You guys, Confessions of a Shopaholic is out today! I don't know why you'd need to know about any other new DVD releases, but I'll go over them just the same.
Lindy West was unmoved by Inkheart:
I understand that Brendan Fraser used to have a beautiful boday, and so we put him in the movies. But at this point, isn't he just a semiawkward actor with a regular boday and perma-terrible bangs? Must his great big eyeballs be all up in my juvenile-fiction magical business?Well, THEY ARE.
But she loved Waltz With Bashir:
Attempting to excavate his suppressed memories, Folman recorded interviews with fellow soldiers, journalists, friends, and his therapist; he then animated their accounts in a series of dark, disjointed, somnambular episodes. The finished product is stunning: weird, angular dreams of snarling dogs, bodies wrapped up in shining bundles, yellow skies, silent swimming, sudden death, gigantic women, boys walking out of the sea, and people being swallowed up by shadows. Somehow all of it feels more accurate than any film documentary—certainly one based on painful and foggy recollection—ever could.
There are several classics out today. Charles Mudede calls Last Year at Marienbad "one of the greatest movies ever made." And My Dinner With Andre is out on DVD, too.
Some other notables include Dragon Hunters, a French animated movie about con men (voiced in the American version by Forrest Whitaker and Rob Paulsen) who have to, er, hunt dragons; Simon Says, a horror movie starring Crispin Glover as evil twins; the Morgan Freeman/Antonio Banderas/Robert Forster heist drama The Code; and a documentary titled TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball.
TV series releases include Reba: Season 6, The Girls Next Door: Season 5, and the complete Chuck Jones Tom & Jerry cartoons.
A complete list of releases can be found here.
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