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Home (Re)Viewing: Bullock’s Premonition bodes ill
Rarely has there been a better argument for choosing the old over the new than this week’s oddball DVD slate.
Premonition: Poor Sandra Bullock. In this movie, her husband dies in a terrible car accident, after which Bullock’s reality alternates. One day, her husband has died, the next he’s OK. But all the while, Bullock suffers and suffers, watching as her child has a close encounter with a glass door, her husband falls out of his casket, etc. etc. The premise is fairly clever, but the movie is so insistently grim and dour, it beat me down. It’s no fun solving this supernatural mystery. Full review GRADE: C-
Ace in the Hole: I haven’t actually seen this Billy Wilder film yet about an amoral newspaper reporter (Kirk Douglas) who happens upon the story of his career in Arabesque, but considering that even a lesser Wilder movie like Stalag 17 is still quite good, I’m quite confident this Criterion DVD, with its usual assortment of bountiful extras, is worth picking up on faith. Into the Netflix queue it goes.
Also out today
The Esther Williams Collection: “Dry, she ain’t much. Wet, she’s a star,” Hollywood said of the swim-suited star, whose poolside extravaganza’s were as eye-poppingly outrageous as anything the Dream Factory ever made. For casual fans, her scenes in the That’s Entertainment movies will suffice, but serious collectors will want this box, which collects Bathing Beauty, Easy to Wed, On an Island with You, Neptune’s Daughter and Dangerous When Wet.
The Hills Have Eyes 2, but I don’t have eyes for it.
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