A handful of this year’s award winners — and award contenders — make their way to Blu-ray and DVD this week. If you’re heading out to pick up a rental this week, here’s what you’ll find:
New This Week:
Crazy Heart
The Young Victoria
The Lovely Bones
* Avatar (4/22)
Mammoth
The Horse Boy
Peacock
Deadly Impact
Cheech & Chong’s Hey Watch This
44 Inch Chest
Summer Hours
Vivre Sa Vie
Merlin: Season 1
Drawn Together Movie: The Movie
My Fake Fiance
Xena Warrior Princess: Season 1
Hercules The Legendary Journeys: Season 1
New on Blu-ray:
Minority Report
Fist of Legend
The Basketball Diaries
Batman
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Kristin’s Rental of the Week:
Avatar is pretty, and Crazy Heart offers one stellar performance…but my pick this week is The Young Victoria — because it’s pretty and dramatic, and Emily Blunt is phenomenal.
About Post Author
kdk
kdk
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.