New DVD Releases: Wolverine, Easy Virtue, Grey’s Anatomy…
By Andrew Payne
Following a Labor Day hiatus, the DVD Releases return just in time to discuss the first summer disappointment of the year as Wolverine hits shelves.
Luckily, there’s also plenty of TV on DVD to wet silver-disced appetites and, as always, the three worst DVDs of the week.
Check it all out below…
FEATURE FILMS
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Starring: Hugh Jackman
It seems this is where we’ve gotten with these remakes and sequels. Eventually, the story has been so drained out of the characters that now the only reason to make a movie is to figure out an inventive way to further the product tie-ins.
Let’s see if the directors admit as much on the commentary of this two-disc special edition DVD.
Also:
- Easy Virtue – Learn More – Buy Now
- Trumbo – Learn More – Buy Now
TV ON DVD
“My Name is Earl” – Final Season
The curious case of “My Name is Earl”: An extremely underrated show, often funnier than its more buzzed-about peers, and routinely earned better ratings as well.
Then, for inexplicable reasons, the axe fell last May as Earl was canceled in favor of shows that don’t get the eyeballs or elicit the guffaws of this mustachioed hero. Even stranger, no other network would pick up the series, a hit with a built-in audience, though it was shopped to nearly everybody.
So now, we have no more Earl, no more Randy, no more Crabman, and, instead, many other shows we didn’t want and won’t be as funny.
At least we can take solace in the final season on DVD.
Also:
Horrible Straight-To-DVD Release of the Week
Three terrible movies, three new DVDs. Which is the worst? Cast your vote and tell the world!
The nominees are:
CamilleThe Case to Vote for It: In this movie, James Franco marries Sienna Miller, just so he can attempt to escape to Canada while on parole. Seems like a completely sensible and logical plan. The only problem is that they get into a car accident along the way and she dies. Except she’s kind of not dead. She’s kind of a zombie. Or something. Plus, look at the DVD case – it doesn’t even look like they were together when they took the picture.
The Case to Vote for It: Well, there’s the title for one. There’s also the fact that this film was doubtlessly made during the post-LOTR hangover when anything fantasy was getting greenlit for awhile since that movie was so successful. Now we’ve reached a time when the dregs of this genre are finally making their way on to DVD shelves. And star people like David James Elliot.
The Case to Vote for It: Ah, another one of those movies where a bunch of former friends get together after a long while and air out their secrets and grudges. Plus it has the worst tagline ever – “What You See Isn’t Always What You Get.” Ugh.
