Knuckleball!
(MPI Home Video, $25)
“A must for baseball fans,” this documentary “finds an unexpected poetry” in the game’s most unorthodox pitch, said The Boston Globe. Two major-league pitchers, Tim Wakefield and R.A. Dickey, are featured, and they prove to be likable members of a small, fascinating fraternity.
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Monsieur Verdoux
(Criterion, $30)
Critics initially dismissed this 1947 Charlie Chaplin film but eventually came around to its “assured combination of suspense and pitch-black comedy,” said the A.V. Club. Chaplin, dropping his “Little Tramp” persona, plays a ladies’ man who marries rich women and then murders them.
Veep
(HBO, $40)
During the first season of this HBO series, Julia Louis-Dreyfus proved again to be “a veritable poetess of neurotic vanity,” said Slate.com. As an anxious U.S. vice president, the ex-Seinfeld star found sour comedy in today’s politics. Savor the show’s brilliantly profane dialogue.
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