The DVD Dump

While Spring isn’t exactly the best time for movies at the theater (though I am psyched for Watchmen this week), but it can be a great time for DVDs. Fortunately, this is one of those weeks with top-notch direct-to-DVD movies. There aren’t a lot this week, but there are some real gems here. It was very hard for me to make the pick of the week.
Dead in 3 Days

Synopsis: A clique of teenagers begins to receive life threatening cell-phone messages that warn “In three days you’re dead” and they soon begin to die at the hands of a shrouded killer. One girl in the group is the only one who discovers a mysterious clue leading to the assailant’s identity, but as the body count rises and the slayings become more and more vicious, no-one outside of her group wants to believe her and time is running out…

Exit Speed

Synopsis: On Christmas Eve, ten passengers board a bus traveling across Texas. Far out in the wilds they collide with a meth-addicted biker. Forced off the road by other members of the gang, the passengers take refuge in the hell hole of an abandoned scrap yard. They use improvised weapons and sheer guts to mount a defense against the murderous bikers but, as their numbers dwindle, they realize that their survival depends on doing the unthinkable. They must go on the offensive.

Gone the Way of Flesh

Synopsis: The story of a mysterious killer with a blood-lust for rock n roll groupies. A local town is outraged as underage female fans start turning up in pieces after live performances by The Jason Martinko Revue. It is up to one detective to rid his city of this traveling roadshow of filth, as he struggles to overcome numerous addictions. So if you like nudity, drugs, violence, filth & rock ‘n roll, you won’t want to miss GONE THE WAY OF FLESH!

DVD Dump Pick of the Week:

In the Electric Mist

Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones leads an all-star cast in this psychological thriller based on the bestselling novel by James Lee Burke. While on an investigation into a series of grisly murders, veteran detective Dave Robicheaux (Jones) navigates his way through the Louisiana bayou and the dark, sultry world of New Orleans mobster “Baby Feet” Balboni (John Goodman). Layers of corruption and long-dead secrets reawaken grudges and a lethal alliance A tangled web of killings, past and present, converges in a shocking showdown with stakes that become deeply personal to Robicheaux and his family. Featuring music from five-time GRAMMY Award-winner Buddy Guy, this film takes you deep into Cajun country’s hidden worlds.

Lake City (2008)

Synopsis: When a young man gets into trouble with a local drug dealer, he hits the road running with a young companion and heads to the last place on earth he wants to go - his childhood home. Lake City is a searing Southern drama about a mother and son who reunite under desperate circumstances years after a family tragedy drove them apart. Once together, they are forced to sort out their past and escape a dangerous situation in the present.

Real Time

Synopsis: Randy Quaid (Brokeback Mountain, Kingpin) and Jay Baruchel (Tropic Thunder, Knocked Up) deliver dead-on performances in this gripping thriller about a hit man who gives a down-and-out compulsive gambler just one last hour to live. Clever and fast-paced, this festival favorite will keep you guessing until its shocking conclusion that will stay with you long after it’s over.

Stiletto

Synopsis: Raina, a seductive yet incredibly dangerous woman, was once madly in love with crime boss Virgil Vadalos (Tom Berenger, Training Day, The Big Chill), but their relationship met a violent end after she discovered that he was associated with her sister’s disappearance. Now armed with only a knife and relentless anger, she is determined to avenge her sister by murdering everyone in Virgil’s crime ring. In a desperate attempt to stop Raina’s rampage, Virgil assigns crooked cop Beck (Paul Sloan) the perilous task of capturing her. As more blood spills onto the streets of Los Angeles, Raina and Detective Beck uncover a dark conspiracy that makes them question what they have been fighting for all along.

The Village Barbershop

Synopsis: Art Leroldi is terminal. Terminally irritable, that is. A small-time Reno barber stuck in a rut of haircuts, hot dogs and horse books, he lives every day like a warmed-over version of the last. Hit with the unexpected death of his long-time business partner and last apparent friend, he’s faced with losing the only thing in life he’s got left-his ‘man’s man’ barbershop. To keep it, he’ll be forced to hire the last person on earth he’d ever want working there-a woman. More specifically, Gloria MacIntyre, a spitfire young lady who suddenly finds herself unable to take Art’s ‘no’ for an answer.

Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic

Synopsis: The Entire Watchmen Graphics Novel Comes to Life – Watched any great books lately? Now you can. The most celebrated graphic novel of all time that broke the conventional mold continues to break new ground. Watchmen co-creator and illustrator Dave Gibbons oversees this digital version of the graphic novel that adds limited motion, voice and sound to the book’s striking drawn panels. All 12 chapters of the story are here – over 5 hours spanning everything from the mysterious demise of the Comedian to the crisscrossed destinies of loosely allied superheroes to their fateful impact on the world. Be in the know. Be watching. With Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic.

Weapons (2007)

Synopsis: WEAPONS presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and tragically reveals how they are all interrelated.

Wonder Woman, The Animated Movie

Synopsis: On the mystical island of Themyscira, a proud and fierce warrior race of Amazons have raised a daughter of untold beauty, grace and strength Princess Diana. When an Army fighter pilot, Steve Trevor, crash-lands on the island, the rebellious and headstrong Diana defies Amazonian law by accompanying Trevor back to civilization. Meanwhile, Ares (the god of War) has escaped his imprisonment at the hands of the Amazonians and has decided to exact his revenge - intending to start a world war that will not only last for centuries but will wipe out every living being on the planet, starting with the Amazons! It is up to Princess Diana to save her people and the world by using her gifts and becoming the ultimate Wonder Woman!

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