DVDs to catch this week
I've become addicted to those little Red Box DVD machines in the grocery store, so I'm paying more attention to DVD releases lately. A bunch of movies I dug in theaters are being released on DVD this week. If you missed them the first time around, you should check them out now.
Charlie Bartlett - A teen angst flick that's just a little Wes Anderson, a little John Hughes and a little Cameron Crowe. Plus, it has Robert Downey Jr. as a high school principal who is also (in a shocking case of casting against type) an unstable drunk!
In Bruges - Colin Farell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes star in this strange tale of two hitmen hiding out in a very strange little Belgian city. But there are some things you can't run away from, no matter how many drugs, women and midgets you hide behind.
Persepolis - The animated (not CGI -- animated) film adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel about growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution. Like Life is Beautiful, it's really a lot more fun than a plot synopsis makes it sound.
Definitely, Maybe - Just caught this one on DVD myself. You should too. Ryan Reynolds plays a recently divorced father who tells his little girl the story of how he met her mother -- but makes her figure out which woman she is in the story of his life, in which he's changed the names to protect the guilty. The concept actually works better than you might think -- and the funny retro-90s bits where Reynolds works on Bill Clinton's first campaign and discovers Nirvana's Nevermind may be the best bits of 90s comedy nostalgia yet committed to film.
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