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This week’s DVD releases include the Blu-rays of a classic and sci-fi TV series and a dark tale starring Ryan Gosling.
“TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD,” GRADE A: To mark the 50th anniversary of this amazing movie, a commemorative limited-edition collector’s series Blu-ray combo pack is released.
“DRIVE,” GRADE C-MINUS: Ryan Gosling is a Hollywood stuntman by day and getaway driver by night. When the loner connects with his neighbor (Carey Mulligan), he gets a clue to a past that’s turned him into a sociopathic driver. The tedium might have worked if Gosling’s character had any life.
“STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION — THE NEXT LEVEL,” GRADE B-PLUS: Episodes of the ’80s-’90s sci-fi TV series are released in the enhanced Blu-ray format.
ALSO NEW THIS WEEK:
“THE BIG YEAR”: Three avid bird-watchers (Owen Wilson, Jack Black and Steve Martin) compete to spot the rarest birds in North America.
“CHALET GIRL”: A champion skateboarder discovers snowboarding.
“THUNDER SOUL”: Jamie Foxx narrates this documentary about a high-school band that becomes a funk phenomenon.
“BOLLYWOOD BEATS”: A young man’s life changes when he starts a dance class.
“IN TIME”: In a future where people stop aging at 25 but are engineered to live only one more year, they try to buy time.
“THE THING”: An alien craft is discovered at an Antarctica research site.
“DREAM HOUSE”: A man (Daniel Craig) and his family relocate to a quaint New England town and soon learn that a mother and her two children were murdered in the same residence.
“MONSIGNOR”: An American priest (Christopher Reeve) makes illegal deals to fill the Vatican coffers.