Blu Ray Releases for 12/16 Previewed Briefly by Blue

* Bottle Rocket (Criterion Collection) - Wes Anderson's first film, and one of Criterion's first releases on blu ray. Good movie, but I'm not a big enough fan to buy it on blu ray. Waiting on Rushmore and the Royal Tenenbaums, where the higher production values may shine through a bit more.

* The Cheetah Girls: One World (Walt Disney) - Raven-Symone is fat, ugly, and untalented. There. I said it. Someone finally said it so we can all go back to reality and stop pretending that there's an actual reason this chick is successful at anything.

* Chungking Express (Criterion Collection) - Kar-Wai Wong's masterpiece, though boring as hell. Beautiful though.

* Coach Carter (Paramount) - The tensest performance in Samuel L Jackson's career as he tries his best to not constantly scream profanity, in order to maintain a PG-13 rating.

* Death Proof (Weinstein) - Supposedly you can choose between scratchy and clean versions of the movies on this disc and Planet Terror's, might be worth it for that alone. I wish it had the other trailers though.

* The Heartbreak Kid (2007) (Paramount) - Ben Stiller and the Farrelly Bros, years after There's Something About Mary, and both off their game to alarming degrees. Still, you can apparantly see Malin Akerman topless in this(she's in the Watchmen movie as Silk Spectre II).

* Hot Rod (Paramount) - Adam Samberg's attempt at movie stardom hits the SNL curse. Oh well.

* In the Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (Fox) - Uwe Boll's answer to Lord of the Rings, starring Jason Statham and Burt Reynolds. Yep. ...

* Into the Wild (Paramount) - Sean Penn's mostly-already-forgotten movie starring Speed Racer as a dumb kid who starves to death in Alaska.

* Mamma Mia! The Movie (Universal) - My sister loved it, which is evidence enough for me that it's abysmal(for proof, her favorite movies are: Man From Snowy River, Man From Snowy River 2, Gone With The Wind, Sex and the City: The Movie)

* The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Universal) - Notable for NOT being considered Brendan Frasier's worst movie of the year, but only because he made two.

* Old School (Paramount) - Will Ferrell goodness. Last good Vince Vaughn role.

* Planet Terror (Weinstein) - Fun movie, probably(and ironically) Robert Rodriguez's best movie.

* The Third Man (1949) (The Criterion Collection) - All time classic, might wait till later for the blu ray though, since I don't watch it frequently enough.

* Traitor (Anchor Bay) - A very small theatrical release over the summer, I actually managed to catch it. Traitor's a very solid, low key political thriller, with some very good performances. More of a rental though.