DVD catchup

Over the weekend I watched the beautifully filmed, wonderfully acted but dead-in-the-water (wayyyy too long) adaptation of Somerset Maugham's The Painted Veil, with Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, and Toby Jones.

And then, the awful Live Free or Die Hard aka Die Hard 4 which was all you'd expect it to be--but still, somewhat mindless fun. I didn't recognize Timothy Olyphant as the bad guy (even though I'd seen his name in the opening credits) until the closing credits. I kept wond...