New on DVD
New on DVD
Paranormal Activity
Rated R for language
Available on DVD and Blu-ray
After seeing what I consider to be the scariest movie ever made in theaters, I figured that it couldn't be too bad on a TV. I figured wrong. This movie about a young couple in San Diego haunted by a Demon still sent horrible shivers up my spine and made me want to turn my head throughout. I still feel that there is a huge rational thinking sinkhole since anyone with this kind of situation occurring would not just walk, but run to the nearest church for protection, but the plethora of frights make this dilemma forgivable. I'm not sure if it needed the Blu-ray treatment as it is not an especially good-looking film and there are no special features aside from an alternate ending that I'm glad Spielberg suggested that they change. I do wish they could have thrown in a documentary on the making of, after all this is officially the most profitable film of all time considering it only cost a few thousand to make and it grossed $108 million at the U.S. box office. B+
Glee, Volume 1: Road to Sectionals
Unrated
Available on DVD
I really shouldn't like this show about a group of high-schoolers that form a glee club and perform professional-level Broadway numbers week after week while diving from one dramatic situation to another. There's the pregnant cheerleader and the football player who knocked her up, except he really didn't because the real father, who is also in the glee club is a loser. There's the glee club director whose wife is faking her own pregnancy while one of the other prim and proper school teachers tries her hardest to horn in. There's the cheerleader coach, played by the brilliant Jane Lynch, who wants nothing more than to bring the glee club down for no conceivable reason beside the fact that she's bored. Being such a big fan of edgy shows like True Blood, Breaking Bad, and Man Men, I really shouldn't like this. And yet I found myself glued to it to the point where I didn't even want to wait to watch it on my DVR. This is a true, unadulterated guilty pleasure. A-
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