Drive, Grade C-minus: The first half of this film from director Nicolas Winding Refn should be called Coast.
Gosling is a Hollywood stuntman by day and getaway driver by night. When the loner connects with his neighbor (Carey Mulligan), he gets a clue to a past that has turned him into a sociopathic driver. The tedium of the film might have worked if Gosling's character had any life, but Refn's direction is methodical to the point of being pretentious.
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Next Level, Grade B-plus: Episodes of the 1980s and '90s sci-fi TV series are being released in the enhanced Blu-ray format. The initial release includes "Encounter at Farpoint," "Sins of the Father," and "The Inner Light."
This upgrade creates images so sharp that the product is far superior to the original.
Also new on DVD this week:
The Big Year: Three avid bird-watchers (Owen Wilson, Jack Black, and Steve Martin) compete to spot the rarest birds in North America.
Chalet Girl: A champion skateboarder discovers snowboarding.
Thunder Soul: Jamie Foxx narrates this documentary about a high school band that becomes a funk phenomenon.
Bollywood Beats: A young man's life changes when he starts a dance class.
Hey Dude: Season 2: Christine Taylor stars in this cable series about life on a dude ranch.
In Time: In a future where people stop aging at 25 but are engineered to live only one more year, they try to buy time.
Frontline: A Perfect Terrorist: A look at David Coleman Headley's rise from heroin dealer to master plotter of the 2008 attack on Mumbai.
The Other F Word: Documentary looks at what happens when punk rockers become fathers.
The Thing: At an Antarctica research site, an alien craft is discovered.
Dream House: A man (Daniel Craig) and his family relocate to a quaint New England town; they soon learn that a mother and her two children were murdered in the same residence.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Series 1: Ten full-length mysteries starring David Suchet as the Belgian detective.
Nova: 3-D Spies of WWII, Destroying Hitler's Top Secret Rockets: A 3-D look at air photos shot over German territory by specially converted, high-flying Spitfires.
Outrage: Way of the Yakuza: Several yakuza clans vie for the favor of their head family in the Japanese underworld.
Monsignor: An American priest (Christopher Reeve) makes illegal deals to fill Vatican coffers.
