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Monday, March 08, 2010 - 9:58 AM
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DVD Bits Tweeting the Oscars...Now! (DVD Bits News)
 Just a quick reminder, folks: we are watching the Oscars and Red Carpet coverage right now, and tweeting our thoughts for your visual pleasure.
Who do you think will win? What do you think of the dresses? Are the two hosts working for you? Any surprises?
Join us and let us know your thoughts @DVDBits now!
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Sunday, March 07, 2010 - 3:50 PM
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Adventures of Power (DVD Review)
 Did you like Napoleon Dynamite, Happy Gilmore, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, BASEketball, or just about every single "quirky" indie comedy of the last ten years?. Filmmaker Ari Gold sure did, because you'll instantly find traces of all of them in his film Adventures of Power.
The supposedly hilarious odyssey of an air-drumming obsessed young man (writer-director-star Gold), Adventures of Power is an absolute trial to sit through, despite the efforts of such comic pros as Michael McKean and Jane Lynch.
To feel this reviewer's pain, click here.
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Sunday, March 07, 2010 - 10:32 AM
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Departures (DVD Review)
 Last year's Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards makes a fine addition to our Oscars Season.
It is not often that you see jobs for 'encoffinment' listed in the classifieds, so it is understandable that you would mistake 'departures' for something to do with the travel industry. Based on the book Coffinman - The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician (Best. Title. Ever.), Departures is a winner of virtually every award in its native country and a large whack of the international ones as well. Does it live up to the hype, or curl up and die?
Dig into our review here.
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Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 9:55 AM
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Up (DVD Review)
 The Oscars are almost upon us, so what better time than now to take a look at one of this year's nominees?
Disney-Pixar's latest release is one of their most mature and complex pieces to date. Quite simply, it is a masterpiece.
Up tells the story of the growing friendship between the elderly Carl Fredrickson (Ed Asner) and the young Wilderness Explorer Russell (Jordan Nagai) as they journey to South America by means of balloon-powered house.
Read my review of one of the best films in years here.
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Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 8:56 AM
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Jaquie Brown Diaries - Series One (DVD Review)
 Though little known on these shores NZ television personality Jaqui Brown has struck gold with this fun and appealing comedy series in which she stars as an insecure, status-obsessed light relief reporter desperate for a taste of the big time.
The best thing to come from the Land of the Long White Cloud since a certain comedy folk duo, The Jaqui Brown Diaries garnered rave reviews in its homeland and looks like becoming equally popular in Oz.
See what all the fuss is about by clicking here.
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Friday, February 26, 2010 - 1:29 PM
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Tulpan (DVD Review)
 If you're curious to see what an actual film about Kazakhstan might be like (i.e. not Borat), then Sergey Dvortevsky's Tulpan is a good place to start.
A gentle, very entertaining tale of a love-struck shepherd in the barren dustbowl of the Hunger Steppe, this is one of those films that really transports you to an unfamiliar place, and is well worth your time.
To trek out to the Betpak Dala, click here.
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Friday, February 19, 2010 - 9:46 AM
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Street Fighter - The Legend of Chun-Li (DVD Review)
 Fifteen years after the first live-action Street Fighter adaptation, director Andrzej Bartkowiak evidently decided the time was ripe for another instalment. The world, it seems, did not agree.
Universally panned by critics and having grossed less than a fifth of its budget at the box office, The Legend of Chun-Li features some strong acting talent in the likes of Moon Bloodgood, Kristen Kreuk, Michael Clarke Duncan and others. Sadly it also features Chris ‘the sensitive one from American Pie’ Klein, a woeful screenplay and more Asian stereotypes than you can poke a bamboo stick at.
So is it ‘so bad it’s good’, or just plain bad? See for yourself by clicking here.
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