Only a few miles away from me, on Huron Street in Ypsi, is a reasonably new Kroger. I wanted to see if it was as nice as the one on Maple Road, where I have been shopping for a number of years. (The one on Carpenter, technically closest to my new address, and the one up on North Campus are big and clean and have maybe 60% of the stuff at the Maple Road one. The ones at Georgetown and on South Industrial... the less said, the better.)
Not bad. The produce section is huge, and very well organized. The butcher shop and deli seem decent. No Chippery or Boston Market. Very good pharmacy and magazine sections, much larger than any other Kroger in town. One cheapie DVD rack.
And on that rack was a movie I've been meaning to get for years:
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Live-action musical adventure, starring Tommy ("Timmy and Lassie") Rettig as Bart, a kid who dreams of a tyrannical piano teacher, Dr. Terwilliker (Hans Conried in fine form), determined to prove his "Happy Fingers" method is the ultimate way to learn piano. Bizarre, goofy flick -- one of those that you have to show people to prove it exists.
Did I mention that the story, screenplay, and lyrics are by Dr. Seuss?
What are some of your favorite non-standard kids' films? Things like
The Phantom Tollbooth would count here -- most of us in fandom know about it, but it's not a "recognized classic" like
Mary Poppins or
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or
The Wizard of Oz. Oh, and, just to make it more interesting, try to keep away from fully-animated films. As an example,
Mary Poppins is only partially animated.
ETA: Oh, let fly on the animateds. Heck, my freakin' example,
The Phantom Tollbooth, is about 90% animated.
ETA2: As long as I'm thinking of it, the animated
Snow Queen -- the one shown in the U.S. with the live-action intro by Art Linkletter.
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ericcoleman). I am affirmed in my earlier opinion: This is, by far, one of the most MST/riffable movies to come along in years. In a good way, because the film is also so very entertaining. So many chances and so many opportunities.
and 4 Disc Combo Pack with Digital Copy and DVD [Blu-ray] Anti-Planned-Obsolescence
Edition). There's also Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
and, if you haven't got a version already, Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut
(integrating Tales from the Black Freighter, Under the Hood, and possibly some other live-action footage). Anything else just released we need to know about?
(double-packaged with an extra feature, like Kung Fu Panda was; this one's called B.O.B.'s Big Break in Monster 3D)
(pretty much all of Madonna's music videos)
(I've gotta start watching this just for the Neil Patrick Harris)
(the live-action one)
(literally, the only thing I don't love about this series is the theme song)
(the new version, not the Hasselhoff)
) -- if you scroll down to the reviews, you'll see a list of additions. And it basically looks like most everything they cut for time in the release cut (which, by the way, is the digital copy, so you're getting both versions of the movie). I'm not gonna frickin' wait for an Ultimate Edition with Tales of the Black Freighter and the Digital Motion Comic. They had their chance to sell me all that stuff now, on release day, and they blew it.
; there's also single-disk w/ 3D and Blu-ray)
, in anticipation of its July 21st video release. The Blu-ray edition will also include basically a simulcast on July 25 from San Diego Comic Con, including a Q&A with director Zack Snyder.
first. It's got a few more features (although neither the Tales of the Black Freighter nor the Digital Motion Comic, so you know they'll be in another Watchmen Complete gift set at some point), and everything is definitely moving in the Blu-ray direction. In any case, no matter which format, if you watch movies at all with your computer, you should likely get the Director's Cut, because it's also got a digital copy of the theatrical version -- that is, you'll get both. (Getting the Blu-ray version with Nite Owl's ship
is entirely up to you. You might want to save a little dosh, though, because Coraline is also released on 7/21, in DVD
and Blu-ray
.)
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