Susan’s DVD UPDATE for week of Friday, June 24:
Based on Rosemary Sutcliff’s sword-and-sandals saga, “The Eagle” follows Marcus (Channing Tatum), a Roman soldier, and his young slave (Jamie Bell) on a quest to find out what happened to Marcus’ father whose 5,000 soldiers vanished without a trace 20 years earlier.
Ed Helms, Anne Heche and John C. Reilly stars in “Cedar Rapids,” a gentle comedy about a timid Wisconsin insurance agent who must fill in at the last minute for a colleague at a regional convention.
The sequel “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules” reveals the horrors of sibling rivalries and adolescent love, following hapless Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon), now a seventh-grader.
In Ian McCrudden’s “A Swedish Midsummer Sex Comedy,” Luke Perry (“Beverly Hills 90210”) travels to Scandinavia for a traditional fertility festival known as Midsummer, a celebratory day when the sun never sets.
“Here We Are In The Years” is an in-depth documentary, a musical journey tracing the enormous range of artists and genres that Neil Young has drawn from, while “New York Street Games” compiles interviews with dozens of New Yorkers about how things used to be, how they have changed and how to recapture some of the positives of a simpler time.
Lara Lee’s controversial CULTURES OF RESISTANCE begins on the eve of the Iraq War, when she embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict; what emerges is a glimpse of how art and creativity can be used as ammunition in the battle for peace and justice.
“William & Kate” is a Lifetime Original Movie depicting Prince William (Nico Evers-Swindell) and Kate Middleton (Camilla Luddington) from the moment they met at the University of St. Andrews.
Secretive, suspenseful PICKS OF THE WEEK: In “Unknown,” Liam Neeson is an American research scientist who arrives in Berlin with his beautiful wife (January Jones) and discovers that he’s lost not only his passport but also his entire identity, while Matt Damon in “The Adjustment Bureau” plays a popular Brooklyn politician whose pre-determined future doesn’t include an outspoken dancer (Emily Blunt) with whom he falls in love.