guy!) comes the story of a horse, and the woman who loved it.





SAW VII (2010)
Director:  Kevin Greutert

Supposedly the "Final Chapter", and likely will be the last one for a minute or two.  I have yet to see this, but director Greutert directed the previous Saw, which was one of the better installments in the series; take that as you will.




NOWHERE BOY (2010)
Director:  Sam Taylor-Wood

The story of John Lennon as a teenager, and the formation of his band.  Kick-Ass's Aaron Johnson stars as Lennon, and the director is also Johnson's wife (and twenty-some odd years older than he is).  This didn't seem to make much of a splash, critically or financially, on either side of the pond.





ENTER THE VOID (2010)
Director:  Gasper Noe

The story of an American drug-dealer living in Tokyo, who gets himself killed, and spends the rest of the film following the stages of death as laid out in The Tibetan Book Of The Dead.  Supposed to be pretty trippy, dreamlike, and slow.  Sounds like my cup of tea, personally.






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