Originally published Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 12:00 AM
DVDs released this week
A weekly listing of new DVDs.
Here are some of today's DVD releases. Star ratings are by Seattle Times movie reviewers, freelancers or wire services (for full reviews, go to www.seattletimes.com/movies).
"My Blueberry Nights" (PG-13), Wong Kar Wai's pastry-filled romantic reverie starring Norah Jones, in her acting debut, and Jude Law.
"Drillbit Taylor" (PG-13), a comedy, directed by Steven Brill, about three high-school freshmen who seek protection from a pair of bullies. What do they do? They hire Owen Wilson.
"Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns" (PG-13), a comedy/drama starring Angela Bassett as a struggling single mother of three who heads to Georgia for the funeral of the father she never met.
Also available in a three-disc set is the TV series "Tyler Perry's House of Payne: Volume Two."
"Vantage Point" (PG-13), Pete Travis' tale of the shooting of an American president (William Hurt), told "Rashomon"-style, through the different perceptions of several people who witnessed the event. The cast also includes Dennis Quaid, Sigourney Weaver and Forest Whitaker.
TV on DVD
"Mad Men: Season One"
"The Closer: The Complete Third Season"
" 'Til Death Do Us Part: The Complete First Season"
"The Streets of San Francisco: Season 2, Volume 1"
"Walker, Texas Ranger: The Fifth Season"
"Anglo-Saxon Attitudes"
"Rebus: Set 3"
Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company
'The Road' takes Viggo Mortensen to Mount St. Helens and Astoria, Ore.
Director John Woo's 'Red Cliff' is an epic whose time has come
An epic revival for 'Gone With the Wind'
At a Theater Near You: Polish, Italian festivals lead weekend's films
Movie review: Bella + Edward + Jacob = a pale 'New Moon'

PNW Magazine | Easy As Pie
A little friendly competition between professional pie-baker Kate McDermott and The Seatttle Times' Kathleen Triesch Saul is handled with great taste.
general classifieds
Garage & estate salesFurniture & home furnishings
Sporting goods
just listed
42" Hitachi Plasma 1080i - $500
8 Drawer Dresser with Attached Mirror - $200
8 seat pecon formal dining table and china hutch - $1500
More listings
POST A FREE LISTING
shopping
events for Monday, Nov. 23
- Contractors equipment and vehicle auction
- $100 Holiday Blitz at Ella Mon
- Furnishments Thanksgiving Weekend Sale
- Black Friday Sale at Merge
editors' picks
More shopping guides- 'The Road' takes Viggo Mortensen to Mount St. Helens and Astoria, Ore.
- Tugboat sinks at Seattle waterfront pier
- Illegal workers quietly let go
- Child-support error costs nearly $21,000
- Vikings easily beat the Seahawks
- Craigslist adoption ad: A plea by young mother-to-be? A scam?
- Chase shrugs off loss of CD investors
- Woman stabbed by stranger in North Seattle
- Snow piles up on Cascade slopes
- Denny Triangle gains skyline, but tenants slow to come
- Illegal workers quietly let go
394 - Climate change speeds up since 1997 Kyoto accord
213 - Metro won't cut bus service after all
159 - New Husky recruit: Enes Kanter
101 - Tattoos at Mill Creek Church pierce skin, soul
85 - Middleton says Huskies "plan on scoring at least 50 points'' Saturday
82 - Jerry Brewer: Seahawks can't lean on the Hutch Crutch now
75 - Seattle woman charged with knife attack on boyfriend's ex
71 - UW, WSU once again meet to see who's worse
68 - Bellevue residents blast new bikini espresso stand
66
- Sprouts, raw fish on attorney's 'do not eat' list
- Tattoos at Mill Creek church pierce skin, soul
- Food-safety lawyer's wish: Put me out of business
- Illegal workers quietly let go
- Architects, chefs find 'kid' within to build Gingerbread Village
- Rediscovering Moab, 'the most beautiful place on Earth'
- It's possible to recover a life lost to hoarding
- Child-support error costs nearly $21,000
- 'The Road' takes Viggo Mortensen to Mount St. Helens and Astoria, Ore.
- Taste | The Great Pie Bake-off pits friends and fruit

