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Adventures In Plymptoons!
(2012) Documentary on independent animator Bill Plympton. His illustrations have been featured in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Penthouse, and National Lampoon. Plympton earned two Academy Award-nominations for his films "Your Face" in 1987 and for "Guard Dog" in 2005. He has directed and animated over 60 animation shorts, live action features, music videos, commercials and documentaries. Formats: DVD, VOD. (Cinema Libre).
American Horror Story: The Complete First Season
(2011) Four-disc set with 12 episodes. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. (Fox).
Any Last Words?
(2011) Tom Lagleder, Paul Tinder, Dimitrius Pulido. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital Download. Badly wounded after a battle between cowboys and Native Americans, Bat Masterson revisits his past, examining his choices and how they have defined his life. Extras: Two behind-the-scene featurettes. (Lionsgate).
The American President BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1995) Dir.: Rob Reiner; Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, Anna Deavere Smith, Samantha Mathis. (Warner).
Bond 50: The Complete 22 Film Collection Blu-ray
James Bond's golden anniversary gets a fitting celebration with this release of all 22 007 films on Blu-ray -- together for the first time ever -- neatly packaged into one cool, sleek collectable box set. This marks the debut of nine James Bond films previously unavailable on Blu-ray. The set comes with a dossier of more than 122 hours of bonus features, including previous bonus content as well as a 23rd disc with two new documentaries -- "The World of Bond" and "Being Bond" -- and behind-the-scenes videoblogs about the making of "Skyfall," the latest Bond outing. Also available as a DVD set. Order your copy here. And check out the complete press release with all the bonus features here (MGM).
The Crimson Petal and the White
(2012) British miniseries based on Michel Faber's international bestseller. The psychological thriller follows the fortunes of Sugar (Romola Garai), an ambitious prostitute, as she navigates the dark underbelly of Victorian London in pursuit of a better life. Co-stars Chris O'Dowd, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Hale, Shirley Henderson. Two-disc set with four episodes, $39.99. Formats: DVD. Extras: Deleted scenes, interviews. (Acorn Media).
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Twelfth Season
(2011-12) Six-disc set with 22 episodes, $68.99. Formats: DVD. Extras: "A Crime a Dozen: Season 12 of CSI" cast and crew featurette, "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" featurette on the show's new arrivals, "A Farewell to Marg," "Putting on a Freak Show" behind-the-scenes featurette for the "Freaks and Geeks" episode, "A Family Affair" featurette, "Death, Trucks and Rock n' Roll" featurette, deleted scenes, commentary. (CBS/Paramount).
CSI: Miami: The Final Season
(2011-12) Five-disc set with 19 episodes, $64.99. Formats: DVD. Extras: Commentary, "A Perfect Ten" featurette on the last season, "Miami Meets Mother Nature" featurette, "A 'Tripp' to the Set" featurette, "The Miami Look" featurette, deleted scenes, gag reel. (CBS/Paramount).
CSI: New York: The Eighth Season
(2011-12) Five-disc set with 18 episodes, $64.99. Formats: DVD. Extras: "The Magic 8" featurette, "Honoring Our Heroes" 9/11 featurette, "A New York Halloween," "Flash to the Past" featurette, deleted scenes, gag reel. (CBS/Paramount).
The Dark Knight Returns -- Part 1
(2012) Animated adventure has a new breed of criminal ravaging Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne out of retirement and back into the cape and cowl. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo with UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Two hours of bonus material, cartoons, digital comic book. (Warner).
Dave BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1993) Dir.: Ivan Reitman; Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, Ben Kingsley, Charles Grodin, Laura Linney, Bonnie Hunt. (Warner).
Delicacy
(2012 -- France) Audrey Tautou, Francois Damiens. Following a tragic accident, a young woman is widowed and her life comes crashing down around her. But when an unexpected romance rekindles her zest for life, she fights self-doubts and a host of other obstacles. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: "Making-of" featurette, interview with Tautou. (Cohen Media group).
Desperate Housewives: The Complete Eighth & Final Season
(2011-12) Five-disc set with 23 episodes, $45.99. Formats: DVD. (ABC/Disney).
