The DVD/Blu Ray Shed: September 28th!!!

Ah cripes its almost October. Why must the earth do this to us every fall, make us get all cold. At least the DVD machine keeps kickin' out hits:

THESE ARE THE DVD PICKS AND ANTIPICKS FOR THIS WEEK:

 

Iron Man 2 (Dir. Jon Favreau)

I got super cranky at this movie and didn't like it. Tony Stark returns except this time he's wearing bell-bottom tuxedo pants fighting a bunch of different villains, not a single one of whom is vaguely threatening. The film also commits the mortal Downey Jr. sin of spending too much time setting up various sequels, spin-offs, prequels, other movies about things etc. etc.. It's called Iron Man 2 but it's actually about Thor, War Machine and Black Widow and I find that s**t irritating in the extreme. If you don't mind being sold to like that, it's an entertaining movie nonetheless, with a lot of explosions and Robert Downey Jr. does his thing that he does all over it, so. Also apparently comes with a digital copy of the movie, which is cool I guess.

Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinski (Dir. Jan Kounen)

There are a handful of spectacular scenes in this fictive take on the real romance between the famous designer and composer, set outside Paris during the time Chanel created her famous No. 5 perfume. The catastrophic first staging of Stravinski's The Rite of Spring which opens the film is truly great, as are some ensuing moments, but while the film feels authentically stylish and is a treat to look at, the romance at its heart is alienating in its aloofness and as such it gets kind of wearisome.

Get Him to the Greek (Dir. Nicholas Stoller)

A reliably funny and furthermore well-crafted and thoroughly raunchy roadish movie from the director of the also-very-funny Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Jonah Hill and Russell Brand are entertaining as always, but the real discovery is Sean Combs, who apparently can literally do everything well except maybe rap which is weird.

Frozen (Dir. Adam Green)

A horrorish thriller that's thankfully not about a devious serial killer, a vampire, a zombie, any C.H.U.D.s or women with mental problems who think they're being stalked by ghosts but are actually murdering people themselves, cannibals or killer dolls or demons, Frozen is about wolves and being stuck on a ski lift for a long time. It's pretty scary but the best thing about it may be its premise which is a not-great thing to say about a film, I guess, so take that for what it's worth.