For those who don't know, Tuesday is the day that new movies come out for your home viewing pleasure. I'm pretty sure it's the same w/new music also. Today, March 13, James Bond Casino Royale, The Holiday, Shortbus, Favela Rising and a few Spanish films came out. My pick of the week (w/o having seen the Spanish films or Doc), is the James Bond movie. Now, I've never been that into the 007 franchise, but this film is good...a bit long, but good. Although it has it's moments, for the most part he is a more believable character. Bond is rough and raw. He has just been promoted to 00 status and it shows. He lacks some of the smoothness of the earlier films (taken place later in his career), and as M put it, he's more of a, "blunt intrument." Gone are most of the crazy gadgets, but he still has a few toys to play with...and a few nice cars. When casting for this movie came out internet geeks everywhere went crazy (in a bad way) about Daniel Craig being JB. Blonde hair and blue eyes isn't Bond! Whatever! He nailed it and those same geeks proclaimed him the best Bond ever. I'd agree, but like I said, I don't really know the old movies that well.
The Spanish films are Matando Cabos and The Perfect Crime. Both look interesting and both got good imdb.com reviews. I wanna check them out. Favela Rising is a documentary from Brazil about, "a man who emerges from the slums of Rio to lead the nonviolent cultural movement known as Afro-reggae." Also looks good. Ah, and Shortbus! A sexually charged indi film from the director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Again, I want to watch this! It's a rare week when I want to see all the dvds that come out. Oh man, I gotta get on that! Here's some info on the films. Get to your local indi video store and check them out!
Shortbus: http://imdb.com/title/tt0455949/
Favela Rising: http://imdb.com/title/tt0455949/
Matando Cabos: http://imdb.com/title/tt0380538/
Perfect Crime: http://imdb.com/title/tt0395125/
Casino Royale: http://imdb.com/title/tt0381061/
