If you like your Latino entertainers in peril or in love…this week’s DVD releases are right up your (dark and/or dreamy) alley. Check out:
Monique Gabriela Curnen is part of the big, interstellar cast (Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, etc. etc.) in last year’s truly terrifying “outbreak” movie, Contagion. You’ll recognize Monique as part of the cast from last year’s Lie to Me and a recurring forensic-type on this year’s CSI.
Guillermo del Toro is technically just the co-producer and screenwriter on last year’s very scary Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, but his name was bigger than the director’s on the poster, and his influence as advisor/overseer/visionary is all over this moody, beautiful, slightly disturbing about not-very-nice fairies.
What does Sarah Shahi do between seasons of her USA Network series? Makes movies like I Don’t Know How She Does It, a comedy with a number of highly visible stars, like Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, and Christina Hendricks that came and went last year without a peep.
Beautiful young Alyssa Diaz has been working her way up the ladder for a few years now, especially with her supporting role in The Nine Lives of Chloe King. Now it’s time for the obligatory horror movie, and she has a doozy: Shark Night 3D, now available on DVD. The title says it all, but Alyssa’s just getting started. Watch for much more of her in 2012, including roles in the remake of the cult favorite Red Dawn.
It took them a while, but the Blu-Ray edition of the 1999 youth-romcom classic She’s All That, with Freddie Prinze Jr. and Tamara Mello (Popular, Tortilla Soup) is finally out this week. If you haven’t re-watched this charming (and in some ways ground-breaking) post-John Hughes vision of young love at the turn of the century, it actually holds up pretty damn well. And Michelle Gellar’s husband isn’t half bad, either.
Not a bad haul for the first week of the year.
