The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
(Music Box, $30)
The third chapter of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy is, in its Swedish edition, “part police procedural, part Da Vinci Code hooey, and part courtroom drama,” said the Houston Chronicle. A “meaty script” keeps it from being “undone by sprawl.”
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Alice in Wonderland: 60th Anniversary Edition
(Disney, $40)
Walt Disney’s animated version of Lewis Carroll’s classic is celebrating its 60th birthday by moving to Blu-ray, said The Kansas City Star. Its trippy hand-drawn animation, which won the film new fans long after its 1951 release, “never ceases to enthrall.”
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(Warner, $20)
The first of Blake Edwards’s films to arrive on Blu-ray is his hit romantic-comedy from 1979, said The Wall Street Journal. High-definition not only ensures that Bo Derek “looks especially gorgeous” as Dudley Moore’s unattainable object of desire, it highlights the late filmmaker’s terrific “directorial eye.”
