It's a big week for DVD releases — two of this week's movies, Memoirs of a Geisha and King Kong, won Academy Awards earlier this month, but it'll be hard to tear yourself away from the Ingalls clan. Head to your local movie store to rent these:
Memoirs of a Geisha: Directed by Rob Marshall; starring Zihi Zhang, Li Gong and Ken Watanabe. A young girl undergoes the transformation from a maid to a geisha in pre-WWII Japan.
King Kong: Directed by Peter Jackson; starring Jack Black, Adrien Brody and Naomi Watts. Black's character leads his actors to Skull Island for the perfect backdrop to his newest risky movie. There, they meet the big ape and a slew of other dangerous creatures.
Stay: Directed by Marc Forster; starring Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Naomi Watts. Gosling's character is obsessed with a deceased painter and wants to replicate his death by committing suicide when he turns 21. His psychologist, McGregor, wants to help him but finds himself growing similarly obsessed.
Get Rich or Die Tryin': Directed by Jim Sheridan; starring 50 Cent, Terrance Howard, Omar Benson Miller. Houstonist knows you can't resist a movie with an apostrophe in the title, but if you do happen to rent Get Rich or Die Tryin', a movie loosely based on rapper 50 Cent's life, keep your guns away, as the rapper seems to inspire gunfire everywhere he goes.
A Sound of Thunder: Directed by Peter Hyams; starring Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack. We hadn't heard of this one about a hunter who is transported to the prehistoric era and changes history, and after reading a reviewer on IMDB, we are glad we didn't see it. "Yep, this was at least a D movie... D for Dumb, Dismal, Disappointing, and D for Don't Go See This." Ooooo.
Sliver: 1993. Directed by Phillip Noyce; starring Sharon Stone, William Baldwin. Stone's character is an ambitious publishing exec who scores an incredible Manhattan apartment, which is a good deal until she learns everyone in the complex is inexplicably falling off their balconies. The "romantic thriller" garnered less than stellar reviews from one IMDB user who claimed the movie had "about as much eroticism as an obscene phone call."
Also on DVD this week:
Masters of Horror
I Love Your Work
Uno Bianca
Little House on the Prairie
The Triangle
Godzilla (1998 version)
Dirty
The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold
Echoes of Innocence
Intoxicating
Eye of the Storm
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