Movies for or about children seem to be the theme of the week on VUDU. We have a bunch of kid-friendly flicks about princesses, teddy bears and high school musicals entering the stream, but the ones that interest me are those with murderous little buggers.
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The following titles enter the VUDU stream this week:<\/p>\n
The biggest and most interesting title being added this week is ‘Hanna<\/strong>‘, the espionage thriller about a young assassin (Saorise Ronan) trained by her father (Eric Bana) to seek vengeance against the enemy agent who wronged him (Cate Blanchett). With Ronan’s ‘Atonement<\/a>‘ director Joe Wright at the helm, the movie is said to be very stylish and exciting. I still need to check this one out.<\/p>\n Not much else on the list catches my eye, except perhaps the Stephen King cheesefest ‘Children of the Corn<\/strong>‘. This is not a good movie at all, and I would never personally want to own<\/em> a copy, but its dumb campy thrills might be good for a rental when the mood strikes. <\/p>\n This week’s random pick isn’t really all that random. What with so many of their early classics being released on Blu-ray lately, I’ve still got the Coen brothers on my mind. Last week, I recommended their surreal farce ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’. This time, I’m going for ‘Barton Fink<\/strong>‘, the movie that won the brothers the Palme d’Or at Cannes. <\/p>\n I don’t necessarily agree that this is one of their best films, or that it deserved to win top prize that year, but it’s an interesting and frequently very funny movie about a wannabe screenwriter (John Turturro) driven to the brink of madness by a really bad case of writer’s block. I honestly can’t think of any other directors who could make the prospect of watching wallpaper peel so compelling. It’s a mystery to me why Fox didn’t release this one on Blu-ray along with the other Coen titles in its catalog. <\/p>\n I promise that next week I’ll get off the Coen theme and pull something else out of the VUDU archive. <\/p>\n All dates provided refer specifically to rental availability. Check VUDU for sell-through availability, if interested. Be sure to also check for VUDU’s $0.99 Movie of the Day offers, which are announced each day on the company’s Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> pages.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Movies for or about children seem to be the theme of the week on VUDU. We have a bunch of kid-friendly flicks about princesses, teddy bears and high school musicals entering the stream, but the ones that interest me are those with murderous little buggers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[3633,2688,3632,1138,908,2687,3214,2740,579,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21333"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21387,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333\/revisions\/21387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Josh’s Random VUDU Pick:<\/h5>\n