Susan Granger’s DVD Update for week of Fri., March 11:
In screenwriter/director Paul Haggis’ ambiguously suspenseful “The Next Tree Days,” Russell Crowe plays a devoted husband struggling to hold his family together when his wife (Elizabeth Banks) is incarcerated for a crime he believes she didn’t commit.
If you’re looking for comedy, “Morning Glory” is the screwball story of a spunky wannabe TV producer (Rachel McAdams) who gets her big chance on “Daybreak” but she has to work with its cranky co-stars (Diane Keaton, Harrison Ford). Combining “WKRP in Cincinnati” with “Working Girl,” it’s funnier than you might expect. And writer/director Richard Levine’s (“Nip/Tuck”) uses Liev Schreiber as his surrogate in “Every Day,” a comedic portrait of upscale, married urban life as it is lived today – with Helen Hunt, Carla Gugino, Eddie Izzard, Ezra Miller and Brian Dennehy..
One of India’s most popular actors, Aamir Khan, stars in “Mumbai Diaries” (“Dhobi Ghat”) about four people, separated by class and language yet drawn together in compelling relationships in the teeming metropolis that used to be known as Bombay.
The feature film debut of renowned British satirist Chris Morris is “Four Lions” about a group of bumbling British jhadists who are determined to strike a blow for their cause.
With the Cannes Film Festival just around the corner, “Cannes Man,” re-released on Blu-Ray from a new 35 mm transfer, is an insiders’ fable, starring Seymour Cassel (“Rushmore,” “The Royal Tennenbaums”) as an impresario on La Croisette with cameos from Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Hopper, John Malkovich and others.
Pre-schoolers celebrate the Jewish holidays with Sesame Street’s Grover, Jake Gyllenhaal and Eva Longoria in “Be Happy, It’s Purim” and “It’s Passover, Grover!”
PICKS OF THE WEEK: Charles Ferguson’s impressively incisive and infuriating, Oscar-winning documentary “Inside Job,” narrated by Matt Damon, examines the economic collapse of 2008, a catastrophe of historical proportions that has affected every American and reverberated around the globe. And, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Andrew Keegan stars in “Waiting for Dublin,” set during WW II, is like a charming, comedic time capsule, now available on Blu-ray/DVD.