Worst game of ‘Marry, F*ck, Kill’ ever.

As near as my lazy ass can tell, none of our featured DVDs -from this week or weeks past- have been added to Netflix instant streaming since last week’s list, so isn’t it extra nice of me that I still dug up four suggestions inspired by this week’s DVDs? Yes, yes it is. I am a wonderful person and these are all wonderful suggestions.
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Manhattan

This flick is supposed to be one of Woody Allen’s classics.  Released in 1979, it was nominated for 2 Oscars.  Allen plays Isaac, a divorced New Yorker dating a girl in high school.  Coincidentally, 12 years later, at age 56, Allen’s real-life relationship with 19 year old Soon-Yi Previn (the lady next to Lindsay Lohan in the picture above, and daughter of Allen’s ex) came to light.  I’d say this was a case of life imitating art, but Manhattan’s in black-and-white, so I don’t think that could be the case.  Those people in that picture are clearly in color.
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World Trade Center

Both of the stars of Won’t Back Down, Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal are also in this Oliver Stone picture.  There’s no better way to spend your time on a cold January night than by spending two hours ruminating on the collapse of the World Trade Center.
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The Courier

This flick stars The Possession’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan and co-stars About Cherry’s Lili Taylor.  It’s about a guy who is like the transporter in those Transporter flicks, but instead of a car he walks or something.  Jesus, you don’t think I actually know, do you?  I’ve never seen so much as a trailer for this movie, but it stars two actors from this week’s DVDs and also has Mickey Rourke in it, so I thought I’d bring it up. If you’d rather watch World Trade Center, you go right ahead, but the only crazy guy in that flick is trapped under a goddamn building the whole time and barely acts crazy at all.
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Howl

About Cherry’s James Franco plays Allen Ginsberg in this film that Vince reviewed and gave a ‘B’. As you’ll recall, Ginsberg was a famous beat poet and the publication of his poem ‘Howl’ resulted in an obscenity trial in 1957.  This film is about that very same poem and trial, but you should’ve figured that because the movie’s called Howl.  What else would it be about, some other thing he wrote that wasn’t called ‘Howl’?  Jeez Louise, would you just think for once? At least you knew what World Trade Center was about.