An endearingly scrappy, but resoundingly one sided and fawning biopic love letter from a son to his late father, writer-director Timothy Scott Bogart’s Spinning Gold thinks it’s an underdog, but it gets bogged down in the same cliches as the big dogs.
Dan Fogler
This week’s new releases on Blu-ray and DVD include: Paul, the tongue-in-cheek alien comedy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost; the animated Disney film, Mars Needs Moms; and the stoner comedy, Your Highness.
Opening at a theatre near you this weekend: aliens are trying to take over the planet in Battle: Los Angeles; Seth Green gets animated in the Disney adventure Mars Needs Moms; plus a look at Red Riding Hood.