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This Weeks New Movies Now Playing

The Watchmen

Cast: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson

As a book, or novelette or just plain comic book, this is not your average Marvel comic saga. I own a set of the 12 issue series and well remember all the guys who hang out in comic books bragging about how this is really deep man! Deep? Personally I couldn’t figure it out, but it felt good to own a copy and be one of the “chosen ones” who knew what was cool.Recently quizzed on his expectations for the movie adaptation of his hallowed graphic novel Watchmen, Alan Moore — shaman, philosopher, and visionary comic-book auteur was heard to sigh. “Do we need any more shitty films in this world?” Let them do what they will, just don’t involve me. He concluded his diatribe with the simple conclusion that Watchmen, his masterwork, was “inherently unfilmable”.This is not exactly encouraging for a director attempting their dream project. But Zack Snyder, hot from his stylised-if-juvenile adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300, is a determined man. Snyder was one of the faithful, Watchmen his Bible, and would treat it with a care unprecedented in the annals of Hollywood screw-ups. Every sinew of directorial effort has been bent on proving the author wrong. Talk about a task! The novel is dizzy with storytelling devices: not just comic-strips, but biographical chapters, diaries, newspaper reports, poetry quotations, medical files and a warped, ultra-violent story-within-a-story called Tales Of The Black Freighter (an earlier animated DVD release). It was full of astonishing ideas that could take you years to fully compute. Stick that into two hours of family entertainment then, Zack…The story begins in 1985 when an outcast superhero has been tossed out of his apartment window. Still, The Comedian, former member of the disbanded Watchmen, has some ugly secrets. Rorschach, a paranoid sleuth whose ink-blot mask eerily ebbs and flows with his moods, can smell conspiracy, but his fellow ex-Watchmen are hard to convince. It’s a whodunit, although what exactly has been done is hard to say. It’s an action movie heavy on dialogue, although the movie styles up the punch-ups into slow-mo montages. It’s a bleak, rangy tale of a planet beset with disorder, and a superhero soap that shuttles between multiple stories.
That Snyder has gotten a version to the screen at all is a triumph. This is 160 minutes of a dense, geek-orientated blockbuster for grown-ups. (I warned you! No Spiderman here) But if you like action comic book heroes type movies, you’ll love it; arms are snapped, heads smashed in and Viet-Cong splattered like flies. Oh what a blast, not for the squeamish but then if you rent this you know what you’re in for don’t you? Oh, by the way nearly 3 hours long, did I mention that?




Coraline

Cast: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Keith David, John Hodgman, Robert Bailey Jr., Ian McShane

First off, 3D DVD’s don’t work! True you can see some form of three dimension but the cardboard glasses never fit, they slide down your nose and the colours disappear because of some scientific problem. In a nutshell, watch the 2D version. Now on to this review; the story; Coraline (Fanning) moves to a new home, where she feels neglected by her stressed-out parents. When she finds a door leading to a happier mirror on her own world, with a loving ‘Other Mother’ (Hatcher), everything seems perfect ; but there’s danger lurking..
Adults have been overheard fretting about how scary it is ; and they’re right: it’s terrifying. Children though, have no such qualms. Strange, perhaps, but then, this is a strange film. As creepy as it is charming, as bizarre as it is beautiful, this is a true horror movie, but also a warm, brightly colored children’s fairy tale about the magic behind everyday life.
Directed by Henry Selick and based on a short book by Neil Gaiman as its inspiration. Employing stop-motion animation that renders human beings with the distinctive characteristics evident in both Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, Selick finds the perfect look to bring Gaiman's vision to life. The resulting tale may owe a little to "Hansel and Gretel" and "Alice in Wonderland," but ultimately stands on its own
Terrifying and beautiful, believable and fantastical, this is one of the best children’s films in years and Selick’s finest — better even than The Nightmare Before Christmas.