Drunkboat
(2010) John Malkovich, Jacob Zachar, Dana Delany, John Goodman. A Vietnam veteran, one-time poet and now a staggering drunk, decides to get his life together and returns to his family home in suburban Chicago, where he helps his teenage nephew with the youngster's dream of buying a boat and sailing from Lake Michigan to the Atlantic and beyond. Formats: DVD. (Virgil Films).
Eating Raoul
(1982) A sleeper hit of the early 1980s, "Eating Raoul" is a bawdy, gleefully amoral tale of conspicuous consumption. Warhol superstar Mary Woronov and cult legend Paul Bartel (who also directed) portray a prudish married couple feeling put upon by the swingers who live in their apartment building; one night, by accident, they discover a way to simultaneously realize their dream of opening a little restaurant and rid themselves of the "perverts" down the hall. A mix of hilarious, anything-goes slapstick and biting satire of me-generation self-indulgence, "Eating Raoul" marks the end of the sexual revolution with a thwack. New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Gary Thieltges, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Audio commentary featuring screenwriter Richard Blackburn, art director Robert Schulenberg, and editor Alan Toomayan; "The Secret Cinema" (1968) and "Naughty Nurse" (1969), two short films by director Paul Bartel; "Cooking Up Raoul," a new documentary about the making of the film, featuring interviews with stars Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran, and Edie McClurg; gag reel of outtakes from the film; archival interview with Bartel and Woronov; trailer; booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Ehrenstein. (The Criterion Collection).
Family Guy: Volume Ten
(2011-12) Three-disc set with 14 episodes, $39.98. Formats: DVD. Extras: Commentaries, deleted scenes, animatics. (Fox).
The Game
(1997) Enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) receives a strange gift from his ne'er-do-well younger brother (Sean Penn) on his 48th birthday: a voucher for a game that, if he agrees to play it, will change his life. Thus begins a trip down a rabbit hole that is puzzling, terrifying, and exhilarating for Nicholas and viewer alike. This multilayered, noirish descent into one man's personal hell is also a surreal, metacinematic journey that, two years after the phenomenon "Se7en," further demonstrated that director David Fincher was one of Hollywood's true contemporary visionaries. New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director David Fincher and director of photography Harris Savides, with original theatrical 5.1 surround theatrical soundtrack, in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Alternate 5.1 surround mix optimized for home theater viewing, supervised by sound designer Ren Klyce and Fincher, in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition; audio commentary by Fincher, Savides, Douglas, screenwriters John Brancato and Michael Ferris, digital animation supervisor Richard "Dr." Baily, production designer Jeffrey Beecroft, visual effects supervisor Kevin Haug, and visual effects producer Robyn D'Arcy; an hour’s worth of exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and film-to-storyboard comparisons for four of the film's major set pieces, with commentary; alternate ending; trailer and teaser trailer, with commentary; booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt. (The Criterion Collection).
G.I. Joe: Renegades The Complete First Season BLU-RAY DEBUT
(2010) Three-disc set with 26 episodes, $49.97. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurette. (Shout! Factory).
G.I. Joe: Renegades Season One, Volume Two
(2011) Formats: DVD. (Shout! Factory).
Gossip Girl: The Complete Fifth Season
(2011-12) Five-disc set with 24 episodes, $59.98. Formats: DVD. Extras: "Gossip Girl Turns 100!" featurette, "5 Years of Iconic Style" featurette, unaired scenes, gag reel. (Warner).
The Holy Roller
(2010) Angus Benfield, Victoria Abbott, Jeremy Brennan, Mark Hadlow. A small town pastor moves to the big city and achieves success as a televangelist, only to face inner and outer spiritual demons. Formats: DVD. Extras: Commentary, behind-the-scenes featurette, interviews. (Image Entertainment).
Iron Man: Armored Adventures: Season 2, Volume 2
(2011) The next six episodes of Season Two, $14.93.Formats: DVD. (Marvel Animation, Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment, Method Animation and DQ Entertainment).
Just Around the Corner
(2011) Music documentary about music promoter and manager Bob Benjamin's battle against Parkinson's Disease. Featuring performances by Joe D'Urso, Joe Grushecky, Ed Kowalczyk (former front man of the band Live), Jesse Malin, Willie Nile, Bruce Springsteen and others.
Formats: DVD. (Virgil Films).
Key & Peele: Season One
(2012) Two-disc set with eight episodes of the Comedy Central sketch series. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Outtakes, poolside interview, "Live at South Beach Comedy Festival," commentaries. (Comedy Central).
