DVD Shall we dance? With "Black Swan," Darren Aronofsky presents an inspired, unsettling drama about a ballerina teetering on the brink of greatness and madness. As dancer Nina, Natalie Portman delivers an Oscar-winning performance as a child/woman whose fragility gradually gives way to grave self-destruction. Nina is tapped to star in a production of "Swan Lake." Her technical brilliance and tentative innocence make her perfect for the White Swan, but she doesn't seem to have the ruthlessness and sensuality of her evil twin, the Black Swan. Perhaps Lily (Mila Kunis), an uninhibited, wild-eyed newcomer to the dance company, would be better suited? The DVD and Blu-ray (Fox, $30-$40) include a making-of documentary.
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Letting her hair downDisney's "Tangled" is a princess story. Rapunzel (voiced by Mandy Moore) is abducted as an infant from her parents' castle by the vindictive Mother Gothel (Donna Murphy) and raised in a tower, her hair all the time growing, growing, growing. Her tresses have magical powers that turn back the clock for whomever they touch -- namely, the youth-obsessed Gothel. For the most part "Tangled" is zippy and engaging, especially when the wide-eyed heroine joins forces with a cocky bandit (Zachary Levi) and a scene-stealing palace horse. The DVD and Blu-ray (Disney, $30-$50) include deleted scenes and extended songs.
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Also out Tuesday: "All Good Things," "Dennis the Menace" (Season 1), "Emergency: The Final Rescues," "Evangelion: 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance," "Fair Game," "Mad Men" (Season 4), "Made in Dagenham," "The Resident," "Treme" (Season 1), "Upstairs, Downstairs" (full series), and Blu-rays of "The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection" (14 Basil Rathbone films), "The Greatest Story Ever Told," "King of Kings," "The Mikado," "Scream" (also 2 & 3), "The Secret of NIMH," "Soylent Green," "The Ten Commandments," "Topsy-Turvy."
APP
Save it for later "Do It Tomorrow" (free via iTunes) is for the procrastinator in all of us: a to-do app that lets you look only as far as the next day's work. Tap a task to cross it off your list. If you run out of time, tap an arrow next to a task, and it flies over to the next day. Each day, the tasks move over, and the cycle begins again. Two major drawbacks: You can't reorder tasks as priorities evolve throughout the day, and there's no archive to reference. Still, with its short-term scope, "Do It Tomorrow" is a perfect organization tool for the easily overwhelmed.
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