12 Rounds

Cast: John Cena, Ashley Scott, Brian J. White, Taylor Cole, Aidan Gillen, Steve Harris, Lara Grice, Billy Slaughter, Gonzalo Menendez, Louis Herthum

Officer Danny Fisher (Cena) gets the break of his career when he nabs terrorist Miles Jackson (Gillen). Unluckily for both, the perp’s girlfriend is killed during the arrest. A year later, he escapes from jail, kidnaps Fisher’s partner, Molly (Scott), and kickstarts a diabolical 12-step game of Simon Says.

When it comes to wrestlers, only The Rock — aka Dwayne Johnson — has successfully translated his considerable charm and charisma into bona fide big-screen stardom, scoring in action fare such as The Mummy Returns and Walking Tall and kid-friendly crowd-pleasers like The Game Plan and Race To Witch Mountain.Now into the ring — or rather, out of it — steps WWE superstar John Cena, and if the hope is for him to follow in The Rock’s oversized footsteps, this is definitely how to go about it. First, give him a script worthy of Denzel, which snaps, crackles and pops, and never slows down long enough to show that Cena is new to this acting malarkey; and hire a veteran action director (Cliffhanger’s Renny Harlin) who’s hungry for a comeback — and then turn the action dial up to 11. Or, indeed, 12.

Derivative it may be, but with its echoes of Speed, Lethal Weapon and Die Hard With A Vengeance, this is a welcome throwback for audiences raised on ’90s action flicks — what they used to call “a pulse-pounding roller-coaster thrill-ride of a movie”. Much better than watching boring tv re-runs!

This Weeks Movie You Didnt Rent & Why You Should

Street Kings

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Naomie Harris, Jay Mohr, John Corbett, Cedric the Entertainer, Amaury Nolasco, Terry Crews

How did we miss this one? Like great cop movies that you have to watch again to decide who's a bad guy?
This is the one for you! From the brilliantly profane and testy mind of crime novelist James Ellroy and director David Ayer, who wrote the script for Training Day, comes a tale of police corruption amid the drug strewn gang-banging culture of LA’s sleazy underbelly. Well, what were you expecting, High School Musical 3? It’s that bad news from LA again, where everybody’s on the take and by the messy close, there are bodies falling from everywhere and you’ll feel in need of a hot, cleansing shower.
Implicated in the shooting of a fellow cop, dissolute LA detective Tom Ludlow (Reeves) finds himself caught between the protection of his tight-knit department and a growing sense he may not be working for the good guys at all.
As Ludlow, Reeves is the hards ass veteran detective. pummelling witnesses with telephone directories, swigging mini-bar vodkas at the wheel, and tossing out casual racial slurs. This is a totally new Reeves, or a totally old one. He’s never looked so worn out, all his boyish attraction is sunk beneath sallow, potholed skin and piss-hole eyes. The film opens to the nag of an alarm and we witness Neo pour himself out of bed, clutch his wrung-out face, and fetch up gobs of bile into a toilet bowl. Like woah dude. Like it so far? Well add some fine Hollywood actors including Accademy award winner Forest Whitaker, and Dr. House himself Hugh Laurie, at the fringes of the plot as an internal affairs slimeball. Go rent it now!!




Next Time, Fast & the Furious!

News & reviews week of July 12th 2009

From a new twist on an X-Men type of a story to a creepy New England house to an excellent story of revolutionary Cuba, this week has some fine viewing .

New releases now playing:

Push

Cast: Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle, Djimon Hounsou, Joel Gretsch, Neil Jackson,

