NEW TO DVD TUESDAY MAY 13, 2008

New To DVD Tuesday May 13, 2008

BOTCHED-NR- Starring Stephen Dorff, Jamie Foreman, Geoff Bell, Jamie Murray, and Bronagh Gallagher. Horror/Comedy You know, Shaun of the Deadish. This was the winner of the New York City Horror Film Festival’s Best Actor and Best Feature awards. One normally wouldn’t think that comedy and horror would blend well. 1 part funny, 2 parts gore, 1 pinch of slapsticky one-liners, a dash of shock and awe… shake it all up, and voila! Botched! Pun emphatically intended. I’m sure it’s just as good (bad) as Shaun of the Dead. Basically the plot is probably irrelevant to the movie’s merits, but here goes: Stephen Dorff is Ritchie, a thief, who goes to Moscow to steal an artifact. Somehow (I don’t know how because I haven’t subjected myself to the viewing), he gets trapped in a high rise on the 13th floor (don’t they skip the 13th floor in hotels and high rises nowadays? I mean, obviously the floor is still there, but they call the 13th floor the 14th floor because people get freaked out by the 13th floor. But then if people knew the 14th floor was actually the 13th floor, wouldn’t they be freaked out by what was now called the 14th floor? And then they’d have to skip floors 13 and 14, and call the 13th floor the 15th floor….) and witness beheadings and some other twisted stuff. The last line of the DVD cover reads “Rest in pieces.” he he—that’s not funny.

COVER-PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual situations and language, violence and some drug content. Starring Vivica A. Fox, Lou Gossett, Jr., and Aunjanue Ellis. Drama/Thriller A devoted Christian wife finds out her hubby is leading a double life, potentially destroying everything she’s ever known. As a result (and much to her surprise, she is arrested for the murder of a famous singer. An overly zealous prosecuting attorney with political ambitions rising above his desire for justice makes it his mission to prove her guilty. Although the plot sounds interesting, it looks second rate.

MAD MONEY-PG13 Starring Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes. Comedy. Three desperate women from very different worlds decide rip off one of the most secure banks in America by stealing worn out currency on its way to the Federal Reserve shredder. It looks OK, I guess.

NORA’S HAIR SALON 2: A CUT ABOVE-PG13 Starring Tatyana Ali, Stacey Dash, and Bobby Brown. Comedy. The owner of the salon decides to sell the shop and pocket the prof