Black Sheep's Blu-Tuesday

There are a few Blu-ray announcements this week that are music to my ears.  First on deck are the Baz Luhrmann extravaganzas, MOULIN ROUGE and WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET, both being released on October 19.  The 45th anniversary edition of THE SOUND OF MUSIC makes it's way to BD for the first time on November 2.  Walt...

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Black Sheep @ The Box Office

This is it, folks.  This is the last box office report for the summer of 2010.  Next week, Black Sheep will take a look at the summer as a whole, picking both the biggest winners and saddest losers.  Knowing how this summer performed though, I would say we're in for a bigger share of disappointment than success.I think I just...

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Aashayein (2010)

Genre: DramaStarring: John Abraham, Farida Jalal, Anaitha Nair, Sonal Sehgal, Ashwin Chitale, Girish KarnadThe story of a chain smoker, Rahul (Abraham) who gets lung cancer due to his smoking habits. He has just 3 months to live and decides to make full use of it. He spends his money left, right and center and believes that since he is a...

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Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Genre: Drama/Romance/MusicalStarring: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape, Donna PescowThe life of a typical American youth. Work and earn money throughout the week and blow it all away on Saturday night with woman and alcohol. Tony Manero (Travolta) lived the exact same life and was proud of it. He and...

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Weather Girl (2009)

Genre: Comedy/Drama/RomanceStarring: Tricia O'Kelly, Patrick J. Adams, Ryan Devlin, Mark HarmonA sassy weather girl, Sylvia (O'Kelly) announces her decision to quit her job during a live news telecast. She also revealed her hatred for her co-host and lover Dale (Harmon) and revealed some of his sexual secrets. Having no job, no money and...

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AVATAR REVISITED

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JAMES CAMERONSTARRING SAM WORTHINGTON, ZOE SALDANA, MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ AND SIGOURNEY WEAVERJake Sully: I see you.EDITOR'S NOTE: The biggest film of all time is about to get bigger when James Cameron's AVATAR returns to 700 screens this week with nine minutes of new footage.  AVATAR is one of those movies that...

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Toy Story 2 (1999)

Genre: Animation/Adventure/Comedy/Drama/FantasyStarring (voice): Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, Wayne KnightAndy's toys are having a good time as usual. The only person not having a good time is Woody (Hanks) whose arm gets accidentally ripped while playing with Andy. Woody gets...

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Anger Management (2003)

Genre: Comedy/Drama/RomanceStarring: Adam Sandler, Kack Nicholson, Marisa TomeiDavid Buznik (Sandler) is a man who always gets pushed around and is taken for granted and cant seem to stand up for himself. He keeps his anger locked up inside him which is not helping his life. Things get a little out of hand for him and the court orders him...

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Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)

Genre: Science-fiction/Fantasy/Adventure/Drama/ComedyStarring: Chris D'Owd, Marc Wootton, Dean Lennox Kelly, Anna Faris, Meredith MacNeilThree friends, Ray (D'Owd), Toby (Wootton) and Pete (Kelly) are siting in a pub and are discussing a topic they are least likely to discuss, time travel. Ray believes in it and reads various fictitious books...

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Black Sheep's Blu-Tuesday

When you take a vacation, even a miniature one like I took last week, some things inevitably go awry.  For instance, my not being home made it pretty difficult to receive the films I was sent last week.  That being said, my being on vacation means that, even if I were home at the time of their delivery, I would have likely not watched...

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Death at a Funeral (2010)

Genre: Comedy/DramaStarring: Keith Davis, Loretta Devine, Peter Dinklage, Danny Glover, Regina Hall, Ron Glass, Kevin Hart, Martin Lawrence, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan, Chirs Rock, Zoe Saldana, Columbus Short, Luke Wilson'Whats the point?' is the question a lot of other people including me would ask after watching the movie. What is the...

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Tere Bin Laden (2010)

Genre: Comedy/DramaStarring: Ali Zafar, Barry John, Rahul Singh, Pradhuman Singh, Nikhil Ratnaparkhi, Piyush Mishra, Sugandha Garg, Chirag Vohra, Chinmay Mandlekar9/11 changed the face of the entire world. Islam and its followers were looked upon with suspicion and the United States became jumpy about any minuscule threat in their backyard....

