CG and a Fat Suit
Eddie Murphy takes on multiple roles in his new film Norbit, where he plays both the overwhelming Rasputina and the victimized Norbit, who yearns to be with Thandie Newton (Mission Impossible 2, Gridlock'd). The PG release this week is The Derby Stallion, where Zac Efron (High School Musical) is teamed with a horse and sent to win the Derby Cup. The Messengers is the most recent chiller from the Pang Brothers (The Eye, Tesseract), where Dylan McDermott (Home for the Holidays) moved his family from the city to the farm, but his daughter (Kristen Stewart: Zathura, Catch That Kid) begins to see ghostly visions.
Polar opposites of stand-up comedy are out today, both Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, featuring middle-eastern comedians, and Larry the Cable Guy's new Morning Constitutions. An investigation into losing work, Fired! is a comic look into the searches of an actress fired by Woody Allen. The documentary Maxed Out is an insight into the practices of the credit card industry, and Ghosts of Abu Ghraib is an insider's look into the notorious Iraqi prison.
In anticipation of the upcoming Michael Bay (Bad Boys, The Island) film we've brought in a few discs of Transformers. Also new to our TV section, season 3 of the firefighter drama Rescue Me, season 8 of Seinfeld, season 1 of the BBC supernatural series Hex, as well as the first season of the Henry Rollins Show. Two miniseries are now out, the BBC nautical adventure To the End of the Earth (featuring Sam Neill Merlin, Jurassic Park) written by Lord of the Flies author William Golding, and the A&E adaptation of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge featuring Ciaran Hinds (Road to Perdition, Jane Eyre). Finally, Waking the Dead is the new BBC series about a cutting edge team reopening unsolved cases.
