It’s that time of the month again. Picks of the Month time! Kickass. There’s a ton of great stuff coming out next month, and quite a bit more stuff that looks absolutely horrible, such as Chair Aerobics For Everyone: Chair Boxing. I wasn’t aware that chairs were allowed in boxing. Or maybe this is a DVD about putting chairs into boxes. That might be handy if you sell chairs on eBay or you like sitting in boxes. At any rate, here are the MovieBlast! Picks of the Month for January 2008…
3:10 to Yuma - DVD | Blu Ray - 1/8/2008
3:10 to Yuma is a remake of an older movie based on a book by Elmore Leonard, who is one of the best Western genre writers of our time…and he also wrote Get Shorty which makes me think he might suffer from multiple personality disorder. We think this movie is great, and by “we” I mean me and the cabal of voices in my head.
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American Carny: True Tails From the Circus Sideshow - DVD - 1/8/2008
When was the last time you went to a carnival? I’m not talking about something fancy like Marti Gras, I’m talking about a real carnival. One of those carnivals that just spring up overnight in the parking lot of a condemned K-Mart parking lot with rides like The Zipper, The Puker, and The Aneurysm? These rides are usually very safe even though they look as if they’d been constructed by a special ed shop class using scraps from a plane wreck. THAT kind of carnival. I haven’t been to one in years, but this DVD is all about carnies and it looks cool.
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Family Guy: Blue Harvest - DVD -1/15/2008
Here we have the fantastic Star Wars homage/spoof done by the Family Guy guys. Why is this called Blue Harvest? Blue Harvest is also the fake movie name used by George Lucas while filming Return of the Jedi to keep info leaks about it to a minimum. The fake movie name Lucas used for The Phantom Menace was Utter Shit Harvest…little did he know.
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Life of Brian: The Immaculate Edition - DVD | Blu Ray - 1/29/2008
Despite guaranteeing that the members of Monty Python will be spending the afterlife in hell, this movie is an all time comedy classic. But I guess you always gotta look on the bright side of life.
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Shoot ‘Em Up - Blu Ray - 1/1/2008
I haven’t seen this yet, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about it from friends and critics that I admire. The phrases “kickass” and “holy shit” and “freaking awesome” keep coming up when I talk to people about Shoot ‘Em Up, so I betting it’s a rocker.
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Con Air - Blu Ray - 1/8/2008
Here’s the first of two Nicolas Cage movies in this months POM. Con-Air is a flick about a bunch of convicts taking control of a prisoner transport plane. A prisoner transport plane? Airlines can’t even keep track of my luggage and I’m supposed to let them ship convicts around?! Badda bing! No respect, I tell ya.
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The Rock - Blu Ray - 1/8/2008
Here we have the second Nicolas Cage movie of this installment of Picks of the Month and all I have to say is…I don’t really understand the DNA of Sean Connery. Shouldn’t he be dust by now? He’s roughly 110 years old, and yet the older he gets, the cooler he gets, and the more sure I get that he could totally kick my ass.
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