This week’s biggest release, is a sci-fi thriller about the shadowy “Division”
The Division is genetically transforming citizens into an army of psychic warriors and brutally disposing of those unwilling to participate. Nick Gant, a second-generation telekinetic or mover, has been in hiding since the Division murdered his father more than a decade earlier. He has found sanctuary in densely populated Hong Kong, the last safe place on earth for fugitive psychics like him, but only if he can keep his gift a secret. Nick is forced out of hiding when Cassie Holmes, a 13-year-old clairvoyant or watcher, seeks his help. Pushers possess the most dangerous of all psychic powers: the ability to influence others actions by implanting thoughts in their minds. With the help of a team of rogue psychics, the unlikely duo traverses the seedy underbelly of the city, trying to stay one step ahead of the authorities. But they find themselves square in the crosshairs of Division Agent Henry Carver, a pusher who will stop at nothing to keep them from achieving their goal.
A concept that can be described as X-Men with psychics, the film revolves around people with an array of incredible powers. Movers are telekinetic, able to move things with their will alone. Watchers see images of the future and the titular Pushers are able to bend you to their will and place thoughts and impulses into your mind. Director Paul McGuigan’s has ambition; not only has he made a superhero movie on a kitchen-sink budget, but he’s done it in the faraway climes of Hong Kong. And he’s created a mythology to match: this film has an ending that screams for further instalments. Whether its less-than-stellar box office will kill those hopes remains to be seen, but you’ve got to hope that there’ll be an X2 to this X-Men.



Che Part 1 - Argentina

Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Santiago Cabrera, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Julia Ormond, Lou Diamond Phillips,

On Nov. 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sails to Cuba with 80 rebels. One of those rebels is Ernesto "Che" Guevara, a young Argentine idealist and doctor who shares a common goal with Fidel Castro--to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Che proves himself an indispensable fighter, and quickly grasps the art of guerrilla warfare. As he throws himself into the struggle, Che is embraced by his comrades and the Cuban people. "The Argentine" tracks Che's rise in the Cuban Revolution, from doctor to commander to revolutionary hero.
When Cuban farmers emerged to join Che Guevara in his battle against Batista’s military government in 1956, few knew what the man looked like, let alone what drove him. They came; it’s said, out of a deep-set belief that this man would lead them to a better place.

Twenty minutes into Part One of Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour-plus Guevara epic, after we’ve endured a whistle-stop ‘News On The March’ history lesson, and observed a mumbled scene in Mexico City in 1955 where Fidel Castro (Demián Bichir) outlines his plans to Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara (Benicio Del Toro), it becomes clear that Soderbergh is adopting a similar approach
Although he’s never off the screen, Del Toro’s performance is as beautifully enigmatic as that Alberto Korda photo reproduced on T-shirts around the world. Eschewing the clear biography of The Motorcycle Diaries, Part One simply drops us into the confusion and drudge of conflict. Small pieces of information emerge; he’s near-crippled by asthma; he uses his medical training to treat Cuban peasants; we hear fragments of his philosophy (“The punishment for treason is death”); yet it’s only ever what the soldiers know. In addition, Del Toro’s Che is delivered as a performance within a performance; like the soldiers, we’re watching doctor and family man Ernesto playing at (and slowly becoming) Che Guevara, the cold, efficient leader of men.
The New York sequences (shot in rich Life magazine black-and-white), in which Guevara is interviewed by ABC correspondent Lisa Howard (Julia Ormond) and addresses the United Nations, gives us Che the unreliable narrator , but the overall effect is a bit like nipping out of the cinema exit to attend, well, a meeting of the United Nations.
The film’s final set-piece, the battle for Santa Clara, is like a Gunfight At The O. K. Corral, and the second half of Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket and one of the great battle sequences of modern cinema.
Part One of Soderbergh’s Che epic dismantles the clichés and myths to craft an essay on the heroism of war, highlighted by a compelling star performance. Part 2 of the story continues with next month’s release.



The Haunting In Connecticut

Cast: Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Martin Donovan, Elias Koteas, Amanda Crew, D.W. Brown, Sarah Constible, Matt Kippen, John B. Lowe

Based on a chilling true story, Lionsgate's "The Haunting in Connecticut" charts one family's terrifying, real-life encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural. When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now, unspeakable terror awaits, when Jonah, the boy who communicated with the powerful dark forces of the supernatural, returns to unleash a new kind of horror on the innocent and unsuspecting family.
If you like spooky films, this isn't bad at all. Sure, it has all the old clichés; shadowy figures glimpsed in reflections, frightening noises, people too stupid to move out and leave the demons to their rotten old house. But A Haunting in Connecticut is elevated by sharp direction from Peter Cornwell in his feature debut, and the acting is uniformly fine. Madsen is as terrific as ever, while Kyle Gallner excels as son Matt, whose cancer treatment necessitates the family's move to a new home nearer the hospital. He becomes the main focus for the ghosts due to his having one foot in 'the Valley of Death' and turns to another patient, gloomy Reverend Popescu (Elias Koteas), for help. Every week lately we have released a new horror movie to the Spot, “Haunting” is an entertaining time-passer; inessential, but lots of fun.



