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Tully<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 Charlize Theron dresses-down and reportedly put on 50 pounds of weight to play a stressed-out mother who hires a nanny (Mackenzie Davis from Halt and Catch Fire<\/em>) to alleviate some of her childcare burden. The film reunites Theron with the Juno<\/em> and Young Adult<\/em> crew of director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody. Although reviews were generally favorable, a number of critics took the movie to task for Davis’ portrayal of a Manic Pixie Dream Nanny and a plot twist they found derivative and infuriating. Audiences, by and large, just ignored the whole thing.<\/p>\nOverboard<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 I’m not sure that anyone was really begging for a remake of the 1987 rom-com that has been a staple of cable TV syndication for the last three decades, but if it needed to happen, I suppose Anna Faris seems like a good choice to take over from Goldie Hawn. She and Latino superstar Eugenio Derbez (Instructions Not Included<\/em>, How to Be a Latin Lover<\/em>) flip the original’s gender roles to make the man the wealthy amnesiac bimbo who gets tricked into believing he’s married to a blue collar scammer. Reviews were not very kind to the results and I don’t recall the movie being advertised at all in mainstream sources, but Derbez’s fan base turned out and drove the picture to a very profitable $90 million box office take from a $12 million budget. <\/p>\nUHD<\/h2>\n
None of the day-and-date titles this week offer Ultra HD editions. The only movies making their way to 4k are the atrocious G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra<\/strong><\/em> and its better but still mediocre sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation<\/strong><\/em>, both from Paramount. <\/p>\nCatalog Titles<\/h2>\n
James Cameron is one of the most successful filmmakers alive, responsible for both the #1 and #2 highest-grossing movies of all time, one of which put a couple of Oscars on his shelf. But he started his career working on low-budget schlock for Roger Corman, and made his directorial debut with the goofy monster flick Piranha II: The Spawning<\/strong><\/em> (which has next to nothing to do with Joe Dante’s original Piranha<\/em> despite officially being a sequel). Cameron of course later disowned the movie, but Scream Factory resurrects it with a new video master for a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray. <\/p>\nFrom evil fish, we move on to evil children with the 1960 British horror chiller Village of the Damned<\/strong><\/em>, now crawling out of the Warner Archive. <\/p>\nFor reasons unknown, Kino has chosen to dig up a pair of long-forgotten Jim Belushi comedies (both from 1990), Mr. Destiny<\/strong><\/em> and Taking Care of Business<\/strong><\/em>. The guy continues to work steadily, so somebody must like him. <\/p>\nTelevision<\/h2>\n
The first season of Starz’s excellent sci-fi mystery Counterpart<\/strong><\/em> and the fourth season of the animated Star Wars Rebels<\/strong><\/em> make their way from TV broadcast onto disc.<\/p>\nMy $.02<\/h2>\n
Even though I’m sure I’d probably get a laugh out of Piranha II<\/em>, that doesn’t seem like a keeper to me. I have mild curiosity for Village of the Damned<\/em> but not enough to purchase. I think I’m going to sit this week out. How about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It looks like July burned off the last of its fireworks already. The month ends without much excitement on Blu-ray. Notable titles include one of the most critically divisive films of the year and the cheeseball directorial debut that a future A-List filmmaker would prefer to forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":92800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[5239,67,6375,9967,175,277,9612,3251,194,10223],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92798"}],"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=92798"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92806,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92798\/revisions\/92806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}