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DVD Reviews: Things We Lost in the Fire
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By Meegatron
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008 at 10:08 am
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![Things We Lost in the Fire DVD Things We Lost in the Fire DVD](https://i0.wp.com/www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2008/rev/2008-04-10-thingswelost.jpg?ssl=1) Things We Lost in the Fire
Directed by Susanne Bier
Written by Allan Loeb
Starring Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny
Paramount Home Video
Rated R
Release date: March 4, 2008
Hope comes with letting go.
The life of Audrey (Halle Berry) and Brian (David Duchovny) is picturesque. They have two children a boy named Dory (Micah Berry) and a girl named Harper (Alexis Llewellyn). They own a beautiful home that was designed by Brian, Audrey runs her own business, they are close friends with the neighbors, and Brian has a friend that he has been best friends with since second grade. However, this world comes to a sudden halt when Brian is killed.
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Movie Review: My Blueberry Nights
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By Meegatron
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Friday, April 4th, 2008 at 7:32 am
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My Blueberry Nights
Directed by Wong Kar Wai
Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz, Natalie Portman
PG-13
Release date: April 4, 2008
Breakups are hard to handle. Some of us throw tantrums, some of us cry for days and days until we can’t stop, some of us jump into dating anyone that crosses our path, and some of us run to deal with the hurt. In the movie My Blueberry Nights, Elizabeth (Norah Jones) runs to stop the pain of a broken heart.
Opening the movie we meet Elizabeth entering an all-night dinner and harassing the waiter Jeremy (Jude Law) about a customer. We quickly find out that Elizabeth was cheated on and the relationship she had is now in ruins. If she broke up with him, or he broke up with her is not clearly seen as she leaves a message that she has found out about his infidelity and leaves keys to his apartment in Jeremy’s diner. However, he never comes to pick them up and Elizabeth checks daily to see if he has been there. Thus setting the basis for the friendship she and Jeremy share. Elizabeth needs someone to talk and in her conversations we learn that Jeremy is just as heartbroken as she is. Elizabeth decides that to get over her pain she needs to leave New York and go wherever the wind takes her.
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DVD Review: The Kite Runner
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By Meegatron
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 at 6:36 am
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![The Kite Runner DVD The Kite Runner DVD](https://i0.wp.com/www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2008/rev/2008-04-02-kiterunnerdvd.jpg?ssl=1) The Kite Runner
Directed by Marc Forster
Written by Khaled Hosseini
Starring Zekeria Ebrahimi, Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada, Khalid Abdalla, Atoosa Leoni, Shaun Toub, Homayoun Ershadi
Paramount Home Entertainment
Release date: March 25, 2008
“There is a way to be good again.”
The Kite Runner is a story about friendship, betrayal, hope, and atonement. Beginning in the 1970s and ending in the 2000s, we witness the relationship of two childhood friends, and the impact the Soviet Invasion and the Taliban regimes have on their relationship through the years in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Young Amir and Hassan (Zekeria Ebrahimi and Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada) are as socially different as two people could be. Amir is wealthy and has all of the vestiges of wealth, whereas Hassan is a servant and is a member of the Hazara. Beginning in 1978, the two children are inseparable and spend their time playing and flying kites. Amir flies, and Hassan runs the kite (kite running is fetching a kite when an opponent cuts the spool string to the kite midair with their own kite). However, their social differences are not the difficulties in their friendship which ultimately hinder their bond. The care that Amir’s father, Baba (Homayou Ershadi), shows toward Hassan makes Amir jealous. In Amir’s child mind he believes that Baba cares for him less and exalts the bravery and devotion of Hassan in contrast to the cowardice and weakliness of his son. Of course this is not true, but, in this instance, Amir’s truth outweighs the love and loyalty Hassan has for him — he is the overlooked. This jealousy plays a role in a tragic occasion which forever changes the relationship between the two boys.
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DVD Review: ‘Lil’ Bush’ S1
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By Meegatron
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Friday, March 21st, 2008 at 10:08 am
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![Lil Bush season one dvd Lil Bush season one dvd](https://i0.wp.com/www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2008/rev/2008-03-16-lilbush.jpg?ssl=1) Lil Bush
Resident of the United States, Uncensored
Season One: The Invasion Begins
132 Minutes (6 Episodes)
Comedy Central
Release date: March 11, 2008
“One part sitcom, one part Little Rascals, one part Rock-N-Roll band, and all cartoon.”
— Donick Cary (Writer/Executive Producer for Lil’ Bush)
Lil’ Bush comes right at a point when we need it the most. U.S. politics can be thought of as nothing but a comedy of errors led by PT Barnum himself our POTUS, George W. Bush. Lil’ Bush is a satirical cartoon about the young republican White House and their antics before they get to the big top. Their posse Lil’ George (President George W. Bush), Lil’ Cheney (Vice President Dick Cheney), Lil’ Rummy (Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld), and Lil’ Condi (Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) are hilariously funny, and surprisingly make you love them (for all of us that have a soul and actually don’t approve of the way our country is being run today).
There are 12 episodes in Season One and each is funny in its own right. Even though there are 12 episodes, they are arranged into six numbered episodes (1. Iraq/First Kiss, 2. Nuked/Camp, 3. Gay Friend/Mexican, 4. Global Warming/Hall Monitor, 5. Evolution/Press Corps Dinner, and 6. Haunted House/Hot Dog). The numbered episodes open with Lil’ George at the podium addressing the press, errr, the audience with little anecdotal caveats about the episodes that will follow. P.S. when I say anecdotal caveats, I mean a snide and droll comment.
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DVD Review: Kurt Cobain – About A Son
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By Meegatron
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 7:55 am
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![Kurt Cobain About a Son Kurt Cobain - About a Son](https://i0.wp.com/www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2008/rev/2008-02-19-kurtcobaindvd.jpg?ssl=1) Kurt Cobain – About a Son
Documentary, 135 minutes
Directed by AJ Schnack
Shout! Factory/Sidetrack Films
Available Feb. 19, 2008
“Kurt Cobain was a person just like everybody else, he cried, and laughed, loved his child, loved his wife, and was frustrated, and happy, and crabby, and jovial, and all those things. I think a lot of that has been taken away from him in the intervening years since his death. He’s just become an icon, an enigma, dehumanized.” — Michael Azerrad, author Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana
Kurt Cobain is very well known but not completely understood. His life and career can be categorized as brief, poignant, and tragic. Told entirely in his own voice taken from over 25 hours of previously unheard interviews given to Michael Azerrad for his book Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, the autobiographical film Kurt Cobain – About A Son details the life and influences of Kurt Cobain, frontman of the 1990s chart-topping grunge band Nirvana. His story is woven into a commentary by AJ Schnack about the presence and absence of such a great artist.
The film is broken into three chapters. These chapters represent not only the areas that Kurt lived, but the places that impacted his personal growth into the man he would become. Kurt was born on February 20, 1967, in Aberdeen, WA, and lived there until he was kicked out of his family home. Until the age of eight, Kurt was a happy child. His world was Aberdeen and anything he wanted to do and accomplish was at his fingertips. But, his world started to change. He became intensive, depressed, problematic, nervous, and truant. Kurt stated he was “manic depressive at 9-years-old.”
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