This week brings us a good number of intriguing titles, including new works by Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Steven Soderbergh, as well as Peter O'Toole's Oscar-nominated turn in Venus, new Parker Posey, a powerful early 70s doc on Fred Hampton, and a lot more! Read on.

A cornucopia of fine titles arrive today - many of them unheralded, underseen. Linda, Linda, Linda (reviewed here) and Music and Lyrics are in the more fun category; The Painted Veil is beautiful and romantic; Deliver Us From Evil and 838 Ways to Kill Castro mine darker territory; Comedy of Power is Chabrol being Chabrol; Things To Do (reviewed here) is a quirky little indie; Fur is... we're not sure what Fur is. Maybe you'll tell us.

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You take the good, you take the bad, and there you have the... DVDs for this week. But any week offering both an Oscar winning performance and two (!) releases by the Brothers Quay is a good week.

It's also a good week for docs, political and otherwise, as you'll see.

Read on, MacDuff.

This is the kind of week for DVD releases that we usually like to call a good week to catch up on other recent releases, since it seems on the surface like a fairly unexciting crop of titles. But there are gems to be had, from a Gallic policier to an odd doc on an eccentric Christian folk-indie-rock group ("a fond portrait, loaded with bizarre, haunting music and off-kilter inspirations" - LA Times) to a multi-character story set around RFK's asassination; from a stand-out stand-up to a quirky romantic comedy about a man, a woman and the personal history that, um, dogs her...

Check out this week's new releases, and more titles coming soon.

Updated! April 11