TV Series coming this week,

uncut (no commercials silly!) on beautiful DVD's!

True Blood Season 1
New cult HBO drama which details the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional small northern Louisiana town. Twilight anybody?

The Closer Season 4
American crime drama showing on TNT and starring Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Georgia police detective who arrives in Los Angeles to lead the Priority Murder Squad (later Priority Homicide Division), a team that deals only with high profile murder cases.

Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1
American science fiction television series that aired on Fox. It is a spin-off from the Terminator series of films. It revolves around the lives of the fictional characters Sarah and John Connor, following the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. There’s no Arnold in this, instead a very sexy female terminator who is one of the good guys (or gals)

Rome
The most expensive US television series ever made and without an American actor in it! Some of the finest British actors made this the groundbreaking series and cult favourite of the passed few years. The show's first season originally aired on HBO in the United States between August 28 and November 20, 2005, and has never been surpassed (except perhaps by season 2) ever since. The story of Rome depicts the period of history surrounding the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire, the decay of political institutions, and the actions of ambitious men and women. The series follows the two main characters Lucius and Titus from Caesars invasion of Gaul to the death of Mark Antony and the rise of the first Emperor Augustus.
The series was a ratings success for HBO and the BBC. The show received much media attention from the start, and Rome was honored with numerous awards and award nominations in its two-season run.
Stars Kevin McKidd who with an American accent later starred in Journeyman and Ray Stevenson who became the Punisher. Filled with the best of the UK stage talent this is perhaps the best TV so far this millennium, not for the kiddies as it displays an awful lot of sex and violence but shows that in early Rome this was the norm. This series is available in 12 episodes on 6 discs.

Californication
Showtime TV series starring David Duchovny as Hank Moody: a troubled novelist whose move to California and his writer's block complicate the relationships with his ex-girlfriend Karen (Natascha McElhone) and daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin). Hank Moody is a charming writer and novelist but plagued with personal demons. He blames his years-long case of writer's block on a variety of reasons, ranging from the hedonism of Los Angeles, to his on-again, off-again relationship with his girlfriend Karen. Hank constantly deals with the fallout of his lack of will to say "no" to drugs, sex and alcohol, while trying to show his family that he can be a good, caring person.

Dexter Season 2
Dexter is an American television drama series that airs on American premium channel Showtime. Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a serial killer governed by a strict moral code who works for the Miami Metro Police Department as a blood spatter analyst. Incredibly gory; if it wasn’t that Dexter is the “hero” this would be a different kind of series!

Mad Men Season 1
Set in New York City, Mad Men begins in the early 1960s at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on New York City's Madison Avenue. The show centers on Don Draper (Jon Hamm), a high-level advertising creative director, and the people in his life in and out of the office. It also depicts the changing social morals of 1960s America.
Mad Men has received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its historical authenticity and visual style, and has won numerous awards, including three Golden Globes, a BAFTA and six Emmys.

Rome Season 2
The gritty, decadent world that HBO built spills more blood in its second and final season, the post-Caesar chapter that pits Mark Antony (James Purefoy) against Octavian (Simon Woods). Sweeping battlefield showdowns offer high drama, but the soap-operatic subplots orchestrated by the cunning, stunning, emerald-eyed Atia (Polly Walker) are where the real action is. EXTRAS Five sharp commentaries and four featurettes are a must-watch. Television at its best!

