Angela Lansbury, Jason Statham and Valentino Garavani walk into a bar. The bar explodes. End of joke. Start of the weirdest week in movies on DVD ever.

Tags: Bedknobs & Broomsticks, Crank 2, Crank: High Voltage, DVD review, DVDs Unwrapped, I Want My DVD, Sleep Dealer, Valentino: The Last Emperor

Yes, I know new DVDs came out yesterday, but compiling all of the nominees for our annual Tubey awards and interviewing sexy Species star Natasha Henstridge took precedent for the day, so I'm just getting to this now. Too bad, because yesterday was a heck of a day to go DVD shopping. I suppose today can be, as well -- I doubt stores have sold out of Gran Torino.

Tags: Clint Eastwood, DVD, DVDs Unwrapped, Eliza Dushku, Gran Torino, Nobel Son, Reaper, review

As J.J. Abrams' re-imagined Star Trek warps into theatres, there's been a lot of discussion of past Trek movies, and... let's face it: most of them suck. Even the old stand-by rule, "even-numbered Trek movies kick ass," had to get tossed after the tenth movie, Nemesis, disappointed. Or did it? Because in between the crummy Insurrection and the lame Nemesis, an unofficial (but excellent) tenth Trek movie came out, which would bump Nemesis to the more logical 11-spot. That movie? Galaxy Quest. With an all-star cast and a hilarious, Trek-based storyline, it truly deserves the title of Best Star Trek Movie Ever. And since it's about to get re-issued in a Deluxe Edition DVD, we thought we'd explain just what makes it such a great Trek film.

Tags: DVD review, DVDs Unwrapped, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek

If it's Tuesday, then your favorite Belgian art film is coming out on DVD today! Yes, Tuesdays at MWoP are now reserved for running down the big DVD releases, so you know what to check out when you swing by Best Buy on your way home. We'll also cover the big TV show releases, so the TWoP-types can get their fix, too. What we won't cover? Blu-Ray re-releases of movies that have been available for years. We'd be here all day. What we also won't cover? Belgian art films. Read on, fellow film-lovers!

Tags: Curious Case of Benjamin Button, DVDs Unwrapped, Enchanted April, Wendy & Lucy

If I were a film director, I would be sticking references to other films into my movies all over the place. They would be films I admired, mostly, which means that somewhere, sometime, I would probably put in a reference to Donnie Darko, a personal favorite. Now, imagine that somebody made a movie that was entirely Donnie Darko references. Would it be a sequel to Donnie Darko? A tribute? A fan fiction? Considering that S. Darko stars Daveigh Chase as the grown-up version of her D. Darko character, Samantha from Sparkle Motion, the movie is obviously trying to be a sequel, but the only thing that separates this from fan fiction is that somebody gave the director Briana Evigan, Ed Westwick and a lot of money and let him make it into a movie.

Tags: Briana Evigan, Daveigh Chase, Donnie Darko, DVD review, DVDs Unwrapped, Ed Westwick, Gossip Girl, S. Darko

Mother's Day is this weekend. For some of you, it's that time of year you get reminded of how infrequently they call the woman who begat you, told endlessly about how you should get your hair cut differently, and debriefed about how so-and-so's children have gotten just tons of promotions lately. For others, the day's a pleasant reminder of the woman who chewed out your first bosses for firing you, helped you egg the bratty neighbor kid's house, and stood up for you in the principal's office after that unfortunate... misunderstanding... with the firecrackers in the girl's washroom. Moms can be a tough bunch, for better or for worse. Here are ten movie moms who may span the spectrum from saint to she-devil, but they all have one thing in common: you don't want to mess with any of them.

Tags: DVDs Unwrapped, Friday the 13th, Mother's Day, Terminator

It's a brave new world for Movies Without Pity!

In an effort to make the various MWOP blogs as easy-to-keep-track-of as possible, "DVDS Unwrapped" and "Reviews of Movies We Haven't Seen" are both being folded into the Moviefile, making it your one-stop-shopping destination for all things motion-picturesque! New postings will be filed under those category names, so you can find what you're looking for, but all of the older DVD reviews and unseen movie reviews will be archived in their old blogs. So if you ever want to look up that old DVD review of The Dark Knight, or our pre-emptive review of Beverly Hills Chihuahua, here's where to go:

DVDS Unwrapped Archive

Reviews of Movies We Haven't Seen Yet Archive

And if you're looking for reviews of TV on DVD, check out the Telefile!

Tags: blog news, DVDs Unwrapped, Reviews of Movies We Haven't Seen Yet