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Banlieue 13 (2004)

Genre: Crime/ActionStarring: Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Tony D'Amario, Bibi Naceri, Dany VerissimoEnglish Title: District B13. Paris, 2010. Crime rate in the city is sky-rocketing and in order to curb it, the government built a massive wall around the cities most shady area, Banlieue 13 aka Borough 13. Leito (Belle) a resident of the area...

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Black Sheep @ The Box Office

Despite the overcrowding with five new wide releases at the box office this weekend, no one was able to unseat Sylvester Stallone and company from the number one spot with THE EXPENDABLES.  The 52% decline for the action flick could have been much worse so the people at Maple Pictures and Lionsgate must be pleased with the word of mouth....

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Scary Movie 3 (2003)

Genre: Comedy/Spoof/DramaStarring: Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, Simon Rex, Drew MikuskaThe third installation of the very famous movie that spoofs on horrors and thrillers. A strange video tape is doing the rounds of the city and whoever watches the tape dies in seven days. Cindy (Farris) a reporter, tries to investigate the strange deaths....

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THE SWITCH

Written by Allan LoebDirected by Josh Gordon and Will SpeckStarring Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Jeff Goldblum, Juliette Lewis and Patrick WilsonOh what a cynical, love starved world we live in today that a movie like THE SWITCH can be called a romantic comedy.  A) It is rarely, if ever, funny – not that is doesn’t make numerous,...

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I Now Prounounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)

Genre: Comedy/Drama/RomanceStarring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica BielTwo firefighters, Chuck (Sandler) and Larry (James) have been good friends since a very long time. Chuck has been Mr. February and all the girls drool for him. Larry hasn't been able to overcome his wife's demise and still mourns her death. Larry saved Chuck's life...

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Best of Black Sheep: MAO'S LAST DANCER

Editor's Note: As I am just getting back from vacation and this film is scheduled for American release this week, I thought I might post it again for my American friends who might have just skipped over it last time.  It is still playing in Canada as well.MAO'S LAST DANCERWritten by Jan SardiDirected by Bruce BeresfordStarring Chi Cao,...

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Apollo 13 (1995)

Genre: Drama/History/Adventure/BiographyStarring: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed HarrisNASA had launched an Apollo Space Programme where multiple missions would be sent on the moon. Apollo 13 was the third Apollo mission intended to land on the moon. Jim Lovell (Hanks) was appointed flight commander along with Ken Mattingly...

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Funny People (2009)

Genre: Comedy/Drama/RomanceStarring: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana, Jonah Hill, Jason SchwartzmanAlthough a stand up comedian's life may seem to be fun, it's actually as normal as anyone else's. George Simmons (Sandler) is a famous stand-up comedian and actor who has been diagnosed with a rare blood disease with a mere...

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Peepli [Live] (2010)

Genre: Drama/ComedyStarring: Omkar Das, Raghuvir Yadav, Shalini Vatsa, Farrukh Jaffar, Malaika Shenoy, Vishal Sharma, Nowaz, Sitaram PanchalLets get to the point. The movie is slow, quite slow and may not appeal to the mass audience. It seems to have been made more in accordance with satisfying critics rather than the regular movie-goer....

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SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD

Written by Michael Baccall and Edgar WrightDirected by Edgar WrightStarring Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick and Mary Elizabeth WinsteadStacey Pilgrim: Are you legitimately moving on or are you just being insane?Scott Pilgrim: Can I get back to you on that?By the time you reach a certain age, if you’ve tried at all to make connections...

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A Single Man (2009)

Genre: Drama/RomanceStarring: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas HoultRelationships are always difficult to get over. Spending your life with one person and all of a sudden realising that he/she is gone, can be tragic to anyone. Prof. George Falconer (Firth) is a homosexual man who one fine day receives news that his partner for 16 years...

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Yesterday's Action Hero, Today

An interview withDOLPH LUNDGRENforTHE EXPENDABLESEverything I know about Dolph Lundgren from my childhood, I know because of my brother.  It was my brother who watched and rewatched action classics like UNIVERSAL SOLDIER and MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE over and over again.  I merely caught whatever was on when I stumbled into the...

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