Klown
(2010 -- Denmark) Frank Hvam, Caspar Christensen. Based on the wildly popular six-season Danish TV show of the same name about debauchery. Two wildly inappropriate friends run amok through the Danish countryside plowing through social taboos, unspeakable debaucheries and absurd sexual encounters. Misguided Frank kidnaps the nephew of his pregnant girlfriend in an eager attempt to prove his fatherhood potential while the sex-driven Caspar is determined to visit a world-renowned brothelFormats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, VOD, Digital Download. (Drafthouse Films/Image Entertainment).
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit -- The Thirteenth Year
(2011-12) Five-disc set with 23 episodes. Formats: DVD. (Universal).
The Letter
(2011) Winona Ryder, Josh Hamilton, James Franco, Marin Ireland, Katherine Waterston. Mind-bending thriller about a playwright who begins to mentally unravel and cannot decide if she is the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital Download. (Lionsgate).
The Man From Beijing
(2011 -- Sweden) Suzanna von Borsody, Michael Nyqvist, Claudia Michelse, Amy Cheng, James Taenaka. The gruesome discovery of 19 dead bodies in a small town in northern Sweden, a local judge who learns she's related to a number of the victims, and a mysterious diary entry from the distant past are all part of this gripping mystery-thriller film based on the bestseller by internationally renowned crime novelist Henning Mankell of the acclaimed Wallander series. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. Extras: "The Making of The Man From Beijing." (Music Box Films).
New Tricks, Season 8
(2011) Three-disc set with 10 episodes of the BBC series about a team of semi-retired and somewhat curmudgeonly detectives investigating cold cases, $39.99. Formats: DVD. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurette. (Acorn Media).
Night of the Devils
(1972) Italian genre film legend Gianni Garko stars in this terrifying masterpiece of the macabre, based on Tolstoy's story "The Wurdulak," itself previously adapted in Mario Bava's "Black Sabbath." A nameless mentally ill man (Garko) is found wandering in the woods, his mind lost in fever dreams of gruesome, sexual imagery. After admitted into a psychiatric hospital, the man flashes back to his nightmarish encounter with a backwoods family whose dynasty holds a centuries old curse. What follows is a night of unrelenting horror. Restored Eurohorror classic. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. Extras: Video interview with Chris Alexander, Fangoria Magazine; fully illustrated booklet on the genesis and production of the film; video interview with composer Giorgio Gaslini. (Rarovideo/Entertainment One).
Pink Ribbons, Inc.
(2011) Pink ribbons ... they're everywhere: T-shirts, hats, yogurt cups, KFC buckets, car ads, NFL stadiums ... the list goes on and on. They make us feel good, as if we're all engaged in a successful battle against breast cancer. But who is really benefiting? This documentary goes inside the story to reveal those who have co-opted what marketing experts have labeled a "dream cause." Formats: DVD, $27.95. (First Run Features).
Portlandia Season Two
(2012) Two-disc set with 10 episodes, $19.95. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Behind-the-scenes Portlandia live tour footage, creator commentaries, a bonus feminist bookstore scene, "Brunch Village: The Director's Cut," an excerpt from the new book "Portlandia: A Guide for Visitors" and the "Inside Portlandia" documentary special. (Video Services Corp.).
Rescue Me: The Complete Series
(2004-11) The 26-disc box set includes all seven seasons with previously released special features, including gag reels, deleted scenes, commentaries and more. Formats: DVD, $95.99. Extras: Eight gag reels, 90 deleted scenes, 31 featurettes, two commentaries, one extended scene. (Sony).
Resident Evil: Degeneration
(2011) CGI-animated next chapter in the smash hit "Resident Evil" saga. After battling to stop the deadly G-Virus in "Resident Evil: Degeneration," film and game series star Leon S. Kennedy returns for the ultimate battle against new Bio Organic Weapons in an Eastern European nation torn by civil war. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, UltraViolet. Extras: "Las Plagas: Organisms of War" featurette, voice bloopers, making-of featurette "The DNA of Damnation." (Sony).
