Hello, Armageddon! To ring in 2012, our final year of existence (Mayan calendar, y’all!), we’ve got an star-studded pandemic flick, a one-two punch of twink horror from David DeCoteau, and HBO’s acclaimed daughter-dearest miniseries, Mildred Pierce. Work those credit cards—they can’t charge interest after the world ends!
NEXT: Who doesn’t want to see Gwyneth bite it in Contagion?
Contagion
($35.99 Blu-Ray, $28.98 DVD; Warner Home Video)
A creepy killer virus ravages some of Hollywood’s finest talents— including Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne and a snaggletoothed Jude Law—in Stephen Soderbergh’s gripping modern disaster flick. Extras include a handful of featurettes including “The Reality of Contagion.” Purell sold separately.
NEXT: Winslet is mother to a monster in Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce
($49.99 Blu-Ray, $39.98 DVD; HBO)
It’s a good week for fans of Kate Winslet play women in jeopardy: Based on James M. Cain’s 1941 novel, Todd Haynes’ award-winning miniseries for HBO took a different path than the famed Joan Crawford film. Winslet won an Emmy as the titular character, a broke single-mother-turned-entrepreneur whose strained relationship with ingrate daughter Veda (Evan Rachel Wood) is the bane of her existence. Includes a making-of feature, but alas, no pie.
NEXT: Softcore slaughter with the master of the genre, David De Cocteau
1313: Wicked Stepbrother
($19.99 DVD, Rapid Heart)
Gay cinema’s answer to Russ Meyer, David De Coteau serves up another barely clothed twink-fest with this tale of an 18-year-old whose smoking-hot friends get bumped off during his birthday. Oddly, nobody seems to wear shirts. Except for a token middle-aged woman. Nuff said.
NEXT: Fame costs in Actor Slash Model
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1313: Actor Slash Model
($19.99 DVD, Rapid Heart)
DeCoteau can’t be stopped! Shot in what appears to be the same mansion as Wicked Stepbrother with lower-rent everything else, this 1313 offering sees a hateful (but hot) twink actor putting the knife to shirtless male models. Add token middle-aged woman and stir.
ALSO OUT ON DVD:
Shark Night 3D (20th Century Fox)
I Don’t Know How She Does It (The Weinstein Company)
Justified: The Complete Second Season (Sony)
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (Miramax)
MikeE
ah, thank god for David DeCoteau and his fetish for cute young guys who can’t act.
Ben
WHO stabs people with a freakin’ 4-inch *paring* knife?!
Marie Cohn
Who says gay twinks can’t _also_ be into pornMILFS (Michelle Bauer)?
Marie Cohn
More DeCoteau Twink/MILFalicious fare: “Cougar Cult” on DVD 17 Feb: “Cougars Eat Their Cubs!”
scace
Decoteau MUST be stopped. There is no excuse for his poorly made trash to extract one more penny from a financially strapped teen who may not be aware of how badly his work has gotten since 2009. Andrew Christian commercials are entirely more satisfying – and has more action & dialog than anything Decoteau has put out in years. Please promote true gay interest in film directed by Mark Thiedeman, Steven Vasquez, or Jason Davitt.