Black Dog Video Newsletter

There’s something called the Three Days of Shopping in Cambie Village coming this weekend, Friday to Sunday. Apparently it is a promotion targeting people who live in the area to come and check out the stores on Cambie which, I assume will have some fabulous Christmas promotions happening. Come and check it out. As we are a rental business, we won’t have much Christmas stuff for sale. (Well none actually - but don’t let that stop you from coming in!)

New Releases for Tuesday December 9th

A Colbert Christmas - Stephen Colbert invites you for some holiday cheer at his cabin where he’s hemmed in by a bear and is forced to sing songs with the likes of Elvis Costello, Feist, Willie Nelson and for some reason county music buffoon Toby Keith. Good fun.

The Dark Knight - Pretty good sequel to Batman Begins. Over long and silly at times (what’s with Batman’s voice?) but entertaining none the less. Heath Ledger’s Joker is worth the film itself but the possibility for a sequel(s) was spoiled by him dying. Way to go. Also on Blu-Ray.

Frost/Nixon - The original interviews with David Frost and Tricky Dick from the 70’s are made available for the first time. Supposed to be fascinating stuff and with the Hollywood version coming out soon you’ll want to brush up on your history, right? Also on Blu-ray. (just kidding).

Garden Party - Bunch of 20-somethings try to follow their dreams in LA. Let me guess, maybe acting? Model? Rock Star? Dancer? Heavy Equipment Operator?

George Carlin: Its Bad for Ya - Last  filmed stand up performance by the late great Carlin.
Horton Hears a Who - Fun stuff for the kids finds an elephant who discovers a tiny community of “Whos” living in a flower. Ya smoke another one “Dr.” Suess.

Lost Season 4 - More of the same from the kids on the island. I kind of lost interest after season 2 but I hear its still pretty good.

Mad Detective - From Johnnie To (The Mission, Exiled) comes this cool sounding cop story about a pair of detectives, one with some mad detecting skills, who track a serial killer.

Mister Foe - Award winning strange little ditty from across the pond finds Billy Eliot taking to the rooftops in his neighborhood to spy on people.

River Queen - Jack Bauer down under (sort of) finds drunky Keifer Sutherland caught between the British and the Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand during the 1860s. Is NZ referred to as down under as well?

Superman Doomsday - Animated Superman thingy finds the Man of Steel actually getting is ass killed.

Coming the Following Week…

Generation Kill
Mama Mia!
Man on a Wire
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Traitor

Recently Viewed and recommended

A Colbert Christmas
The Dark Knight
Taxi to the Dark Side
Metalocalypse 2
Wanted
Encounters at the End of the World
Red
Surfwise
Wall-E
The Shield Season 6

Movie News and Notes

In a recent interview Sigourney Weaver mentioned that her and director Ridley Scott had been talking about another Alien film. But she said that because of the super crappy Alien vs Predator films that the alien has become over exposed and if they did another film it might be alien free. Hmmmmm…

Good news to some, bad to others - Looks like there won’t be a Jurassic Park 4….

Here’s Roger Ebert’s picks for the best films of 2008. A little early but here they are…

Black Dog’s clip/site of the week… Just to reconfirm that one shouldn’t drink/do drugs or any combination of mind altering drugs, recreational or pharmaceutical, while driving…

Its about time someone took Apple down a peg. A whole peg!

From the Onion comes a funny little article about bad gift ideas in the movies…

And again from the Onion, the latest in there ongoing series of new great cult films. This week they check out The Devil’s Rejects (a personal fave)…

Black Dog’s Celebrity Mug Shot of the Week

They don’t call it Jackass for nothing….
Steve - O
“Jackass” star Steve-O (aka Stephen Glover) was arrested in August 2002 for exposing himself during a nightclub performance in Louisiana. Glover allegedly stapled his scrotum to his thigh and also participated in another stunt during which a bouncer slammed a patron’s head on the ground. The 28-year-old Johnny Knoxville sidekick, who was charged with obscenity and being an accessory to second-degree battery, is scheduled to be arraigned December 16.