Sunday, August 01, 2010

August
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.



Siffblog: The mindboggling House.

Video Librarian: Gogol Bordello Non-Stop, Masterpiece
Classic - Small Island
, Favela on Blast, Happiness Runs,
The Final Girl
, Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo, The Diets
That Time Forgot
[two-disc set], Jersey Shore - Season 1
[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.

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