'Be Kind Rewind'

There's a slow-to-build low-key charm to this Michel Gondry comedy starring Jack Black and Mos Def as friends who try to re-create the inventory of a video store that has been accidentally wiped out.

Black's character had tried to sabotage the neighborhood power plant, but the plant sabotaged him, and he ended up "magnetized." When he wandered through the store, a throwback stocked only with VHS copies, he erased all the tapes.

Now, they have to "swede" the movies before the store's owner (Danny Glover) returns from a trip. That leads to homemade, compressed, cheapie versions of such hits as "Ghostbusters," "Driving Miss Daisy" and "RoboCop." Mixed with this merriment is a thread about jazz pianist Fats Waller, a hero to Glover's character and a surprisingly important part of the story.

Although Black's zaniness is unleashed, the movie produces more smiles than belly laughs as it celebrates the spirit of neighborhood and community, including the one that permeates the dark of a movie theater.

The only extra is "Passaic Mosaic," a 10-minute featurette on the northeastern Jersey town where the story is set.

-- Barbara Vancheri, Post-Gazette movie editor

'Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins'

"Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins" is family reunion film aimed at families who don't mind the occasional use of the B-word and the N-word.

The film, starring Martin Lawrence, the venerable James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery, Mo'Nique, Mike Epps and Michael Clark Duncan, has a good message about the importance of family -- lying under a big heap of slapstick.

Now out on DVD, the film's extras, include deleted scenes, outtakes and the requisite "making of" segment. It's in the cast interviews that you get the real sense of family via the camaraderie and laughs on the set.

In some ways, seeing that was better than seeing the movie.

-- Monica Haynes, Post-Gazette staff writer

Also new this week

"Fool's Gold"

Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, who created sparks in "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days," are back as treasure hunters in a comedy adventure at sea. Director Andy Tennant ("Hitch") manages a few nice underwater scenes, but the real shipwreck here is the woefully dumb script.

"Under the Same Moon" Sympathetic but syrupy portrait tale of a mother and son living on opposite sides of the U.S.-Mexico border but connected by an enduring love.

"Rails & Ties": Alison Eastwood, Clint's daughter, makes her directing debut with this story of a train conductor and his ailing wife whose problems are exacerbated when his train strikes a car on the tracks, leaving a woman dead and her son guilty and angry. Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden star.

"Joy Division": Documentary by Grant Gee, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, chronicles the band Warsaw, its post-punk glory as Joy Division, and the untimely death of its lead singer Curtis. Bonus features include 75 minutes of deleted/extended interviews.

Special: "The Jungle Book 2 (Special Edition).