Saturday, March 12, 2011

New on DVD: Oscar winner 'Inside Job,' more

By Steve Jones, USA TODAY

Inside Job
2010, Sony, PG-13, $29; Blu-ray, $35

  • Henry Paulson, left, and Ben Bernanke in Inside Job, a documentary about the 2008 economic meltdown.

    By Representational Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics

    Henry Paulson, left, and Ben Bernanke in Inside Job, a documentary about the 2008 economic meltdown.

By Representational Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics

Henry Paulson, left, and Ben Bernanke in Inside Job, a documentary about the 2008 economic meltdown.

Director Charles Ferguson's expos� of 2008's global economic meltdown comes to DVD fresh off winning a 2011 Academy Award for documentary. The crisis, from which we still have not fully recovered, cost more than $20 trillion and caused millions to lose their homes and jobs. Ferguson uses extensive research and interviews with financial insiders, politicians and journalists to examine the conditions that led to the meltdown, how corruption and greed fueled it, why regulators and politicians turned a blind eye to the warning signs, and why the government's response was so ineffectual. Special features include deleted scenes with Eliot Spitzer and others.

USA TODAY's Claudia Puig says: * * * out of four. "Consistently insightful and occasionally terrifying, it's more riveting than Wall Street 2."

The Next Three Days
2010, Lionsgate, PG-13, $30; Blu-ray+DVD, $40

Lara Brennan (Elizabeth Banks) is sent to prison for a murder she did not commit. Her college professor husband (Russell Crowe), with the expert advice of a serial prison escapee (Liam Neeson), comes to her rescue. Extras: deleted scenes and The Men of The Next Three Days featurette. (USA TODAY'S Scott Bowles: * *)

1. Due Date
2. Unstoppable
3. Faster
4. Megamind
5. Love & Other Drugs
6. 127 Hours
7. Burlesque
8. Life As We Know It (2010)
9. RED
10. Inception

Source: � Home Video Essentials, Rentrak Corp.

Morning Glory
2010, Paramount, PG-13, $31; Blu-ray, $39

News producer Becky (Rachel McAdams) has to improve viewership for a morning show, but she's going to have to get prickly co-anchors Mike (Harrison Ford) and Colleen (Diane Keaton) to coexist on the set. Extras include commentary by director Roger Michell and writer Aline Brosh McKenna. (Bowles: * *)

Jackass 3
2010, Paramount, R, $31; 3-D DVD, $38; Blu-ray, $41

The MTV Jackass crew returns for more outrageous tomfoolery. Johnny Knoxville roller-skates in a buffalo herd, Bam Margera runs a stun-gun gauntlet, and Steve-O takes to the skies in a fully loaded porta-potty. It's the franchise in which nirvana is reaching the height of stupidity. Extra includes outtakes, deleted scenes.

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