Beware of Mr. Baker
(Vivendi, $15)
Legendary rock drummer Ginger Baker comes across in this documentary as “grouchy, vile, and self-destructive,” said the San Francisco Chronicle. But while the 73-year-old subject seems like a “colossal bore,” the film’s not: You’ll find it “hard to take your eyes off the train wreck.”
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Dexter: The Seventh Season
(Showtime, $55)
When Showtime’s most popular show returns in June for its final season, it’ll have “a ton of amoral ground to explore,” said HuffingtonPost.com. In Season 7, Dexter’s sister, Deb (Jennifer Carpenter), struggled to do the right thing after discovering that her brother was a serial killer.
Panic in the Streets
(20th Century Fox, $25)
Elia Kazan’s “extraordinarily stylish” 1950 film added street realism to noir and transformed American cinema, said the A.V. Club. Finally out in Blu-ray, the movie tracks a New Orleans murder investigation complicated by the possibility that the killer unleashed an epidemic.
