This week, there's plenty of Superman and Kevin Smith to go around.
Superman Returns (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Bryan Singer proves why he's the king of the comic book film with this tribute to the 1978 original. While lacking some of the subtext of, say, X2 (unless that subtext is "wow, the Richard Donner version rocked!"), this still boasts some amazing direction and a predictably strong performance by Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor.
Three hours of doc footage on the making of should answer any lingering questions, and a host of deleted scenes should satisfy any other curiosities.
Clerks II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
Kevin Smith rebounds nicely from Jersey Girl with this mind-in-the-gutter/heart-in-the-clouds story of what happens to our heroes ten years after they weren't even supposed to be here. A welcome addition to the View Askewniverse.
Plenty o' extras (including three commentary tracks) but none so promising as the one entitled "A Closer Look at Interspecies Erotica."
An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder
And while we're on the topic, if you've never had the pleasure, treat yourself to An Evening With Kevin Smith. The only thing he does better than make movies is tell stories. If this sequel, filmed in London and Toronto, is anything like the original (or his trip to Philly this summer, where I saw him at the not-at-all-geeky-sounding Wizard World) you will not be disappointed.
Supeman II: Richard Donner Cut
So guess what? Richard Donner didn't really direct Superman II. Well, he did and he didn't. After about 75 percent was shot, he was pulled off and Richard Lester was called in to clean up the "mess," which, in all likelihood, was far better. Now you get to find out for sure. One hint: More Jor-El.
Extras include Donner on how Lester fucked up his movie.
The Ant Bully
The one variation here on the "animals get back at The Man" trope of this year's CGI films is that in this one they shrink a human. A human will also be shrunk, incidentally, in the upcoming Arthur and the Invisibles, for those of you keeping track of human-shrinking movies at a loss since Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
One of the extras is an ant habitat screensaver.
In this week's long list, selling individual episodes of television series is the new black.
100 Percent Capoiera
12:01 - Special Edition
Love Day Break but have an irrational fear of Taye Diggs? Then check out this 1993 version of the same thing with Jonathan Silverman, Helen Slater, and Martin Landau.
21st Century Warfighter
24 Hours in Philadelphia
287th Hour
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