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New DVD Tuesday - Mike Mignola, Ryuichi Hiroki, Paul Mooney, Clint Eastwood
Recommended
After Innocence - Jessica Sanders directs this documentary detailing the stories of seven men who were wrongfully imprisoned for decades (some of them on death row) before finally being exonerated by DNA evidence.
The Amazing Screw-On Head - This animated 30-minute pilot (I can only hope there will be more episodes) based on the comic book by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is full of awesome animation (it closely mimics Mignola's style), witty dialogue, offbeat humor and wonderfully bizarre villains like Emperor Zombie. The title character is a Civil War-era secret agent who has a special power and serves under president Abraham Lincoln.
Dark Water (Japan, Hideo Nakata, 2002) - A recently divorced woman who has just survived a bruising custody battle moves with her five-year-old daughter into an apartment building where every surface is permeated by water and visions of a neighborhood girl who has been missing for two years start to appear.
Flags of Our Fathers - Clint Eastwood explores the reality behind the myth of the three surviving soldiers who were involved in one of America's most iconic wartime moments: raising the American flag over Iwo Jima.
Heading South - Sexy French film starring Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young and Louise Portal as middle-aged women who take a vacation in Haiti where they fetishize and compete for vie for the attentions of a younger, virile Haitian man (Menothy Cesar).
I Am An S+M Writer (Japan, 2000) - Director Ryuichi Hiroki has turned erotic novelist Oniroku Dan's autobiographical novel into a sex farce about a failed author who starts churning out S&M stories. But when he hires models to stage scenes for inspiration, his wife is less than thrilled.
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Paul Mooney - Know Your History: Jesus Is Black and So Was Cleopatra - Stand-up comedy from the acerbic wit of Paul Mooney, who most recently came to prominence on The Dave Chappelle Show.
Running With Scissors - Written and directed by Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy and based on the book by Augusten Burroughs, the film stars Joseph Cross as an adolescent sent to live with his eccentric therapist Dr. Finch (Brian Cox), who is patriarch of a quirkily lunatic clan that includes his spaced out wife (Jill Clayburgh), sanguine older daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow), rebellious younger daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and adopted son (Joseph Fiennes).
The Science of Sleep - Michel Gondry directs this uneven but imaginative story about a young man (Gael García Bernal) whose childlike fantasy world is both a refuge and a prison, keeping him constantly transfixed but also unable to nurture relationships in the real world.
Loads more new DVDs after the jump.Action/Adventure
Shinobi (Japan, Ten Shimoyama, 2005)
Animation
Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms - Feature-length animated sequel to the live-action movie follows Hellboy and his cronies as they take on a duo of Japanese demons who want to take over the world. Story by Mike Mignola.
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles
Teen Titans - Trouble in Tokyo
Biopic
Hollywoodland (Allen Coulter, 2006) - Adrien Brody plays a PI investigating the murder of George Reeves, who played Superman on TV.
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British TV
Rosemary & Thyme, Series 3
Collections
The Alfred Hitchcock Box Set (The Ring / The Manxman / Murder! / The Skin Game / Rich and Strange) (1930) - Lions Gate releases five early Hitchcock films, all of which were made between 1927 and 1931.
Comedy
Inside Monkey Zetterland (Jefery Levy, 1992) - A comedy about an aspiring screenwriter and his wacky menagerie of friends, neighbors, family members and lovers, which include Patricia Arquette, Sandra Bernhard, Sofia Coppola, Tate Donovan, Rupert Everett, Katherine Helmond, Bo Hopkins, Ricki Lake, Debi Mazar and Martha Plimpton.
Relative Strangers (Greg Glienna, 2006) - A psychiatrist (Ron Livingston) discovers he was adopted and goes in search of his long lost birth parents (Danny DeVito and Kathy Bates), who turn make his life hell.
Documentary
The Deadliest Plane Crash
Joseph Campbell: The Hero's Journey
Joseph Campbell: Sukhavati
Mystery of the Megavolcano
We Are Dad
Drama
Coastlines (Victor Nunez, 2002)
A Summer Place (Delmer Daves, 1959)
Family
Flicka (Michael Mayer, 2006)
Foreign Drama
Brother (Russia, 1997) - A young soldier returns home from duty and begins working as for the local mob. Written and directed by Aleksi Balabanov.
Harvest Time (Russia, 2004) - A widowed mother struggles on a collective farm in post-WWII Russian. Written and directed by Marina Razbezhkina.
Riding Alone For Thousands Of Miles (China, 2005) - Zhang Yimou directs this drama Aabout a Japanese fisherman who travels to China to finish the documentary begun by his son.
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Horror
Bloody Mary (Richard Valentine, 2006)
The Grudge 2 (Takashi Shimizu, 2006)
Incubus (Anya Camilleri, 2005) - So this is what Tara Reid's been doing, straight-to-DVD horror flicks.
Mockumentary
Farce of the Penguins - A mockumentary that spoofs March of the Penguins. Written and directed by Bob Saget, it features a host of celebrity voices including Jason Alexander, James Belushi, Whoopi Goldberg, Christina Applegate, Lewis Black, Mo'Nique and narration by Samuel L. Jackson.
One Man Show
Outride the Devil - A Morning with Doc Holliday
Queer
She Likes Girls - anthology of six lesbian-themed short films.
Romantic Dramedy
Advice from a Caterpillar (Don Scardino, 1999)
Blume in Love (Paul Mazursky, 1973)
The Boynton Beach Club (Susan Seidelman, 2005)
Crossing Delancey (Joan Micklin Silver, 1988)
Her Minor Thing (Charles Matthau, 2005)
Soup of the Day (Scott Zakarin, 2006)
Trust the Man (Bart Freundlich, 2005)
Ryuichi Hiroki
Tokyo Trash Baby (Japan, 2000) - A waitress obsessed with her neighbor goes through his trash in an attempt to reconstruct his life.
Vibrator (Japan, 2003) - A chance encounter between Rei, a troubled writer, and Takatoshi, a truck driver leads to an impromptu two-day road trip and sex romp the leads to an emotional meltdown.
Stand-Up Comedy
Eddie Murphy: Delirious
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Thriller
The Warrior Class (Alan Hruska, 2004)
Vintage
Arabian Nights (John Rawlins, 1942)
The Clock (Vincente Minnelli, 1945)
The Heiress (William Wyler, 1949)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Alexander Hall, 1941)
Miracle in the Rain (Rudolph Maté, 1956)
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