This week the new DVD/Blu-ray releases, we see over 200 new titles hit the store and website shelves. (I use the term “shelves” loosely.)
As I take a quick break from the mass of Comic Con reports I have, I thought I’d toss out a quick list of some of the titles in the hoard of releases, we have this week…
Movies on DVD
Source Code Starring Jake Gyllenhaal;
The Blues Brothers came to Blu-ray finally, with John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd;
National Lampoon’s Animal House also finally came to the Blu-ray medium, Starring John Belushi;
Trust [Blu-ray] Starring Clive Owen
Dylan Dog [Blu-ray] Starring Brandon Routh;
Ironclad Starring Paul Giamatti;
Dante’s Peak on Blu-ray Starring Pierce Brosnan;
Red Planet [Blu-ray] Starring Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Simon Baker and Benjamin Bratt;
Soldier [Blu-ray] Starring Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Gary Busey and Jared Thorne;
The King of Fighters Starring Sean Faris, Maggie Q and Ray Park;
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Source Code is a pure joy-ride of a movie that comes at you with what you might think is a cliched story line, but makes the premise as fresh as I’ve ever seen it and surprises the viewer in the end. This is as spoiler-free of a movie review as I can muster.
Source Code (from Summit Entertainment) is directed by Duncan Jones (Moon) and stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan & Vera Farmiga. When I stepped into the the Redwood Century 21 movie complex theater, I wasn’t sure what to expect . I’ve never been a real Jake Gyllenhaal fan and the idea of a movie based around a man going back through time and using what is obviously an eight minute time-frame restriction to resolve a mystery bomber wasn’t exactly something that sounded like it could be that entertaining. I mean seriously, we’ve seen GroundHog Day, it was cute, but eh. But then again, we’ve seen it handled well in a different venue, TV, with a Star Trek The Next Generation and Stargate SG-1. (You have got to love ‘Gate Golf!’)
Oh boy was I wrong.
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