Toronto Film Festival<\/a> last year based on the director’s name alone, and sorely regretted it. Harron appeared at the start of a screening to introduce her movie, but didn’t stick around for the traditional Q&A afterwards. I later learned that she’d just come from the Venice Film Festival, where she’d taken a beating from critics and disgruntled viewers. At TIFF, she was smart enough to get the hell out of Dodge before that could happen again. The movie is just plain godawful. Don’t ever watch it. <\/p>\nFinally, of some small interest is ‘Starship Troopers: Invasion<\/strong>‘, the anime spin-off directed by Shinji Aramaki (‘Appleseed: Ex Machina’) and produced by master thespian Casper van Dien (who hasn’t reprised his role here, not even for voice work). Given how terrible the DTV live-action sequels were, I don’t hold out a lot of hope for this, but it might be worth a rental. It can’t be worse than ‘Starship Troopers 3: Marauder’, can it?<\/p>\nCatalog Titles<\/h5>\n
Universal continues its 100th Anniversary celebration with the James Stewart classic ‘Harvey<\/strong>‘. (That’s the one where he talks to an imaginary rabbit.) Meanwhile, the Criterion Collection gives us an oddly-matched pairing of the rare 1928 silent film ‘Lonesome<\/strong>‘ and The Who’s rock opera ‘Quadrophenia<\/strong>‘.<\/p>\nAnimation fans will be happy to find that Warner Bros. has collected 19 classic Chuck Jones ‘Looney Tunes<\/strong>‘ shorts. <\/p>\nFor the ‘Terminator Anthology<\/strong>‘, Warner also had to license the first James Cameron film from MGM and the second from Lionsgate to pair with its own third and fourth entries. I’m not 100% certain whether this set contains the recently-remastered version of the first movie. If it doesn’t, the whole thing seems kind of useless. [Update: As feared, it’s the old disc.]<\/em> As a Best Buy exclusive, odds are that no stores will carry this and the retailer won’t ship to your home address anyway. Apparently, the Best Buy senior executives have decided that they don’t want your money. They’d rather just go out of business, which may be pretty likely in the not-too-distant future. <\/p>\nTelevision<\/h5>\n
This is a very busy week for TV on Blu-ray. We have the third season of ‘Boardwalk Empire<\/strong>‘, the second season of ‘The Walking Dead<\/strong>‘, the fourth season of ‘Sons of Anarchy<\/strong>‘, the sixth season of ‘Poirot<\/strong>‘ (which comprised only four episodes from 1995 to 1997), and the first seasons respectively of ‘Homeland<\/strong>‘ and ‘Once Upon a Time<\/strong>‘. For those of you who collect TV box sets, this may be a very expensive week.<\/p>\n—<\/p>\n
Despite such a crowded release schedule, I don’t personally see any must-own titles. ‘Harvey’, the Chuck Jones shorts and the two Criterions will go on my wish list for future purchase. (I don’t need to buy them immediately.) Potential rentals include ‘The Pirates!’, ‘The Five-Year Engagement’, ‘Monsieur Lazhar’, ‘Headhunters’, and ‘Starship Troopers: Invasion’. <\/p>\n
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