"Failure to Launch": Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker delivered a solid hit with this predictable romantic comedy about a grown-up guy still living with his parents. McConaughey stars as a
"Failure to Launch": Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker delivered a solid hit with this predictable romantic comedy about a grown-up guy still living with his parents. McConaughey stars as a laid-back boat salesman who's 35 but won't leave the nest, his parents (Kathy Bates and Terry Bradshaw) hiring an "interventionist" (Parker) to play siren and lure their boy into moving out on his own. The DVD has five featurettes, including one rather self-importantly titled "The Failure to Launch Phenomenon," featuring interviews with real-life adults still living with the folks. DVD, $29.99. (Paramount)
"Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion": Writer, director and star Perry brings his latest stage hit to the screen, which co-stars Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Cicely Tyson and Maya Angelou. Perry once again dresses in drag as Southern matriarch Madea, who's dealing with nieces in bad relationships and has taken in a troublesome runaway, her domestic problems hitting just as she's planning a big family get-together. The DVD has deleted scenes, commentary with Perry and a handful of featurettes on the movie's music and Madea's take on marriage. Also debuting on DVD are two Perry stage plays captured on film, "Madea Goes to Jail" and "Why Did I Get Married?" "Family Reunion" DVD, $29.98; "Madea Goes to Jail," "Why Did I Get Married?" DVDs, $19.98 each. (Lionsgate)
"Annapolis": "An Officer and a Gentlemen" meets "Rocky" at the U.S. Naval Academy. James Franco stars as a blue-collar cadet struggling to make it at the academy, his skill at throwing punches landing him in the ring for a boxing showdown against his harsh, relentless commanding officer (Tyrese Gibson). Director Justin Lin ("The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift") teams with his screenwriter and editor for commentary on the full movie and offers remarks for a batch of deleted scenes. The DVD also has two featurettes, including one on the actors' boxing preparations and the fight choreography. DVD, $29.99. (Disney)
"Ultraviolet": Not that John Cassavetes' "Gloria," starring wife Gena Rowlands, was one of his finer films, but it looks like "Citizen Kane" next to this bit of sci-fi nonsense that was loosely inspired by that 1980 flick. In "Ultraviolet," Milla Jovovich stands in for Rowland, playing a woman in the future infected by something or other that has turned her into a vampire and given her perfect fighting skills, all the better to protect the hunted young boy thrust into her care. Jovovich offers commentary, and the DVD has a making-of featurette. The movie is available in the PG-13 theatrical cut or an unrated edition, and it's also debuting on the new high-definition Blu-Ray disc format. DVD, $28.95; Blu-Ray disc, $38.95. (Sony)
"Find Me Guilty": Speaking of "Gloria," Sidney Lumet, the man who remade Cassavetes' film in a 1999 version starring Sharon Stone, tapped an unlikely action star for his latest crime saga. Vin Diesel packed on 30 pounds of flab and delivers a solid, charismatic performance as Jackie DiNorscio, a real-life mobster who refuses to rat on his colleagues and stages a wily, comic defense acting as his own attorney during a prolonged trial of 20 members of the Lucchese crime family. The DVD has a conversation with Lumet, whose films include "Dog Day Afternoon," "Network" and "Serpico." DVD, $27.98. (20th Century Fox)
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