Your friendly neighborhood lister is heading out on vacation this week, so let’s make this quick. Any multiplex-type movies worth seeing? Well, Hot Tub Time Machine is fairly funny (if under-imagined), and The Crazies is a decent update of an underrated George Romero film. Documentaries? It Came From Kuchar covers the career of two filmmaking brothers who were pioneers in underground and camp cinema alike, while Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage offers a solid overview of the rock legends. Foreign fare? Michael Haneke’s anti-fascist allegory The White Ribbon is a bit blunt but nonetheless effective, and Luchino Visconti’s 1963 classic The Leopard looks better than ever in Criterion’s new Blu-ray edition. And television? Seven words for you: Leave It To Beaver: The Complete Series.
Beautiful
E1, $24.98; Blu-ray, $24.98
A Bit Of A Do
Acorn, $59.99
Blood On The Highway
E1, $24.98
Bonnie’s Kids
MPI, $19.98
The Brotherhood VI: Initiation
E1, $19.98
The Closer: The Complete Fifth Season
Warner, $39.98
The Crazies
Overture/Anchor Bay, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.98
Creation
Lionsgate, $27.98
Don McKay
Image, $27.98; Blu-ray, $35.98
The Eclipse
Magnolia, $26.98; Blu-ray, $29.98
Elvis & Anabelle
Vivendi, $19.93
Eureka: Season 3.5
Universal, $29.98
Everlasting Moments
Criterion, $39.95; Blu-ray, $39.95
Follow Me
Scorpion, $14.95
Frontline: The Dancing Boys Of Afghanistan
PBS, $24.99
Hal Sparks: Charmaggedon
Image, $14.98
Hockney At The Tate
Kultur, $19.99
Hot Tub Time Machine
MGM, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.99
How The Earth Changed History
BBC Warner, $29.98; Blu-ray, $34.99
How The Earth Was Made: The Complete Season Two
A&E, $39.95
It Came From Kuchar
IndiePix, $24.95
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Acorn, $49.99
Kill Switch
First Look, $19.98; Blu-ray, $24.98
The Last Big Thing
Vanguard, $19.95
Leave It To Beaver: The Complete Series
Shout! Factory, $199.99
The Leopard
Criterion Blu-ray, $49.95
Love Games
Mya/Ryko, $24.95
Mad About You: The Complete Fourth Season
Shout! Factory, $29.93
New York Confidential
VCI, $19.99
Night Train To Munich
Criterion, $29.95
Nova: Mind Over Money
PBS, $24.99
Nuclear Hurricane
E1, $19.98
Once More With Feeling
MPI, $19.98
Paranormal Cops: The Complete Season One
A&E, $19.95
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
20th Century Fox, $29.99; Blu-ray, $39.99
Predator
20th Century Fox Blu-ray, $29.99
Pretty Bird
Paramount, $22.98
The Queen And I
Walking Shadows, $24.95
Rem Koolhaas: A Kind Of Architect
New Video/Arthouse, $29.95
Return Of The One-Armed Swordsman
Dragon Dynasty, $19.93
Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage
Zoe, $19.98; Blu-ray, $24.98
Sandok
Mya/Ryko, $24.95
Say Hello To Yesterday
Scorpion, $19.95
Screwballs II: Loose Screws
Severin, $19.95; Blu-ray, $24.95
Stolen
MPI, $19.98; Blu-ray, $29.98
Submission Of A Woman
Mya/Ryko, $24.95
SuicideGirls Must Die!
First Look, $28.98
The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby Doo: The Complete Series
Warner, $19.98
A Traveler’s Guide To The Planets
National Geographic, $29.97; Blu-ray, $39.97
Uncle Sam
Blue Underground Blu-ray, $29.95
Warehouse 13: Season One
SyFy, $49.98
The Warlords
Magnolia, $26.98; Blu-ray, $29.98
When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors
Eagle Rock, $19.98; Blu-ray, $24.98
The White Ribbon
Sony, $28.96; Blu-ray, $38.99