Breaking Bad Season 1
Shown on cable network AMC, cult hit Breaking Bad revolves around Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher with a teenage son who has cerebral palsy , and a pregnant wife. When the already tense White is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, he breaks down and turns to a life of crime, and starts producing and selling methamphetamine with his former student in a desire to secure his family's financial future.
Breaking Bad has received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its writing and Cranston's performance on the show, and won two Emmy Awards for its first season in addition to numerous other awards and nominations.

The Shield Season 7 – The Final Act
The end of the saga, one of the best US police dramas ever made and an ending that will leave you talking about for some time. Absolutely brilliant!

A Current Title You Didn’t Rent (And Why You Should)

Death Race

Cast: Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Natalie Martinez, Ian McShane, Joan Allen, Robin Shou, Jacob Vargas, Robert LaSardo, Max Ryan, Frederick Koehler

Terminal Island: The very near future. The world's hunger for extreme sports and reality competitions has grown into reality TV bloodlust. Now, the most extreme racing competition has emerged and its contestants are murderous prisoners. Tricked-out cars, caged thugs and smoking-hot navigators combine to create a juggernaut series with bigger ratings than the Super Bowl. The rules of the Death Race are simple: Win five events and you're set free. Lose and you're road kill splashed across the Internet. Three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames is an ex-con framed for a gruesome murder. Forced to don the mask of the mythical driver Frankenstein, a Death Race crowd favorite who seems impossible to kill, Ames is given an easy choice by Terminal Island's ruthless Warden Hennessey: Suit up and drive or never see his little girl again. His face hidden by a hideous mask, one convict will enter an insane three-day challenge in order to gain freedom. But to claim the prize, Ames must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals; including nemesis Machine Gun Joe; in the country's toughest prison. Trained by his coach to drive a monster Mustang V8 Fastback outfitted with two mounted mini-guns, flamethrowers and napalm, an innocent man will destroy everything in his path to win the most twisted spectator sport on Earth. Now, if that doesn’t encourage you to rent this one, well there’s always Pink Panther 2!
At first glance, Death Race is another one of those remake-cum-adolescent fantasy (originally made in 2000 with David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone) but unlike, say, Resident Evil and Alien Vs. Predator, director Paul Anderson delivers an unashamedly brutal actioner that pushes all the right guys’ flick buttons, combining hot chicks, hotter cars, enormous guns, and Joan Allen saying the word “cocksucker”. The original Death Race had David Carradine and a young Sylvester Stallone race across America mowing down pedestrians for points. Anderson actually pitches this movie as a prequel of sorts, exploring the origins of Frankenstein (Jason Statham, in the Carradine role) and Machine-Gun Joe (Tyrese, following Stallone) and, indeed, the concept of the death race itself. By transplanting the action from the open road to a maximum-security prison run by Allen’s Warden Hennessey, a ball-busting cross between a Stepford Wife and Maggie Thatcher, Anderson combines prison movie (The Camshaft Redemption, anyone?) with revenge flick. And while it’s one-dimensional, overcrowded with walking clichés (all hail Ian McShane, bringing a bedraggled charm to the role of Kindly Old Lag), and bereft of the original’s satire, the locale change allows Anderson to shift the focus of the event from a meandering affair to a concise three-lap race, during which drivers unleash guns, oil and even napalm upon their rivals.
This is an enjoyable, macho B-movie romp, don’t you just love it? Turn up the sound and get ready for some ridiculous action, and if you’re ready for it, it also comes in both the theatrical and the unrated version!

News and reviews Week Of July 5th 2009

A very happy belated Canada Day everybody!

A nice Sci-Fi thriller this week, Nicholas Cage in “Knowing” and a nice creepy exorcist type movie with a new religious slant (see review!)
We goofed! The TV series we all want to watch uncut (without commercials silly!) could not be rented because of an internal problem. We’ve sorted it out now and very shortly (give us a week) they will be in the Spot. We’re talking Rome, Entourage, Californication, Breaking Bad, The Closer, The Shield, Dexter, True Blood, Terminator-The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Mad Men, stay tuned for details.

