Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Punch Drunk DVDs


Green Zone
Matt Damon reteams with director Paul Greengrass(The Boune Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum) in an action flick that is eerily reminiscent of those films, but with a real world twist. Damon play a chief warrant officer in search of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but instead all he finds are government beauracrats(like Greg Kinnear) standing in his way. Greengrass's most overtly political film yet.








Remember Me
What I can recall about Remember Me has nothing to do with it's gorgeous stars, Robert Pattinson(Twilight) and Emile De Ravin(Brick), it has to do with the mini-uproar over the film's final moments which has the audacity to have anything to do with 9/11. Calm down, folks. De Ravin and Pattinson star as a pair of lost souls who find eachother when they least expect it.








She's Out of My League
A comedy that gives hope to all you normal, average joes out there. Jay Baruchel flexes his nerd muscle as  Kirk, a regular guy who hits the chick lotto when Molly, a perfect '10' by all accounts, takes a sudden interest in him. His friends don't understand it, his family doesn't get it, and Kirk thinks its all too good to be true. A film with just enough smart comedy and raunch to please both guys and gals.








The Last Station
A biopic about Russian writer Leo Tolstoy? Doesn't sound all that exciting, does it? Maybe that's why this film takes the path of following Tolstoy and his wife's volatile relationship, as the writer becomes more deeply involved with his political movement while she just wants to spend time with the man she married. James McAvoy, Helen Mirren, and Christopher Plummer star.








The Good Guy
I don't know squat about this except that it stars Alexis Bledel as a girl who I'm guessing is looking for the perfect guy. All I care about is that this continues the unexpected return ofMy Girl's Anna Chlumsky, who was great in Brit comedy In The Loop last year.

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