Archive for month: February, 2018

Holy hotdogs! There’s so many things to mention this week! First of all, let me apologize once more for the delay in getting the new releases into your eyeballs. Especially over at the Commercial store. Dealing with the new system my distributor implemented is akin to getting a monkey to wash your cat (it’s quite difficult).

Also – it’s the 22nd anniversary of the Cambie Store! March 5th, 1996 we opened the doors to welcome your lovely and eager faces. It was an exciting time for us (I had less children and more hair back then). It’s sure has been a long strange wonderful trip. Amazing. Here’s to 22 more!

Also the RIO Theatre has their fundraising program now in place. Click here to find out more and lend a helping hand. This is a place in Vancouver that deserves saving.

New Releases Hopefully Showing up This Week!

In addition to the films that arrived last week at Cambie, including Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Murder on the Orient Express, The Darkest Hour and Coco, all of which should be at Commercial in a day or so, we expect the following at both stores this week as well…

The Breadwinner – Excellent animated fare about a young girl in Afghanistan who disguises herself as a boy in order to go out an earn money to help out her family. Nominated for the Oscars. One of Dylan’s (remember him?) favourite films of last year.

Crooked House – Nice cast (Glenn Close, Terence Stamp, Gillian Anderson, others) liven up the scene in this twisty and turny Agatha Christie tale of a murder most foul.

Ethel and Ernest – Nice low-key animated tale of a couple of Londoners living out their lives through the Blitz and so forth.

Lady Bird – Oscar-nominated fare from the amazing Great Gerwig tells the, somewhat autobiographical, tale of the coming of age of a 17 year-old girl in Sacramento of all places. Good things are to be found here.

The Man Who Invented Christmas – At least there’s a bit of snow left on the ground to enjoy this Christmas movie about how Dickens came to write A Christmas Carol (probably the movie I’ve seen the most in my life – the 1951 version of course). Dan Stevens plays Chuck Dick (as known to his friends) and Christopher Plumber is the Scrooge.

Thor: Ragnarok – Third time’s the charm as we finally have a good Thor movie. All it took was the director of What We Do in the Shadows to take charge. Really looking forward to this one.

Coming Soon!

The Hangman
Justice League
Mom and Dad
Wonder Wheel
Faces Places
BPM
Blue Planet II
Curb Your Enthusiasm S9

One of our customers at the Commercial had come into his possession a signed Errol Flynn headshot! He’s looking to pass it on to an excited collector for a reasonable price (I assume). You can contact him here if you’re interested .

Check it out here..

Whew. Thanks for sticking with us till the end. Cheers to you all!

Black Dog Video

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So as I’m sure that you’ve heard, this Thursday, the 15th, we’ll be hosting another really big DVD Sale at the Commercial location. Should be pretty swell (see photo at the end of this missive for a tiny taste of what’s being served). Thousands of DVDs will be up for grabs with prices starting at a paltry $5. You pay cash, we cover the tax. Debit and Credit cards will be welcome but subject to that awful tax. We will be closing the shop on Commercial at 8pm to get it all gussied up for you.

Also, you may have noticed that we’re not getting our New Releases on the same day as we used to before. A new system implemented by my distributor has the movies showing up randomly making this newsletter a bit tricky to produce. It’s a pain in the ass but my options are quite limited. But we’ll be alright.

New Releases Expected This Week!

Blade of the Immortal – Takeshi Miike’s 100th film (or so they say) finds an immortal swordsman out to help a young girl avenge the murder of her parents. Good sword action with a nice high body count.

Daddy’s Home 2 – Mad Mel Gibson and John Lithgow join Will Farrell and Marky Mark for more wacky (re: lame) hijinks.

The Florida Project – One of the year’s best films – 2017 being the year in question – finds precocious six year-old Moonee hanging out at her motel with Willam Dafoe and other miscreants all under the looming dreadful shadow of Disney World.

The Girl Without Hands – Cool looking animated tale of a girl sold to the Devil who escapes his (or her) evil clutches but without her hands (see title).

LBJ – Woody Harrelson steps into the loafers (and waxy-looking head judging by the box art) of one of America’s presidents for this bio-pic.

My Neighbours the Yamadas – Nicely animated Japanese film about a typical Japanese family doing typical Japanese things.

Patti Cake$ – Well-received independent little number about a rapper on a quest for glory in her hometown in New Jersey. Jersey glory, the best kind of glory.

Ray Donovan Season 5 – Season 5 of Ray Donovan, tough guy.

Same Kind of Different As Me – Hmmm, not too sure why I ordered this one. Drama about a guy who has to befriend a dangerous hobo in order to save his marriage for some reason. I’m sure that someone out there will like this. Maybe it’s you?

The Square – Comedy drama from the fella that made Force Majeure about an art curator who is stressed out setting up a controversial exhibit. Stars the awesome Elizabeth Moss and other actors.

Hopefully Coming Real Soon!

Mom and Dad
Coco
Murder on the Orient Express
The Darkest Hour
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Blue Planet II
Wonder Wheel

Keep an eye out for a little fun thing that we’re going to implement soon at the stores – The Mystery Bag! Details coming soon…

Have a great week everyone, hope to see many of you tomorrow night at the Commercial store! Remember if you’re renting, get there before 8pm!

Black Dog Video

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