Maxed Out
$26.99; MAGNOLIA
Post film critic Ann Hornaday describes “Maxed Out” as “a riveting, amusing, enlightening and emotionally affecting movie by a guy you’ve never heard of, about — wait for it — the consumer debt crisis. As unlikely as it sounds that someone has made a taut and entertaining film about credit, that’s precisely what James D. Scurlock has done. The film often humorously delivers the bad news: that banks prey on the young, poor and chronically late-paying; that they’re in cahoots with other powerful forces in government and business; that no one seems to care. But when Scurlock turns his lens on the people behind the statistics, the life-and-death stakes of the credit industry’s sleazy practices become all too clear.”
The Best of Chappelle’s Show
$19.99; COMEDY CENTRAL
A compilation of the top 25 moments from the hilarious and edgy comedy series. It includes wickedly funny sketches such as “A Night With Wayne Brady,” “Racial Draft,” “Samuel Jackson Beer” and, of course, Charlie Murphy’s “True Hollywood Stories” (“I’m Rick James … !”). As a bonus, there are some never-before-aired Murphy stories. The only question about this DVD is how they managed to narrow it down to only 25.
The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
$26.98; MAGNOLIA
A documentary by Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein that chronicles the nightmare of Iraqi journalist Yunis Khatayer Abbas, who was a detainee for more than eight months at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and was subjected to U.S. interrogation in a case of mistaken identity.
Norbit
$16.99; PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Sort of a good news, bad news film for Eddie Murphy, who played multiple roles in this farce. On one hand, it earned $95 million at the U.S. box office. On the other, there are many who felt the sight of him in an enormous fat suit cost him votes when he was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in “Dreamgirls.”
