If It’s Movies

Hey everyone, here is your look at the new DVD releases for March 20, 2007. We have some pretty good movies and some pretty bad movies in the list this week. Each movie has a link to amazon, which might help you in your purchases if you decide to make some. Enjoy!

ROCKY BALBOA

ROCKY BALBOA examines one of America’s greatest icons at a vulnerable period in his life–middle age. A former heavyweight boxing champion, known and renown throughout the world for going the distance, Rocky finds a new venture: giving back to his community. This is where he, once more, finds himself at the opposing side of opportunity, not unlike the one he has seen decades ago. Heavyweight champ Mason Dixon and his representation offer Rocky a shot for the title. For Balboa, it’ll be one last hurrah he’ll never forget…..but with his glory days far behind him can he withstand the inevitabilities of what’s to come? A look at going full circle and wanting more, when life turns out how you least expect it and then some.

BLOOD DIAMOND

Leonardo Dicaprio earned an Oscar nomination for his performance as a former mercenary from Zimbabwe turned diamond smuggler working in civil war-torn Sierra Leone. When he hears stories of a rare pink diamond discovered in a slave camp by a Mende fisherman (Djimon Hounsou), they form an uneasy alliance – the smuggler to make his fortune and escape this world, the fisherman to rescue his son from the rebels who have turned the boy into a brutal child soldier. Directed by Ed Zwick, the violent drama co-stars Jennifer Connelly as an American journalist, Michael Sheen, and Arnold Vosloo. The single disc editions (available in separate widescreen and full screen versions) features commentary while the Two-Disc Special Edition includes exclusive featurettes.

ERAGON

The first film in teenage author Christopher Paolini’s fantasy epic about a peasant boy (Ed Speleers) who becomes master of a dragon comes to the screen in the Lord of the Rings-esque adventure for the young adult set. Jeremy Irons takes on the role of mentor, John Malkovich is the evil tyrant who sends his demonic minions to kill the champion in training, Rachel Weisz voices the dragon, and Sienna Guillory, Robert Carlyle, and Djimon Hounsou co-star.

THE PERFECT CRIME

Spain) Alex de la Iglesia brings wit and style to this devious black comedy of a murder mystery starring Guillermo Toledo as a womanizing department store manager whose entire future winds up in the scheming hands of the lone female employee he has not seduced (Mónica Cervera), who witnesses an fatal indiscretion and blackmails him into a love affair.

RE-ANIMATOR

Stuart Gordon’s contemporary cult classic is back on DVD in another special edition with new supplements and a brand new transfer approved by Gordon. Loosely adapted from the H.P. Lovecraft story, it stars Jeffrey Coombs as a medical rebel who has discovered the secret of bringing the dead back to life and co-stars Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, and David Gale as the cadaverous medical professor who plots to steal the secret and winds as an experiment gone very, very wrong. New to this edition is an exhaustive feature-length documentary.

THE ED WOOD COLLECTION – A SALUTE TO INCOMPETENCE

The most charmingly awful films in history, the work of Edward D Wood Jr. You get, GLEN OR GLENDA, JAIL BAIT, BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, THE VIOLENT YEARS, NIGHT OF THE GHOULS and finally… PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. You get all of these for like $9.

NAKED CITY – Criterion Collection

ules Dassin directs this groundbreaking cop drama, a police procedural shot on location on the streets of New York in a style influenced by Italian neorealism and the newsreels of the time. Barry Fitzgerald and Don Taylor star as the homicide veteran and his young partner, respectively, investigating the murder of a high living young woman. Howard Duff and Dorothy Hart co-star.