Not a whole lot to write about in today's new DVD releases. I would heartily recommend the very funny Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby, but it has been heavily promoted and is available pretty much everywhere, so it's not like it needs the help.
I'd mention that the inexplicable live action remake of The Year Without A Santa Clause is out today, but it can only be safely viewed by athiests, since its very existence is a strong argument that a just and fair God is absent from our lives.
I can't really give you a good reason to pick up a disc called The Dean Martin Double Feature, except one of the movies featured, a godawful '68 sex farce called How To Save A Marriage (And Ruin Your Life) features the awesome presence of Stella Stevens, the first object of pure lust in my eight year old life. (I'll spare you the details.)
So instead I'll tell you that today we get the final two volumes of The James Bond Ultimate Collection, the latest transparent attempt to wring some more bucks out of the series. (And obviously, it isn't the ultimate collection; it doesn't have Casino Royale. But that's okay, since I'm sure we'll get an Even More Ultimate Collection in, oh, two years, or whenever the next Bond movie appears.) In any event, if you're going to spring for one of these overpriced box sets, go with Volume Three. True, you get the awful Live And Let Die, with its racist attitudes and awful Paul McCartney theme song, but you also get one of Roger Moore's best efforts, For Your Eyes Only, one of Sean Connery's best, From Russia With Love, and the George Lazenby one-shot, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, which is not only the best Bond, but one of the finest action thrillers ever made.
Ordinarily, I'd go on and on about On Her Majesty's Secret Service, but honestly, I just don't feel like it right now. Sometimes, even James Bond fans aren't in the mood.
