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July 2009 

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DVD Releases

Big movies coming to the small screen


By Marni Weisz

JULY 7


PUSH

Stars: Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans

Director: Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number Slevin)

Story: Much like the X-Men movies, Push imagines a world where mutants born with special abilities are seen as threats to the government. Two of those specially abled, Nick (Evans), who can move things with his mind, and Cassie (Fanning), who can see into the future, have to find, and save, a third mutant (Camilla Belle) in Hong Kong before the bad guys get her.

 

THE UNBORN

Stars: Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman

Director: David S. Goyer (The Invisible)

Story: A young woman (Yustman) plagued by horrific visions learns she’s being haunted by the evil spirit of her twin brother who died in the womb. Turns out that same evil spirit first haunted her grandma’s twin brother during the Holocaust. Grandma thought she killed it, but guess not. Who you gonna call? Rabbi Sendak (Oldman), of course, who can perform an exorcism and send that little demon back to hell.

 

KNOWING (pictured above)

Stars: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne

Director: Alex Proyas (I, Robot)

Story: A grade-school class opens a time capsule that was buried 50 years earlier. Inside there’s a list of seemingly random numbers that, when decoded, correspond with every major disaster that’s happened in the past half-century. Weird, yes. But the scary part is that there are numbers that correspond to events in the future, events that may be catastrophic to the human race. Fortunately, one of the kids’ dads is an MIT professor and astrophysicist (Cage). He’ll save us.

 

JULY 14


TWO LOVERS

Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow

Director: James Gray (The Yards)

Story: In what may turn out to be Phoenix’s last movie (but we’re betting not), the petulant rapper plays a man caught between two women — the one he’s supposed to marry (Vinessa Shaw) and the blond goddess (Paltrow) who represents a whole new world.

DVD Extras: deleted scenes, director commentary, behind-the-scenes featurette

 

CHE PART 1: THE ARGENTINE

Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Julia Ormond

Director: Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Thirteen)

Story: This epic telling of the life of revolutionary Che Guevara (Del Toro) had studios scratching their heads. Clocking in at more than four hours, no one knew what to do with it. So they chopped it in half, with each half getting a limited theatrical release. But DVD may be the best way to watch this sprawling political bio-pic. Lots of opportunity for snacks, bathroom breaks, and deep, philosophical discussions.



JULY 21


WATCHMEN

Stars: Billy Crudup, Jackie Earle Haley

Director: Zack Snyder (300)

Story: A once-powerful band of self-appointed superheroes reunites to investigate when one of their own is killed. Too bad most of them have gone to seed in the interim. Based on the dark, alternate-universe graphic novel by Alan Moore.

DVD Extras: a two-disc version comes with a director’s cut and 25 minutes of previously unseen footage


CORALINE

Voices: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher

Director: Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

Story: Poor Coraline. She’s an only child who just moved into a creepy old house and her parents don’t have any time to spend with her. Fortunately, she finds a portal to an alternate world, with an alternate version of her mother and father who both have oodles of time on their alternate hands. On the downside, her alternate mother turns out to be a depraved psychopath who wants to lock her up and keep her in that alternate world forever. This is the first stop-motion animation film created entirely in 3D.

DVD Extras: director commentary, deleted scenes, both the regular and 3D versions, four pairs of 3D glasses


JULY 28


OBSESSED

Stars: Beyoncé Knowles, Idris Elba

Director: Steve Shill (debut)

Story: Journeyman TV director Shill (Dexter, The Tudors, Rome, ER) makes the jump to the big screen with this fatal-attraction thriller about happily married Derek (Elba) and Sharon (Knowles) whose lives are thrown into chaos when a temp from Derek’s office (Ali Larter) decides she wants him...bad.

 

DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION

Stars: Justin Chatwin, Yun-Fat Chow

Director: James Wong (Final Destination 3)

Story: There are these seven balls. And, um, this young warrior (Chatwin). And if the young warrior doesn’t find all seven balls, then the evil Lord Piccolo (James Marsters) will probably find them, and that’s bad because the evil Lord Piccolo will use them to take over the world. Time to ask the great Master Roshi (Chow) for help.

DVD Extras: eight deleted scenes, gag reel, “Goku’s Workout”

 


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