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The snow and Thanksgiving are over, but chances are your relatives are still in town. Take a few hours off from awkward conversation/family time with a new DVD release, care of our good friends at Scarecrow Video.

Your mom probably wants to watch Eat Pray Love, starring Julia Roberts as Julia Roberts, undergoing a soul-shaking reawakening via food, spirituality, and yoga, while your douchebag brother-in-law wants to see old men (Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger) beating each other up in The Expendables. Your weirdo cousin is interested in Joaquin Phoenix and Casey Affleck's performance art bullshit piece I'm Still Here, and your grandma wants to watch Rob Reiner's kiddie 60s romance Flipped. Of course, the kiddos get to watch the special diamond edition of Beauty and the Beast.

But there's more to choose from than just the big releases. Twisty kidnapping thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed stars Bond girl Gemma Arterton, and Tyler Perry is back in Madea's Big Happy Family: The Play. Meanwhile, Sam Rockwell is affable as always as a girls' high school basketball coach in The Winning Season.... (more)

Not much came out on DVD last week (no, The Final Destination in 3D does not count), so the studios made up for it this week with a plethora of new releases (not to mention Kathy Griffin's latest).  Let's take a look a few of them, care of our good friends at Scarecrow Video. (Also be sure to check out the Scarecrow staff's picks for the top 100 films of the '00s.)

Blue collar psychological sci-fi film Moon was criminally underseen last year.  The synopsis, in brief: Average Joe Sam Rockwell is working for an energy company on the moon, with his only companion being a HAL-like figure voiced by Kevin Spacey--until the day that he meets someone who looks exactly like him.  In a just world, Moon would be a smash hit, with Sam Rockwell (and Sam Rockwell) getting a nomination for Best Actor next month.  As it is, we'll just have to wait for the next creepy space nugget from director Duncan Jones.

Now that we're well in the midst of Awards Season (the Golden Globes are on this Sunday, mind you), you also need to see the thinking man's Iraq bomb squad action flick The Hurt Locker before Kathryn Bigelow collects her Best Director Oscar.  Because that's what's going to happen.  Write it down.

If you like Patton Oswalt (you do), and if you like The Wrestler scribe Robert Siegel (ditto), then you should watch his directorial debut starring Oswalt, the dark sports comedy Big Fan (you will).  While you're at it, also rent political satire (and SIFF opening night film) In the Loop, because I'm sure you missed some of the whipsmart rapid fire dialogue, due to all the laughter.... (more)