Ham it up all you want, Stiller. I’m still watching that old dude pick his nose instead of watching you.

There are a lot of new DVDs this week, and The Watch (pictured above) is just one of them. There’s also the latest Pixar flick and the latest Oliver Stone film.  There are films starring Christopher Walken, John Travolta, Chris Rock, and Sean Astin.  There are vamps and vampires, dark horses, devil’s angels, British thieves and British prison guards. We’ve got two Dove Foundation-approved films, and one of them even stars an Oscar-nominee. It’s an exciting week to watch films on DVD -especially if you don’t limit your viewing choices to this week’s admittedly mediocre new releases.

The DVDs:
The Watch
Brave
Savages
Vamps
2 Days In New York
Dark Horse
The Queen Of Versailles
Natural Selection
Highway
Amazing Love: The Story Of Hosea
Comes A Bright Day
Lukewarm
Prairie Love
A Beer Tale
Screwed
Dust Up
The Ghostmaker
3 Times A Charm
Devil’s Angel
Vampires: Brighter In Darkness

One of this week’s movies has a loose tie to The Beatles.  If you want to know which one, continue reading.  Curious which Oscar-nominee is making Dove-approved films now?  Continue reading. Want to watch a movie right this very second?

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It’s really hard to explain why Clueless is great to people who don’t get it, but at the very least we can agree that it helped give us Paul Rudd. Besides Clueless, Amy Heckerling also directed the equally culty classics Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Johnny Dangerously (it’s fargin’ war!). She hasn’t done much since then, unfortunately, unless you count a couple forgettable movies including one called Loser featuring Jason Biggs making an L on his forehead on the cover. Well now she’s back with a new comedy starring Alicia Silverstone and that chick from Don’t Trust the B etc. etc. God what an obnoxious title. Anyway, Vamps is about a couple eternally-young vampires living, loving, and dating in the big city. Sadly, the trailer mostly reminds us that it’s been a long time since Clueless (Alicia Silverstone has gone from sex symbol to that weirdo who pre-chews her baby’s food like a sparrow), and that pretty much every iteration of the Vampire ___ has already been done to death. Also, with a vampire party girl plot I think they missed a golden opportunity to call it Sucks in the City.

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I normally can’t stand campy stuff (Glee? gag me), but strangely, I like Clueless and a lot of Amy Heckerling’s work (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Johnny Dangerously).  Her latest project is writing and directing Vamps, and it sounds basically like Sex and the City and Vampires.

The film will be a modern-day tale of two young female vampires living the good life in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardise their immortality. Krysten Ritter is on board as one of the female leads with additional casting underway. Production is set to start in March 2010. [ScreenDaily]

“Krysten.”  Gold star for creative spelling there, parents.  Hooray, your child is so unique!  I can just imagine her ordering at Starbuck’s:

KRYSTEN: “Hi, I’ll take a grande vanilla latte please.”

BARISTA: “Great!  Can I get your name?”

KRYSTEN: “It’s Krysten.”

BARISTA: *starts writing*

KRYSTEN: “That’s K-R-Y…”

BARISTA: “Go f-ck yourself.”