Hey folks, Harry here with this final week of JULY’s report. I hope you enjoy. As usual click the pics and titles and you’ll be whisked to Amazon for purchasing and mass information. If you do purchase – it’ll help keep the column coming. Thanks a lot and enjoy this week’s peeks.

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

GREEN LANTERN: FIRST FLIGHT

I did a full individual review of this back a couple of weeks ago - Click Here to read that! At Comic Con Thursday night – a little over 4,000 Green Lantern fans swore the Green Lantern Oath – watched this film and exploded in applause afterwards. The reason? It fucking rocks! Now let’s just hope the live action version does it even better.

FAST & FURIOUS

Here’s my full review of FAST & FURIOUS. I really like this film, wish they had gotten any of the romance right. As really that was what the film really lacked. On BLU – the film looks gorgeous, sounds in-fucking-sane and honestly the extras are crazy. The same kinds that we gearhead FAST AND FURIOUS geeks have been playing with so far. This completes the set – but due to the box office of this installment – you can bet you’ll have another to add, that’s if you’ve been collecting them all.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: THE COMPLETE SERIES (Blu Ray)

Not sure if this set is economically sound. At a suggested retail of $349.98… that’s crazy. On Amazon it is $209.99 – and if you buy all the sets separately it comes to around $170 or so, I think. But you wouldn’t have the nifty packaging. If you have all the Blu-Rays – you have this set. This is solely for people that were waiting for the Box Set and want this packaging. That’s it. It has everything that’s been released thus far – but I’m not sure if there’s anything particularly unique to this set. Enjoy at your own cost.

REPULSION – Criterion Collection (Blu Ray)

One of the great horror films of all time. Roman Polanski’s masterful REPULSION with one of the greatest performances by an actress ever. Seriously, watch Catherine Deneuve in this. It is fucking crazy real feeling. The transfer on Blu Ray is stunning – it is filled with extras that I’ll include below – but the real key is… The Blu-Ray is cheaper than the DVD right now on Amazon! Here’s the extras:

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary featuring director Roman Polanski and actress Catherine Deneuve
• A British Horror Film (2003), a documentary on the making of Repulsion, featuring interviews with Polanski, producer Gene Gutowski, and cinematographer Gil Taylor
• A 1964 television documentary filmed on the set of Repulsion, featuring rare footage of Polanski and Deneuve at work
• Theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar and curator Bill Horrigan

THE MIDDLEMAN: The Complete Series

Did you see this little miracle of a show? I didn’t. It aired on ABC FAMILY CHANNEL – a channel that I only ever watch flip by on my way to another channel, but hidden upon this inane drivel channel was apparently gold. I watched the 12 episodes that aired on this DVD and they’re great. At Comic Con – the cast did a table read of the 13th unfilmed episode, to the delight of the series’ fans that had somehow found the show. THIS is one of the shows that SyFy (I hate that btw) should pick up and start shooting. Because this show deserves to continue. The team on it at all levels does excellent work. If you haven’t seen it, do so now.

DOLLHOUSE: Season One

I haven’t seen this yet. But I’m going to give it a shot on Blu Ray sometime here soon. I watched the first episode and it left me a little cold, so I didn’t bother to tune in and endure commercials to see the rest. I heard it got much better as the show went along, and I hope to see that. Do you folks think I should check it out?

SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN: 1st Season

I haven’t watched this show – except in small doses with my nephew and it’s pretty damn good. NOW that I have the whole 1st Season I’ll have my nephew over for a few days of WebHeading Good Times! Because you know what – that’s how this show should be seen. With a kid that wants to absorb it all. Right?

12 MONKEYS (Blu Ray)

SO GOOD! OhMyGod! SO GOOD! It has been too long since I last put this film in. At least 5 years. So getting this Blu Ray – I was like… OHHHHH YEAH! 12 MONKEYS!!! Goddamn. Right? This is the sort of awesome that you delight in when Terry Gilliam is on his game and everything is firing away! This is easily Brad Pitt’s very best performance to date. He’s amazing. But everyone else is as well. Madeline Stowe – so beautiful. Bruce Willis – a fantastic madness tale there. Great great work – and the Blu Ray does it justice throughout.

DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION

A truly truly BAAAAAAD movie. But, do you know what that is? This is a great – “WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY FUCKING THINKING!!!” jumping around howling in painfully hysterical laughter at the stupidity of it all. A truly stunning heap of shit. The type that comes out of your ass, you look at and you start laughing. This is that.

THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Blu Ray)

Evidence of God. No, Really!

INGLORIOUS BASTARDS (Blu Ray)

GORGEOUS transfer. Beautiful. So much so that I kinda wish the print was a bit beat up. If for no other reason, than to look more like every 35 mm print or 16mm print of this that I’ve seen. The extras are of every title we’ve seen from the recent DVD release – and a couple more to sweeten the deal. Pretty damn cool to have a quote on this release’s back.

THE GREEN HORNET

I love this serial! I mean, how cool is it that a youthful Keye Luke aka Badass owner of Gizmo in GREMLINS – well, he’s KATO! Doesn’t that rock? What is even cooler – is that this version of THE GREEN HORNET is actually more action packed than the Bruce Lee TV Show. Great serial.

THE 10th VICTIM

Before there was WANTED, there was THE 10TH VICTIM. And WANTED kicks its ass. But Ursula Andress at this time… Holy shit hot! Not smoldering, but she’s red hot coals just waiting for something to be laid on to ignite. And Marcello Mastroianni is pretty damn awesome. If you like CQ by Roman Copolla, this is, in many ways, the movie in that movie. At least I think so. Nice to finally have this.

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (Blu Ray)

This film is one to really show off all your Blu Ray players super powers. The image quality mixed with this brilliant cinematography. It’s the stuff of dreams. Great film. That said. I’m a lazy fisherman. You know… the bobber floatie thing. But A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT made me realize.. I could never ever be a fly fisherman. I’d put someone’s eye out. By someone, I mean me. Seriously. I like 3D. I’m not gonna try that crazy cartoon whip shit. My eyes are only to be fucked by AVATAR.

THE GREEN HORNET STRIKES AGAIN

I kinda miss Gordon Jones, the actor that played the original GREEN HORNET, but Keye Luke is back and the action is at the same caliber. It is just as good as the first… with the exception for Gordon Jones.

TORSO

Sergio Martino fucking owns with this movie. I love TORSO torso torso…. This is one of those titles, that my parents had a 16mm trailer for, in the pre-Video days – so I saw the TORSO TORSO TORSO trailer a nigh infinite amount of times. When I found it on VHS – I was so excited. The transfer looks really good, and I’m hoping for a Blu Ray release soon.

EAGLES OVER LONDON (Blu Ray)

Fucking Awesome. I completely was not familiar with this film, but it is fucking great. Castellari is surprising as a filmmaker, because you know he didn’t have the financing of the major studios – and he’s in the time before computers. And the shit he comes up with seems to surprise the hell out of me. I really like it.

BIG MAN JAPAN

Just About The Greatest Fucking Thing of All Time! Seriously! One of the weirdest, freakiest, awesomest fucking things ever made. Just fucking crazy. The “True” story of the last Great Protector of Japan. Well, maybe not that great. Giggle.

AN AMERICAN AFFAIR

I have to admit, I wasn’t expecting a real movie when I put this on. I saw Gretchen Mol wrapped in an American flag sexual as hell – and well, yes she does get fucked naked and sexy as hell! But in addition to the cover selling exactly what you get… there’s a fun “coming of age” story of youth wrapped up in a bugnuts “solving of Kennedy’s assassination”!! I’m serious. It isn’t great, but it flirts with great for quite a bit.

That’s it for July. For our first week of August, I’ll be looking at FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS: 2nd Season, RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN, THE SOLOIST, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (blu), YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS: THE WARNER BROS. STORY, MY COUSIN VINNY (Blu), DELGO, SLING BLADE, THE TIGGER MOVIE, ULYSSES, DAFFY DUCK’S QUACKBUSTERS, WOLFHOUND, THE WATERBOY (Blu), THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH, ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, BIG IRON COLLECTION, DEMON WARRIORS, ACTORS AND SIN, THE MACHINE GIRL, THE ITALIAN JOB (Blu), ST. ELMO’S FIRE (Blu) and more!