This weeks’ update is a bit longer than usual as we’ll be catching up with some releases from last week as well as some anticipated DVDs for the coming week.
Recommended
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Release Date: April 8, 2008 Comments:Walk Hard is good stuff. The film is consistently entertaining though only a few parts I found to be laugh out loud funny. If you’re into classic rock or am a Die Hard Apatow fan, Walk Hard is right down your alley; don’t let its weak box office sway you… Read the whole review Get It: DVD  or Bluray |
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Release Date: April 1, 2008 Comments: In the end, there’s no man like Burton to capture the horror and the fun of Sweeney Todd. The film is a well-made adaptation of a fantastic musical that is sure to please fans and newbies alike… Read the whole review Get It: Standard Edition  or Two-Disc Special Edition |
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Release Date: March 25, 2008 Comments: Thankfully, quirkiness and on-screen gaffes is not all this movie offers (which can’t quite be said of some Wes Anderson movies). The movie provides a wonderfully simple story that, despite the dark setting, is truly optimistic about life itself. The three main characters are funny, deep, and well-explored and the movie is shot beautifully… Read the whole review Get It:Wristcutters DVD |
For more upcoming releases keep reading after the jump.
Of Interest
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Release Date: April 8, 2008 Comments: We didn’t get to see this movie until the AMC Oscar’s Best Pictures Screening and as a result never posted a full review. In short, it was terrific. Daniel Day Lewis really earned his Best Actor award. You don’t have to take our word for it, though. How about a 92 on both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic? Get It: Standard  or Two-Disc Special Edition |
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Release Date: March 25, 2008 Comments: Based on the best-selling book, The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the son of a wealthy businessman, and Hassan, the son of Amir’s father’s servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever. It provides an eye-opening view into the political turmoil which lead to Taliban rule in Afghanistan in the 1970s. Get It: DVD  or Paperback Book |
Odds and Ends
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Release Date: April 8, 2008 Comments: A movie about the Loch Ness monster? Some have billed it as the next E.T.: Extra Terrestrial. If I had kids, I think I’d be a little more tempted. For now, I’ll just keep it in my memory banks. Get It: DVD  |
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Release Date: March 25, 2008 Comments: Alvin and the Chipmunks, the five-time Grammy award winning, animated group goes live action (with a little CG). I loved watching these little critters as a kid, but I admit I avoided watching this in theaters as I couldn’t justify going out and paying $12 to see it (oy.. New York is expensive). But, hey, sometimes you get nostalgic… well not enough to move it anywhere above end-of-the-netflix-queue material. Get It: DVD |
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