Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The Latest on DVD: Knock Knock

This week's latest and greatest ... now on DVD:

Featured Titles:

  • Knocked Up- Somehow, Seth Rogan gets Katherine Heigl pregnant; hilarity ensues. Available in rated, unrated, two-discs and HD-DVD.
  • The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection- The boy and girl next door put on a show ... four of them in fact, all new to DVD: Babes in Arms, Babes on Broadway, Girl Crazy and Strike Up the Band.
  • Creatures from the Pink Lagoon- For those of you too faint of heart for HellBent, here's the gay horror flick for you.
  • The Wild Bunch- The director's cut of the Sam Peckinpah western bloodbath classic in all its HD-DVD and Blu-ray gory ... uh, glory.
What Else is New:
  • Evening- If Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Vanessa Redgrave, Natasha Richardson, Toni Colette and Claire Daines aren't enough for you, there's also the always welcome Patrick Wilson and Hugh Dancy. Also available on HD-DVD.
  • Black Book- Paul Verhoeven's semi-autobiographical World War II thriller.
  • As You Like It- Kenneth Branagh's latest Shakespearean adaptation, starring Kevin Kline, Janet McTeer, Bryce Dallas Howard and Alfred Molina.
Oscar Winners:
  • Babel- A two-disc special edition of the globe-spanning drama starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Oscar nominees Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi. Gustavo Santaolalla won the gold for his musical score.
  • The Panama Deception- 1993's documentary winner takes a look at the 1989 US invasion of Panama.
  • Memoirs of a Geisha- Three Academy Awards were given to this historical epic of sex, lies and paper fans, now on Blu-ray.
Keep It Gay, PFLAG Edition:
  • Coffee Date- Sally Kirkland is all for it when her son starts dating a man (Wilson Cruz) in this romantic comedy of mixed identities.
  • Times Have Been Better- On the other hand, Arnaud Binard's parents are a bit perplexed by his coming out in this French farce.

Scary Stuff:

  • Bug- William Friedkin gets under your skin in this creepy-crawly thriller starring Ashley Judd and Harry Connick Jr.
  • Cujo: 25th Anniversary Edition- A frantic Dee Wallace, a little Danny Pintauro, and a very big, very slobbery Saint Bernard.
  • Inside the Actors Studio: Leading Men- James Lipton ... now he's scary. Here he interviews Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Sean Penn and Russell Crowe, thankfully not all at the same time.

Click on the individual titles to purchase them from Amazon.com.

Link via Playbill.com.

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