Entertainment / Get Reel Digital: September

Get Reel Digital: September

Entertainment Sep 17, 2014

by Matthew Currie

This month’s DVDs include Jesse Eisenberg cloned, a pulse-pounding new adventure for Captain America and a Bigfoot horror-comedy!

The Double (Now Available, Universal)

British comedian Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) directs Jesse Eisenberg in this dark, offbeat psychological drama. Eisenberg stars as Simon, a shy office drone who is taken aback by the arrival of Jamie (also Eisenberg), a new co-worker who happens to look exactly like him, but with none of his neuroses or emotional baggage. Confronted with a literal best version of himself, Simon looks on in melancholic horror as Jamie proceeds to thrive at his office, steal the heart of his dream girl (Mia Wasikowska) and live Simon’s life better than he ever could.

The Double /Imdb.com

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Now Available, Buena Vista)

Marvel ups its cinematic game with this action-packed sequel, which ditches the nostalgic WWII adventure of the first Captain America film to create a scintillating modern-day spy thriller. It finds everyone’s favourite star-spangled crime fighter (Chris Evans) teaming up with covert operative extraordinaire Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) to unravel an insidious enemy conspiracy that’s been growing for years within their very own agency, S.H.I.E.L.D. In the process, Cap comes face to face with an old friend (Sebastian Stan) who’s undergone some terrifying changes.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier/Imdb.com

Willow Creek (Now Available, Anchor Bay)

Eighties standup comic Bobcat Goldthwait (best known for his screechy-voiced antics in the Police Academy movies) has, in the past decade, developed into one of the film industry’s top purveyors of pitch-black comedies (like late-period Robin Williams-starring gem World’s Greatest Dad, for instance). Here, he takes a bit of a detour into the found-footage horror genre with the tale of a geeky amateur filmmaker (Bryce Johnson) and his put-upon girlfriend (Alexie Gilmore), who head into the wilderness in the hopes of capturing video evidence of Bigfoot. Blood, scares, and more than a few chuckles ensue.

Willow Creek /Bigfootsearch

The Rover (September 23, Lions Gate)

After bursting onto the scene with Australian crime epic Animal Kingdom back in 2010, director David Michod returns with this gritty post-apocalyptic road-trip flick. It centres on a misanthrope named Eric (Guy Pearce), who’s gutting out a meager existence in the ruins of futuristic Australia; after a band of raiders swipes his car, he grabs the one member of their group (Robert Pattinson) not quick enough to get away and chases them across the desolate Outback. Think Mad Max meets The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

The Rover/ Standby

The 100: Season 1 (September 23, Warner)

One of the most surprising successes of the last TV season was this sci-fi series centring on a group of adolescent prisoners sent back to start recolonizing the Earth several generations after a nuclear apocalypse. Early on, it came off like yet another overly soapy drama from The CW in which uniformly good-looking 20-somethings mostly just made goo-goo eyes at each other.

What it developed into over the course of the thrilling first season was a remarkably mature, intelligent and indeed, dark sci-fi drama about a group of kids coming of age in the most brutal way possible, learning the true, horrific cost of survival, thanks to a thrilling (and increasingly bloody) war with a band of primitive survivors. Season 2 premieres soon, so catch up now!

The 100/ Wikia

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Matthew Currie

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A long-standing entertainment journalist, Currie is a graduate of the Professional Writing program at Toronto’s York University. He has spent the past number of years working as a freelancer for ANOKHI and for diverse publications such as Sharp, TV Week, CAA’s Westworld and BC Business. Currie ...

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