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New on DVD: Gay indies, Bert & Ernie and more!
Before Ruggiero played Marco on Degrassi, American TV gave us Kerr Smith as conflicted gay teen Jack. Relive those stirring turn-of-the-millennium years with Dawson's Creek: The Complete Series, now available as a box set. Is it too soon to ask whatever the hell happened to James Van Der Beek's career?
And as long as we're working backwards, decades before either Marco or Jack, kids grew up with longtime companions Bert and Ernie, who taught us how to read and how not to fear gentlemen who live together. Take a trip down memory lane with Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days. It's the show that's been accused of destroying the short-attention span of generations of children, but I think we all owe it a debt of gratitude for entertaining and educating us in our formative years. If you're ready to give Watchmen one more chance, check out The Ultimate Cut, featuring the absolutely longest and most thorough version there is. If this one isn't working for you, don't be surprised to see the "No, Really, This is the Totally Last Cut, We Mean It" pop up in the next year or two.
And finally, do check out one of my favorite movies of 2008, the haunting indie Ballast, about the ripple effect one man's death has on family and friends in a rural Southern community. As critic James Rocchi recently pointed out, it's too bad that Oprah didn't throw a fraction of the clout she's given Precious to this tiny, brilliant movie. (Not that Precious is undeserving, but the lady can multitask; getting Obama into the White House didn't eat up every second of O's year.) Submitted by on Tue, 2009-11-10 17:57. |
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I'd love to see that "Sesame Street" doc
It's amazing to me after 3+ decades how many of those little songs and sketches about numbers and letters and whatnot are still rattling around in my head. (The other day I was ruminating over "Bumble Arney had a party when he was nine," which for some reason freaked me out as a kid.) And the lady at the coat store wanting something "blue and furry" has one of the best comedic punchlines ever. A lot of these bits are now turning up on YouTube. ("Wanda the witch lives somewhere west of Washington...") I'd also like to see all the guest stars who've dropped by.
I kind of wanted to see "Watchmen," but I have a strong aversion to films with violence involving children ("Gone Baby Gone" almost made me walk out of the theater), and I heard that there's a very prolonged and disturbing scene in that vein. True?
In Watchmen
The only scene that I can think of involving violence against children is where Rorschach is trying to find a kidnapped little girl. The actual violence against the child is done long before Rorschach arrives, so you don't ever see or hear a child suffering (I'm pretty sure I would have remembered that). But if the mention of violence against children at all ruins a movie for you, you may want to give this one a miss.
SPOILER FOLLOWS:
You do see the remains of the girl's clothing, and bits of her body being fought over by dogs. In the same scene, her killer is himself brutally murdered, snd his dogs are killed too (offscreen). END SPOILER
Absolutely agree about Ballast
EATING OUT 3 not as bad I expected
EATING OUT 3 was not as bad as I expected. It has some funny moments and some witty bits of dialogue. The main problem is that most of the actors are just not charismatic enough to overcome a pedestrian script. I wanted to feed Daniel Skelton a large Italian meal as he is way too thin. The other actors are attractive, but none of them can compete with Adrian Quinonez and Marco Dapper from the second film. Those actors grabbed your attention.
I just wish it had been so much better because it was nice to have out gay actors playing gay characters. The quality of the acting is not always up to par, but it makes a difference to me to know that I'm watching out gay actors.
WATCHMEN--What is the gay content? Is the film homophobic?
I would say it's not homophobic
Its no really any of these things
The gay content like the book is only hinted at really and I would not say any of it was homophobic, If you like comic books you might well like this.
I thought it was ok, not as good as the book.