{"id":25583,"date":"2011-11-16T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=25583"},"modified":"2018-02-02T14:09:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T22:09:48","slug":"vudu-nov-13-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/vudu-nov-13-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"New to VUDU: Week of November 13th, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another slow week in VUDU Town. Only a small handful of titles are being added to the streaming service. You know what that means \u2013 It&#8217;s time to dig into the back catalog to find something fun that can&#8217;t be gotten on Blu-ray yet.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The following titles enter the VUDU stream this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;The Devil&#8217;s Double&#8217; (11\/18)<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Griff the Invisible&#8217; (11\/15)<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Larry Crowne&#8217; (11\/15)<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;The Righteous and the Wicked&#8217; (11\/15)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The biggest title here (which isn&#8217;t saying much) is &#8216;<strong>Larry Crowne<\/strong>&#8216; the new rom-com that sees Tom Hanks return to the director&#8217;s chair for the first feature since his fizzy, underrated &#8216;That Thing You Do!&#8217; in 1996. Sadly, as I said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/bluray-highlights-nov-15-2011\">yesterday&#8217;s Blu-ray update<\/a>, the reviews for this one were generally poor, and its box office was even poorer. Still, fans of the actor or co-star Julia Roberts might find a rental worthwhile. <\/p>\n<p>Lee Tamahori&#8217;s thriller &#8216;<strong>The Devil&#8217;s Double<\/strong>&#8216;, about an Iraqi man abducted and forced to live a lavish playboy lifestyle impersonating one of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s sons, had a hell of a trailer. Unfortunately, most of the reviews said that the movie doesn&#8217;t quite live up to it. Again, perhaps this might also be best suited to a rental. VUDU actually gets this one a few days in advance of its Blu-ray release, which doesn&#8217;t street until the 22nd. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qhlQOg9abRk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We also have the latest entry in the &#8220;real life superheroes&#8221; subgenre, the Australian film &#8216;<strong>Griff the Invisible<\/strong>&#8216;, starring Ryan Kwanten as a man who dresses up in costume to fight crime. Unlike the recent, similarly-themed &#8216;Kick-Ass&#8217; or &#8216;Super&#8217;, this one seems to put more focus on the how the character&#8217;s secret identity affects his romantic relationship. It could be fun, though it&#8217;s a little weird to hear Kwanten speak in his native accent after watching him on &#8216;True Blood&#8217; for the past few years. Here&#8217;s the trailer: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0cyfKRAG74Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Josh&#8217;s Random VUDU Pick:<\/h5>\n<p>It seems that one reader (cough:Jane:cough) didn&#8217;t care for my random pick last week. For her benefit, and by her recommendation, I&#8217;ll use this opportunity to highlight &#8216;<strong>Wag the Dog<\/strong>&#8216;, the very funny (and frighteningly plausible) political satire written by David Mamet and directed by Barry Levinson. It&#8217;s perhaps the last decent thing that Levinson has made. It&#8217;s also one of the last films where Robert De Niro actually gave a damn about giving an actual performance rather than just mugging for the camera. 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