Buy Your Kid (Or Yourself) A Movie That Doesn't Suck. Jonathan King's UNDER THE MOUNTAIN Hits US DVD On Tuesday.

I am the father of a nine year old boy. Therefore I see a lot of bad movies marketed to children and made by people who clearly don't remember what kids are actually like. More to the point, I try to deprogram my son from WANTING to see bad movies marketed to children and made by people who clearly don't remember what kids are actually like despite the best efforts of companies spending millions of dollars convincing him that these movies are the greatest things ever. I won on The Last Airbender front. On others I have not been so lucky.

And while big bags of money are thrown into the marketing furnace supporting inferior product every now and then a film that's actually good appears and disappears without much notice. Hello, Under the Mountain.

From director Jonathan King of Black Sheep fame - the zombie sheep one, not the Chris Farley one - this one won a lot of love on the festival circuit a little while back for good reason. It's good. It's got a good story, a little bit of peril, some memorable villains brought to life by the effects whizzes at WETA and doesn't talk down to its audience. Therefore it is being dropped on DVD with no fanfare whatsoever. Remedy this by going and checking it out when the US DVD releases on Friday. Don't let the cover art fool you. Cover = bad, movie = good.