New DVDs
Jarhead.
MPAA rating: R; for pervasive language, some violent images and strong sexual content.
Jake Gyllenhaal, Scott MacDonald, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx, Jacob
Vargas, Lucas Black, Brian Geraghty, Evan Jones, Chris Cooper.
Follows "Swoff," a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering
stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a
hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There
is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are
always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow
Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on
blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand, against an
enemy they can't see, for a cause they don't fully understand. Sergeant
Sykes, a Marine lifer, heads up the scout/sniper platoon, while Troy,
Swoff's friend and mentor, is a die-hard member of STA - the elite
Marine Unit.
Prime.
MPAA rating: PG-13; for sexual content including dialogue, and for language.
Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, Bryan Greenberg, Jon Abrahams, Aubrey Dollar.
Rafi is a recently divorced 37-year-old Manhattan career woman. She
meets Dave, a talented 23-year-old painter from Brooklyn, and the two
fall in love. Told from everyone's point-of-view, including friends,
relatives, and Rafi's therapist, Lisa. Unbeknownst to Rafi, Lisa just
so happens to be Dave's mother.