Video Shelf

* New this week: A souped-up romantic tale of longing for contact beyond the grave, “Dragonfly” stars Kevin Costner as Joe Darrow, the head of a Chicago emergency room who loses his pregnant wife in a landslide. It would be churlish to begrudge anyone’s receiving whatever consolation can be found in the film, yet it is impossible to find the film to be anything but appalling, shamelessly manipulative, contrived and lacking in conviction. There’s nothing wrong in Costner’s performance but, fevered to the point of foolishness, “Dragonfly” is Hollywood hokum.

Top 5 VHS rentals:

1. John Q.

2. Shallow Hal

3. The Royal Tenenbaums

4. A Walk to Remember

5. Hart’s War

Top 5 DVD rentals:

1. John Q.

2. The Royal Tenenbaums

3. Shallow Hal

4. Hart’s War

5. A Walk to Remember