This Week's DVD Releases: A Precious Old Air Planet Capitalism Tale

A reminder: This Sunday morning marks the beginning of Daylight Savings Time, where we spring back an hour.  Sure, it's nice for the days to be longer, but those first few mornings HURT.  And what to do with those longer days?  Watch some movies, of course.  Here's this week's new DVD releases, care of our good friends at Scarecrow Video.

This week actually has a bunch of decent films--except for Old Dogs (and let us never speak of that again).  Catch up on your Oscars-mandated viewing with Precious and Up in the Air, truly two of last year's best, well worth your time.  There's Michael Moore's latest manifesto, Capitalism: A Love Story, which somehow didn't make the final cut for documentary nominees.  (And once again, if you haven't seen Oscar winner The Cove yet, please do.)

For the kids, there's computer-animated aliens in Planet 51, which did not get very good reviews.  There's also Lasse Hallstrom's Hachi: A Dog's Tale, the remake of the based-on-a-true-story Japanese tearjerker about the love that exists between a dog and his owner.  It's not not kid-friendly (it's rated G), but you might have to have a heart-to-heart discussion after the film about the fact that everyone and everything your child ever knows will die.

Finally, there's The Heart is a Drum Machine, a documentary about man's love of music, artistically as well as scientifically, featuring appearances from such luminaries as Wayne Coyne, George Clinton, Isaac Brock, Elijah Wood, Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT, Britt Daniel of Spoon, Juliette Lewis, John Frusciante, and Maynard James Keenan, amongst others.