Foxx takes a stand

The Foxx Boxx

Revolver Entertainment, 15, £19.99
Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx started out as a stand-up and The Foxx Boxx includes two of his high-energy performances. Unleashed, before an adoring Texas home crowd, features Jamie's annoying fixation with lame catchphrase 'don't hate the player, hate the game' and an unoriginal 'Clinton is the first black president' routine. He's better, though, when he's breaking down relationships, with a player's disregard for hurt feelings. Packaging the more recent I Might Need Security with it highlights the fact he's recycling material.
It also has its dubious moments, such as a riff on the fact Africans smell, and he relies too heavily on bitching about celebs but his embarrassed admission he was sexually attracted to Prince is hilariously endearing. As with Unleashed, his best moments come when he's seated behind a piano, belting out parodies of soul and church songs, with an uncanny knack for imitation.

Extras: Out-takes and extra material from I Might Need..., after-show interview.

Bride & Prejudice,

Pathe Distribution, 12, £15.99
Gurinder Chadha's follow-up to the wildly successful Bend It Like Beckham, is a rather less pleasing Anglo-Indian masala: Jane Austen meets Bollywood and neither of the participants seems charmed by the encounter.
Beauty queen Aishwarya Raj is the Elizabeth Bennet character, falling in hate at first sight with pretty American Martin Henderson; their path from dislike to true love inexplicably involves a lot of bad Bollywoodstyle singing and dancing but very little acting.

Extras: Six featurettes, a deleted song (for gluttons for punishment) and Chadha's commentary.

Masculin Feminin/Vivre Sa Vie/Two Or Three Things I Know About Her

Nouveaux Pictures, 15, £19.99 each
Godard in the 1960s whipped up a hallucinogenic blend of love and gunfire, homicide and philosophical pondering, words, images, in-jokes and silences.
Masculin Feminin stars Franaois Truffaut's alter ego, Jean-Pierre Lèaud, as a political activist with a poet's soul - upon which narcissistic wannabe pop star Chantal Goya is languidly trampling. The other two deal with prostitution, which Godard considered the inevitable fate of anyone struggling to survive in the soulless modern (well, 1960s) world: Vivre Sa Vie (My Life To Live) has Anna Karina, Godard's then wife, drifting from shopgirl to actress to hooker; Two Or Three Things I Know About Her has a Belle De Jour scenario of bored bourgeoise pimping herself on the side but Godard's treatment is rather different from Luis Bu"uel's (both films came out in 1967).
Two Or Three Things (the Her is Paris, as well as Marina Vlady) is choppy and self-reflective, with the director whispering to us and, separately, to Vlady; we can't hear his side so she seems to be talking to herself. Despite all this selfconscious disconnectedness (alienation, like prostitution, being the lot of the hapless modern city dweller, apparently), the film is weirdly compelling, although the JLG beginner should head for some of the more buoyant films of the period: Bande a Part, Une Femme Est Une Femme and, if you can find it on DVD, the joyous Pierrot Le Fou.

Extras: A booklet with each.