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DVD of the Week While his buddy Daniel Radcliffe stripped bare to appear onstage in Equus during their Harry Potter downtime, co-star Rupert Grint decided to dip his toe in the Brit
First-Run The L Word has taken the edge off of lesbian indie movies, but writer-director Maria Maggenti (The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love) is a talent who deserves to break out of the gay ghetto. Her second film finds Grey's Anatomy's Elizabeth Reaser as a Sapphic opera lover who falls for Weeds' Justin Kirk while rebounding from lover Julianne Nicholson. Add Gretchen Mol as Kirk's bi-curious girlfriend and complications inevitably ensue, scored to snappy dialogue nicely delivered by the TV vets. Re-Release
TV Take a town in the Pacific Northwest and populate it with weirdoes. Drive past Twin Peaks and take a left at Northern Exposure, and you'll find it. Eureka is a top secret white-picket enclave of geniuses, with an everydude sheriff (Colin Ferguson) thrown in for some perspective. It's very familiar territory, but mapped out with a smartness that's become typical of the Sci-Fi Channel, as when the town's resident brainiacs are trapped in a house by the resident computer until they stop their squabbling. 12 episodes on three discs. George Lopez is certainly America's angriest Mexican. He's accused Jay Leno of being a backstabber, slammed Mencia for stealing material, and wrote off ABC for replacing his sitcom with the Geico cavemen. Lined up against the wall in this HBO special are George W. Bush (no surprise there) and Arnold "The Governator" Schwarzenegger, although most of the giggles come from stories about his loca familia. Music Seattle egghead rockers Queensryche have not troubled the charts or the thinking person's eardrums much since their sole 1991 Top 10 hit. But they've persevered because "Silent Lucidity" is a f*cking great song. This hometown show finds the band greyer than in pre-Nirvana times, but soldiering on by playing both 1991's lauded Operation: Mindcrime and 2006's Operation: Mindcrime II in their entirety. Guess what? "Lucidity" still rocks. A second disc includes a documentary on their work for VH1's Save the Music. Aw. |
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