Aside from one obvious heavy-hitter (which everyone reading this blog will probably buy on Blu-ray anyway), this is a pretty slow week for VUDU. Oh well, that’s why it’s so nice that the streaming service has such a huge wealth of HD titles in the back catalog to browse through as well.
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The following titles enter the VUDU stream this week:<\/p>\n
So, there’s the new ‘Harry Potter<\/strong>‘. It’s nice that VUDU is getting this on the same day as the Blu-ray release, but c’mon, you’re not going to rent this, are you? You probably already have the Blu-ray preordered. This is ownership material. <\/p>\n Perhaps a better candidate for rental would be ‘The Change-Up<\/strong>‘, the comedy starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman in a body-swapping switcheroo. Reviews on this weren’t great, but if you’re a fan of either actor, a one-time viewing might be worth a few laughs. <\/p>\n Try to follow this one: ‘A Better Tomorrow<\/strong>‘ is the 2010 South Korean remake of John Woo’s 1986 Hong Kong action classic, which was itself a knock-off of Brian De Palma’s ‘Scarface’, which was in turn a remake of a 1932 gangster film. And yet, with all that, the trailer<\/a> (sorry, I couldn’t find an embeddable one with subtitles) looks like a pretty generic Asian action flick. I have the original Woo film on DVD. The disc looks like crap, but I think I’d rather watch that again than this. <\/p>\n Political-minded viewers might find interest in ‘Sarah Palin: You Betcha!<\/strong>‘, the new documentary by British filmmaker Nick Broomfield (‘Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam’, ‘Biggie & Tupac’) that tries to find the real woman beneath the public persona. Critical consensus has it that he doesn’t find much there, which is a real problem for both the subject and the movie. The trailer makes it look like he’s trying to pull a Michael Moore on her. I’ll let you form your own opinion on whether that appeals to you or not.<\/p>\n