New on DVD: Foxes in the henhouse, Pet Shop Boys on tour

This week on DVD, George Clooney and Meryl Streep are tunneling underground while Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe hit the road. And why is James Mason flipping out?

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My favorite film of 2009, animated or otherwise, was Wes Anderson's delightful Fantastic Mr. Fox, which felt like the idiosyncratic filmmaker finally finding the perfect outlet for his precisely art-directed worldview. Based on the story by Roald Dahl, Fox follows a community of animals (besides Clooney and Streep, the voice cast includes Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, and Willem Dafoe) uniting together against a trio of vermin-hating farmers. With a lovely song score that includes everything from Burl Ives to the Beach Boys to Jarvis Cocker, it's a film that will enchant viewers of all ages.

A more figurative fox in the henhouse is Dylan Vox of The Lair and the upcoming Pornography: A Thriller, playing a grudge-bearing actor who moves in with two gay sitcom creators to wreak all kinds of naughty havoc in the comedy Homewrecker, also starring Rebekah Kochan (the Eating Out saga).

The Pet Shop Boys return with Pandemonium, a CD-DVD set that captures their live show in London during the tour for their album Yes. The DVD comes packed with extras including music videos, the band's performance on the Brit Awards (which featured Lady Gaga and Brandon Flowers), commentary, and more.

On the arthouse end of things comes Séraphine, a film that won Yolande Moreau the Best Actress prize from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her powerhouse performance as painter Séraphine de Sendlis. No slouch in the acting department himself, James Mason tears it up as a loving suburban husband and father who goes totally mental after becoming addicted to cortisone in Nicholas Ray's 1956 Bigger Than Life, now available from the Criterion Collection.