Waitress, Adrienne Shelly, 2007.

Depsite her sometimes too convenient hustling along of Watiress' crowded narrative, Shelly's small town relationship dramedy ultimately achieves a distinctive, winning, and silghty Cohen-esque rhythm.

Violette, Claude Chabrol, 1978

Violette, new to DVD, features a very young Isabelle Huppert as a deliciously wicked teen in 1930s Paris. In this, his first of many teamings with Huppert, Chabrol rather oddly filters his familliar domestic terrors through a fractured, hallucinatory lens, resulting in a disjointed, if still satisfying, Chabrol policier.

Zodiac, David Fincher, 2007.

Fincher's Grand Procedural is nothing short of masterful filmmaking. Exquisitely paced, unsparingly meticulous, and remarkably taut, Zodiac is utterly engaging for each of its 158 minutes.