A couple of special effects epics from this past winter arrive on
DVD this week.
A family learns their new home is also inhabited by mystical creatures
in "The Spiderwick Chronicles".
Freddie Highmore stars in this adaptation of the popular literary series.
The kids come across a magical book written by their great, great uncle Spiderwick...a book some of the creatures would love to possess.
"The Spiderwick Chronicles" is rated PG.
The days of wooly mammoths and fur wearing warriors is revisited in "10,000 BC".
It's the story of one warrior's trek to find his beloved, who's been kidnapped by a rival tribe.
On his journey, he forms alliances and discovers an advanced, lost civilization.
"10,000 BC" is rated PG-13.
Ryan Reynolds plays a dad who takes the long way to explain to his daughter,
played by Abigail Breslin, whom her mother is in "Definitely, Maybe".
That involves recounting his relationships with three different women to leave the daughter and the audience guessing as to the mother's identity.
"Definitely, Maybe" is rated PG-13.
A high school teen calls upon some of his own therapy to become a pseudo-psychiatrist
for his classmates in "Charlie Bartlett".
Anton Yelchin stars as the title character, who's getting along fine until he also starts dispensing medications to his pseudo-patients.
Robert Downey, Jr. co stars as the school principal who's on to Charlie, and also happens to be the father of Charlie's girlfriend.
This one's rated R.
Joan Allen and Jessica Lange are joined by Kathy Bates on a car trip across the American west in "Bonneville".
The women are delivering the ashes of Lange's late husband to his bitter stepdaughter, but along the way, the women find themselves on their own journey of discovery.
This one only got a very limited release in theaters.
It's rated PG.
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