The Samaritan
(2011) Samuel L. Jackson, Ruth Negga, Luke Kirby, Tom Wilkinson, Deborah Kara Unger, Gil Bellows. After 25 years in prison for killing his partner in crime, mournful con man Foley (Jackson) is finished with the grifter's life. He meets a beautiful yet damaged and mysterious young woman but his past catches up with him: The headstrong son of Foley's former partner has come up with an ingenious plan for a score involving his mobster boss and he wants Foley in on it. Formats: DVD. (IFC Entertainment).
She Wants Me
(2012) Josh Gad, Hilary Duff, Kristen Ruhlin, Johnny Messner. A neurotic writer working on his new film gets into a tricky situation when an A-list actress shows interest in the role intended for his girlfriend. Formats: DVD. (Grand Entertainment).
Sleepless Night
(2011 -- France) Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine. A cop with a connection to the criminal underworld finds his secret life exposed when he and his partner are caught stealing cocaine from a powerful drug dealer, a move that puts his son's life in jeopardy. Formats: DVD. (Tribeca Film/Cinedigm).
Snowman's Land
(2010 -- Germany) Jurgen Rissmann, Thomas Wodianka, Reiner Schone, Eva-Katrin Hermann and Walera Kanischtscheff. While protecting a crime boss's home in the Carpathian Mountains, a contract killer and his old friend get into a dangerous situation when the boss's wife is accidentally killed in this Tarantino-esque thriller. Formats: DVD. (Music Box Films).
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Special Branch, Set 1
(1969) Four-disc set with 13 episodes of the British series that focuses on the Special Branch of London's Metropolitan Police dedicated to stopping terrorist activities in the nation's capital, $59.99. U.S. debut. Formats: DVD. (Acorn Media).
Strippers vs. Werewolves
(2012) Robert Englund, Billy Murray, Steven Berkoff, Alan Ford, Lee Asquith-Coe, Sarah Douglas, Lysette Anthony. The stage is set for a war between strippers and werewolves when a member of a bloodthirsty pack of lycans is murdered in a famous strip club. The girls have until the next full moon before the wolf pack shows up to hunt down the killer and seek retribution. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Digital. Extras: Commentary, behind-the-scenes featurette. (Well Go USA).
Surviving Progress
(2011) This provocative documentary explores the concept of progress in our modern world, guiding us through the major "progress traps" facing our civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption and the environment. Featuring Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Hawking, Craig Venter, Robert Wright, David Suzuki, Michael Hudson, Ronald Wright and more. Formats: DVD, $27.95. (First Run Features).
The Tall Man
(2012) Jessica Biel, Jodelle Ferland, Samantha Ferris, Stephen McHattie. In an isolated, slowly dying mining town, children are vanishing without a trace -- abducted, the townsfolk whisper, by a mysterious entity known locally as "The Tall Man." Town nurse Julia Denning (Jessica Biel) seems skeptical until her own son disappears in the middle of night and, when she tries to track him down, she finds herself entering a murky world of nightmares. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, Digital. (Image Entertainment).
The Tempest
(2010) Christopher Plummer takes the role of Shakespeare's exiled royal Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan turned sorcerer, in this version of the classic play performed at the prestigious Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Formats: DVD. Extras: Q&A with Plummer and director Des McAnuff. (Entertainment One).
To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey
(2010) Documentary on Nancy Kwan, who was discovered in London's Royal Ballet School by producer Ray Stark and went on to star in "The World of Suzie Wong" and "Flower Drum Song" but -- at the height of her career -- returned to Hong Kong to care for her ailing father. Formats: DVD. (Virgil Films).
Touched By an Angel: The Sixth Season
(1999-2000) Seven-disc set with 26 episodes, $56.99. Formats: DVD. (Paramount).
Vampire Dog
(2012) Collin MacKechnie, Julia Sarah Stone, Amy Matysio, Ron Pederson and the voice of Norm MacDonald. When his grandfather from Transylvania dies and sends him his dog, Fang, a young boy soon discovers that his gramps' best friend is a 600-year-old, English-speaking vampire dog. The pair become fast friends and together fight off evildoers in this Dove-approved family film. Formats: DVD. (Entertainment One).
Wallander 3
(2011) Three feature-length BBC Masterpiece episodes based on the dark, quirky hit Swedish series and adapted from the novels of award-winning crime fiction writer Henning Mankell, starring Kenneth Branagh as detective Kurt Wallander: "An Event in Autumn," "The Dogs of Riga," "Before the Frost. "Formats: DVD, $34.98. (BBC Home Entertainment/Warner).
Weird-Noir
The Avengers
When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins as he gathers together Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow.
Vitals: Director: Joss Whedon. Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgard, Samuel L. Jackson.
2012, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 143 min., Action Adventure, Box office gross: $598.425 million, Disney.
Damsels in Distress
A comedy about a trio of beautiful girls as they set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university -- the dynamic leader Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore). They welcome transfer student Lily (Analeigh Tipton) into their volunteer group that seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers. The girls become romantically entangled with a series of men-including smooth Charlie (Adam Brody), dreamboat Xavier (Hugo Becker) and the mad frat pack of Frank (Ryan Metcalf) and Thor (Billy Magnussen) -- who threaten the girls' friendship and sanity.
Vitals: Director: Whit Stillman. Stars: Greta Gerwig, Aubrey Plaza, Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Hugo Becker, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Carrie MacLemore, Ryan Metcalf, Billy Magnussen.
2012, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 99 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $.970 million, Sony.
The American President
(1995)
Bond 50: The Complete 22 Film Collection
Dave
(1993)
Eating Raoul
(1982)
The Game
(1997)
G.I. Joe: Renegades The Complete First Season
388 Arletta Avenue
(2011) Nick Stahl, Mia Kirshner, Devon Sawa, Aaron Abrams. A faceless voyeur terrorizes a seemingly happy suburban couple. Formats: DVD. (Tribeca Film/Cinedigm).
The Avengers
(2012) Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgard, Samuel L. Jackson. Formats: Four-Disc Combo Pack (Blu-ray 3D+Blu-ray+DVD+Digital Copy+Digital Download of the "Inspired By" album), two-Disc Combo Pack (Blu-ray + DVD), single-disc DVD, Digital Download, VOD. Extras: "Assembling the Ultimate Team" featurette, commentary by Joss Whedon. Blu-ray adds "A Visual Journey" featurette, gag reel, deleted scenes, Soundgarden music video "Live to Rise," more. (Disney).
The Carol Burnett Show
Time Life will release four different configurations of sets of "The Carol Burnett Show" with episodes selected by Burnett: "The Carol Burnett Show Ultimate Collection," an overstuffed 22-DVD set housed in a collectible box featuring a replica curtain from the show opening, 50 hand-picked episodes, an exclusive 20-page memory book and more than 20 hours of new, never-before-seen bonus features; "The Carol Burnett Show -- Carol's Favorites," a six-DVD set boasting 17 complete, unedited episodes featuring the most popular and hilarious sketches and characters from the series; "The Best of the Carol Burnett Show," a two-DVD set with seven classic episodes; and "The Best of the Carol Burnett Show" single DVD with "Went With the Wind," classic sketches of The Family, Tudball & Wiggins, and others. For more info: Carol On DVD. (Time Life).
Charlie's Angels: The Complete Series
(1976-1981) The 27-disc box set features all five seasons includes the never-before-released-on-DVD fifth and final season. Formats: DVD, $65.99. Extras: "Angels Forever" featurette from Season One. (Sony).
Two-disc set with six tawdry and twisted tales, four of which arrive on DVD for the first time.
"Girl on the Run" (1953): A hootchy-kootchy whodunit set at a small seedy carnival where a reporter tries to discover who killed his boss while his girlfriend inexplicably joins the burlesque show! Pure carny-noir.
"The Naked Road" (1959): When a woman is left with a corrupt judge as collateral for a speeding ticket, a Good Samaritan bails her out ... then holds her prisoner as a future sex slave in this utterly off-kilter, truly weird weird-noir.
"The Seventh Commandment" (1961): A preacher with amnesia and the power to heal quickly plunges into the gutter when his ex-girlfriend-with-a-grudge shows up to blackmail him in this pulp mix of sex, revenge, and outright obsession.
"Fear No More" (1961): Accused of killing a woman on a train, Sharon Carlin runs home to find another corpse there too.
"Fallguy "(1962): Hot-shot teen Sonny Martin stops to help the victim of an auto accident but quickly realizes he's stepped into a murder in progress.
"Stark Fear" (1962): After the abusive husband of cult fave Beverly Garland disappears, you'd think she'd celebrate. Instead, she tries to find the bum and, as expected, things get worse. Formats: DVD, $19.98.
(Something Weird Video/Image Entertainment).
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