Punch Drunk DVDs

Secretariat
Where 2003's Seabiscuit was set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, Secretariat positions itself squarely in the burgeoning women's movement. Diane Lane gives a feisty turn as Penny Chenery, who inherited her father's stable of thoroughbreds and then made the luckiest decision of her life in selecting Secretariat, without doubt the greatest race horse of all-time.








Red
Retirement is hard! Especially from the CIA. Even moreso when the CIA comes looking to send you to that old folks home in the sky. Bruce Willis teams up with a butt kickin' crew of old fogeys including Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, and dame Helen Mirren blowin' stuff up and takin' names. If you thought Mirren couldn't get any sexier(how is that even possible she's still hot?) then you ain't seen her with a machine gun in her capable hands.







Stieg Larsson's insanely popular Millennium trilogy comes to a satisfying conclusion with the enigmatic computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, on trail against the many men who have wronged her over the years. Yeah, it's sorta like a more violent episode of Law & Order, but I got a thing for courtroom dramas. My favorite flick of the bunch.









Saw: The Final Chapter
Jigsaw's final, grandiose puzzle turns out to be more a game of Tiddlywinks than anything else. Not even the addition of 3D, which promised us blood splattering gore the likes we hadn't seen, turned out to be a dud. You can actually buy this in 3D if you're one of those fools who splurged on a 3D TV, but the added dimension isn't going to make this any better. Only for Saw completists.








Nowhere Boy
Aaron Johnson(Kick-Ass) steps into the imposing footsteps of a young John Lennon, who's tumultuous life growing up in Liverpool would mold him into the future Beatles frontman and political figure.











Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(Blu-Ray)
I feel like I've said so much about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that it no longer needs to be written about. Not only is this Jim Carrey's most complete role as the introverted Joel, but I never seriously paid attention to Kate Winslet until she completely floored me here as Clementine. In crafting such a mind bending, quirky script, Charlie Kaufman may have found a way to tell the most honest story about love(and our memories of past loves) that I've ever seen. It's got a permanent home in my Top 5 movies. Period. If you saw The Green Hornet and are wondering what the big deal with director Michel Gondry was all about? This is the movie you need to watch.











The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest