Susan Granger’s DVD Update for week of Fri., March 25:
Prepare for the final battle! Muggles can play “Harry Potter: The Quest,” a global online adventure in anticipation of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, Part 2.” For more information, visit www.Harry PotterTheQuest.com.
The late David Carradine stars in Doug Schultze’s terror tale called “Dark Fields,” as the desperate, drought-parched farmers of Perseverance resort to child sacrifice to bring rain to their land, unleashing a terrible curse that haunts their bloodlines for generations.
Tension reigns in “Urgency,” as a successful LA pharmaceutical exec (Austin Green) comes home to find his wife (Liciana Carro) has been kidnapped and a $50,000 ransom must be paid within 90 minutes or her abductors threaten to kill her.
The documentary “Eyes of the Mothman” revolves around the chilling 1966 phenomenon that terrorized a small town of 5,000 residents in West Virginia and inspired Richard Gere’s 2002 “Mothman Prophecies.”
Egomaniacal Jacques Mesrine was the last of the great French gangsters, his criminal career spanning more than 20 years of kidnappings, robberies, murders and prison escapes in some half-dozen countries on three continents. Starring Vincent Cassel, his tale is told in the action-packed “Mesrine: Killer Instinct” and “Mesrine: Public Enemy #1,” referred to as “A French ‘Goodfellas.’”
In the animated feature “Yogi Bear,” when Yogi (voiced by Dan Aykroyd) finds out that Jellystone Park is being sold, tossing him, Boo Boo (voiced by Justin Timberlake) and their friends out of the only home they’ve ever know, they join forces with their long-suffering nemesis Ranger Smith to save their beloved park.
Spanish seems easy in Whistlefritz’s “Spanish for Kids: Las Estaciones (The Seasons),” combining whimsical storylines, colorful animation and live action footage.
PICK OF THE WEEK: Narrated by Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Hugh Dancy, Alan Rickman and the late Natasha Richardson, “The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest” delves into the story of George Mallory, who was obsessed with becoming the first person to reach the top of Mt. Everest back in 1924. Almost eight decades later, Conrad Anker searches for the truth behind Mallory’s tragic yet awe-inspiring tale.