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From Now Until the End of November

All Previously-Viewed Movies Are $5

Coming Distractions, December 2nd, 2008

Next Tuesday's You're Welcome Movies:

Step Brothers
Wanted
Lower Learning
24: Redepemption
Fly Me to the Moon
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Metalocalypse- 2nd Season
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
The Longshots (directed by Fred Durst)

I really wanted to believe in the X-Files movie. Instead, I laughed a lot. Much more believable: the spirit pictures in Shutter (on our shelves just yesterday), which I would certainly recommend. I can't speak for the Joshua Jackson remake, but the original took me places I was not expecting to go (in a good, pleasing, not too many loose ends kind of way.)

I am sure all you lovely readers noticed that this blog is being posted an entire day early due to Thanksgiving! We should all take a moment of silence to thank Lincoln for this particular contribution to the great tradition of American feasting. Then I would like to share with you a thing I am very thankful for--my favorite words of November:

Pandiculate: v. to stretch and yawn at the same time.



Dysphemism: n. antonym (along with cacophemism) of euphemism--the usage of an intentionally harsh word or expression instead of a polite one. ex. replace to die with to assume room temperature.

Chimera: n. mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail or any organism composed of two or more genetically distinct tissues.

What are your favorite November words? Only a few days left to figure that one out...

Coming Distractions, November 25th, 2008

Hancock
Meet Dave
Executive Koala
George Carlin: It's Bad For Ya
Still Life
Madhouse
Two Front Teeth
Here Is Always Somewhere Else: The Disappearance of Bas Jan Ader
A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All


Here's a horse (Molly!) with a prosthetic leg.


Can't write too much today because I have to go buy a mixer so I can make tarts. But I have enough time to tell you that in the last two weeks I watched two movies I would recommend:

Mister Lonely
and especially
Shock Corridor.

I love movies about insane asylums. Don't you? Any of you kind film connoisseurs have any crazy people movie recommendations for me? Why isn't movie spelled movy?
Other good crazy people movies:
snake pit
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
a woman under the influence
I know I must be forgetting more.

Here is the point where I need to share with you a racy comment, so cover the eyes of any children that may be lingering nearby:

We will have the adult film Who's Nailin' Paylin? next week. In case anyone cares anymore.

Now: here's an all-ages koala picture!

Coming Distractions November 18th, 2008

It's gonna be a big week (finally!) for new releases:

WALL-E
Tropic Thunder
Mister Lonely
Noam Chomsky On the World
Project Runway - 4th Season
Encounters at the End of the World
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Gonzo: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson



I've come here today to tell you about an oft-overlooked, heartwarming little 1990 documentary we just got on DVD called Troll 2. This film follows the Waits family on vacation as they fall for the good people of Nilbog and their unusual agricultural practices. Caveat: there are no actual trolls in this movie, for that you may want to partake of the wonderful escapades of a summer vacation in Llort. I think it's somewhere near Nilbog, though you may have to take a wrong turn through the mouth of hell to get there.

If you can turn people into plants, and then you eat them, do you still qualify as a vegetarian? It makes more sense than vegetarians who eat chicken, right? Unless, of course, you're turning the chickens into vegetation first, too... Woah, this is getting too convoluted for my overwrought brain. Instead of pondering the Big Questions I'm a gonna focus on this chicken's extravagant plumage and comforting backdrop. Is that not one of the most majestic chickens you've ever seen?


Popcorn is passé. Some canned food to snack on while you relax?

Coming out on Tuesday:

Kung Fu Panda
Hellboy II
Eight Miles High
Mister Foe
Impy's Island




What a week it has been! Since we last met, Halloween was celebrated, clocks got set an hour back, and I think there might have been an election or something. I've been particularly excited to see the amount of voter turnout and it looks like we got around 62.5% and 64.1% of eligible voters to the polls (133.3 million Americans!). That is the highest turnout in over 40 years, and may be equal to the turnout in 1960, when JFK just barely beat out Nixon. Our numbers are generally pretty dismal, and similar to the 47% low Australia hit before they made voting compulsory in 1924. Fines as high as $20 may result from non-voting in Australia, and they now have turnout rates of around 95%. Please discuss these facts and figures amongst yourselves.

In movie news, the documentaries just keep rolling into our store. Next week we are gonna have Mix-Up, a french film from 1963 about two women who discover at age twenty that they were switched as babies at the hospital and have been raised by the wrong families. If you find you have an hour of aural void to fill, This American Life also produced an amazingly compelling radio show on two women who did not learn they had been Switched at Birth until age 40 and another episode about the case of Bobby Dunbar, which details what happened when a young boy was found in 1914 and claimed by two separate sets of mothers whose sons had been kidnapped. We are also documentaries getting Alice Neel, Swing State, Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright... and so many more that you will just have to stop into the store to peruse them yourself, at your leisure.

Coming Distractions November 4th, 2008

Get Smart
Transsiberian
Moscow Zero
The Good Life
Flashbacks of a Fool
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Futurama: Bender's Game

Thanks to everyone who came out to see the Vermont International Film Festival this last weekend! Gracias todos! I can now confirm that Let the Right One In was well worth my time and money, and I might even read the novel: if only to solve some gender mysteries the movie didn't quite make clear. Ahora, con el ataque de los gatos!

Astral Projection? Tell me how.

Coming Distractions October 28th, 2008

We's a gonna gets 4 U:

The L Word - 5th Season
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Zombie Strippers



Firstly: the Vermont International Film Festival begins today and we now have schedules for the films at Cinema 9 on the front counter at the video store. I am personally very excited for Let the Right One In (even, I dare say, more excited for that than for Zombie Strippers, if you can believe it). Another intriguing offering: the documentary Flow: For the Love of Water.


Congratulations to Chris & Mike for each winning a pair of tickets to see the Spaghetti Western Orchestra at the Flynn Theater on Monday! 5 musicians playing up to 100 instruments, celebrating Ennio Morricone's soundtracks for Sergio Leone.




In case you hadn't been in the store yet to see: this past Tuesday we documentaries, lots of documentaries! (the numbers are upwards of a dozen and downwards of two sets of ten!) Some highlights include:
Constantine's Sword
Fall From Grace
Cinematographer Style
Palestine Blues
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Critical Condition

We do it just to prove learning can be fun, and that our sign about movies making you a better person isn't just a marketing ploy. It works, right? Please leave comments as to what personal affirmations we could include on our signage that would make you want to rent more movies.

Here's one sample: You're Beautiful. Rent Some Movies.