Welcome back again to the first Tuesday in May! After what was a good month for releases in April, this week kicks off May in a rather light way. One major release, a few independent releases and some reissues are what we have, so let’s take a look.

A Collection of 2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films

I own the prior releases and this is what DVD is all about. Short films have a limited market, but Magnolia Pictures have done a bang up job bring these hard-to-see shorts to the limelight. Live action and animated are featured here and while they are extra feature-less, these disc usually feature more shorts from festivals like Sundance. I do wish they had audio commentaries at least with the winners. I have caught all of the animated shorts and mostly they’re really good. I say pick up this disc and enjoy “Peter and the Wolf” and by next year, hopefully your city will be playing the 2008 shorts on the big screen.



I’m Not There

I was mixed on this film. I appreciated the rather unorthodox approach to the musical bio-pic genre Todd Haynes did here for Bob Dylan, but something just felt flat for me. Cate Blanchett is awesome here as the more traditional Dylan appearance (she was Oscar nominated) but its little Marcus Carl Franklin that stole the show for me. He plays a character in a fictional origin to Dylan’s early childhood and he’s full of energy. The film is more for true Dylan devotees as Haynes puts in little nods and winks from various parts of Dylan’s career and for tat it makes Dylan newbies frustrated with this film. I say give it a shot as a renal to see if it’s more for you or not.

Extras:
-audio commentary from Haynes and actors
-deleted scenes
-music videos
-audition tapes
-featurettes



Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

Well, who doesn’t love their hilarious commentaries over bad films? This plays like an extended episode and while they have a plot for the robots to overcome, it’s all about making fun of “This Island Earth”, I believe. Sadly there are zero extras. Probably for fans only.



Teeth

**DVD PICK OF THE WEEK** I cannot wait to see this. It got a lot of attention for various websites and a lot of love from various festivals, but sadly it never had a wide theatrical release pattern. Really, what good horror film in the last few years had a strong theatrical release? “Behind the Mask”, “Black Sheep”, “Mulberry Street”, and “Fido” are just a few of horror’s better films that you had to catch on DVD and I hope to add “Teeth” to the list. It’s a gory, black comedy about a virgin who is soon discovering her sexuality. One night when she’s about to become deflowered, her vagina severs her boyfriend’s penis! So yeah, while it is a killer vagina movie, it plays it serious enough to avoid camp. It’s a part of Dimension Extreme label so it should be violent and somewhat decent. I think it’ll deliver…just cover your balls, boys.

Extras:
-making of featurette
-audio commentary



P.S. I Love You

And something for the lady viewers of Killer Film…just don’t expect this to rise above its premise. A lady discovers letters from a dead man that loves her-awww. It had Swank and Gerald Butler to swoon some bucks out of the female demographic, so I expect it to be big in the rental market.

Extras:
-James Blunt music video
-featurette
-deleted scenes
-conversation with the author of the book



Twister Special Edition

Kind of weird a special edition for this is coming out years after the fact, don’t you think? Why do one now? At least they have a Blu Ray version instead for us. But I can’t imagine there’s much of a demand from this title, as it plays consistently on TNT and ABC Family, but here ya go.

Extras
-audio commentary
-visual effects featurette



That does it for this week and see, not very much out today. I think mostly all of these are rentals, but I’m digging that “Teeth” cover and “Collection of 2007 Academy Award Nominated Shorts”. Next week we’ll look at “the Great Debaters”, Frank Sinatra collections, new “Indiana Jones” special editions, “Untraceable”, “Youth without Youth”, and some more. Until then press play and see you right here for next week’s edition of New Release Tuesday!