Check It. On DVD today.

We've written about both A Single Man and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but in case you didn't make it to the theater to catch them, I'm here to let you know they are both available on DVD today.

A Single Man is a true art film--each shot is beautiful, and really makes you want to exist in the highly stylized world you see on screen. Colin Firth is lovely, as always.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film made from the super popular Swedish book series by the late Stieg Larson. There are some really intense parts--it's no walk in Norrviken Park--but is interesting in each moment, and it's worth seeing so you can keep up as the series progresses.

-- Leslie Anne Wiggins

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Check It. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

The bestselling Stieg Larsson book is going to be a David Fincher (Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) film, with names like Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Kristen Stewart, Carey Mulligan, and Ellen Page being thrown around. Before that happens, you should check out the 2009 Swedish version, now playing at the ArcLight, the Landmark, and Beverly Hills' Laemmle's Music Hall 3, among other L.A.-area theaters.

It sounds like a really interesting crime-drama story (some journalism in there too!) with what's bound to be an awesome title character.

As far as the read the book or see the movie first question, for this one I'm thinking movie-book-movie. The Hollywood version of the film currently has '2012' as the predicted release year on IMDb.

-- Leslie Anne Wiggins

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