New DVD releases

"The Game Plan"

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson goes the family guy route -- breaking that old Hollywood rule against working with kids and dogs and delivering a hit. Johnson stars as a prima-donna football quarterback on his way to the big championship game (for all of Johnson's stardom, the filmmakers didn't work out the rights to call it the Super Bowl) when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an 8-year-old daughter (Madison Pettis).

"Saw IV"

Even from beyond the grave, the psychotic serial killer Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) manages to lay wicked traps. The fourth movie in the blood-soaked horror franchise picks up after the death of the terminally ill Jigsaw, who before checking out concocted new terrors that test the mettle of a police SWAT team commander (Lyriq Bent).

"This Sporting Life"

British director Lindsay Anderson, who went on to make the Malcolm McDowell films "If ..." and "O Lucky Man!" made documentaries before coming to narrative films with this stellar debut. The 1963 film stars Richard Harris as a coal miner who becomes a rugby player as he races and rages his way through his personal life and new sports pursuits.