Gary Thompson: A DVD selection ripe for the vacuum of deep space

THANK HEAVEN for March Madness - you're going to want to bypass the DVD bin this week.

There's "Skyline," a worse version of "Battle: Los Angeles," about aliens using a blue ray (available on Blu-ray?) to suck Angelenos into their spaceships for inspection and torture. That's how the aliens get you, they bore you to death.

Also "How Do You Know?," a James L. Brooks movie every bit as bland as its title. Reese Witherspoon is a confused young woman torn between a shallow baseball star (Owen Wilson) and a much nicer but recently indicted businessman (Paul Rudd). Weirdly disjointed, with Jack Nicholson popping up to throw the movie even further out of kilter.

Worse than all of these is "The Tourist," featuring Johnny Depp as an overmatched American caught up in Euro intrigue involving Angelina Jolie. Jolie looks bored, Depp tired - their Golden Globe nominations remain an enduring modern mystery.

Oh, and "Yogi Bear." Animated movies' biggest boo-boo.