DVD Releases: June 17/24

June 17:

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (IFC drama)
Alive or Dead (Lionsgate horror)
Be Kind Rewind (New Line comedy)
Boxes (Pathfinder drama)
Caramel (Lionsgate drama)
Chaos Theory (WB comedy)
Cut Off (Anchor Bay action/thriller)
Fool's Gold (WB comedy)
It's a Boy Girl Thing (Anchor Bay comedy)
Jack & Jill vs. the World (First Look romantic comedy)
Just Add Water (Sony comedy)
Love & Other Disasters (Image romantic comedy)
My Mom's New Boyfriend (Sony comedy)
National Lampoon's Bagboy (Hart Sharp comedy)
On the Doll (PeaceArch horror-thriller)
QuarterLife Crisis (Echo Bridge comedy)
Rails & Ties (WB drama)
Sitter, The (Genius Products thriller)
Super High Me (Universal comedy)
Under the Same Moon (Fox drama)
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (Universal comedy)


June 24:

10,000 B.C. (WB action)
Banshee (Image drama)
Birthrite (Rivercoast horror)
Bonneville (Fox drama)
Careless (ThinkFilm comedy)
Charlie Bartlett (MGM comedy)
Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el (Maverick horror)
Dark Heart (MTI drama)
Definitely, Maybe (Universal romantic-drama)
Erotic Werewolf in London (PopCinema horror-comedy)
Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust (Full Moon horror-comedy)
Guantanamero (PeaceArch drama)
Hammer, The (Weinstein comedy)
Hell To Pay (York action)
Honeydripper (Universal drama)
In Bruges (Universal comedic-drama)
Lodge, The (Monarch horror)
Nobody Loves Alice (Indie Pictures horror)
Persepolis (Sony animated comedy/drama)
Raising Jeffrey Dahmer (Lionsgate drama)
Spiderwick Chronicles, The (Paramount fantasy)
Tattooist, The (Sony horror)
Wig, The (Genius Products horror)


Alive or Dead holds some interest as the trailer (found on recent Lionsgate horror) DVDs) makes the film look competently-directed and reasonably tense.

On the Doll looks intriguing because of its bizarre storyline of those who work in the sex industry, some of which are filled with vengeance and other similar emotions. Brittany Snow ("Prom Night") stars.

Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust also looks like something worth renting, if only because the title is hilarious, if not a few years late. The original film did not deliver on the cheesy potential of the premise so I hope they've rectified things with the follow-up.

The Tattooist looks different enough to stand out, telling the story of tattoos that take on a life of their own, complete with supernatural powers in this Sam Raimi-produced tale.