Tuesdays – not just the day after Monday anymore. For music and movie addicts, Tuesday's are an important day – it's new release day.

Last week we mulled over whether to spend some time on Tuesdays looking over what Hollywood has cranked out for the DVD player.

This week Videoport Jones joins us to talk about some of the newest releases. For those of you not familiar with Mr. Jones, he is the classy, knowledgeable voice behind Videoport's Video Report, the weekly roundup of new releases, re-releases, bizarre customer anecdotes and all around wacky hijincks.

Jonesy has graciously agreed to offer his opinions on a few new releases.

"Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters For DVD"

VPJ: "The cult 'Adult Swim' series epitomizes random, spazzy stoner humor, and, in 12-minute episodes, it's damn funny. For 86 minutes? As Meatwad has said, 'Dizamn.'"

JE: "While I (heart) the Mooninites and their delightful love of profanity, I missed this in the theaters, partly because it was out for a minute. Also I just didn't know if 86 minutes of Master Shake would hold up on the big screen."

"Fracture"
VPJ: "Anthony Hopkins plays another intelligent, diabolical scenery-hog. I'd be tired already if it weren't for the presence of up-and-comer Ryan Gosling, who seems like another, younger, perhaps equally-talented Ed Norton. We can always use another Ed Norton."

JE: "Is this all Anthony Hopkins does now, play older sociopaths? I always though Gosling was going to be another James Van Der Beek, who is a poor man's Noah Wiley, and that's not saying much. Which is to say I have not seen this movie."

"Vacancy"
VPJ: "Will Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale fall victim to the latest fad for torture porn? Vacancy lists nine cast members as 'snuff victim'"

JE: "Is there really a market out there for these "snuff-lite" film fare? Can't you see what you've done Eli Roth? Did the filmmakers think they could dress it up by having Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsdale in the cast?"

"Inland Empire"
VPJ: "New David Lynch. Obscure, impossibly personal symbolism. He likes fire imagery. And Laura Dern (who doesn't? ... rrrroowwwrrrrr). Something for stoners who feel like they need something more 'meaningful' after the celluloid chee-to that is ATHFCMFFTFD. Yeah, not a fan."

JE: "David Lynch obscure? I still don't get Mullholland Dr. Strangest Lynch experience I had was last winter when I was obsessively flipping between the insane double OT basketball game between Texas and Texas A&M and a rerun of Lost Highway on IFC. You try going to sleep with images of Robert Blake and Acie Law IV dancing in your head."

"Wild Hogs"
VPJ: "With John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, and Tim Allen in the cast, I find myself wishing someone had lobbed a fragmentation grenade onto the set, except that the shrapnel might have winged William H. Macy, too."

JE: "I could not agree more. How does William H. Macy get talked into this? Does the Church of Scientology have something on him? Who is this movie supposed to appeal to, dads who have been beaten down by life?"

"The Lookout"
VPJ: "Thriller benefits from the presence of another up-'n'-comer Joseph Gordon Leavitt (who was great in 'Brick' and Mysterious Skin)."

JE: "I've heard lots of good things about 'Brick' and 'The Lookout.' Is it wrong I liked him in '10 Things I Hate About You," or that I liked "10 Things I Hate About You?"

Lastly, Jonesy's picks for the new stuff at Videoport:

Three new additions to Videoport's Criterion Collection from gritty action pioneer Sam Fuller: "The Baron of Arizona" (Vincent Price's favorite of his own films), "The Steel Helmet," and "I Shot Jesse James." Fuller's raw, B-Movie flicks were the epitome of "indie film" before there was such a term.

"And God Grew Tired of Us" - People are all about this documentary about the lost boys of Sudan.

Kenneth Branagh's "Hamlet" - Finally on DVD, this unexpurgated, 4-hour-plus version is, by far, my favorite Shakespeare adaptation ever. People say he overacts; I say he is the world's greatest, most accessible, yet respectful, interpreter of Shakespeare ever. History will decide.

"Elvis: The Miniseries" - Stars appropriately sneery-lipped Brit Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

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