There are some interesting video/DVD releases slated for next week, including There Will Be Blood, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. Let's take a look at these movies on DVD and video, along with some additional releases of interest.
April 8, 2008 - New DVD Releases:
Tagline: "When ambition meets faith."
Length: 158 minutesMPAA Rating: R for some violence
Daniel Day-Lewis won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in this drama, which was written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The story is based very loosely on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! The film takes place in California from 1898 to 1927 and is a character study of Henry Plainview (Day-Lewis), an anti-social man of humble origin who becomes rich and powerful through petroleum. Along the way, he has strange relationships with a drifter claiming to be his half-brother and an adoptive son. His nemesis is a charismatic preacher (Paul Dano). Selected DVD Special Features:
- Deleted Scenes
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check with your video store/online rental service for availability in other formats, including streaming video/digital download.
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story DVD
Tagline: "Life made him tough. Love made him strong. Music made him hard."
Length: 96 minutesMPAA Rating: R for sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language
This comedy is a parody of biopics about musical artists and has a storyline quite similar to Walk the Line and Ray. Dewey Cox grows up poor in Springberry, Alabama, where he accidentally cuts his brother in half. But the grownup Dewey (John C. Reilly) forms a band and gets a record contract. His marriage to his first wife fails, and he falls in love with a good-looking backup singer (Jenna Fischer). Meanwhile, he has drug problems and keeps going in and out of rehab. Dewey performs songs in several different styles as pop music changes over the years. Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check with your video store/online rental service for availability in other formats, including streaming video/digital download.
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep DVD
Tagline: "Every big secret starts small."
Length: 111 minutesMPAA Rating: PG for some action/peril, mild language and brief smoking
This family-friendly film tells a fanciful tale about the Loch Ness monster and is set in Scotland during World War II. One day 12-year-old Angus (Alex Etel from Millions) finds a strange egg and takes it back to the country estate where he lives with his mom (Emily Watson). A little dinosaur-like creature hatches from the egg, and Angus calls it Crusoe. The creature is adorable, but it grows at an incredible rate. A complication is that British soldiers are stationed at the estate to watch for German submarines. Soon Angus must come up with a way to get Crusoe to water. Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check with your video store/online rental service for availability in other formats, including streaming video/digital download.
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