new movies

New flicks, all dvd:

• For Your Consideration, Christopher Guest stars and directs his troupe of regulars (Harry Shearer, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy) in this comedy spoofing Hollywood.
• The Departed, Scorsese’s Oscar-winning crime drama. Stop by the library to hear the title pronounced with a native Boston accent and to find out Mark Wahlberg’s other name.
• Flushed Away, animation from the people that made Wallace and Grommit.
• Half Nelson, inner-city drama with Ryan Gosling as a teacher with baggage.
• The Prestige, Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale in a period drama about rival illusionists, plus David Bowie!