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for Mar 19 DVDs

  • THE BOUNTY HUNTER

    Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston in a rom-com

  • DIARY OF A WIMPY KID

    Based on the young adult novel

  • REPO MEN

    Jude Law and Forrest Whitaker repossess … human organs!

  • 1. DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS?:

    Good cast, not such a good movie.  Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker are the Morgans.  New Yorkers whose marriage is on the rocks and headed for divorce, they witness a mob crime and before they know it, they are testifying, their lives are in danger, and they are sent off to the witness protection program – together.  And not in a big city – down on the farm in Wyoming.  It’s a “Green Acres” sort of scenario, some good lines, but overall, very predictable. Rated PG.

  • 2. THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG:

    Old-time Disney 2D animation with an old-time Disney theme of someone of humble beginnings who becomes a princess had all the markings of a superb film with excellent, old-fashioned values, but it was a box office disappointment – not a flop, just a disappointment.  Kiss a frog and he turns into a handsome prince, right?  Well, in this story, she kisses the frog and she turns into a frog also … New Orleans setting offers up some great music and swamp creatures, but in the end, this probably appeals more to adults with an eye to nostalgia that it does to children, it’s target audience. Rated G.

  • 3. THE FOURTH KIND:

    Close encounters of the first kind:  see a UFO.  Close encounters of the second kind: see one land.  Close encounters of the third kind: see an alien alight from the vessel.  The fourth kind?  Alien abduction.  This story alleges truth behind abductions of several residents of Alaska over a period of years, and is supposedly the true-to-life transcripts of a psychologist working with the survivors.  No evidence that the psychologist ever existed though, and at the end, pretty hard to buy into! Rated 14A.

  • 4. THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG:

    The animation here was influenced by 1955’s Lady and the Tramp more than any other single Disney cartoon … older folks will love it – old enough to remember Lady and the Tramp … and Bambi!
CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD KIND (1977): 

A great film to this day … and it holds the record for the largest number of cinematographers on one movie – 11

  • GREEN ZONE  

    A first-rate thriller with Matt Damon as a US rogue operative in Iraq

  • REMEMBER ME  

    Somewhat maudlin love story with Twilight’s Robert Pattinson

  • OUT OF HER LEAGUE 

    Spring Break movie of the “Knocked Up/Superbad” genre
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