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DVD: “Bottom,” “A Good Day To Die Hard,” “Out For The Long Run,” And More!

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There’s a whole lot of action going on in home entertainment this week, from the things-go-boom variety to the type that spreads a whole lotta STIs.

Of the former, Bruce Willis plays John McClane yet again in action sequel A Good Day To Die Hard, while very much the latter, prolific queer director Todd Verow’s shocking Bottom documents the dangerous, unsafe sex-packed exploits of a promiscuous gay blogger.

Queer high school and college athletes are the subject of the uplifting documentary Out For The Long Run, while a queer teen comes of age in the Blu-ray re-release of 2009’s Dare.

And speaking of Blu-ray re-releases, Mike Leigh’s hysterical Life Is Sweet gets an extras-packed Criterion Collection edition.

http://youtu.be/hNRqeYj27F8

Bottom

($19.99 DVD; Bangor Films)

In his most visceral, disturbing work since the Dennis Cooper novel adaptation, Frisk, prolific gay director Todd Verow brings to life the blog of a fellow named “bbcunt,” explicitly chronicling his successful attempts to take as many loads of semen, especially HIV-positive, as possible. Although Verow disguises his subjects’ identities through audio manipulation that makes them sound like monsters (apropos, that), everything you see is real. NOT for the kiddies.

http://youtu.be/wS31VXtYOQI

A Good Day To Die Hard

($39.99 Blu-ray, )

The action series, clearly having run out of domestic incidents for wrong-man-in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time-but-always-saves-the-day John McClane to get sucked into, takes a Taken-esque turn when he heads to Russia to save his son. The Extended Cut Blu-ray includes deleted scenes, a multi-chapter making-of, commentary, a handful of featurettes, and more.

http://youtu.be/HHqbgu-B_cA

Out For The Long Run

($24.99 DVD; Tragoidia Motion Pictures)

Director Scott Bloom’s documentary explores the challenges that LGBT high school and college age athletes face — and overcome — through interviews and intimate video diary footage.

http://youtu.be/UTqKkA0Ch_c

Dare

($17.99 Blu-ray, $9.99 DVD; Image)

2009’s Dare follows three very different high school seniors – outcast gay boy Ben (Ashley Springer), good girl wannabe actress Alexa (Emmy Rossum), and bad boy rich jock Johnny (Zach Gilford) – as they angst over identity, sexual experimentation, and the upcoming splash into the real world of adulthood. Sandra Bernhard and Alan Cumming cameo.

http://youtu.be/N7TDwgrxRq8

Life is Sweet

($39.95 Blu-ray; Criterion Collection)

Mike Leigh’s 1990 dramedy about eccentric working-class suburbanites stars a dream team of UK character actors including Jim Broadbent, Jane Horrocks (aka Bubble on Absolutely Fabulous), David Thewlis, Timothy Spall. Extras include a brand new commentary track with Leigh, a 1991 Q&A, and six five-minute short films from 1975.

 

ALSO OUT ON DVD:

us-release-click-on-picture-to-enlargeDoctor Who: Series Seven, Part Two

 

The Newton Boys

 Silver Case

Dark Skies

 Garbage: One Mile High… Live

 

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