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Blu-Ray Round Up, Aug. 12, 2009: ‘The Last Starfighter,’ ‘Sling Blade,’ ‘The Waterboy’

12 August 2009 2:31 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – You won’t find the kind of diversity that exists in HollywoodChicago.com’s Blu-Ray Round-Up too many places online. Where else can modern sci-fi mingle with quarter-century-old genre product and hang out with Oscar winners and slapstick comedies? Nowhere.

The Round-Up is our regular informational column about titles that may have slipped under your radar just because they haven’t been on the cover of Entertainment Weekly or in the point-of-purchase slot at your local Blu-Ray store. Today’s edition of the Round-Up is particularly impressive with a massive comedy hit from Adam Sandler, a sci-fi cult classic, a great new TV show, and the film that made Billy Bob Thornton a star.

“Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead” was released on July 28th, 2009.

“Sling Blade,” and “The Waterboy” were released on August 4th, 2009.

“The Last Starfighter” will be released on August 18th, 2009.

“Doctor Who »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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The Waterboy - Blu-ray Review

10 August 2009 7:35 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Adam Sandler was once the 100 million dollar man and the Waterboy was one of his comedies that made lots of money at the box office. It probably isn.t as funny today as it was when it made all that money and the Blu-ray adds little to the package. Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler) is a hapless man-child who acts as a water boy for the University of Louisiana Cougars coached by the driven Red Beaulieu (Jerry Reed). Bobby has lived a sheltered life due to his overprotective mother (Kathy Bates). Bobby loses his purpose when Beaulieu fires him from the team and he agrees to work for free for the downtrodden team the South Central Louisiana State University »

- Jeff Swindoll

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DVD Playhouse--August 2009

10 August 2009 2:25 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

DVD Playhouse—August 2009

By

Allen Gardner

Watchmen—Director’S Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »

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Willie Nelson: Naked Willie

3 April 2009 7:15 AM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »

Early works of an old master, all dressed down

Despite being on the far side of 70, Willie Nelson continues to churn out new albums at a mind-boggling rate, so there’s not a crying need to mine additional product from his mammoth back catalog. Still, Naked Willie makes sense. Culled from sessions spanning the mid ’60s to early ’70s, this appealing exercise in revisionist history—supervised by Nelson’s longtime harmonica player, Mickey Raphael—deletes the strings and backing singers routinely added as sweetening by producers Chet Atkins and Felton Jarvis back in the day, leaving just Willie’s laconic voice and the polished playing of Nashville session aces like Jerry Reed, Buddy Emmons, Charlie McCoy and Hargus “Pig” Robbins. The resulting tracks are of a piece with the later recordings that made Nelson a star, but they lack comparable emotional heft. Though recognizably himself when these tunes were cut, »

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R.I.P. 2008: A Rough Year For Hollywood

5 January 2009 3:56 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

For me, the only part of the Oscars worth watching every year is their tribute video, highlighting those in the movie industry that passed away in the previous year. It always puts a lump in my throat and often surprises me due to the passing of people I hadn’t heard about. And with the actors who were popular decades ago, it gives me a sense of melancholy nostalgia.

TCM (Turner Classic Movies) has put together their version of a tribute video which you can watch below, and it gave me the same feelings I just mentioned (I wasn’t aware they do one every year). It’s a beautiful video and very classy. They did miss a couple of people which I mention below.

 

I would suggest you watch the video before moving on to the list of names below it. It includes actors, directors, composers, screenwriters, animators, etc. »

- Vic Holtreman

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2009 | 2008

5 articles from 2009

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