This week is really light on releases and the three featured are all titles that I never got around to seeing. One I will be seeing very soon, one can wait.
 | Dear John Dear John tells the story of John Tyree (Channing Tatum), a young soldier home on leave, and Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried), the idealistic college student he falls in love with during her spring vacation. Over the next seven tumultuous years, the couple is separated by John’s increasingly dangerous deployments. While meeting only sporadically, they stay in touch by sending a continuous stream of love letters overseas—correspondence that eventually triggers fateful consequences. Two words. Amanda Seyfried. No, I wont be running out to buy it. But her presence alone justifies a chick flick rental status. |
 | The Road It is more than ten years since the world was destroyed—by what, nobody can say. Whatever it was, is that there is no energy, no power, no vegetation, no food. The Man (Viggo Mortensen) and The Boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) are on the move with all their precious possessions—whatever food and clothing they can scrounge—on their backs and in a shopping cart outfitted with a bicycle mirror so they can see who’s coming up behind them. Their desperate, improvised traveling gear and their scruffy unwashed bodies give them the look of the homeless. And that is what they are. That’s what everybody is in this lifeless frontier. This slipped my notice and I never got to see it but now that its available I won’t for long. |
 | The Collector Handyman and ex-con Arkin aims to repay a debt to his ex-wife by robbing his new employer’s country home. Unfortunately for Arkin, a far worse enemy has already laid claim to the property—and the family. As the seconds tick down to midnight, Arkin becomes a reluctant hero trapped by a masked “Collector” in a maze of lethal invention—the Spanish Inquisition as imagined by Rube Goldberg—while trying to rescue the very family he came to rob. This came out last summer and got past me because it just didnt appeal to me at all, but its out on DVD, so if you were at all interested. |
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‘The Collector’ has been out on DVD for quite some time. Very Saw-esque, if that’s your thing. High production values so worth a look.
My wife refers to The Road, en-toto, as “the longest death scene ever.”