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Get Reel Digital: November’s Top DVDs

Entertainment Nov 25, 2013

by Matthew Currie

Your November round-up of home video releases includes a sublime send-up of reality television, the reinvention of Michael Cera and the complete Breaking Bad.

Burning Love (Now available, Paramount Home Entertainment)

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Some of modern comedy’s finest performers star in this uproarious spoof of The Bachelor.

Beginning life as a web series, season one of Burning Love stars Party Down’s Ken Marino as Mark.

Mark is a hunky (and thoroughly dimwitted) fireman who searches for romance on reality television — paring down a desperate, unhinged and, in one case, homeless, roster of hopeful contestants.

Mark flirts with hopeful bachelorettes played by the likes of Jennifer Aniston, Malin Akerman, June Diane Raphael, Kristen Bell, Noureen DeWulf and, believe it or not, The Hangover’s Ken Jeong, until he finds that special someone to 'accept his hose'.

The Act of Killing (Now available, Drafthouse Films)

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Joshua Oppenheimer’s innovative (not to mention, utterly chilling) documentary focuses on the perpetrators of the Indonesian killings of 1965-1966, in which Indonesia’s communist party, the PKI, were purged by the New Order, in a year-long massacre of suspected members.

Oppenheimer tracks down the men charged with leading the death squads. In an effort to both gain some insight into their mindset and the 'act of killing' itself, he has them restage the executions they perpetrated in the style of Hollywood gangster, western and musical films.

In the process, the director manages to coax out his subjects’ feelings on their heinous crimes, which range from pride to sorrow.

Bridegroom (Now available, Arts Alliance America)

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Designing Women creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason delves into the poignant real-life tale of Shane Bitney Crone and Thomas Bridegroom — two men who spent their young lives in a loving, committed relationship until the latter died in a tragic accident.

After Tom’s death, Shane found himself shut out. He was denied the rights of a heterosexual partner and even threatened with violence by his lover’s disapproving family if he tried to attend the funeral.

Bloodworth-Thomason’s documentary also tracks the heartwarming beginnings of their loving relationship, making the tragic aftermath that much more harrowing.

Crystal Fairy (Now available, Mongrel Media)

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The reinvention of Michael Cera is upon us and it begins with this trippy little indie, in which the Superbad star takes on the role of Jamie.

He plays a scruffy, self-absorbed American travelling through Chile with three local brothers in search of a hallucinogenic cactus. Along the way, he invites a mysterious hippie (Gaby Hoffman) to join him.

However, her free-spirited, bohemian ways promptly clash with his narcissism, leading to a comedic, dramatic exploration and dissection of the backpacker life.

All of this culminates in a truly surreal beach-set finale kicked off by the ingestion of the elusive plant.

Breaking Bad: The Complete Series (November 26, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

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Every riveting, explosive second of Walter White's transformation from gone-to-seed chemistry teacher to Albuquerque drug kingpin will be yours to own on November 26.

Even on its own, the groundbreaking AMC series would be worth its $200 price tag. But this complete-series box set also comes with a 16-page behind-the-scenes booklet, a new two-hour documentary and an apron from Big Bad Gustavo Fring’s Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant, all stuffed into a replica of one of Walt’s season five money barrels.

It’s a proper send-off for one of television’s all-time greats.

All of these DVDs would make a wonderful addition to your collection these holidays.

Tell us which one you're going to pick.

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Matthew Currie

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A long-standing entertainment journalist, Currie is a graduate of the Professional Writing program at Toronto’s York University. He has spent the past number of years working as a freelancer for ANOKHI and for diverse publications such as Sharp, TV Week, CAA’s Westworld and BC Business. Currie ...

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