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So many schmucks, so little time.
Dinner for Schmucks
While it couldn't possibly live up to our expectations -- not with a cast that includes so many hilarious actors -- this comedy about an idiotic Steve Carell accidentally ruining Paul Rudd's life has plenty of good laughs. And any movie that allows Jemaine Clement and Zach Galifianakis to strut their stuff is worth the price of a rental. Plus, you've got deleted scenes, a guide to the Schmucks and what we can only assume is a blooper reel called "Schmuck-Ups."
Machete
In addition to deleted scenes, the DVD (and Blu-ray) of Robert Rodriguez's gory Mexploitation flick includes an "audience reaction track," presumably allowing you to hear a group of people groan and/or cheer when Machete rappels down a building with someone's guts. I'm wondering if we'll also hear people excitedly whisper "That's Don Johnson!" or answer their cell phone by saying "I'm in a movie, what's up?" (Also available via Movies on Demand.)
The Last Exorcism
You lied to us, Eli Roth. This totally isn't the last one -- there's another exorcism movie coming out next year, and probably more after that. When will the demonic possession end?!? Producer and gore-meister Roth has a commentary track on this movie, along with some of his fellow producers, and they say that if you play it backwards, he tells wholesome stories about kittens. (Also available via Movies on Demand.)
Case 39
This movie was shot in 2006, released in Europe in 2008 and only released in the U.S. three months ago. It was delayed so long that the relative popularity of Bradley Cooper and Renee Zellwegger has since inverted. Hopefully, one of the disc's behind-the-scenes documentaries will reveal that this movie was accidentally sealed up in a salt mine for four years.
Catfish
Whether it's real or fake, this will go down in history as "The Other Facebook Movie, The One That Scared the Crap Out of All Those People." You don't get to 500 million friends without picking up a couple of loonies.
Wolvesbayne
I had such high hopes for a movie that featured Mark Dacascos and Yancy Butler as vampires, and Jeremy London as a chubby werewolf. But my God, does this look painful to watch. I should have expected as much, based on how similar the title is to BloodRayne. Hell, I'll still see it.
Howl
Not a werewolf movie, but James Franco's arthouse turn as the poet Allen Ginsberg. The movie divides its time between his reading of Ginsberg's epic, eponymous poem; his development as a writer; the obscenity trial that nearly criminalized it (Jon Hamm vs. David Strathairn! Lawyerfight!); a beautiful animated interpretation by Eric Drooker; and the period of time when Ginsberg was trapped under a boulder for 127 hours while living in Soho.
Also Out This Week: The Yellow Handkerchief (with K-Stew!), Camille (with 1984 Colin Firth!), Coraline (Blu-ray 3D), Ever After (Blu-ray), Backdraft (Anniversary Edition Blu-ray).
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