10 Things I Hate About You [Tenth Anniversary Edition]
It’s hard to believe that 10 years has passed since this movie originally hit theatres. A modern spin on the classic Shakespeare play, The Taming of the Shrew, this witty teen romance comedy stars Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and a 20-year-old Heath Ledger in his American film debut. The extras for this DVD has been complied into one retrospective documentary, “10 Things I Hate About You 10 Years Later,” which includes cast interviews and footage of Heath Ledger’s screen test.
Big Love: The Complete Third Season
Critics and audience have been praising this HBO drama series since its first episode aired in 2006. Bill Paxton stars as Bill Henrikson, the patriarch of a polygamist Mormon family who struggles with the many complications of living by a fundamentalist faith in modern society. Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny, and Ginnifer Goodwin portray his three wives. The 10-episode DVD set will also feature features bonus mini-episodes and character Point-Of-Views.
The Circuit
Michelle Trachtenberg portrays an up-and-coming racer who is seen as a real contender in a male-dominated field. Though she has tremendous skill behind the feel, there’s a great distance between her and her father (played by Billy Campbell), a racing legend who refuses to acknowledge her talents behind the wheel. Originally aired on ABC Family, this should be a feel-good film with a message of female empowerment for all the little girls out there with a penchant for dangerous sports.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Who hasn’t dreamed about a storm of food raining down upon them? It’s a great fantasy … until you start drowning in gravy. Sony Picture’s huge hit (which is based on a children’s book of the same name) features the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, and Mr. T in this entertaining story about a young scientist who creates a device that turns water into food. The release includes behind-the-scenes footage, interviews, deleted scenes, and a sing-along for the kids.
Fifty Dead Men Walking
Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, and Rose McGowan star in a crime thriller based on true events that occurred in Ireland in the late 1980s. The film focuses on Martin McGartland (portrayed by Sturgess), an informant within the IRA who passed information to the British, risking his life to save others. The film is based on McGartland’s 1997 autobiography.
The Final Destination
This is the forth film in the horror series, and hopefully its last instalment. This entry was shot in HD 3D because I guess the director thought that it would make the movie more frightening and less awful. That theory didn’t pan out. The story takes place ten years after the first film and features a whole new set of implausible and gory deaths.
Little Mosque on the Prairie: Season 3
The amusing show about Muslims living in a pre-dominantly non-Muslim town has become a gem of Canadian television and is now in its fourth season. Now you can cat-up/get acquainted with all the cross culture zaniness with the show’s third season box set, which features all 20 episodes, a gag reel, deleted scenes and the “I on Mercy” Webisodes.
Lorna’s Silence
Le silence de Lorna takes us to Belgium where a young woman with dreams of running a snack bar with her boyfriend becomes entangled with the mob. Lorna must participate in a sham marriage in order to gain her citizenship, but she becomes torn when she realizes what it will cost her to be marry her true love legitimately later on. The film won Best Screenplay and the Golden Palm award at Cannes
The Ministers
Murder, secrecy, and a religious cult known as The Ministers enwrap this mystery-thriller starring John Leguizamo, Harvey Keitel, and Diane Venora. The plot follows an NYPD detective as she tries to solve and avenge her father’s death several years later while unsuspectingly becoming involved with one of his killers.
