Jack Black, I declare your reign as Hollywood’s comedy king over. And really, when I declare something, that’s important! Besides the abysmal reviews for Black’s team-up with Michael Cera in Year One, the big news in this week’s DVD Report is the great notices for Anvil! The Story of Anvil. “Ach”, you’re thinking… “I’ve already seen this mockumentary“. But, this one isn’t a joke. Anvil is a rockin’, balls-to-the-walls, straight up documentary about an influential, but unheralded Canadian metal band.
Year One – Average Tier 2.94 When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Black and Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world. Year One @ Amazon
Anvil! The Story of Anvil – Average Tier 7.14 At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the “demi-gods of Canadian metal, ” influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax, despite never hitting the big time. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now in their fifties, set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dreams. (imdb) Anvil! The Story of Anvil @ Amazon
Trick ‘r Treat – Average Tier 6.53 Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband. (imdb) Trick ‘r Treat @ Amazon
The Children – Average Tier 4.87 A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents. (imdb) The Children @ Amazon
100 Feet – Average Tier 3.32 After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest… only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband. (imdb) 100 Feet @ Amazon
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We love Roman Polanski’s work as much as the next guy, but didn’t realize that being a great filmmaker morally exonerates your having drugged and raped a 13 year-old. And then plead guilty to it. And then fled the country because you were afraid of jail.
But people are falling out of the woodworks to claim just that. Hollywood types like Whoopi Goldberg, who argues that drugging and sodomizing a child wasn’t exactly, like, “rape-rape”. Even the usually sober scholar Anne Applebaum calls Polanski’s arrest “outrageous“.
But the best defense of Polanski we’ve read is at the (humor) site HolyTaco.com. Money Quote:
Anyway, while they were taking pictures, he fed the girl champagne, quaaludes, and some kind of sedative, because that’s the kind of guy he is; he’s a gentleman. He’s gonna get you nice and numb before he rapes and sodomizes you against your will. Good move, Romie. The girl was apparently telling Roman things like “No” and “Stop” the whole time, but because she was so shitfaced from being force-fed drugs and alcohol, it probably came out more like “Numflkdggh” and “Stlmpfghh”, so it’s really not Roman’s fault for not picking up on the cues.
Hmm. True. That’s almost enough to make us reconsider!
I may not be a great filmmaker… but I do help run a decently popular website! So while child-rape is probably out of the question, I wonder what Whoopie would let me get away with? I’ll start with spitting on a 6 year-old and see how that goes.
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Black and Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world. Year One @ Amazon
At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the “demi-gods of Canadian metal, ” influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax, despite never hitting the big time. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now in their fifties, set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dreams. (imdb) Anvil! The Story of Anvil @ Amazon
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband. (imdb) Trick ‘r Treat @ Amazon
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents. (imdb) The Children @ Amazon
After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest… only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband. (imdb) 100 Feet @ Amazon
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