“So this one’s called the ‘glass-bottom boat’…”

Howdy friends! The big DVD this week is Argo, but we’ve got plenty to discuss beyond Ben Affleck and his striking resemblance to that guy from Die Hard.  There’s also flicks starring Keira Knightley, Ethan Hawke, John Cusack and Val Kilmer. We’ve got movies about serial killers, struggling rock musicians, capitalists, and criminals.  We’ve got small apartments and special forces.  There’s a junior high spy, a sushi girl, and even a talking cat!

The DVDs:
Argo
Anna Karenina
Sinister
Fun Size
The Factory
For Ellen
Riddle
The Package
Atlas Shrugged, Part II: The Strike
Small Apartments
Special Forces
Undefeated
Sushi Girl
Junior High Spy
A Talking Cat!?!
Snow Shark

Streaming: Check out your choices here.

One of these films went undefeated at last year’s Oscars.  If you want to know which movie it is, continue reading on the next page.  Two of these flicks co-star Dolph Lundgren.  Continue reading to find out which ones.  If you’ve given up physical media for Lent, click the link above and skip right to the streaming suggestions, but if you do you’ll never know which Oscar-nominated actor gives voice to that talking cat. Read the rest of this entry »

Opening this week:

Extract
Comes from Mike Judge, who says he wrote it on spec right after he finished Office Space. was supposed to catch a screening on Tuesday but then I screwed up and missed it.  It’s a good thing I’m not a cancer doctor.

All About Steve
I’m sure this will be good because it was tracking 0.0% on rottentomatoes up until a few hours ago (now it’s at 5%).  You can also tell it’s going to be good because it comes from Fox and THE TITLE IS ‘ALL ABOUT STEVE.’  I think they should’ve just gone with the original title, Monkey Smearing Sh’t on Its Face.

Gamer
From Crank 2 directors Neveldine and Taylor, comes a film that’s pretty much like Running Man, except the inmates are characters in a video game.  This is the male equivalent of a rom-com script.  Additional trivia: Milo Ventimiglia plays “Rick Rape.”

The Carriers
Chris Pine and Piper Perabo run from a virus.  I don’t care enough about this movie to form more words about it.

In this latest promo clip from Mike Judge’s Extract, Judge goes back to the well for the characters that made him famous, Beavis and Butthead.  I was about Beavis and Butthead’s age when Beavis and Butthead came out, so I’m probably guilty of the same kind of romantic nostalgia I make fun of sci-fi fans for all the time when I say this, but five seconds in I was thinking, “Oh man, remember Beavis and Butthead?  Beavis and Butthead were awesome.”  Anyway, nostalgia aside (I hope), props (or kudos, or another word that doesn’t sound as lame as props or kudos) to Mike Judge for being able to skip to the good parts of his own career.  This wouldn’t have been nearly as funny or likable if he’d used King of the Hill.  God that show sucked.  Though I think it taught us all the valuable lesson that fat pussies don’t make good lead characters. A lot of people will try bring up Fat Pussy Hunter 7 as a counter argument, but in that case I would argue it was more the mcguffin.

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This picture of Megan Fox is from the set of Jennifer’s Body, and unfortunately doesn’t show much, unless you have a face fetish or some such perversion.  In other pictures of hot chicks non-news news, here’s a shot of Mickey Rourke talking to Gina Carano at the Strikeforce fight in San Jose Saturday.  I want to hug them both, but for drastically different reasons.  And finally, Mike Judge’s Extract has a new poster.  Get it?  One of the nuts is smashed because in the movie, a guy gets his nut smashed.  Pretty clever, huh?  I thought so.

[Megan Fox source = comingsoon, Carano/Rourke via AllElbows (lots more photos there), Extract via Hitfix]

Mike Judge previously directed the cult-classic Office Space, Idiocracy (which isn’t the best movie, but has some awesomely hilarious ideas in it), and created Beavis and Butthead (King of the Hill is something we don’t discuss in these parts).  His latest is called Extract, and stars Jason Bateman, Kristin Wiig, Mila Kunis, J.K. Simmons, and Ben Affleck as a stoner. The trailer looks pretty funny.  But then again, so does this picture of a chihuahua standing on cheeseburgers.