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All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to the titles below, you can also rent Reservation Road (not to be confused with Revolutionary Road), and Leonardo DiCaprio's global warming warning, The 11th Hour.
Box Office: Bee Movie Buzzes to the Top
In round two of American Gangster vs. Bee Movie at the box office, the bees buzzed their way to the top. Bee Movie brought in an estimated $26 million in its second weekend, flip-flopping last week's results by edging out American Gangster's $24.3 million.
Rewind: This Week's Buzz
- Hollywood writers went on strike this week, shutting down The Office and delaying 24, among other things. I wondered if you care and whether the strike will make you watch more Web-exclusive shows.
- It was a week chock full of music videos, so watch as Rilo Kiley does The Frug, Jay-Z becomes an American Gangster, Rashida Jones rocks out with the Foo Fighters, and John C. Reilly walks hard.
- We learned a lot about next summer's Valkyrie, thanks to this featurette and a full-length trailer.
- This week saw the release of Lions for Lambs, and I wondered how you felt about movies dealing with contemporary politics.
- What's your list of the worst TV shows ever?
- NPR Music got infinitely cooler with its great new Web site.
Lions for Lambs: An Interesting Debate
Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs is not exactly a cinematic tour de force. In fact, it could have easily been a play, or even a staged reading. Set in three places for the entirety of the movie's 88 minutes, it's low on action and high on talk.
What Do You Think About Movies Based on Current Politics?
This fall we've seen some films, like The Kingdom and Rendition, that deal with current political issues, and they've been met with mostly lukewarm responses. I'm curious to find out whether or not Lions for Lambs will experience the same fate when it opens this weekend. This all makes me wonder: do people want to see movies that deal with current politics?
Movie Preview: Lions for Lambs
The tag line for Robert Redford's political drama Lions for Lambs is "If you don't stand for something, you might fall for anything." Yet aside from that and the fact that Tom Cruise is making his first onscreen appearance since Mission Impossible III, what do you know about this upcoming movie?
The stories of three disparate Americans — one professor (Redford), one journalist (Meryl Streep) and one presidential hopeful (Cruise) — intertwine over the prickly subject of the war on terror.
Lions for Lambs Online Competition Builds Buzz, Helps Others
In an effort to build buzz for the November 9 release of Lions for Lambs, starring Robert Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise, MGM is holding a YouTube/Google video competition. Through the competition, "individuals can produce a 90-second video discussing the social issue they’re most passionate about." People will then watch the videos and vote on their favorite submissions.
Fall Movie Preview: Just Drama
Well it's September, folks, and the summertime movie season is officially over. Now we have a whole new crop of films to check out in the coming chillier months, so in preparation for that, I'm giving you little glimpses of this fall and winter's must-see movies with my Fall Movie Preview series. Today's roundup is full of drama, drama, drama.
Tom Cruise in Lions for Lambs, Out of Germany
I'm finding it difficult to take Tom Cruise seriously — ever since the couch-jumping and disparaging remarks about psychiatry I've cast a wary eye on him — but the German military is taking him very seriously. Cruise's attempts to shoot his Nazi drama Valkyrie have been thwarted by the German military because Cruise is a Scientologist. According to the article:
Defense Ministry spokesman Harald Kammerbauer said the film makers "will not be allowed to film at German military sites if Count Stauffenberg is played by Tom Cruise, who has publicly professed to being a member of the Scientology cult."
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