Zombieland : DVD released on 2/2/2010

If there was a zombie apocalypse and you're road-trip though the desert alone, could do worse than run in Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), a bourbon-drinking bad boy-butt-kicker with a really good car. This is where the hero careful Zombieland, a boy nicknamed Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), is at the beginning of the movie and can hardly be blamed for that hitch a ride with this man arrogant Alpha. However, they have their hands full, not just mumbling zombies, but with two sisters (Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin) who will stop at nothing to achieve as a Disneyland amusement park in Los Angeles Although Zombieland comes down to a beginning difficult to Columbus too cute narration (which has a list of rules for surviving the zombie world), sits in a comedy, regularly interrupted by episodes of bloodshed. The road-trip is enough fun stuff when the film is in its version of Disneyland, the air comes out a little, sure, there is a giant zombie outbreak, with the entrails of flight, but not exactly the same. Director Ruben Fleischer keeps the gags coming, though the film is often more fun in their odd little asides (Eisenberg and Harrelson are both experts in this) that in his official jokes. Comic highest point: an interlude in the house of a famous movie star, who plays himself - and leave the spoiler virgin, in case anyone has not heard of this funny extended cameo.

• Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: February 2, 2010
• Run Time: 88 minutes

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Bright Star : DVD released on 1/26/2010

Add Jane Campion, rich, sensual, exciting quietly Bright Star to the very short list of films admirable writers. In this case, the writer John Keats (Ben Whishaw), the Romantic poet who died at age 25 thinking himself a failure. The movie, set in his last years, focuses on friendship and playful with the evolution of love for Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), the independent-minded young man who lived near Hampstead Village and was, in its way, an art spirit . Complete a full constellation ineffable - is not exactly a love triangle - is the host of Keats Charles Armitage Brown (Paul Schneider), who loves, appreciates, and refers to Keats with pride and envy, and engages in tacit rivalry Fanny. The three performances are excellent, with Whishaw add to your gallery of artist (the murderer obsessed olfactorily perfume, one of the Bob Dylans in I'm Not There), and Cornish and Schneider functions taking top honors in 2009. As in The Campion, Piano, others are part of the central story, and have identities, personalities, and states that intelligence and understanding to appreciate without having to announce in the dialogue. Kerry Fox (a wild redhead girl Campion angel at my table for almost two decades) evokes the mother of Fanny, with broad strokes, and Fanny's younger sister and brother are vigilant presence and, indeed, co-conspirators in courtship. In addition, Bright Star is the rare period film to convey - without being pushy - what it was like living in another era, the nature of houses and rooms and how people occupied, the windows so people linked sites and extend lives and experiences, such as fires and the sunlight warms English milky no. And there's always a feeling of being alive on place and time, the creaking of the wooden walkway underfoot and the wind noise, as lovers of the cane to walk through a wetland. The poetry grows out of these things, at least, Jane Campion does.

• Actors: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider, Kerry Fox, Edie Martin
• Directors: Jane Campion
• Writers: Jane Campion
• Producers: Cameron McCracken, Caroline Hewitt, Christine Langan, David M. Thompson, Emma Mager
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: January 26, 2010
• Run Time: 119 minutes

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Pandorum : DVD released on 1/19/2010

Largely dismissed as yet another Alien carbon, the hybrid Pandorum science-fiction/horror beyond the scope of this criticism with a nice mix of atmospherics and high-voltage shocks. Ben Foster and Dennis Quaid - two actors always watchable, and they also used here - are top-billed as a pair of space travelers who awakens from hibernation along and no idea who they are or how they got on board a huge and apparently empty spaceship. His exploration of the ship discovers not only a handful of human beings, including the martial arts champion Cung Le and French scientist / Eye Candy Antje Traue necessary, but a series of mutants of wild boar with designs on them unpleasant. Director Christian Alvert, which gained international recognition among viewers with its antibody thriller genre, it keeps you committed and unresolved in the shadow of the impregnated film developed and creepy production design, though his own attention span, which can be described as charity blink and miss it obscures the clashes between human and monster cast. However, Alvert has some tricks up his sleeve for the final - an inspiration for others, not so much - not only helps to soften the harsher aspects of Pandorum, but also indicates that it is a genre director to watch.

• Actors: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Norman Reedus, Niels Bruno Schmidt, Delphine Chuillot
• Directors: Christian Alvart
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
• DVD Release Date: January 19, 2010
• Run Time: 108 minutes

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The Hurt Locker : DVD released on 1/12/2010

Making honest action movies has become so rare that magnificent Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker has shown especially in art houses instead of multiplexes. That's fine, the image is a work of art. But it also offers more excitement kinetics, yielded more breath hold, putting more-you-get-right in the danger zone that the brains of all dead, visually incoherent demolition derby hogging the screens of the mall. This is partly a matter of subject. The film focuses on a team of explosive ordnance disposal, the boys whose more or less a day of work is to disarm homemade bombs that have accounted for most U.S. casualties in Iraq. But even more, the extraordinary tension of the film derives from the precision and intelligence of the leadership of Bigelow. She gets all sweaty tactical details and nuances in the foreground the clash of man and the bomb, while remaining alert to surround reality inevitably volatile foreign environment - hot streets and white-walled buildings full of onlookers, some curious and some hostile, perhaps turning over a mobile phone could become a trigger. This is moviemaking copy. You do not need CGI, only a human eye and the imagination to realize that, for example, the view of the dust and scale of an abandoned car removed by an explosion a half block offers more shock value ball fire pixelated.

The adjustment may be Iraq in 2004, but could very well be the Thermopylae; film is The Hurt Locker "Iraq War". Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal - who did time as a journalist with a unit integrating EOD - add to or supporters or opponents of U.S. involvement. There are no politics here. War is only the work of the film's characters do. One in particular, the highly resourceful staff sergeant played by Jeremy Renner, is addicted to adrenaline almost nonstop and the opportunity to express their esoteric life-in-the-art genius. Title The Hurt Locker is a picture he keeps under his bed, filled with bomb parts and other items of signatories to "things that could have killed me." That none of that has killed so far is not a real comfort. In this film, you never know who's going and when, even high-profile talent (we will not name names here) is not guaranteed. But one thing can be guaranteed, and is that almost all sequences of the film becomes a fascinating, often strongly fault enigmatic. This is Kathryn Bigelow's best film since 1987 by about Dark. It could also be the best movie of 2009.

• Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Anthony Mackie
• Directors: Kathryn Bigelow
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Summit Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: January 12, 2010
• Run Time: 131 minutes

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