DVD RELEASES
Published: Nov 2, 2007
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LICENSE TO WED ←
John Krasinski, everyone's favorite paper salesman, made his big-screen debut in this cringe-worthy romantic comedy about an engaged couple (Krasinski and chipper songbird Mandy Moore) who have to pass a series of tests in order to get married at her favorite church. Putting them through their paces is a manic minister played by Robin Williams, in full annoying mode, with a hint of creepiness.
PG-13; 91 minutes
SPIDER-MAN 3 →
Director Sam Raimi added more villains (played by James Franco, Thomas Haden Church and Topher Grace) to the comic-book mix, and although the fight sequences still deliver, the balance of angst and action is a bit off the third time around. The plot involves Peter/Spidey confronting his dark side - via a kind of alien "symbiote" thing - and having relationship trouble. Watch for the Bruce Campbell cameo.
PG-13; 140 minutes
TALK TO ME
Don Cheadle gives another stellar performance as Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, an ex-con turned radio host and activist, in this often inspiring biopic, directed by Kasi Lemmons ("Eve's Bayou"). An influential presence on the Washington, D.C., airwaves from the '60s until his death in 1984, Greene was apparently instrumental in, among other things, calming the race riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
R; 118 minutes
EL CANTANTE →
New York salsa icon Hector Lavoe gets the full Hollywood biopic treatment courtesy of Marc Anthony and his on- and off-screen wife/producer, Jennifer Lopez. From wide-eyed but talented newcomer to superstar to drug-addled philanderer, Lavoe's rise and fall follows a now-predictable formula. Anyone but die-hard fans of Lopez (who nearly steals the movie from its ostensible subject) will be left wanting more music and less cliche.
R; 106 minutes
IN THE LAND OF WOMEN →
Adam Brody leaves the O.C. to nurse a broken heart at his grandma's place in flyover country. Fortunately there's a house full of chicks living across the street, from a potential Mrs. Robinson (Meg Ryan, boasting a highly suspicious pair of lips) to her hot teenage daughter (Kristen Stewart) with whom the angsty lad can have profound, age-inappropriate conversations about his feelings, his art, his belly button lint, etc.
PG-13; 97 minutes
CAPTIVITY
Perennial damsel-in-distress Elisha Cuthbert trades the terrorists and mountain lions of "24" for the tricked-out underground lair of a sadistic psycho in this "Saw"-esque retread, scripted in part by legendary horrormeister Larry Cohen ("It's Alive"). After being kidnapped from a nightclub, Cuthbert's character - apparently a top model - is subjected to various forms of torture as well as constant electronic surveillance and the obligatory 11{+t}{+h}-hour plot twist.
R; 85 minutes
Synopses by Amanda Henry; ratings from The Associated Press
