This Week's DVD Releases

It's time for another set of new DVD releases, care of our good friends at Scarecrow Video. First, because I have to: Release the Kraken! Yes, this week brings Clash of the Titans, the widely panned epic mythology battle starring Bad 3-D. There's also Repo Men, which foretells our dystopian organ transplantation future.  It's not entirely stupid, but I just can't buy Jude Law as the ripped action hero.  There's also a couple crappy horror flicks: The Uninvited and Don't Look Up.

Looking at the foreign releases, check out Vincere, a biopic on Mussolini and the tumultuous relationship with his much-maligned longtime lover. There's also Ip Man, a biopic on the man who taught Bruce Lee martial arts. And Criterion has their edition of French-Turisian family drama, The Secret of the Grain, which is all about couscous.

Just a couple documentaries this week. I Need That Record! is a loving look at the independent music store. And The Art of the Steal is a documentary on a cache of modern and post-impressionist art and the many museums jostling for control of the $25B collection.

In the grab bag section, there's a couple cartoons: Batman: Under the Red Hood and G.I. Joe: The Movie. A cartoon of a different sort is the latest edition in Tom Selleck's long-running lawman Jesse Stone series. This one's entitled No Remorse. And finally there's Operation: Endgame, which looks to be a perfectly decent direct-to-DVD movie about rival teams of assassins, based on the cast alone, including Rob Corddry, Zach Galifianakis, Jeffrey Tambor, Adam Scott, and Bob Odenkirk.