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OUT ON DVD: The Splendor Of Hugo, Kink Crusaders To The Rescue, And More!

The Oscars are over, and although it didn’t win a big prize, Martin Scorsese’s spectacular Hugo is one of this week’s home video highlights. We also have Kink Crusaders (above) a documentary on the International Mister Leather competition, and gays going stupid in I Melt With You, which was so awful it even got snubbed by the Razzies!

FIRST: Get hellbent for leather with Kink Crusaders

 

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Kink Crusaders

($24.99 DVD, Breaking Glass Pictures)

Director Mike Skiff’s fascinating documentary explores the world of leather pageantry through the participants and events of Chicago’s 30th Annual International Mister Leather contest. Extras include a featurette on “The Top 20 Jockstrap Competition.”

NEXT: The past and future of movie magic come together in Hugo

 

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Hugo
($54.99 3D BluRay, $44.99 BluRay; $29.99 DVD, Paramount Studios)

Martin Scorsese’s exhilarating love letter to fantastical film pioneer George Melies was also hailed for representing the most effective use of today’s 3D technology. But even in 2D, this is a gorgeous, detailed, funny and heart-tugging piece of artistry and cinema worship.

NEXT: I Melt With You is a real drip

 

 

I Melt With You
($29.98 BluRay, $26.98 DVD; Magnolia)

Director Mark Pellington’s self-indulgent mess is about four buddies who get together for an annual drugfest. The gay one, played by Christian McKay, decides to honor a suicide pact made back in college and tweaky chaos ensues. The one thing Melt has going for it is its DILF-y cast—Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe and Christian McKay—who thankfully give us some occasional skin. But ultimately it’s unclear who’s more delusional—Melt’s characters or its creator.

 

ALSO OUT ON DVD

Boys on the Run (Asian Crush)

 

A Life Ascending

Rabies (a.k.a. Kalevet)

Vanya on 42nd Street (Criterion Collection)

 

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