We’re here to keep you informed on hot choices for renting or buying new DVD releases; unfortunately, this week blows in rentals. Released this week: Grilled, Basic Instinct 2, Weeds-Season 1 and ER: The Complete Fifth Season.
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Here’s what is getting released today on DVD:
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Film:
Basic Instinct 2 – – How bad does a film have to be for Joe Eszterhas to refuse to make it? How silly is it for a 50 year-old woman to strut around in skimpy outfits like a horny teenager? How untitiliating is it to see a nude 50 year-old woman pretending to be a 20 year-old woman, and how sad is it to watch? How unnecessary is this sequel? What does Sharon Stone’s pet project really have to offer? These questions and more can be answered if you’re willing to watch one of the most ridiculous films in recent memory. Get the rest of Alan’s opinion on Basic Instinct 2.
Grilled – Hurray for all of us, its Ray Romano and Kevin James in a comedy, a direct to video comedy, mind you. Dark comedy that isn’t really all that it’s cracked up to be. I know, you ask why, it’s got Everybody Loves Raymond and Queen of Kings in it, don’t forget, it also has Burt Reynolds and Juliette Lewis and there is a reason it was direct to video, NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO EVEN ATTEMPT THE BIG SCREEN!!! Meat salesmen go out to make the big sale and win back their jobs, run into a bit of mob trouble. That’s about it, one problem arises after another and they keep trying to bail themselves out. Done and done, it’s your risk.
Special Edition:
Weeds-Season 1 – In trying to keep up with HBO, Showtime comes up with the excellent Weeds. Mary-Louise Parker plays a widowed mom of two sons and she’s a suburban pot dealer to pay the bills. Both sons are a royal pain in the ass (everybody should have daughters), one is a sexually exuberant teen and the other a want to be terrorist on video and he’s only in grade school. This series has off beat comedy, dark side and light sides, drama and suburban life being poked fun at. Packaged includes 10 episodes on 2 discs and that’s that.
ER: The Complete Fifth Season – This is a rip-roaring season for many. Dr. Ross (George Clooney) exits right and leaves head nurse, Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) in a suicidal fit. Dr. Benton’s (Eriq La Salle) son is deaf; Dr. Weaver (Laura Innes) loses the opportunity to be head of emergency, but no worries she gets to be super bitch later. This season is where we see the lovely red headed intern, British Dr. Elizabeth Corday (Alex Kingston), start all over again with practicing medicine in the US and Dr. Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards) is the peanut butter that keeps this TV series bread together. There are 22 episodes on 6 disks with a few Outpatient outtakes and unaired scenes. A short gag reel, nothing too special, but for you hard-core fans, the series on DVD itself should be awesome enough.