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Sure, it’s spooky and all, but I think my positive response to it is due to two things: 1) The Southern history and voodoo magic that is both described and seen on screen, and 2) A wicked crazy ending that I never saw coming, yet believed without kickback. I want to say as far as twist endings go, The Skeleton Key’s is one of the more memorable ones of recent memory.

The movie maybe gets a new generation of viewers thanks to today’s release in Blu-ray. I don’t know that the format is completely necessary to enjoy the movie, but the update at least gives me an excuse to talk about it.

Disc includes: Kate Hudson’s Ghost Story featurette, Exploring Voodoo/Hoodoo featurette, Behind the Locked Door featurette, Blues in the Bayuo featurette, audio commentary

For people who dare to dream that a 30-second sketch can be stretched – successfully – into something 200 times as long: MacGruber

A better sketch than it would be a feature film, the idea of a MacGruber movie never made that much sense to me.

The funniest thing about it, of course, was that it always ended with MacGruber spending too much time working out the intricacies of his predicament, or getting distracted by red herrings, or being racist. His and his compadres’ area of confinement would explode, they’d all die and the screen would cut to black.

Again, that for me was the highlight of the MacGruber sketch. And the movie could really only get away with doing it a handful of times, or maybe just once. At the end. The other 90 or so minutes would have to be, well, funny.

I didn’t bother to see MacGruber and don’t really regret it. It’s considered Rotten over at Rotten Tomatoes with a 48% score. Top critics rated it even less at 29%. This is about par with Saturday Night Live sketches adapted for the silver screen. I think save for Wayne’s World, they’re generally poorly received by critics.

In the movie - which does take place outside of a 10x10 room! - MacGruber assembles a team of experts (Ryan Phillippe and Kristen Wiig among them) to help take down his nemesis, Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer), who stole nuclear warheads.

Disc includes: Deleted scene, gag reel, audio commentary

September 7, 2010
Blu-ray
Airborne Toxic: All I Ever Wanted Live
Being Michael Madsen
The Black Dahlia
Blood Into Wine
Broken Arrow
Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
Chain Reaction
Chuck: The Complete Third Season
Courage Under Fire
Forbidden Planet
Full Metal Panic: Season One
Hatchet
In Cold Blood
Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale
Killers
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Lost In Space
MacGruber
Mars Attacks!
The Matrix Reloaded
Megadeth: Rust In Peace
Numb
O'Jays: Live in Concert
The Office: Season 6
Peanuts: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Peanuts: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
The Phantom
The Player
Poltergeist
Pulse
Rising Sun
Scotland Revealed
The Skeleton Key
Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season
Solitary Man
Stardust
Supernatural: The Complete Fifth Season
That Evening Sun
THX 1138
Tommy
UFC Presents: The Best of WEC
Wonders of the Solar System

DVD
Airborne Toxic: All I Ever Wanted Live
American Chopper Season 6 Collection (Set)
Being Michael Madsen
Blood Into Wine
Boy Meets World: The Complete First Season
Boy Meets World: The Complete Second Season
Boy Meets World: The Complete Third Season
Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
Charles Bukowski Live: The Last Straw
Charles Bukowski: Live, October 12, 1979
Chuck: The Complete Third Season
Clatterford: The Complete Season Three
Criminal Minds: Season 5
Criminal Minds: Seasons 1-5 (Set)
Dr. Who: Planet Of Fire
Dr. Who: The Creature from the Pit
Dr. Who: The King's Demons
Full Metal Panic: Season One (Remastered)
The Guardian: The Second Season
Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale
Killers
L.A. Ink: Season 2, Volume 1
Less Than Perfect: The Complete First Season
Little People, Big World: Season 3, Volume 1
MacGruber (Unrated)
The Norm Show: The Complete Series
O'Jays: Live in Concert
The Office: Season 6
Peanuts: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Peanuts: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Scotland Revealed
Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season
Solitary Man
Supernatural: The Complete Fifth Season
That Evening Sun
Wall Street (Special Edition)
Wonders of the Solar System

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