The new DVD releases include Cassandra's Dream, Rambo and What Would Jesus Buy?. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
May 27, 2008 - New DVD Releases:
Tagline: "How far will you go to make your dreams come true?"
Length: 108 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, some sexual material and brief violence
Woody Allen wrote and directed this drama starring Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell. Ian (McGregor) and Terry (Farrell) are working-class brothers who live in London. Ian dreams of making big bucks, particularly after he starts dating a good-looking, but expensive woman. Terry is a chronic gambler who runs up a 90,000-pound debt to scary loan sharks. Then wealthy Uncle Howard (Tom Wilkinson) surfaces with a problem: a colleague is threatening to ruin him. That's when Uncle Howard offers Ian and Terry financial support on the condition that they kill the troublesome colleague. 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.
Rambo DVD
Length: 91 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for strong graphic bloody violence, sexual assaults, grisly images and language
There were three Rambo movies in the 1980s, and after a 20-year hiatus, Sylvester Stallone comes back to play the Vietnam veteran for the fourth time. Now John Rambo (Stallone) turns up operating a small boat service in a remote part of Thailand. But one day a group of missionaries shows up and hires him to transport them on a humanitarian mission to Burma. This lands Rambo in the middle of a decades-old internal conflict in which the Burmese government is trying to suppress a separatist ethnic minority known as the Karen. Soon a gory blood bath ensues.
- 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.
Tagline: "The movie Santa doesn't want you to see!"
Length: 90 minutesMPAA Rating: Rated PG for thematic material and brief mild language
Rob VanAldernade's first documentary feature focuses on the issue of American consumerism as he follows a performance-art troupe's cross-country tour. The troupe is led by political activist Bill Talen, who dons a white suit with clerical collar and wears his hair in a bleach-blond pompadour to become Reverend Billy, pastor of the Church of Stop Shopping. They go on a crusade at Christmastime to try to prevent a Shopocalypse. They spread the anti-consumerism gospel at various places, including Mall of America, Wal-Mart's Arkansas headquarters, and Disneyland. 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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