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In need of a good laugh? Well make it a DVD night with Little Fockers, starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller. I’m sure most of you have seen the previous two, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, and although I didn’t find the new one to be as good as the others, it’s still full of laughs. As with all Focker movies, it’s full of awkward moments and outrageous antics. It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get “in” with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack, who wants to appoint a successor as Family-patriarch. Does his son-in-law, the “male nurse”, have what it takes? This is definitely one to add to your Netflix queue.

If you’re looking for a little adventure, maybe try Tron: Legacy, which is also out today. The remake of the 1982 flick stars Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde. The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father’s creation turned bad and a unique ally who was born inside the digital domain of The Grid. Ok so, it’s a little sci-fi for my taste, but it’s definitely one your guy might dig!

What good movies have you seen lately?

Snowy days call for the perfect DVD night! Out today is Due Date staring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis, I didn’t get a chance to see this one in theatres so I’m really excited to rent this one. Peter Highman (Downey Jr.) must get to LA in five days to be at the birth of his firstborn. He is about to fly home from Atlanta when his luggage and wallet are sent to LA without him, and he is put on the “no-fly” list. Desperate to get home Peter is forced to accept the offer of Ethan Tremblay (Galifianakis) to hitch a ride with him cross-country. Everything that could possibly ever go wrong, does, but in the most hysterical way possible!  This is one I definitely can’t wait to see!

What is on your list to rent this week?

This DVD night is all about the drama. Never Let Me Go staring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield hit shelves today. The film centers on Kathy, Ruth and Tommy, played respectively by Mulligan, Knightley and Garfield, who become entangled in a love triangle and are scientific specimens, created in a laboratory and raised in order to provide their organs to severely ill patients. It’s a romantic drama that is perfect to cuddle up to on a snowy night!

Also out is, Let Me In, a drama that tells the storey of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a vampire child in a New Mexico town in the early 1980s. If you are into the whole vampire movie trend that seems to be taking over, you may really enjoy this movie. It combines drama, romance and horror and is said to set the standard for vampire movies to come. What will you be watching for your DVD Night?

Out on DVD tonight is the latest George Clooney crime drama, The American, about an American assassin trying to get out of the game. After a job goes wrong in Sweden he vows his next is his last, however, it’s never that easy, right? The movie takes place in Italy and although it is full of drama there is also a bit of romance. I mean it’s a Clooney film, should we expect anything else?!

Another drama/crime movie out today is Twelve, based on the controversial Nick McDonell novel that follows high school dropout turned successful drug dealer, White Mike in New York’s Upper East Side. He leads a double life selling drugs to all of the kids are home from boarding school and everyone has money to blow. We don’t want to give the movie away, but I’m sure you get the gist. The film stars Chace Crawford, Emma Robers, Kiefer Sutherland, and 50 Cent, or Curtis Jackson as he is known as in the film industry. Looks like a good week for movies to rent with your guy!