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What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday
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 bring home the blockbuster hit 10,000 B.C.
What Do You Think About the Best Animated Film?
Ratatouille just won Best Animated Feature Film! This was a great category this year that included Persepolis and Surf's Up. What do you think of this win?
Buzz News Roundup, 2/18
- Jordin Sparks will open for Alicia Keys on her North American As I Am tour that kicks off April 19 in Hampton, Virginia, E! Online reports.
- HBO's long-awaited adaptation of David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography John Adams has a premiere date, according to Zap2It. The seven-part miniseries starring Paul Giamatti will start on Sunday, March 16.
- ComingSoon has news that the same guys who wrote Saw IV and Saw V will write the Hellraiser remake Clive Barker Presents: Hellraiser.
Persepolis: A World That's Not So Black and White
In many ways Persepolis is a familiar coming-of-age story that is universally relatable for anyone who struggled to find an identity on the way to adulthood or who found the overnight changes to the teenage body freaky. On the other hand, the comic-book animation and writer/co-director Marjane Satrapi's honest telling of her extraordinary adolescence in Iran make this movie something altogether unique.
Persepolis is based on the best-selling comic book-as-memoir written by Satrapi, which recounts her life growing up in a politically tumultuous era of Iranian history that persists today.
Movie Preview: Persepolis
Big-name films like Sweeney Todd and Alien vs. Predator: Requiem will be getting most of the attention this holiday season, but I'm quite intrigued by a much smaller, very different film that will also be hitting theaters on Christmas day. Persepolis, based on Marjane Satrapi's graphic novels, is an animated coming-of-age story about a young Iranian girl finding her way during the Islamic Revolution.
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