The first Monday of every month I deliver capsule reviews of the latest, if not greatest, new direct-to-DVD titles for a little feature we like to call “Dispatches From Direct To DVD Purgatory”. This week I’ll be checking out Jeff Goldblum in Pittsburgh , Paul Walker in Bobby Z and a third direct-to-DVD joint of your choosing. What would you, the long-suffering A.
V Club reader like me to write about? The horror anthology Snoop Dogg’s Hood Of Horror , Rise , a horror movie with Lucy Liu as a sexy vampire lady or Species: The Awakening , a sequel about a sexy killer alien lady or something? Vote for your favorite and I’ll spend my evening watching whatever steaming pile of cinematic magic you’ve chosen for me.
Cause I’m masochistic like that. Pittsburgh (2006): Robert Smigel’s short-lived T.V Funhouse spin-off had an amusing ongoing feature called “The Baby, The Immigrant and the Guy On Mushrooms” The thin but resonant joke behind the cartoon was that these demographics are pre-disposed to find just about anything deliriously exciting.
I would add to this pantheon of easily impressed souls one of my favorite character actors, Jeff Goldblum. Few thespians register awe and wonder so effortlessly. Goldblum similarly possesses a salacious, hard to quantify sexual energy: I imagine he’s the kind of guy who hugs people way too long and hard.
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