dVd reViews by david vera
Rick and Steve: the complete second season
Couldn’t get enough of “the happiest gay couple in all the world,” huh? Armed
with fresh remarks on pop culture and the funniest homocentric outlooks, Rick,
Steve, Kirsten, Dana, Chuck and Evan bring us back to “West Lahunga Beach” for
another reunion of Hollywood’s finest out-gay voice talent. Among such talent,
the show includes voice samples from Alan Cumming, Billy West, Margaret
Cho, Lori Alan, Peter Paige, Mitch Morris and Wilson Cruz, among others.
Unrated and unrelenting, MTV’s gayest little stop-motion series comes
with 176 minutes of Melrose Place-style treachery, South Park-style hu-
mor and a Bob the Builder-style packaging. Rick and Steve: The Complete
Second Season is available on March 3.
Rachel Getting Married
It might seem as though Anne Hathaway is still trying to
satisfy her wedding flick fix, but remember. Just like wed-
ding dresses, no two movies about matrimonial disaster
are exactly alike. Especially one where Hathaway successfully
transforms into Kym, a dark-humored realist fresh from rehab whose tact-
Synecdoche, New York
less way with words have a debilitating effect on the nerves of her family. Having
The universal quandary of death isn’t usually some-
been through every avenue of the crisis/rehabilitation realm, Kym reluctantly bends to her
thing that’s dealt with until signs hint that it’s near, but
family’s frequent attempts to heal her but knows that the only way to truly recover is to dig
news of a pending premature end can cause a frenzy
through her heavily bruised past.
of commotion—and some of it can actually teach you
Critically adored, this film and Hathaway have both broken the mold and delivered a
something.
dynamic tale about family secrets, expectations, the need for recognition and the wreck-
The life of struggling theater director Caden Cotard
age that comes of personal guilt. Also starring Rosemarie DeWitt, Mather Zickel, Bill Irwin
is beginning to spoil. Between the pool of unfulfilling
and Anna Deavere Smith, this documentary-flavored portrayal of life’s answerless conflicts
works at his regional theater in Schenectady, his
serves viewers a mind-expanding slap in the face on March 10.
pointless sessions with a book-pushing therapist
and his disappointing abandonment at home, Caden
has learned from his non-descriptive doctor that his
autonomic functions are erratically beginning to fail.
Suddenly prompted to enact his dream production in
Twilight
an abandoned theatre, he determines to spend the rest
Few can resist a cool character like Edward Cullen.
of his days meticulously perfecting his vision—until a
He’s vulnerably timid, effortlessly beautiful and he’s
well-known theatre celebrity causes him to rethink his
got a mysteriously sexy aura about him. Plus, he’s
creative direction and finally
sworn off his human-blood-drinking habit! But
reveal his masterpiece to
when this velour-clad vamp catches a whiff of
the public. Starring Philip
the equally complex Bella Swan, Edward’s icy
Seymour Hoffman, Cath-
blood begins to boil as he desperately resists
erine Keener, Jennifer
the primal urge to feed on her. An untimely
Jason Leigh, Michelle
visit by Edward’s “extended family” compli-
Williams, Samantha
cates matters as Bella’s life is unexpectedly
Morton and Hope
put in danger.
Davis, Synecdoche,
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson,
New York becomes
Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser,
available on DVD
Nikki Reed and Ashley Greene star in the modern-
March 10.
day fable of semi-necrophilic love that has inappropriately
groped the hearts of teenage girls and young gay men everywhere.
The film adaptation of Catherine Hardwicke’s hauntingly sexy masterpiece comes
to our creaky doorstep on March 21.
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