Áron Gauder’s The District had a brief theatrical run in town last year; if you missed it, it’s now out on DVD and definitely deserves to be seen. A Hungarian animated hip hop musical set in a Budapest ghetto, it’s a film that truly defies description, mixing Romeo and Juliet-like teen romance, time travel and geopolitical satire.

As if the premise wasn’t original enough, the animation has its own bizarre, at times unsettling character; the people have exaggerated cartoon bodies but ultra-realistic facial movements. The musical numbers have a cheerfully perverse attitude (sample chorus hook: “Being a slut is no walk in the park”), and the whole thing has an irresistible energy if you give up any notion of logic and go along with it. The disc features a making-of documentary as well as snippets from the TV series that predated the film.

Chuck Norris has reappeared on the media radar lately, shilling for populist 5Republican candidate Mike Huckabee. As luck would have it, one of the exemplars of his ’80s oeuvre, Invasion U.S.A., has just been re-released on DVD. The ’80s was the last golden age of unmitigated trash cinema, the dying embers of the pre-ironic age, and Norris was one of its artifacts, a sort of less sophisticated Sylvester Stallone (whose acting makes Stallone look like Lawrence Olivier). Here, he plays a vigilante who single-handedly repels the titular invasion by a band of multicultural terrorists motivated by good old-fashioned evil.

Stoic to the point of paralysis, Norris is a cipher for a sort of American libertarianism that seems strangely quaint in the Bush era: in this film, the U.S. government suspending civil liberties is cause for actual concern, and a spunky reporter defying the feds is portrayed as heroic. But the film itself isn’t trashy enough to be enjoyable; a better ’80s reissue in that category is Reform School Girls, a women’s-prison pastiche featuring the late, lamented Wendy O. Williams.