‘127 Hours’ portrays a man’s fight to survive

Available this week on DVD:

“127 Hours”: Danny Boyle’s blunt, mythic and gut-wrenching account of Aron Ralston (James Franco), the outdoorsman whose right hand and forearm are pinned to a canyon wall by a falling boulder, and his Sisysphusean struggle to survive. Not for the squeamish. (1:35; R for language and some disturbing violent content/bloody images) • • • 1/2

“Love and Other Drugs”: Tonally askew romantic comedy with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway naked a lot. But along with the sex jokes and raunch (it’s the mid-’90s, Viagra has just hit the market and Gyllenhaal is a Pfizer salesman), there’s a “Love Story”-like bummer-o-rama element, too: Hathaway’s character has early onset Parkinson’s. (1:53; R for strong sexual content, nudity, pervasive language, and some drug material) • • 1/2

“Burlesque”: Preposterously entertaining shlock starring Cher as a nightclub owner and Christina Aguilera as the corn-tasseled Iowa girl who makes her name there. (1:59; PG-13 for sexual content including several suggestive dance routines, partial nudity, language and some thematic material) • • 1/2

“Faster”: An ex-con (Dwayne Johnson) sets out to avenge his brother’s death with a veteran cop (Billy Bob Thornton) and an egocentric hit man on his tail. (1:38; R for strong violence, some drug use and language)