Mar
12
OMG's Weekly DVD Round-up
Only little old Oirland could have a day that seems like the end of the world EVERY year. Lock your doors! Board up your windows! Hold your children’s soft heads! The barbarian hordes of St. Patrick's Day maniacs are upon us, spreading inebriated intimidation and violence wherever they may go. Basically, what we're saying is, get DVDs and stay in, ok?
Easily withstanding all the praise heaped upon it, An Education, adapted by Nick Hornby from Lynn Barber's autobiography, stars BAFTA winning Carey Mulligan as a 17-year-old caught up in a whirlwind of romance in 1960's London. Carey - nominated for an Oscar but sadly not victorious last Sunday - gives a brilliant performance as the precocious Jenny, whose boredom and naivety leads her into the arms of a much older man (Peter Sarsgaard). Maybe not as appealing to those with a Y-chromosome, who'll probably find themselves checking the back of the box to see how long is left, but still OMG's recommendation of the week.
Julie & Julia is the latest entry in that ever popular genre of film...true life cooking dramedy. Writer-director Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless In Seattle) skillfully combines two stories - Meryl Streep as American television institution Julia Chiles, and Amy Adams as a woman making all 524 dishes from her cookbook - with the result being an entertaining, if gentle, film with another great performance from Streep.
If anyone even cares at this stage, Saw VI - the Roman numerals make it classy - also makes it’s way to the rental shelves this week and is directed by the editor of the previous five films. That alone should be reason enough to run away from the DVD box screaming but if you need further convincing, it's worthless garbage, clinging on for dear life to the thankfully brief fad of 'torture porn' horror movies that clogged up multiplexes like vomit in a plughole a few years back. Avoid avoid avoid. AVOID.
It's revenge of the nerds time for the TV-on-DVD recommendation this week. US hit The Big Bang Theory - The Complete Season 2 is a one man show, and that man is Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons). Singularly successful due to its neurotic leading man, the show - about four social inept scientists - is a veritable geekgasm of science-fiction in-jokes combined with studio audience hysteria in the Married With Children mode. You know the type: 1.Character says moderately funny line 2.Audience goes insane 3.Actors stare at each other in silence until the laugher/applause dies down 4.Show continues. Recommended for anyone who always wondered what a Friends & Battlestar Galactica hybrid would be like.
For other tastes there's Bo Selecta: Series 1-3. Leigh Francis' grotesque celebrity caricatures wear seriously thin by the third season but there's still many laughs to be had with the hideous likes of Mel B, Christina Aguilera and David Blaine. Laughs of a more unintentional kind dominate Dallas: The Complete Season 12 with its po-faced power struggles and aging cast, and CSI: Complete Season 9 is shallow, entertaining fun as ever.
Oh, and if none of that takes your fancy come March 17th, The Snapper is on TV3. Alright, Sharon?
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