Welcome back! Well, to some of you, anyway. To the rest of you, glad you decided to stop by and I hope that this humble column helps you navigate the stacks of new releases each week. My goal is to point you toward titles of interest and warn you away from those films that seek to do nothing but leech away your time and give you nothing in return.
Full disclosure: I have not seen many of these titles and what follows are not necessarily reviews. It is my opinion based upon what I know of the titles I pluck from the new release lists that I peruse. The opinions I give based on the new releases are my own, and my recommendations upon them are based on my personal interest. In any case, I hope you enjoy and perhaps find something you like or a title to point me towards.
That said, as I looked over this week's release list I cannot say that I saw all that much that excited me. Yes, there are some good titles, but just not a lot in general. I guess they are waiting to get closer to the holidays to spring everything on us.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army. The scope of The Golden Army is much bigger and the film more epic in tone than the original, and while that initial film was quite necessary in introducing our heroes, The Golden Army outdoes that movie every way. The story is simultaneously bigger and more personal, it combines a strong narrative that is more than just dealing with a primary antagonist with a fantastic set of visuals. Hellboy II: The Golden Army is not a perfect film, but it is enormously entertaining and a big step up from the already entertaining first film in the franchise. My problem is that there are no egregious problems with the film and anything I come up with would most likely fall under the banner of nitpicking. So, rather than pick at it, I would rather just marvel at Guillermo Del Toro's seemingly endless imagination and enthusiasm for anything he is involved in.
Scrubs: The Complete Seventh Season. I love this series. It is endlessly imaginative, laugh out loud funny, and heartwarming. I am eagerly anticipating the start of the eighth season on ABC (whenever that happens). It is too bad this season was cut short by the writers' strike, but these things happen. So, I need to pick this up along with a few other seasons of the show to finish up my collection.
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