This Week in DVD

Yes, it's the triumphant return of This Week in DVD, and what a week I picked!

I mean, just look at all the exciting new releases this week. Why, there's yet another version of An Affair to Remember, yet another version of In the Heat the Night, yet another version of "When Harry Met Sally," an overpriced quickie release of an extended Family Guy episode, a movie directed by Vin Diesel...

OK, so I picked a weak week. When the highest-profile recent theatrical is Good Luck Chuck, you know it's weak. Thankfully, audiences rejected that one at the multiplexes. I have a Shark Bites item up now with a snide Ryan Reynolds reference. Well, Dane Cook makes Ryan Reynolds look like Cary Grant. Yet Hollywood thinks that because a bunch of MySpacers buy tickets to see Cook mangle other people's jokes on stage, they need to "leverage that popularity." Fortunately for Jessica Alba, most people probably already forgot this movie even existed.

Here's another comedy gem for your shopping cart this week: Mr. Woodcock. Remember when Billy Bob Thornton was cool? He still turns in a good one every now and then, but the man's batting average must be Mendozaesque at this point simply because he is in a new bomb every other month.

Yep, it's a good time to catch up on older releases, or maybe even give your wallet a break Next week, there's a lot of old-school TV coming out, and maybe I won't be so grumpy...as long as I don't talk about The Simple Life set.