In its own haunting way,
Max Payne is beautiful to watch. I knew that director John Moore had utilized some
new digital technology while filming, but I didn't quite expect the movie as a whole to be so visually mesmerizing. This world never strays from its grainy state, everything awash in a blue-gray sheen — except for striking spots of bright red, and sometimes twinkly orange sparks — and there is near-constant precipitation usually large snowflakes swirling through icy air.
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and
Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to the titles below, the Oscar-winning documentary
Taxi to the Dark Side is also now available on DVD.
The trailer for the video game-turned-movie
Max Payne looks dark and spooky, though the story doesn't seem particularly new. According to the plot description, Mark Wahlberg's character, Max Payne, is looking to avenge the deaths of his family members. Mila Kunis costars as an assassin who is also looking to avenge a loved one's death (her sister's).
One of the most fun events I've been able to attend so far at the
TCA press tour was Monday's live reading of the 100th episode of
"Family Guy." Over themed lunches (the Lois was a cobb salad; the Peter included a large cookie), we listened to the show's voice actors run through a half hour of crude, inappropriate and often hilarious lines from the episode, which will air early in the show's upcoming season.
Of course, it will be interesting to see how much of the episode we heard actually makes it to air; Fox reminded us both in print and in person that this script hadn't yet been reviewed by the folks in broadcast standards and practices — which was obvious, to put it mildly. All the actual cursing will be saved for the DVD, of course, and there was one joke involving Keanu Reeves' unmentionables and the magical mailbox from The Lake House that I can't quite see making it to prime time either.
I love Kristen Bell. I would watch Kristen Bell fold her laundry if she let me. Okay, that's a little creepy but still, I would.
