Coming Distractions July 13th 2010

Fire up the air conditioning and swing by Waterfront Video to pick up these new releases - available now!



The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Swedish adaptation of the first book of Steig Larsson's blockbuster dark thriller trilogy that everyone & their mother (my mother at least) cannot seem to put down this summer.

A Single Man
Fashion designer Tom Ford brings stunning cinematography & bittersweet love story revolving around Colin Firth's Oscar nominated performance.

Brooklyn's Finest
Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, star in this gritty cop-drama which also features the theatrical return of Wesley Snipes after 5 years of straight to DVD movies!




Coming out Tuesday, July 13th:

Greenberg
Ben Stiller is Roger Greenberg, a spoiled middle-class intellectual-type that director Noah Baumbach depicts so well in his previous efforts like The Squid & The Whale. The movie is meandering but self-aware and works well - balancing Stiller's easy-to-hate character with Greta Gerwig's role as the housekeeper of Greenberg's rich brother and Rhys Ifans as his ex-friend & bandmate.

Chloe
Are erotic thriller's coming back? This steamy thriller puts Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, & Amanda Siegfried in a dangerous love triangle between husband, wife, and hired escort. Who will make it out alive?!

Terribly Happy
Another promising release from Oscilloscope Labs (recently The Messenger, The Maid) - this Danish noir police story draws upon the black humor and bleak atmosphere of the Coen Brothers.

The Bounty Hunter
Gerard Butler is a bounty hunter who's next target is his ex-wife played by Jennifer Aniston. Hilarity ensues!

The Greatest
Not really sure about the plot, but its got Carrie Mulligan so I'll probably watch it.

All these & more, coming soon to Waterfront Video!!!

Current Distractions 4th of July Edition

Fourth of July weekend is upon us again & we've only got one copy of ID4, so you'd better get down here!

Released Tuesday, June 29th: Available Now!


Hot Tub Time Machine

John Cusack! That awesome guy from the Office! The dude from the Daily Show! Some other guy! These buddies travel back to their 80s heyday thanks to a time-bending hot tub and crude hijinks ensue. Also featuring Crispin Glover & Chevy Chase - which is reason enough to come rent.

The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke (Cache, The Piano Teacher, Code Unknown, all sorts of disturbingly amazing movies from the past twenty years) brings us the story of this pre WW-I German town - with the abused and suppressed children of the villagers at the heart of the mystery.

Creation When he wasn't voicing Iron Man's computer (fun fact!) Paul Bettany was busy portraying the ape-descendant Charles Darwin. This movie illustrates Darwin's struggles to find a balance between his theories on evolution and the relationship with religious, & thus contradictory, wife (Jennifer Connelly).

The Eclipse

A slow-burning Irish mixture of supernatural thriller and family drama dealing with death & loneliness. You know who really liked it? Seth, the man himself who buys the movies here at Waterfront Video.

And if none of those suit your fancy this most patriotic of weekends, may I suggest Ivan Reitman's Stripes w/ Bill Murray & Harold Ramis.

Coming Distractions June 22nd, 2010

Green Zone

Director Paul Greengrass (most of The Bourne Series) is back with Matt Damon (all of The Bourne Series) for Green Zone in which Damon plays Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller who, according to the poster, is done following orders. After he discovers faulty intelligence and internal corruption, Officer Miller goes rogue in Iraq in this fast-paced action flick with an pretty solid rating on IMDB - check it out!

The Last Station

Christopher Plummer & Helen Mirren both got nominated for Oscars & Golden Globes for their turns as Mr & Mrs Tolstoy in this historical drama that illustrates the Russian author's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. Also featuring good ol' Paul Giamatti & James McAvoy.

The Maid (La Nana)

I (Pat) really want to see this Chilean movie that won for Best Foreign Film at Sundance & was nominated at the Golden Globes -- an "intimate, funny, & unpredictable" drama about a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years. Plus it's being released by my new favorite production company Oscilloscope Laboratories, started by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch who said "It's exactly the kind of film that we want to help get out there."

The Red Desert

Attention Criterion buffs: Michelangelo Antonioni's first color film (1964) also comes out on Tuesday. Antonioni (Le Eclisse, Blow Up, The Passenger) and his muse Monica Vitti bring you "mental breakdown amidst the stale, harsh setting of an industrial wasteland" - sounds like fun, right! For more info & a promo trailer thing check out the Criterion site.


