User blog:Ceauntay/Movies out on DVD next week (November 15, 2011)

True Jackson, VP: The Movie Rating ★★★

True Jackson (Keke Palmer), her friends (Ashley Argota, Ryan Shively Robbie Amell) and the rest of her Mad Styles crew head to Egypt where they lead True compete against Rebecca Whitewood (Emily Osment) at the fashion award show to win up $1 million after Mad Styles are closing fashion and the company due to major budget cuts. It's up to True to show how true fashion works to save Mad Styles from closing down. Larry Crowne Rating ★★★

The gearing-down of the American dream starts in the opening frames of Larry Crowne, as we watch Larry (Tom Hanks) prove himself one of the most dedicated big-box store employees under the sun, only to see his ordinary life fall to pieces. An altogether predictable and underwhelming effort that makes modern romance look like an afterthought for the dejected and cynical, only costar Julia Roberts seems to nail the overall ambivalence of hooking up in the 21st century.

Georgio Moroder's Metropolis Rating ★★★1/2

Disco daddy Georgio Moroder's version of Fritz Lang's black and white masterpiece about a future world where the line between man and machine is entirely blurred has added new music, including tunes from Freddie Mercury, as well as colourized frames. For cineastes, the resulting reel is the equivalent of turning the Sistine Chapel into a strip mall, but for all the unwelcome renovations, Moroder also re-established the place of certain characters that were removed from the original print. Because the film now has a complete restoration struck off the original negative, Lang's vision can be experienced in its purest form, and Moroder's take can be appreciated on its own merits. Special features include a documentary on Moroder's restoration, original trailer, photo gallery and more.

My Fair Lady (Blu-ray) Rating ★★★★

Not only do we get a song actually sung by Audrey Hepburn (instead of her vocal double Marni Nixon), we also get rare archival footage, audio commentary, interview, and trailers. These new bells and whistles hardly update the release, based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, but they do bring it back into clear focus, where we can see the lines of age and outdated ideas about women fracture all the way through the condescending narrative about the sexes.

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