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Cloverfield [BLU-RAY] (Paramount Home Entertainment, 6.3.2008) Disguised under deliberately goofy, yet deliciously edible-sounding, aliases such as Cheese and Slusho, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield was produced and rushed into theaters under an equally appetizing shroud of secrecy. From last year's incredibly elusive Super Bowl ad to the film's viral marketing campaign, Cloverfield had everybody scratching their heads and drooling in anticipation. Aside from the as-yet untitled title and the Blair Witch-ian visual style, the film's biggest appeal was the enigmatic creature who was last (un)seen hurling the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty onto the crowded streets of New York City. All we knew about the mysterious beast was that it was big and angry. Now that the highy-anticipated project has come and gone, one question has fortunately been answered: Cloverfield was a major success. (continued)

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Ralf Splat

I read this Sarah Lyall N.Y. Times piece about drunken Brits in Crete two or three days ago, and I haven't been able to forget the article's money term -- "alfreso oral sex contest." Routine Joe Francis stuff on DVD, but reading it in the Times makes it seem almost....historic? On top of perverse, I mean.

Konstantinos Lagoudakis, the mayor of Malia, a northern coastal town on Crete, described the vacationing British youths as follows: "They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit. It is only the British people -- not the Germans or the French."

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 27, 2008 at 3:15 PM

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