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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 now rent the fourth film in the Rambo franchise, simply titled Rambo, and Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream, starring Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell.
Is Sylvester Stallone Still Relevant as an Action Hero?
In 2006, he returned for Rocky Balboa. Now Sylvester Stallone has dredged up another of his old action hero roles with the latest installment of Rambo. Do you enjoy seeing Sly revisit the old action roles that helped to make him a household name?
Box Office: Spartans Defeat Rambo
The 300 spoof movie Meet the Spartans took the box office crown this weekend, just barely edging out the latest Rambo for first place. Still, Rambo's numbers are encouraging to studio heads, who appear to be "thinking about reviving Rambo as a franchise." According to Variety, Harvey Weinstein remarked, "Based on these numbers, there should be another one."
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Grumpy Old Action Heroes
Perusing Cinematical and ComingSoon recently I came across these on-set photos from the next installment of the Rambo series, yet another action series I considered long dead (not dead meaning "irrelevant," dead meaning "completed"). For a 62-year-old man, Sylvester Stallone looks pretty good, but beyond that I find myself perplexedly asking the same question I wondered when Sly's old-man Rocky Balboa movie came out last year: Do we really need another one of these?
Between Rambo, Rocky, the most recent Die Hard movie, and now even Indiana Jones, it’s like these action heroes who were played by the young and spry versions of these men in the 1980s just want to keep their series gasping along (and, of course, want to keep getting paid), but at what point does this all become an embarrassing joke?
Link Time! 11/29
- TV Squad rounds up TV-based comic books, just in case you want to read while the writers are on strike.
- Cinematical's weekly list laments the seven good actors who have subjected us to terrible accents in films.
- Popwatch has an early review of Wu-Tang Clan's next album 8 Diagrams.
- TV with MeeVee is impressed that the Family Friendly Programming Awards actually went to some pretty good shows.
- The MTV Movies Blog has a new photo of Sylvester Stallone looking mean (and kind of gross) as John Rambo.
- Give Me My Remote has photographic evidence of a possible Prison Break spoiler.
- Stereogum has a video preview for Bjork's "Declare Independence."
- TV Filter tries to figure out who should win Beauty and the Geek.
The CBS Fall Schedule: Five New Series, No Vampires
CBS took its turn at the 2008 upfronts this morning, revealing a slate that boasted five new shows — and the cancellation of a couple of fan favorites. Chief among them: Moonlight, the network's Friday night vampire drama, which in recent weeks had fans organizing a blood drive in its honor. I wonder if stakes and cloves of garlic will soon be arriving at CBS' door?
Buzz News Roundup, 2/4
- Yesterday's Patriots-Giants game was the most-watched Super Bowl ever with 97.5 million viewers, the Associated Press reports.
- Speaking of the Super Bowl, the Arcade Fire apparently didn't give permission for their song to be used in an ad for NFL on Fox, Pitchfork reports.
- A Jim Henson biopic titled Henson is now in the works, though casting hasn't yet begun, writes ComingSoon.
- E! Online has news that the Spice Girls will wrap their world tour later this month, canceling dates in China, Australia, South Africa and Argentina.
- Variety reports that Robert Englund, mostly known as the man who played Freddie Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street, will direct The Vij, "a dark gothic fantasy in which Christopher Lee is attached to star."
- People has more on that Sarah Silverman/Matt Damon video for Jimmy Kimmel Live.
- Sylvester Stallone has signed on to direct and star in two more action flicks with the same producing team he worked with on Rambo, writes Hollywood Reporter.
- The Wall Street Journal has more on what a strike settlement could mean for getting TV shows back this season., while Broadcasting & Cable reports on a WGA memo saying a deal isn't done yet.
- According to ComingSoon, Rob Lowe will join Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner in the comedy This Side of the Truth.
- Sarah Michelle Gellar hasn't signed on yet for the Buffy reunion at the Paley Festival, the LA Times reports (update! She will be attending after all); the festival will also include panels for Friday Night Lights, Damages, and Chuck, among others.
Box Office: Hannah Montana Juggernaut Makes History
While most of us had our attention turned to the Super Bowl this weekend, Miley Cyrus fans headed to the theaters in droves to make Disney's 3-D pic Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour the highest-grossing Super Bowl movie of all time.
Jessica Alba's thriller, The Eye came in a distant second, pulling in $13 million compared to Hannah Montana's $29 million. The Katherine Heigl-James Marsden romantic comedy 27 Dresses came in at No.
Link Time! 1/31
- Cinematical compares the two new Leatherheads posters: romance or sports?
- Popwatch proudly talks about applauding along with the rest of the audience at the end of Rambo.
- SFist has a photo of Sean Penn as Harvey Milk and other photos from the set.
- TV Squad ranks TV judges — think Wapner and Judy, not Simon and Paula — through the ages.
- Stereogum has a video of KT Tunstall covering The Bangles' "Walk Like an Egyptian."
- United Hollywood has a story of a fifth-grader launching a readathon to support the strike.
- This Slate reviewer calls Meet the Spartans a "massive consumer fraud" for charging $10.50 for a movie that's barely one hour long.
- TV Filter wonders if anyone else hated the Pop Up Video-style Lost rerun.
- YouAintNoPicasso is hosting a large collection of Of Montreal covering everyone from Blondie to The Shins to Gnarls Barkley.
- Bridezilla hilariously suggests some great ideas for having a sob-free Valentine's Day as a single gal, including more Romy and Michelle, less Meg Ryan.
Link Time! 1/8
- SlashFilm finds a San Francisco street artist posing a key question: Do you prefer shoot-em-up star Rambo, or 19th-century French poet Rimbaud?
- Popwatch has a call to action to stop Jessica Simpson's country album from happening.
- Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's return to the air makes TV Squad wonder: What's the going definition of "writing" these days, anyway?
- When MTV Movies Blog chatted with director David Fincher he revealed his plans to turn Fight Club into a musical.
- Pop Candy shares a way to win a chance to see the Lipstick Jungle premiere early — plus free lipstick.
- Pop has photos from the set of Eagle Eye, the thriller that is reuniting Shia LaBeouf with his Disturbia director D.J. Caruso.
- Check out Stereogum for Moby's latest video for the song "Alice."
- TV Filter spreads the good news that all of Lost is now available online for free!
- CasaSugar lets us tour Parker Posey's old apartment — without stalking her!
- Idolator already has a contender for the worst album cover of 2008.
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