DVDs in Brief
Based on Dan Brown's unfortunate bestseller, The Da Vinci Code (Sony) arrived in theaters labeled as one of the most controversial films ever released, but had anyone's blood pressure risen by the time it was over? Brown's supposedly blasphemous interpretation of Da Vinci's The Last Supper—laid out here by Ian McKellen, in the film's only riveting scene—has been sermon and editorial fodder for years, but director Ron Howard shows little investment in the issue one way or the other. But even if he had no passion for religious revisionism, at least he could have mustered a little for storytelling…