W. (widescreen) 2008 DVD ; released on Feb.10, 09

Oliver Stone's W. is comparable to his other films about the American president (JFK, Nixon), which is to say, these films are much more about the Stones imagine versions of the reported events, as they alleged the reenactment. As such, W. Stone is the case for what he sees as the absurdity of George W. Bush 's ascent to the White House, and especially the arrogant mistake of the Iraq war. Josh Brolin is very good as the rogue son of George HW Bush (James Cromwell), Vice President for Ronald Reagan and the 41st President of the United States. Adrift in a sea of alcohol and wasted opportunities, the younger Bush is essentially due to the need for his father, rejecting the love and respect, which never really arrives. At a hatchet man for Bush Sr. 's administration, "W" (as his wife, Laura - played by Elizabeth Banks - call him) meets Karl Rove (Toby Jones) and heads toward the Texas Governorship, although his father " s attitude that the golden son, Jeb, the whole family, support in the Florida governor's offer.

Said in broken chronology, Bush focuses on the post-9/11 way to lead a "preventive war" in Iraq, although no hard evidence of weapons of mass destruction to justify. The main actors in W administration - Rove, Colin Powell (Jeffrey Wright), Condoleezza Rice (Thandie Newton), and especially Dick Cheney (Richard Dreyfuss) - all in closed session, the look and sound like all the investigative account of the New York Times and Bob Woodward about the inner workings of the administration, to the war. Much of this is very fascinating, if a little strange (Newton's performance is indeed strange), but the drama is often powerful, particularly around Powell's opposition to the tide for a supposedly slam-dunk war. A number of the film the main benefits, in addition to Brolin, are very strong, especially Cromwell, Jones, Wright, Dreyfuss and Bruce McGill as George Tenet. - Tom Keogh

• Actors: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Ioan Gruffudd, J. Grant Albrecht, Sayed Badreya
• Directors: Oliver Stone
• Writers: Stanley Weiser
• Producers: Albert Yeung, Bill Block, Christopher Mapp, David Whealy, Elliot Ferwerda
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating:
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: February 10, 2009
• Run Time: 129 minutes

Changeling DVD : released on Feb.17, 2009

Clint Eastwood's mastery as a director, published in the last decade and a half with Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima, and others continue to work with Changeling, from 2008, based on a shocking, but all too true story about child abduction and corruption of police in Los Angeles the 1920th Single mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie, excellent in a role with some limited parameters) you will find 9-year-old son, Walter, missing when she returned home from work one day. Files a report with the Los Angeles Police Department, an outfit that is wildly unpopular at the time (in his regular radio show, a crusading priest played by John Malkovich Decries the force as "violent and corrupt," and added that "our brutalizers are our protector "). When a child is about Walter matching description in Illinois five months later, the LAPD, his intention to salvage tattered reputation, is only too happy to say that he Collins' child is missing. Small things, that he is three centimeters shorter circumcised (Walter was not), and not to patterns with Walter Dentist, teachers and others, the police, especially the despicable Captain JJ Jones (Jeffrey Donovan), insist that the error Christine is not her. What follows is almost too nightmarish to think - unless it really happened. Unnerved by Collins' further claim that "Walter" is a fraud, they trot a doctor to the bogus ID, explain it unsuitable as a parent, and finally they have to a local psychopathic Ward. Through it all, Collins, assisted by the pastor and thousands of outraged Angelenos, refuses to sign a document which exempts the police for their serious mistakes. What Walter, it is only when the LAPD's apparently only honest Detective (Michael Kelly) the matters into his own hands, that the secret of the cruel fate of a child begins to dissolve. That would be a good place for the film to close on. Unfortunately, it is more than half an hour, with many false endings to add that nothing in the story and could just as well have been combined with a few sentences before the final credits. These errors aside (and it is important), Changeling is a powerful film, with a realistic period feel, a wonderful atmosphere and subdued color palette and a result of the understatement Eastwood. - Sam Graham

• Actors: Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, Gattlin Griffith, Michelle Martin
• Directors: Clint Eastwood
• Writers: J. Michael Straczynski
• Producers: Clint Eastwood, Brian Grazer, Geyer Kosinski, James Whitaker, Robert Lorenz
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating:
• Studio: Universal Studios
• DVD Release Date: February 17, 2009
• Run Time: 141 minutes

Frozen River DVD (2008) ; released on Feb.10, 2009

Frozen River is a remarkable feature film in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here the light of rapid revenue from smuggling offer daily challenge to single Moms who will receive minimum wage. Two white, one Mohawk women and single mothers faced with desperate circumstances - are pulling into the world of border smuggling across the frozen St. Lawrence River water. Melissa Leo (21 grams, three Burials of Melquiades Estrada murder of television. : Life on the road) play light, fog Upham (Edge of America DreamKeeper, skin) and Oscar nominee played Lila Michael O'Keefe (The Great Santini, Caddyshack, Ironweed) play the New York state trooper and two to come. fair.

When her husband is running close to pay for new home (Melissa Leo, Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada) turn to crime to own, and two sons she afloat. The opportunity to meet with Lila (fog Upham, Edge of America. ), the equally desperate young Mohawk woman, the radiation of smuggling illegal immigrants to drive across the frozen Hudson River to tribal land. But all things go wrong in the small and not so - a small way until the light is found herself Pushed over the more desperate than ever. Leo deliver gritty, richly compelling performance, but restraint; Raw beauty, but she faces life entered by expanding distribution of weary defiance. Frozen River View is a tense thriller as any Hollywood but in the full development of character data, so the two women in this taut suspense Grips full spectrum of emotion. This is the impressive debut by write / director Courtney hunt, featuring the great support shown by Charlie McDermott (The Ten) is the light blue of the eldest son and Michael O'Keefe (The Great Santini). a suspicious state trooper. - Bret Fetzer.

Actors : Jr. Mark Boone, Melissa Leo, Michael O'Keefe, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott
Directors: Courtney Hunt
Format : AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles : French
Number of discs : 1
Rating : R
Studio : Sony Pictures
DVD Release Date : February 10, 2009
Run Time : 93 minutes