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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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Shout Factory is well known for their releases of cult TV shows and movies on DVD.  On Tuesday they opened the vault on legendary prolific low-budget director Roger Corman, in releasing Rock 'N' Roll High School and Suburbia.  It's the first two titles in Shout Factory's Roger Corman's Cult Classic series, and there's plenty more where that came from.

Penelope Spheeris (Wayne's World) wrote and directed 1984's Suburbia (clip above), about a bunch of punks in the suburbs who run away from home to live in squats.  For the most part, the film features non-professional actors, as Spheeris recruited street kids and musicians to play most of the punks in the film, including a young Flea.  The DVD has a commentary track with Spheeris and the theatrical trailer, amongst other extras.

The SunBreak has two copies of Rock 'N' Roll High School and Suburbia to give away.  Enter below for your chance to win a DVD set.  We'll be drawing two winners' names tomorrow at noon....

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Shout Factory is well known for their releases of cult TV shows and movies on DVD. Today they opened the vault on legendary prolific low-budget director Roger Corman, in releasing Rock 'N' Roll High School and Suburbia. It's the first two titles in Shout Factory's Roger Corman's Cult Classic series; I'm sure there's plenty more where that came from.

Both films feature out-of-control teens from the '80s and tons of music performances, including The Ramones (natch), T.S.O.L., The Vandals, and D.I., and both DVDs are chockfull of extras, like audio commentaries, deleted scenes, and original trailers and tv spots. This is actually the deluxe thirtieth anniversary edition of Rock 'N' Roll High School, if you can believe that. 

The SunBreak has two copies of Rock 'N' Roll High School and Suburbia to give away.  Enter below for your chance to win a DVD set.  We'll be drawing two winners' names Friday at noon.