Orphan Black is a clever sci-fi series that deals in real issues of human identity and genetic manipulation-and the fact that Ms. This week’s top geek release is Orphan Black: Season 2 (BBC, $29.98, BD $34.98), the Canadian science fiction TV series that stars Tatiana Maslany as several identical clones. Fans of straight ahead unpretentious narratives should stay away, but they will miss a very intense and interesting performance from ScarJo, which some critics contend is her finest yet.
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Under the Skin earned an 87% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, though one of the scribes admitted that a reel was skipped the first time he saw the film and nobody noticed. The critics loved this elliptical saga of aliens (in human form) engaging in various forms of predation in Scotland. Of much more interest to the geek audience, especially to those who enjoy “art house” genre films and Scarlett Johannson fans of all sorts is Under the Skin (Lionsgate, “R,” 106 min., $19.98, BD $24.98), an arty science fiction saga directed by Jonathan Glazer ( Sexy Beast). Of course critics are always looking for something new and this colorful animated musical that comes complete with a non-controversial environmental message doesn’t provide much in the way of novelty, though it will likely entertain those who liked the first Rio.
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This week’s biggest release in terms of box office success is Rio 2 (Fox, “G,” 101 min., $29.98, BD $39.99), a sequel that disappointed at the box office and could generate just a 46% positive rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
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This week’s home entertainment offerings include the Cartoon Network’s Blaxploitation satire Black Dynamite, the classy sci-fi series Orphan Black, the wonderful comic book-based animated film Wrinkles, the finest comic book movie out on DVD so far this summer, and what some critics contend is Scarlett Johannson’s best performance yet.