Tyler Perry as Alex Cross as a bobcat and Andy Samberg. I’m telling you, that guy really is so undercover.

As near as I can tell, none of the recently released DVDs have been added to Netflix’s instant streaming in the past week, so apologies if you were hoping for a lot of suggestions.  By all means, if you find that some are streaming, say so in the comments. As for my suggestions, given the general crappiness of this week’s DVDs, I went out of my way to suggest flicks that I’ve at least honestly heard good things about:

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Hot Rod

Celeste And Jesse Forever’s Andy Samberg stars and Deadfall’s Sissy Spacek co-stars in this comedy that most of you have probably seen already, but I haven’t so I’m recommending it to myself. Is it worth my time?  I should probably tell you that when my father died just before our father/son kayaking adventure, he did so jumping a motorcycle over 15 buses, so that’s kind of a sensitive topic for me.
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Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead

A Late Quartet’s Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in this, the last film from legendary director Sidney Lumet. In this flick, Hoffman and his brother (played by Ethan Hawke) botch an attempt to rob their parents’ jewelry store. Again, I haven’t seen this one, so is it as good as I’ve heard?  I should probably mention that my dad jumped that motorcycle over those buses because he was being chased by the police after robbing a jewelry store in order to fund our kayaking adventure, so this may be a rough one for me to watch.
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Mary And Max

A Late Quartet’s Philip Seymour Hoffman and Deadfall’s Eric Bana both provide voices for this Australian animated flick about the pen-pal relationship between a young girl in Melbourne and a fat dude in New York. This is supposed to be one of those ‘must-see’ films that everyone (myself included) just never gets around to seeing.  So, if you have seen it, is it better than the boring trailer makes it look?  I should probably bring up the fact that my father was inspired to take up kayaking after it was recommended to him by his Australian pen-pal (who incidentally, was very animated from what I’ve heard), so this could be a tough watch for me to sit through without losing my sh*t.
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Black Hawk Down

Deadfall’s Eric Bana and So Undercover’s Jeremy Piven both appear in this true story about American helicopters being shot down in Somalia.  Guess what?  I have seen this one, and don’t worry, there’s nothing about this movie that makes me think about my dead father.  Instead I think about my dead pet hawk, Blackie.  I know you’re wondering, and yes, he had avian Down’s syndrome.