June DVD Releases

World Wrestling Entertainment's John Cena stars in this frenetic actioner directed by Renny Harlan. Danny Fisher (Cena) is a New Orleans police officer who catches criminal mastermind Miles Jackson (Aidan Gillen), but in the process the villain's girlfriend is killed. A year later, Jackson breaks out of prison and kidnaps Fisher's girlfriend Molly (Ashley Scott). The villain then sets up a series of 12 challenges that Fisher must meet if he's ever going to see his beloved Molly alive again, and half the city gets destroyed along the way. The movie showcases lots of stunt work.

Isla Fisher stars in this comedy based on popular novels by Sophie Kinsella. Fisher plays Rebecca Bloomwood, a journalist who's a lovable ditz addicted to shopping, particularly for Gucci, Prada and the like. With thousands of dollars in credit-card debt, she loses her job and must quickly find another. That's how she ends up writing a column about practicing frugality for a personal finances magazine run by handsome Luke Brandon (Hugh Dancy). Rebecca's column is a hit, and she and Luke start to fall for each other, but she fears the truth about her will come out.

Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber star in this Holocaust movie based on a true story and directed by Edward Zwick. The setting is Belorus around the time the Nazis invaded and occupied that part of the Soviet Union. The German army and their local collaborators set out to find and destroy all Jews, and the Bielski brothers — Tuvia (Craig), Zus (Schreiber) and Asael (Jamie Bell) — flee into a forest. There they are joined by others, and they manage to form a community that saves about 1200 Jews. The resisters have to fight to survive, and they must deal with many moral issues.

This is an energetic cheerleading comedy where shouting the initial letters of the two words in the title is a running joke. The story centers on two horny high school football players, Shawn (Nicholas D'Agosto) and Nick (Eric Christian Olsen). They go to a cheerleading camp with the goal of hooking up with lots of nubile, bouncy girls who look cute in skimpy outfits. But Shawn starts to fall for head cheerleader Carly (Sarah Roemer), and Nick becomes smitten with a coach's wife (Molly Sims). There's a mean girl (AnnaLynne McCord) and a cheerleading competition.

The 1980 slasher movie Friday the 13th began an enormously successful franchise with at least 12 feature films so far. The franchise has made Jason Voorhees, the hockey-mask-wearing mass murderer, into a pop culture icon. Jason is a nonverbal, indestructible psychopath who has been played by a series of stuntmen. Now comes the 2009 Friday the 13th, which is basically a franchise reboot that depicts people being impaled, beheaded, burned alive, etc. The story still takes place at Crystal Lake, and the movie showcases good-looking young women going topless.

Clint Eastwood stars in this drama, which he also directed and produced. Eastwood plays cantankerous retired autoworker Walt Kowalski, whose pride and joy is a 1972 Gran Torino, a car he helped build when he worked at Ford. He lives alone in a house in a Detroit neighborhood that is becoming rundown and filling up with immigrants. The family next door is Hmong, a mountain people from Southeast Asia, and Walt refers to them using various racial epithets. But when their teenage boy starts getting pulled into a gang, Walt takes matters into his own hands to try to set things right.

Based on a popular self-help book, this movie follows nine people in their 20s and 30s as it takes a lighthearted look at romantic relationships. One woman (Gennifer Goodwin) can't interpret signals sent by men and gets advice from a guy (Justin Long). A couple (Jennifer Aniston and Ben Affleck) live together; she wants to get married, he doesn't. Another couple (Jennifer Connelly and Bradley Cooper) are in a troubled marriage, and he has a mistress (Scarlett Johansson) who dates another guy (Kevin Connolly). And another woman (Drew Barrymore) has lots of gay men as friends.

Based on the children's novel by Cornelia Funke, this fantasy-adventure stars Brendan Fraser. Mo Folchart (Fraser) has a special gift: when he reads aloud from a novel, its fictional characters come to life in the real world. The downside is that some real-life person migrates into the novel's world. And Mo and his 12-year-old daughter must deal with other problems. A villain named Capricorn (Andy Serkis) and a guy called Dustfinger (Paul Bettany) want to use Mo's gift for their own purposes. The film goes back and forth between the real world and a medieval-like fantasy world.

The Jonas Brothers — Kevin (21), Joe (19) and Nick (16) — comprise a boy band that achieved fame on the Disney Channel. This movie, which showed theatrically in 3D, contains musical numbers from a concert tour, with footage shot in an Anaheim arena and New York's Madison Square Garden. Included are "S.O.S." and "Burnin' Up." The three brothers are backed by additional musicians, and guest stars Demi Lovato and Taylor Swift perform. There are also interviews, footage shot around Manhattan, and the boys use hoses to spray a mostly young female audience with sticky, white liquid.

This Disney documentary is about a group of young adults who prepare for and compete in the 2007 Transpac, a grueling 2200-mile yacht race that begins in Los Angeles and ends in Honolulu. Ranging in age from 18 to 23, the sailors are clean-cut and make good role models. There are 15 of them who undergo rigorous training for months, but when it comes time for the race itself, only 11 can be on board their boat, which is named Morning Light. The documentary shows some beautiful seascapes and promotes the virtues of self-discipline and teamwork.