New DVD releases for Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, include “The Guard,” “I Don’t Know How She Does It,” “Contagion” “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” and “Shark Night 3D.”
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A beguiling film from Cate Shortland that speaks engagingly about generational issues, identity and alienation.
 Say goodbye 2011 and hello to 2012. Already our collective attention is turning to Hobbits, Avengers, a new Batman, and of course Ridley Scott’s Prometheus
Packed with Oscar winners and nominees, “Contagion” recalls one of those 1970s disaster movies. Only the cast — Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and more — isn’t made up of “has-beens” and the global catastrophy comes via the microscopic.
The animated show that is more Arrested Development than it is Adult Swim grows stronger with season two.
Movies and DVD collections that might have passed under most people’s radar during 2011.