August 2010 Reviews

These are
the reviews
and other
pieces I'm
working on
this month.



Amazon DVDs: La Mission (with Benjamin Bratt), Burn Notice -
Season Three [four-disc set], The Killer Inside Me (with Casey
Affleck and Kate Hudson), White Collar - The Complete First Sea-
son [four-disc set], White on Rice, The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who
Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It,
Psych - The Complete Fourth Season [four-disc set],
and Soundtrack for a Revolution (the Roots, etc.)

Amazon Theatricals: Joan Rivers - A Piece of Work,
Eat Pray Love (Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem), and
The American (Anton Corbijn directs George Clooney).

Still playing (or yet to open): Alice in Wonderland,
The Concert, Countdown to Zero, Exit Through the Gift
Shop, Get Low, Inception, The Kids Are All Right,
Mother and Child, Please Give, and Wild Grass.

Seattle Film Blog: The mindboggling House.

Video Librarian: Gogol Bordello - Non-Stop, Masterpiece Classic - Small Island, BLAST!, Happiness Runs, The Final Girl, Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo, The Diets That Time Forgot [two-disc set], Jersey Shore - Season One [two-disc set], Entre Nos, Benise - The Spanish Guitar, and Elaine Page - Celebrating 40 Years on Stage.

Endnote: Small Island is so good, I watched it twice.
An adaptation of Andrea Levy's novel, it stars Naomie
Harris, David Oyelowo, Ruth Wilson, Ashley Walters,
and Benedict Cumberbatch (the BBC's new Sher-
lock Holmes). Image from The Miami Herald.