STARS: Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent

DIRECTOR: Sarah Polley (debut)

STORY: For her first big-screen directing effort, Polley adapts Alice Munro’s short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.” Fiona (Christie) has been married to Grant (Pinsent) for 44 good years. But now her memory is starting to go and the couple quickly realize it’s more than normal aging. She has Alzheimer’s. When Fiona becomes a danger to herself, she’s checked into a care facility with a strict policy that says patients receive no visitors for the first 30 days. When Grant finally gets to see Fiona again he finds their bond has been obliterated, and worse, she’s become close to a new man in the facility.

DVD EXTRAS: the 2-disc Special Edition features a director’s commentary, deleted scenes and Polley’s short film “I Shout Love”

Stars: Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall

Director: C.B Harding (Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie)

Story: Three hapless, redneck soldiers (Cable Guy, Engvall, D.J. Qualls) on their way to Iraq fall asleep on the plane and awake in a desert surrounded by people of colour. Obviously, they’ve made it to the Gulf. They wouldn’t for a moment think all the tacos and salsa music mean they were accidentally dropped off in Mexico.

Stars: Lindsay Lohan, Jane Fonda

Director: Garry Marshall (The Princess Diaries)

Story: Rachel (Lohan) is a petulant 17-year-old living in San Francisco. Having reached the end of her rope, Rachel’s mom Lilly (Felicity Huffman) packs her daughter up and moves her to her grandmother’s (Fonda) Idaho farm for some good, ol’-fashioned country discipline. Will it be enough to turn the teen around? (Clue: It’s a Garry Marshall film.)

Stars: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson

Director: Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill)

Story: Released as one half of the Grindhouse double-bill last April (along with Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror), the powers that be have decided to release Death Proof separately on DVD, with Rodriguez’s film hitting stores next month. In Tarantino’s half (widely considered to be superior), Russell plays a stuntman who tracks down and kills women with his nearly indestructible stunt car.

Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox

Director: McG (Charlie’s Angels)

Story: Based on the true story of the 1970 plane crash that killed the majority of Marshall University’s football team, this well-received tearjerker concentrates on the remaining team’s two coaches — one new (McConaughey) and one who skipped that flight (Fox) — as they try to rebuild the school’s football program.

DVD Extras: “Legendary Coaches,” “Marshall Now”

Stars: Drew Barrymore, Eric Bana

Director: Curtis Hanson (In Her Shoes)

Story: On a trip to Las Vegas, a small town singer (Barrymore) falls for a badboy professional poker player (Bana) despite warnings from her sister (Debra Messing).

Stars: Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon

Director: William Friedkin (The Exorcist)

Story: There’s no mistaking that this creepy five-hander started its life as a play. Small, intimate, yet a tense and bloody thriller, Bug stars Shannon as an AWOL soldier who meets Agnes (Judd) through a friend, moves into her motel room, and methodically lures her into his paranoid delusion that the military infected him with insects as part of a top-secret experiment. Gets weirder from there.

Stars: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl

Director: Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin)

Story: All shades of pain — physical, emotional, psychological — are explored in this endearingly crude comedy about a going-nowhere guy (Rogen) who hooks up with a going-somewhere girl (Heigl) at a bar, only to find out six weeks later that she’s pregnant.

Stars: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore

Director: Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day)

Story: Cris Johnson (Cage) was born with the ability to see two minutes into the future, a skill he uses to make a living in Las Vegas where a bit of foresight is very helpful. There is one exception to the two-minute rule, though, he seems to be able to see far into the future of one woman, Liz (Jessica Biel), so sets out to find her and figure out their special connection. Meanwhile, an FBI agent (Moore) wants Johnson to help prevent a terrorist attack.

DVD Extras: the HD DVD features “Making the Best Next Thing,” “Two Minutes in the Future with Jessica Biel,” deleted scenes