Susan Granger’s DVD Update for week of Fri., July 6:
Timed to the upcoming release of “The Dark Knight Rises,” “The Christopher Nolan Blu-Ray Collection” includes five of the director’s most defining films, along with a premium book of production stills.
In Bobcat Goldthwait’s “God Bless America,” desperate Joel Murray pairs up with teenage Tara Lynne Barr who shares his rage and disenfranchisement, embarking on a nation-wide assault on our country’s dumbest, most irritating celebrities.
A teenage girl must begin a new life while keeping her dark past a secret in “Hiding,” a thriller revolving around the Witness Protection Program, while “Almost Kings” is an edgy drama centered on a young man’s following in his destructive brother’s footsteps.
A glamorous American movie star who wants to keep the press away from her wedding decides to hold the event on the remote Scottish island of Hegg in “The Decoy Bride,” a romantic comedy featuring Alice Eve and David Tennant.
“My Reincarnation” is a unique father/son epic, revolving around Namkhai Norbyu Rinpoche, a high Tibetan Buddhist Master whose son Yeshi was recognized as the reincarnation of Rinpoche’s uncle, a famous Dzogchen master, and Yeshi’s period of rebellion before accepting his spiritual destiny.
Families can join Sam-I-Am for “Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham and Other Stories: Deluxe Edition” on Blu-ray, and cat lovers may enjoy “Miss Minoes,” based on Annie M.G. Schmidt’s fable starring TV’s “Game of Thrones” priestess Carice Van Houton.
For foreign film aficionados, there’s “Attenberg,” Athina Rachel Tsangari’s humorous and touching Greek coming-of-age story, starring Ariane Labed, who won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival.
And for those with long memories, Roy Rogers and his faithful horse Trigger save the day with guts, gusto and song in the classic Western “Springtime in the Sierras.”
PICK OF THE WEEK: Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving and David Wenham star in “Oranges and Sunshine,” Jim Loach’s deeply moving study of emotionally scarred adults who were kidnapped and illegally deported as children from Britain to Australia in the 1940s and 1950s, delving into their poignant, plaintive quest to find out “who I am.”