Also hitting the shelves on Tuesday, June 22nd:


She's Out Of My League
Hung - 1st Season
Entourage - 6th Season
Remember Me
Bluebeard
The Good Guy

Since we last spoke:

Movies that came out in the last couple weeks
absent of Waterfront blog posts (sorry!):

The Wolfman
Alice In Wonderland
The Book of Eli
Life (BBC - Attenborough narrated)
From Paris With Love
When In Rome
Youth In Revolt
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 7 (w/ Seinfeld reunion)
Nip/Tuck - Season 6
Burn Notice - Season 3
Oceans
Mary & Max
Burma VJ (Oscar nominated)
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Coming Distractions May 25th, 2010

This Friday through Monday come down to Waterfront Video for a Memorial Weekend Sale


This weekend only
All Previously-Viewed DVDs are $5 each and All VHS are $1
-Take this chance to add to your home collection & stock up for a rainy day-

As for new rental titles, adaptations will rule this Tuesday:


The Road: from the post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy, with Viggo Mortenson and Robert Duvall.
Dear John: From romance maven Nicholas Sparks, starring Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum, directed by Lasse Hallström (My Life as a Dog, Cider House Rules).

True Blood - 2nd Season: the beloved guilty pleasure is back, from the novels by mystery writer Charlaine Harris.

Coming Distractions May 18th & 11th

New movies for next Tuesday

*Oscar-nominated*Invictus: Clint Eastwood's biopic of Nelson Mandela, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.

*Oscar-nominated*The Messenger: Ben Foster stars as a wounded soldier who is assigned to the Casualty Notification Team to finish out his enlistment in the U.S. Also starring Woody Harrelson and Samantha Norton.


The Spy Next Door: "Spying is easy, babysitting is hard." Starring Jackie Chan. Kindergarten Cop for the new millenium?

Poliwood: a new documentary by Barry Levinson takes a look at the 2008 Republican & Democratic conventions in order to discover just how entwined are the goals and methods of Hollywood with the American political system.

Extraordinary Measures: Brendan Fraser & Harrison Ford race to cure a rare & deadly pediatric illness.

Valentine's Day: In one heart-drenched day in Los Angeles, Ashton Kutcher gets dumped only to find his soul mate closer to home and Topher Grace & Hector Elizondo are forced to get over their sexual hang-ups in order to enjoy true love.


Defamation: Israeli director Yoav Shamir's documentary explores modern day anti-Semitism.


The Girl on the Train



The New Daughter: Kevin Costner's hopes that a move to South Carolina will provide his kids with a fresh start are dashed when his daughter begins to act rather strange after a visit to a strange mound in the woods.


Fresh Films from May 11th


Edge of Darkness: Mel Gibson, as detective Craven, investigates the shooting of his daughter. Adapted from the political/cover-up/suspense British mini-series of the same name, without, however, all (or any) of the incestuous insinuations of the original.
Legion: God has lost faith in humanity, so he dispatches his legion of angels to administer some apocalypse on a rural diner.

North Face: Just the trailer for this Alps-climbing thriller made me want to mess my pants. Based on a true story, if that means anything these days.
Daybreakers: 95% of the 2019 population are vampires, but how will they survive on the rapidly dwindling selection of human-food? Ethan Hawke, as a vampire hematologist, must create a renewable source of artificial blood in order to save his starving race.

Tidal Wave

Coming Distractions May 4th, 2010

Not a giant new release line-up for our first week in May, but we have the much anticipated Nine, an adaptation from the Broadway musical that was adapted from Fellini's 8 1/2 (the # refers to how many movies Fellini had made at that point). Nine was directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha) and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, & Kate Hudson (whew, i'm out of breath just from typing that list)

Leap Year : the ever-endearing Amy Adams has to choose between Matthew Goode & Adam Scott after her desperation to get married sends her to Ireland to investigate a tradition that has women proposing to men on leap day. The Sadie Hawkins of matrimony?


Tetro : a new Coppola film with Vincent Gallo, the man we all love to hate (or have to still love a bit... if you really dug with Buffalo '66, as well as Gallo's soft-plinky guitar albums, before he became so widely known for his questionable behavior and his politics).

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Tooth Fairy: Dwayne Johnson & Julie Andrews together at last!