DVD Roundup

New movies on DVD this week: 

 Rating:  Gran Torino – Clint Eastwood growls his way through an utterly predictable, but still kind of fun, flick about grumpy old men, multiethnicity, and young boys who need father figures.   

 Crossing Over – Harrison Ford growls his way through a movie about grumpy old men and immigration that totally flopped.  

  Fired Up – Two horny guys sneak into cheerleading camp, where they fall in love, help the cheer team win a competition, see lots of hot girls, etc. etc.   If this hadn’t already been made, it certainly didn’t need to be.   But I guess there will always be an audience for PG-13 porn. 

The International - Clive Owen takes on the international bank, or something like that.  There is exactly one scene worth seeing in this movie – the shootout in the Guggenheim.   The rest is pretty standard, scripted-by-monkeys action fare.  

Nobel Son - Alan Rickman wins the Noble prize, and his son gets kidnapped, and nobody cares, because he’s such an arrogant jerk.   

Spinning Into Butter – Sarah Jessica Parker plays the dean of an insular college who must confront her own racism.   (OK, first off, SJP as a dean of a college?)   An examination of race on college campuses that was a pretty good play, and a pretty humdrum movie.