New on DVD: Almodóvar, "High School Musical" and shirtless dudes!

Like celebrity deaths, good things come in threes — at least they do this week on DVD.

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The films of gay Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar go in and out of print on DVD without any apparent rhyme or reason, so if you want to include his work in your home library, it's best to snap them up whenever you can.

This week sees three of his finest films getting new DVD releases. The Oscar-winning All About My Mother (newly remastered) still ranks as my very favorite of his movies, brilliantly mixing his gifts for outrageous comedy and tear-jerking melodrama. It's a "women's picture" in the very best sense.

Almodóvar's breakthrough in this country was the hysterical farce Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown — there's been talk for some time about turning this into a stage musical, so now's the perfect time to catch up with this classic if you haven't already — while Matador ranks among the sexiest and strangest of his early work. Both films feature a young and yummy Antonio Banderas.