DVD Pick of the Week: Midnight Meat Train - Page 2

High School Musical 3: Senior Year (also Blu-ray). I watched the trailer for this and thought it looked unbelievably bad, but I am not exactly in the target audience.

Dead Like Me: Life After Death. Following the end of the series, fans wanted more. Now they can have it, although a few cast members did not return, including Mandy Patinkin. I have only sampled the series, but have liked what I have seen. I need to watch some more.

Changeling (also Blu-ray). This movie had an impact well beyond what I was expecting. It is dramatic, frightening, and undeniably compelling. It is a true life story that will put you through the emotional wringer. Not sure it is one that I feel any great desire to revisit anytime soon, but it is definitely one worth seeing.

Religulous. Bill Maher's exercise in religious discussion arrives on DVD. I am sort of interested in seeing it, I may have to track this one down.

Body of Lies (also Blu-ray). This is like a Bond film if Bond existed in a slightly more real world, or at least a world closer to our own. This film feels real without actually being real and it chugs along at a pace that never lets up and just dragged me along for the ride. Definitely one well worth checking out.

Flash of Genius. I bet this movie is good, but the subject matter just reads so terribly dry. It is about the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper and his lawsuit against Ford. Greg Kinnear stars as the inventor. I had meant to catch this in the theater, but I missed it.

The Passion of the Christ (Blu-ray). I love this film. I find it to be a rather powerful piece of filmmaking, one that is difficult to watch, but well worth the effort. Of course, I realize that many are likely not to agree with me. On that note, I am not sure that I want to see the detail that Blu-ray is likely to bring out of the content.

Choke. The movie just does not give enough depth to the characters or enough time to the plot. I found some of the moments humorous, such as their meeting Cherry Daquiri and the first couple of accusations from the old women at the home. I also enjoyed the performances of Sam Rockwell, Kelly Macdonald, and Anjelica Huston. Yes, I know that sounds a little odd considering how weak I found the overall film to be, but it is true. Their work is good and without their effort the weakness of the material would have been further exposed.

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