DVD Roundup

Movies released on DVD this week…

The Wrestler - Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei make the most of their aging bodies in this great indie flick about a washed up wrestler.   Rourke almost won an Oscar.  Tomei already has one.  

Frost/Nixon - Michael Sheen and Frank Langella – two top-caliber actors – go head to head in this adaptation of the award-winning play.   In the end, it’s a movie about guilt, forgiveness and the need to confess.   

Notorious - Biopic of east coast raper Notorious B.I.G., which manages to leave out almost everything interesting about him.  

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in 12 Parts - So-so documentary about one of the most prolific composers working today, who kind of looks like Geoffrey Rush, who played  pianist David Heffgott in “Shine,”  which was directed by Scott Hicks, who directed “Glass.”   Coincidence or conspiracy?   You decide.

A Jihad for Love - Documentary, filmed in secret and across 12 countries, about being gay and Muslim.   From the same people who brought us “Trembling before G-d,”  a documentary about being gay and Jewish.  

How About You  - “Holiday Movie” about grouchy “old people” and rebellious “young people” who “bond” over pot-smoking and “tough love.”    Everything in quotes because I seriously doubt that anything in this movie resembles reality.   

House of the Sleeping Beauties –   Apparently, this is not porn.  A sleepless widower discovers that he can rent beautiful, naked young women to sleep beside him.   According to director Vadim Glowna, it’s a meditation on “transition, remembrance, mourning, guilt, loneliness, sex and death, eroticism and dying.”   Riiight…