Movie of the Week
Rosewater
Daily Show host Jon Stewart makes his directorial debut with this harrowing but frequently hilarious account of journalist Maziar Bahari’s time as a prisoner in Iran during the tumultuous 2009 elections.
WIDE RELEASE
• Beyond the Lights
• Dumb and Dumber To
• Saving Christmas
LIMITED RELEASE
The Way He Looks – Angelika Dallas
Blu-ray Pick
Batman (Complete Series)
After years in rights’ hell, the campy, groovy original Batman series comes to home video. Maybe you don’t need every episode of this series, which got more outlandish each season. But for nostalgia’s sake, this is a dream come true for me. My favorite episode is probably the two-parter with guest star Liberace, who plays both a world-class pianist and his twin brother, a crime boss. How does the latter try to kill Batman and Robin? By tying them to a machine that perforates sheet music for player pianos. I mean, how could you not love something so ridiculous?
New Releases
• Drive Hard (8%)
• Happy Christmas (78%)
• How to Train Your Dragon 2 (92%)
• I Am Ali (42%)
• James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge (67%)
• Jersey Boys (53%)
• Let’s Be Cops* (19%)
• Mood Indigo (63%)
• Mr. Pip (50%)
• Tammy* (24%)
Comedy
• “Weird Al” Yankovic: The Compleat Al*
• Monty Python Live: One Down, Five to Go
TV
• Getting On (Season 1)
• True Blood (Season 7)
New to Blu-ray
• A Christmas Carol (1938)
• Christmas in Connecticut
• Demons
• Demons 2
• Dolls
• Drum
• Gator
• More Dead Than Alive
• Portrait of Jason
• Sam Whiskey
• Sands of Iwo Jima
• The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind [The Criterion Collection]
• UHF*
• White Lightning
*recommended