Fresh To DVD This Week:
“The Kings Speech”
Finally the Top Oscars Winner for “Best Picture” has hit the DVD market for your viewing pleasure, and it’s the only Oscar winner I haven’t seen as yet, and I’m looking forward to finding out what the big deal was!
Description:
Colin Firth gives an Academy Award-winning performance in the true story of England’s king, tormented by a debilitating speech impediment, in this year’s riveting Oscar winner for Best Picture. After the death of his father King George V and the scandalous abdication of his brother King Edward VIII, Bertie reluctantly takes the crown as King George VI of England. With his country on the brink of war and in desperate need of a leader, the unprepared king turns to an unorthodox speech therapist, Lionel Logue, to help overcome his nervous stutter and the two forge a powerful friendship. Time: Must if been the right amount to Win “Best Picture”
“Gulliver’s Travels”
OK a timeless story redone, and I’ve seen it and thought “ok they retold a story I’ve heard and seen so many times” but I was quite pleased with this reproduction, so go ahead and watch with the family!
Description:
Jack Black as Lemuel Gulliver is a mailroom clerk at a New York newspaper. After Gulliver bluffs his way into an assignment writing about the secrets of the Bermuda Triangle, he is hurtled to an undiscovered land, Lilliput. In this fantastical new world, Gulliver is a bigger-than-life figure — in size and ego — especially after he starts telling tall tales, taking credit for his world’s greatest inventions, and placing himself at the center of its most historic events. Gulliver’s position is enhanced even further when he leads his new friends in a daring battle against their longtime enemies. But when Gulliver loses it all and puts the Lilliputians in peril, he must find a way to undo the damage. Gulliver only becomes a true giant among men when he learns that it¿s how big you are on the inside that counts. Time: Not Too long
