Top DVD Releases for the Week of February 17 2009
Here is a list of the DVD Releases for the week of February 17 2009:
Dead Like Me: Life After Death
Synopsis: When George and her colleagues get a new boss whose focus is on moving souls quickly and enjoying life without consequences, the team begins to break the strict reaper rules. While her friends fall victim to their desires for money, success, and fame, George breaks another rule by revealing her true identity to her living family. As the reapers struggle with their roles on Earth, they each find that death can be just as complicated as life. Through its strong storyline, Dead Like Me delves into the intricate mythology and dark comedy created by the TV series and appeals to the show’s legions of fans as well as those new to the world of the reapers.
Cast: Ellen Muth, Callum Blue, Henry Ian Cusick, Sarah Wynter
Recommendations: As a huge fan of the original series, I have to recommend this one. And while the story could have been better and the absence of some of the actors was unfortunate, it was still a very enjoyable movie, that I think fans of the show will really like.
FLASH OF GENIUS Movie Pictures (2008)
Check out some pictures from FLASH OF GENIUS, a new movie starring Greg Kinnear and Lauren Graham, coming out on October 3, 2008.
Flash of Genius looks like such a sweet movie, it's one of those feel-good movies and with Greg Kinnear as the main character, I think you should plan on a box of kleenex for the theater.
Synopsis: Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns’s (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. But this determined engineer refused to be silenced, and he took on the corporate titans in a battle that nobody thought he could win.
The Kearns were a typical 1960s Detroit family, trying to live their version of the American Dream. Local university professor Bob married teacher Phyllis (Lauren Graham) and, by their mid-thirties, had six kids who brought them a hectic but satisfying Midwestern existence. When Bob invents a device that would eventually be used by every car in the world, the Kearns think they have struck gold. But their aspirations are dashed after the auto giants who embraced Bob’s creation unceremoniously shunned the man who invented it.
Ignored, threatened and then buried in years of litigation, Bob is haunted by what was done to his family and their future. He becomes a man obsessed with justice and the conviction that his life’s work -- or for that matter, anyone’s work -- be acknowledged by those who stood to benefit. And while paying the toll for refusing to compromise his dignity, this everyday David will try the unthinkable: to bring Goliath to his knees.
Watch the Flash of Genius trailer and enjoy more pictures featuring Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham and Dermot Mulroney below.
FLASH OF GENIUS Movie Trailer (2008)
Title: FLASH OF GENIUS
Director: Marc Abraham
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, and Dermot Mulroney
Plot: Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper. (Source: imdb.com)
Release Date: 17 October 2008
Thoughts: I am such a sucker for these feel-good movies. And Greg Kinnear playing the underdog getting screwed by a big corporation, and fighting for what's right, well that's just something I want to see. Although I will say that I usually tend to rent these types of movies more than going see them at the theater.
Trailer:
What do you think of the trailer for Flash of Genius?