New releases now playing:

Knowing

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Ben Mendelsohn, Adrienne Pickering, Tamara Donnellan, Brett Robson, Jayson Sutcliffe

In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler, who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. John's increasingly desperate efforts to solve this puzzle take him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster-and the ultimate sacrifice.
This is a fascinating and engrossing science fiction film, a picture that offers far more than surface thrills. Yes, the film starts out as a moodier, low-key variation on the superior first act of Jim Carrey's "The Number 23"; but it eventually progresses into something far different, something that deals with predestination, free will, and the terrible burden of foreknowledge in a fashion that will be familiar to fans of director Alex Proyas's previous genre films ("The Crow," "Dark City," "I Robot"). “Knowing”, while not without its faults, is fascinating and brave entertainment. The three main set-pieces; a horrific plane crash, an equally brutal subway smash-up, and the frightening finale; are all skillfully rendered, these scenes play like newsreel footage filled out with actual visions of real-life death and destruction. For these moments alone, Knowing is worth your time.




The Unborn

Cast: Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Cam Gigandet, Meagan Good, Jane Alexander, Idris Elba, Rachel Brosnahan
Casey Beldon (Yustman) hated her mother for leaving her as a child. But when inexplicable things start to happen, Casey begins to understand why she left. Plagued by merciless dreams and a tortured ghost that haunts her waking hours, she must turn to the only spiritual advisor, Sendak,(Oldman) who can make it stop. With Sendak's help, Casey uncovers the source of a family curse dating back to Nazi Germany--a creature with the ability to inhabit anyone or anything that is getting stronger with each possession. With the curse unleashed, her only chance at survival is to shut a doorway from beyond our world that has been pried open by someone who was never born.
"The Unborn," the latest “J-horror’-styled release from a major studio. In this case, however, the “J” in “J-Horror” doesn’t stand for “Japanese,” but for “Jewish.” Written and directed by David S. Goyer ("The Invisible," "Batman Begins," the "Blade" trilogy), "The Unborn" borrows its supernatural elements from Jewish folklore, specifically the “Dybbuk,” a malevolent, body-possessing spirit, and a Jewish-styled exorcism (who knew they existed?). Featuring not one but two creepy, pale-faced kids (one’s actually alive, though) and several fascinating ideas and a handful of disturbing images (all of which, alas, you’ve seen already in the TV ads), and a scantily clad lead actress, Odette Yustman who is certainly easy on the eyes, something Goyer exploits multiple times through gratuitous underwear shots (and one shower scene)
“The Unborn" doesn’t mine new genre territory beyond the aforementioned Jewish folklore, but manages to squeeze half a dozen decent jump scares into its brisk, sub-90-minute running time. Plus bonus, it stars one of my favorites Gary Oldman who stole “Batman Begins”, so is probably why he’s in this one anyway. Oh, one more goodie, the DVD has the unrated cut with more scary stuff!!




A Current Title You Didn’t Rent (And Why You Should)

The Rocker

Cast: Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Teddy Geiger, Josh Gad, Emma Stone, Jeff Garlin, Jane Lynch, Jason Sudeikis, Will Arnett, Howard Hesseman

Rainn Wilson's (The Office) first big-screen leading role sees him slip into tactical spandex as he plays sweaty rocker Fish (no relation to Marillion’s), who’s booted out of ’80s metal band Vesuvius just as they hit the big time. After 20 years of hurt, his nephew gives him a chance to relive his dream, by playing the drums in a high school rock band. Cue flamboyant fills, furious bouts of head-banging and a string of rather flat gags ; like the floundering Fish playing his drums naked, unaware that the world is watching via video phone as he bids for rock ’n’ roll redemption. It's great to see someone other than Jack Black playing a role like this. Well done Rainn Wilson, Great supporting cast as well; especially the hysterical Christina Applegate (love her!) also the music rocks as well. So why didn’t you rent it? What else are you going to do on a Tuesday? (our new releases are in by Friday)




Coming Next Week; Push, Haunting In Connecticut, Che part 1.

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