Here's a selection of the best new movies on DVD for July 2008.
July 1, 2008
No Recommendations
July 8, 2008
Stop-Loss DVD
Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish star in this drama about American soldiers and the Iraq War. Staff Sgt. Brandon King (Phillippe) is the leader of a squad that gets into a horrendous battle in Tikrit. Soon afterward, he and his pal Steve (Channing Tatum) return home to Brazos, Texas. Although King's enlistment contract is up, the military orders him back to Iraq under its stop-loss policy. Fed up, King goes AWOL and sets out on a road trip to Washington, D.C., and Steve's fiancée (Cornish) travels with him. A series of dramatic incidents occur on the cross-country journey.
July 15, 2008
The Bank Job DVD
Jason Statham stars in this heist movie based loosely on a real-life 1971 robbery of a Lloyds Bank in London. Terry (Statham) is selling used cars when the good-looking Martine (Saffron Burrows) tells him he can score a lot of money by breaking into the safe-deposit boxes of a Baker Street bank. Terry quickly assembles a team and pulls off the caper, only to find himself in a complicated aftermath. The safe-deposit boxes turn out to hold cash and jewels as expected, but one of the plot twists is that they have other contents of interest to the government and MI5.
July 22, 2008
Vampyr DVD
This is the Criterion Collection 2-disc set containing Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 German-language horror film. The movie is based loosely on the 1872 Gothic novella Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. The protagonist in the film is Allan Gray, a young student of the occult who happens upon an area outside Paris where strange and dreadful things take place. As he reads from a book about vampires, he goes through a series of eerie experiences and gradually discovers what is going on. The movie's strengths are psychological tension, striking images and hypnotic mood.
July 29, 2008
No Recommendations
