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The weather is getting summery, but if you still want to spend some time indoors, there's plenty of movies for your rental pleasure.  Let's check out this week's new releases on DVD, care of our good friends at Scarecrow Video. 

If you can't wait till Wednesday for your Robert Pattinson fix, there's the romantic drama Remember Me, in which R-Patz falls for Lost's Emilie de Ravin before tragedy strikes in the form of a spoiler you can easily look up all over the internets. A slightly less realistic romance occurs in She's Out of My League, with dweeb of the moment Jay Baruchel. If you're looking for the inner workings of a real relationship, please see The Last Station starring Christopher Plummer and Dame Helen Mirren as Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sofya.

This week also brings Green Zone, in which Matt Damon is a soldier in Iraq. It's directed by Paul Greengrass, which means there's lots of handheld camerawork, translating into action sequences where you can't tell what's occurring or who is chasing whom. We get it already--war is confusing!  Too bad this film culminates in the shocking reveal two-thirds of the way through:  there are no WMD in Iraq.  Do yourself a favor and avoid this Snore Identity....

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Unlike last weekend, will this weekend be rainy? Probcast says probably! With that in mind, here's this week's DVD releases, care of our good friends at Scarecrow Video.

This week's big release is The Informant! Matt Damon got chunky and frumpy for his role as Mark Whitacre, a whistleblower on price-fixing at agribusiness conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland, and yet his Oscar nom this year is for Invictus? For shame, Academy! The This American Life episode on this real-life incident was great, and I'm assuming Kurt Eichenwald's book was, too. In fact, the real-life story is so ridiculous and crazy that it's diminished by a fictional account, even if said fiction is directed by Steven Soderbergh and includes our precious Joel McHale.

What's in The Box? A movie I don't wanna watch. Also skip the misguided sideshow Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant and slashfest remake Sorority Row in favor of the Nazi zombies in Dead Snow, which was not so-bad-it's-good, but actually entertaining....

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