Bart Got a Room
(Anchor Bay Entertainment, $29.97)
In writer-director Brian Hecker’s film, the familiar nerd-trying-to-score-a-date scenario gets a “fresh twist,” said the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The best scenes feature Steven J. Kaplan’s overachieving protagonist getting explicit romantic advice from his father, played by William H. Macy.
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Harvard Beats Yale 29–29
(Kino, $26.95)
This 2008 documentary, about the famous 1968 Ivy League football game, is “shadowed in a sense of mortality,” said The Boston Globe. Director Kevin Rafferty deftly edits black-and-white game footage as well as “articulate and reflective” interviews with former players from both teams.
Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series
(Universal Studios, $279.98)
This series combined the “epic and the personal” to transcend the sci-fi genre, said Paste. Throughout four seasons, creator Ronald D. Moore explored moral puzzles that often mirrored current events and asked “What does it mean to be human?”
