This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Win Win, The Beaver, Blitz, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Hey everyone! Here's this weeks choices to watch!
Win Win
Paul Giamatti headlines writer/director Tom McCarthy's comedy drama centering on a beleaguered attorney and part-time wrestling coach who schemes to keep his practice from going under by acting as the legal caretaker of an elderly client. Mike Flaherty (Giamatti) thinks he has discovered the perfect loophole to keep his practice in business. But his brilliant plan hits an unexpected hitch when his client's troubled grandson shows up looking for a place to stay. With his home life in turmoil and both of his careers in jeopardy, Mike quickly realizes that he'll have to get creative in order to find a way out of his current predicament.
This movie is what I call a Dramedy. It has some really funny parts but is definitely a drama. This movie is very real and to these characters nothing comes easy, which is how things are in the real world for most of us. It's worth watching for sure.
The Beaver
Two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster directs and co-stars with two-time Academy Award winner Mel Gibson in 'The Beaver -- an emotional story about a man on a journey to re-discover his family and re-start his life.
Plagued by his own demons, Walter Black was once a successful toy executive and family man who now suffers from depression. No matter what he tries, Walter can't seem to get himself back on track...until a beaver hand puppet enters his life.
I did not have time to watch this. You all will have to fill me in.
Blitz
When a vicious serial killer begins targeting police officers, renegade cop Brant (Jason Statham) teams up with Officer DC Porter Nash (Paddy Considine) to ensure that the maniac is caught and justice is served. Aidan Gillen co-stars.
Oh man!! I love me some Jason Statham! I will watch any movie he is in! This movie was not as entertaining as some of his others though...
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Boundary-pushing Oscar-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores the world of product placement, marketing and advertising in 'POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold,' a film that was fully financed through product placement from various brands, all of which are integrated transparently into the film.
While using brands in film promotion is not new for Hollywood, it certainly is new territory for the documentary format. Spurlock exploits the phenomenon to new heights, with everything from branded pizza boxes and in-flight film promotions to branded-everything in-film.
With humor and insight, 'POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold' unmasks the marketing process to bring audiences behind closed doors directly into the pitch meetings and marketing presentations which ultimately inform our everyday entertainment decisions. Sponsors were provided with brand category exclusivity. The brands that agreed to sponsor the film placed Spurlock front and center in their brand campaigns and advertisements, both on and off-line. Partners have the unique right to promote themselves in association with Spurlock and the film as "The Greatest." The agreements also stipulate that Spurlock maintains creative control of the film's content and final edit.
Please let me know how this is! I did not get a chance to see it!
Also out: Sympathy for Delicious, Road to Nowhere, Henry's Crime, Gossip Girl: The Complete Fourth Season, Blitz, The Event: The Complete Series, Brothers & Sisters: The Complete Fifth Season, Citizen Jane, NCIS: Los Angeles - The Second Season, NCIS - The Eighth Season, Troll Hunter, The New Adventures of Captain Amazing-Lad
Swingers comes out on Blu-ray this week too!