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May 2010 

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DVD Releases

Big movies coming to the small screen


By Marni Weisz

MAY 4

Leap Year

Stars: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode
Director: Anand Tucker (Shopgirl)
Story: Anna (Adams) is tired of waiting for her boyfriend Jeremy (Adam Scott) to propose. Fortunately, Jeremy’s flying to Dublin for a conference and will be there on Leap Day, and Anna’s learned that, in Dublin, women are allowed to ask men to marry them on Leap Day! Shocking. So Anna takes off for Ireland with wedding bells ringing in her head. But her voyage hits a detour and she meets Declan (Goode), sweet, adorable Declan.
DVD Extras: deleted scenes

Nine

Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Penélope Cruz
Director: Rob Marshall (Chicago)
Story: It got terrible reviews, but a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.” Curious. Based on the Broadway production, that was in turn based on the Fellini film 8½, this big-screen musical stars Day-Lewis as a womanizing film director who is suffering from both writer’s block and a mid-life crisis.
DVD Extras: commentary, “Behind the Look of Nine,” “The Choreography of ‘Be Italian’”

MAY 11

Daybreakers

Stars: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe
Director: Michael and Peter Spierig (Undead)
Story: It’s 2019 and a plague has turned most humans into vampires. That’s all very well and good for the vampires, but without a healthy stock of humans, whose blood will they drink? Dang. Enter Edward (Hawke), a researcher trying to create a blood substitute, and Elvis, (Dafoe) a former vampire who is human again. Can the unlikely pair team up and save our necks?
DVD Extras: poster gallery, commentary, “Making of Daybreakers”

Edge of Darkness

Stars: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone
Director: Martin Campbell (Casino Royale)
Story: In Gibson’s first big-screen role in more than six years he plays Thomas Craven, a Boston cop whose daughter is shot dead inside his house. At first, it seems like daddy was the intended target, but as Craven digs through his daughter’s life — specifically the shady company for which she worked — he realizes it may not be his fault.

Legion

Stars: Paul Bettany, Lucas Black
Director: Scott Stewart (debut)
Story: Well, we’ve done it. We’ve pissed off God. He’s so fed up with us that he decides to wipe us from the face of the Earth and start again. But not if Michael (Bettany) has anything to say about. Yes, that Michael. The archangel. Mike seems to think we’re worth saving so flies down to Earth, cuts off his wings and amasses enough firepower to take on the Almighty.
DVD Extras: “Creating the Apocalypse,” “Humanity’s Last Line of Defense,” “From Pixels to Picture”

MAY 18

Extraordinary Measures

Stars: Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford
Director: Tom Vaughan (What Happens in Vegas)
Story: The true tale of John Crowley, a biotech executive who refused to listen to the doctors when they gave his two children a death sentence after they were diagnosed with a rare disease. Instead, Crowley quit his job, recruited a researcher (in the movie Ford plays an amalgam of a number of real-life scientists) and dedicated his days to finding a treatment.
DVD Extras: deleted scenes, “Meet John Crowley,” “Extraordinary Measures: The Power to Overcome”

Morgan Freeman in Invictus

Invictus

Stars: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
Director: Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino)
Story: Just because apartheid had ended and Nelson Mandela was President, didn’t mean racial tensions in South Africa had dissipated by the mid 1990s. In an attempt to bring black and white together, Mandela (Freeman) turned to rugby. He figured that if black South Africans could support the largely white Springbok team, led by captain François Pienaar (Damon), it would go a long way toward bringing the country together.
DVD Extras: “Matt Damon Plays Rugby”

The Messenger

Stars: Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster
Director: Oren Moverman (debut)
Story: Harrelson earned an Oscar nomination for his role in this little-seen gem. He plays Captain Tony Stone, whose job is to knock on doors and tell the people who answer that their loved one has died in the Iraq War. Foster plays his protegé, a wounded soldier serving out his remaining months back home. It’s the latter who makes the ultimate faux pas when he develops feelings for a new widow (Samantha Morton).

MAY 25

Dear John

Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Channing Tatum
Director: Lasse Hallström (The Hoax)
Story: A college student (Seyfried) and a soldier on leave (Tatum) fall in love. He has to return to the army, but they continue their relationship through letters. He thinks he’ll be out in a year. But after September 11th he feels obliged to re-enlist. And that’s just the beginning...

The Road

Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Director: John Hillcoat (The Proposition)
Story: Based on the book by Cormac McCarthy, this post-apocalyptic drama centres on a father (Mortensen) and son (Smit-McPhee) making their way south in the hopes that the days there will be warmer, and somehow easier, now that most plant and animal life has been obliterated from the face of the Earth.

 


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