Home Media Magazine - March 2-8, 2009 - (Page 13) www.homemediamagazine.com REVIEWS lems to cocky chefs, filthy equipment, spoiled food and negligent owners. These shows make you wonder what’s really going on behind the scenes of your favorite restaurants. The British version of the show is much more about the process of cooking and the ins and outs of running a restaurant than the American version, which, typical of stateside reality-TV, puts more focus on familial discord and emotional strife. Ramsay himself seems much more calm and collected, coming across as a true professional and almost polite, a far cry from the ‘F’-bomb anger of his American shows (though he’s still as foul-mouthed as ever, and the DVD is completely uncensored). The content here comprises the same four episodes available on the first disc of VEI’s first volume of the show released in Canada in 2007. Those discs offered only the new portions of the revisited episodes as an extra with the original, making them a bit easier to navigate. Acorn’s American DVD release offers the revisited versions as full episodes in a separate section of the menu, with an option to watch just the revisited part. As complete episodes, there are subtle differences between the two versions. The Acorn set also includes a text biography of Ramsay. Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares is among several Ramsay-based DVDs hitting the market. VEI released the first season of the American “Hell’s Kitchen” last year, and the second season of Ramsay’s British cooking show “The F-Word” streets March 17 from BFS. – John Latchem SEX PASSION BETRAYAL MURDER I RAMSAY’S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES: THE COMPLETE U.K. SERIES ONE Street 3/3 Acorn, Documentary, $24.99 two-DVD set, NR. Stars Gordon Ramsay. THORA BIRCH KEITH CARRADINE BRENDAN SEXTON III DEAN WINTERS (American Beauty, (Nashville, “Dexter”, (Welcome to the Dollhouse, (P.S. I Love You, “Oz”, Ghost World) “Deadwood”) Empire Records) “30 Rock”) ne can’t truly appreciate the force of nature that is Gordon Ramsay until one has experienced him in the original British. In “Kitchen Nightmares,” master chef Ramsay (“Hell’s Kitchen”) travels to failing restaurants on the verge of bankruptcy and gives himself a week to turn things around. The show began in Britain in 2004 and has since been adapted for American TV. Acorn’s first-season release of the British version includes four episodes, plus “revisited” versions that include a follow-up visit from Ramsay months later. Ramsay usually traces the prob- O A true story of an unlikely serial killer that is as riveting as it is thought-provoking. I cannot recommend owning this DVD enough.” – VideoViews.org “a Film-Noir thriller laced with mystery A brilliant biochemistry student who is also a prostitute. A brutally bludgeoned body buried naked in the snow. MARKETING CAMPAIGN INCLUDES: $26.95/SRP approx. 92 min./Color/Cat# 329892 UPC: 0 12233 29892 5 ISBN: 978-1-56994-662-6 WINTER OF FROZEN DREAMS/ DVD Prebook date: 04/07/2009 Street date: 05/05/2009 monterey media… a uniquely independent studio for ordering assistance Call 1 800 424 2593 www.montereymedia.com “One of the most I MULLIGANS Prebook 3/3; Street 4/21 Wolfe, Drama, $24.95 DVD, Unrated. Stars Charlie David, Thea Gill. – Andrew Sarris, The New York Observer remarkable movies of the year…” Beautifully evocative, “the Secrets” explores the passage into womanhood of the daughter of an orthodox rabbi finding herself at a crossroads of life. Naomi and her new friend explore the complexities of a religious lifestyle in a vibrant environment of youth, rebellion and desire. DVD National Marketing Campaign includes: Jewish Film World ulligans takes an extended golf metaphor — a mulligan is when someone takes a do-over swing after their first shot sucks — and applies it to getting another shot at life. I’ll apply some more golf metaphors to this film and say, if you really like gay-themed movies and seeing an older man with a younger man onscreen, this film’s a hole-in-one; if such things don’t interest you, Mulligans is a bit of a shank. Charlie David, writer of the film, stars as Chase, a young gay man in M the closet who is invited to spend the summer with his roommate, Tyler, and Tyler’s family. Chase doesn’t reveal to Tyler that he’s gay until well into the summer, and the film does well at hinting at Chase’s struggle to be open with his sexuality, not making it obvious until he, himself, comes out and says it. The film’s seemingly central plotline — the sexual tension between Chase and his buddy’s Dad — is its weakest. The brief love scenes are tasteful but also full of Hallmark moments — eating ice cream on the couch in their underwear, skinnydipping in the lake. Those with daddy fetishes may be disappointed. More interesting and well-executed are the legitimate concerns of Tyler’s mom, played well by Thea Gill (of popular gay-themed shows “Dante’s Cove” and “Queer as Folk”), when she thinks her young daughter may be a lesbian, or Tyler and Chase’s strained friendship, or how the family deals with how things unfold. Few films delve into such topics sensitively, so it was nice to see this one go for it. And if the melodrama gets a bit too much to handle, a handful of gratuitous just-out-of-the-shower scenes improve matters. – Billy Gil Hebrew & French with English subtitles $26.95/SRP THE SECRETS/ DVD 127 min./Color/Cat# 338182 UPC: 0 12233 38182 5 ISBN: 978-1-56994-423-3 National Theatrical in over 30 Top Markets including 4 held-over weeks in New York City, March 2–8, 2009 Home Media Magazine 15 Prebook date: 03/10/2009 Street date: 04/07/2009 http://www.homemediamagazine.com http://www.VideoViews.org http://www.montereymedia.com http://www.montereymedia.com
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