The following DVDs will be released Tuesday, unless otherwise specified:
"Dark Matter" (Screen Media, $24.98) — Meryl Streep and Aidan Quinn star in this racially charged 2007 drama.
R (violence, brief sex, profanity)
"Lost in Austen" (Image, $27.98) — British television miniseries about a woman who awakens in her favorite Jane Austen tales.
Special features: Behind-the-scenes minidocumentary.
Not rated, probable PG (adult themes)
"House of Saddam" (HBO, $27.96) — Cable television miniseries about Saddam Hussein and his family.
Special features: Behind-the-scenes minidocumentary.
Not rated, probable R (violence, profanity, gore, slurs)
"The Reader" (Weinstein, $29.95) — ★1/2 — This misbegotten drama starring Oscar-winner Kate Winslet has several poor-taste elements.
Special features: Behind-the-scenes minidocumentaries, deleted scenes, theatrical trailer.
R (sex, nudity, vulgarity, slurs)
"The Spirit" (Lionsgate, $29.95) — ★— An eye-popping but awful comic book action movie from the creator of "Sin City."
Special features: Two-disc special edition ($34.98) features deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes minidocumentaries, digital copy of film for home electronics devices.
PG-13 (violence, gore, profanity, drugs, slurs, brief partial nudity, vulgarity)
"Splinter" (Magnolia, $26.98) — Horror-thriller about two couples who try to fight off an alien "infection."
Special features: Art gallery, behind-the-scenes minidocumentaries.
R (violence, gore, profanity)
Some upcoming DVD releases include:
APRIL
April 21:"Frost/Nixon" — Universal; "Notorious" — Fox; "The Wrestler" — Fox
April 28:"Bride Wars" — Fox; "Hotel for Dogs" — Paramount; "JCVD" — Peace Arch; "The Uninvited" — Paramount
MAY
May 5: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" — Paramount; "Incendiary" — Image; "Last Chance Harvey" — Anchor Bay
May 12: "Passengers" — Sony; "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans" — Sony
May 19: "My Bloody Valentine 3-D" — Lionsgate; "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" — Sony; "Valkyrie" — Fox/MGM
May 26: "New in Town" — Lionsgate