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New on DVD: Bromance, TV divas, hoofers and revolutionaries

The gay-adjacent shenanigans of I Love You, Man debut on DVD this week, along with some of your favorite tart-tongued TV characters, Hollywood's current crop of musical stars and a new film from two of France's leading queer filmmakers.

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While I Love You, Man doesn't quite stack up against the work that stars Paul Rudd and Jason Segel have done within the Judd Apatow stable, it's a charming and harmless enough comedy about a groom-to-be (Rudd) who comes to the realization that he doesn't have any guy friends and the slacker (Segel) who teaches him how to be a dude. SNL's Andy Samberg steals every scene that isn't nailed down as Rudd's gay brother, who exclusively hits on straight guys.

It's a good week for small-screen saucepots: In addition to the long-awaited drawly quippiness of Designing Women: Season Two, fans of witty Britcoms can avail themselves to Are You Being Served? The Complete Collection and the latest from Ab Fab maven Jennifer Saunders, The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.

There's been something of a renaissance in big-screen musicals in recent decades, which hasn't gone unnoticed by the DVD Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. This ongoing series concludes with an up-to-the-minute look at movies like Dreamgirls and Moulin Rouge! and TV projects like High School Musical which are keeping the genre alive and kicking for a new generation.

Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, the directors behind such recent queer French faves as Jeanne and the Perfect Guy, The Adventures of Felix, My Life on Ice and Côte d'Azur return with Born in '68, a look at two generations in a family of radicals, from communal hippies to ACT UP agitators. That's the kind of political subject matter that would terrify many American filmmakers, but Ducastel and Martineau no doubt address the material with their trademark light touch.

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