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Ben 10: Ultimate Alien Volume 4: The Wild Truth
(2010) Single disc, $19.97. (Warner).
Big Love: The Complete Collection
(2011) Nineteen-disc set with all 53 episodes from the five seasons, $199.95. Extras: All the extra features from the individual releases, including "Inside the Episodes," "Their Stories So Far," "Big Love: A Balancing Act on Ice," "Big Love: End of Days," three prequels, three mini-episodes and commentaries. (HBO).
Big Love: The Complete Fifth Season
(2011) Four-disc set with 10 episodes, $59.99. Extras: "Inside the Episodes" perspectives from the show creators; "Big Love: End of Days," a look back on the series from the cast and crew. (HBO).
Bobby Fischer Against the World
(2011) A searing portrait of a brilliant, yet troubled man -- chess prodigy Bobby Fischer -- using news clips and archival footage, as well as rare interviews with Fischer himself. (Docurama).
Cowboys & Aliens
(2011) Dir.,: Jon Favreau; Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Ana de la Reguera, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, Clancy Brown , Keith Carradine, Noah Ringer. Extras: "Igniting The Sky: The Making of Cowboys & Aliens" documentary, which includes the segments "Finding the Story" on bringing the graphic novel to the big screen, "The Scope of The Spectacle" production featurette, "Outer-Space Icon" alien design featurette; "Conversations With Jon Favreau" and cast members featurette; commentary by Favreau. Also available on Blu-ray Disc, which adds "A Call to Action" Jon Favreau featurette and "Absolution" featurette on the creation of the Western town. (Universal).
Curious George: Gets a New Toy
(2011) Eight episodes, $16.98. (Universal).
The Debt
(2011) Dir.: John Madden; Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, Jesper Christensen, Romi Aboulafia. Extras: Commentary by director John Madden and producer Kris Thykier, "A Look Inside The Debt," "Every Secret Has a Price: Helen Mirren in The Debt," "The Berlin Affair: The Triangle at the Center of The Debt." Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Universal)
Design for Living
(1933) Gary Cooper, Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins play a trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult "gentleman's" agreement in this continental pre-Code comedy freely adapted by Ben Hecht from a play by Noel Coward and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. A risque relationship comedy and a witty take on creative pursuits, it concerns a commercial artist (Hopkins) unable -- or unwilling -- to choose between the equally dashing painter (Cooper) and playwright (March) she meets on a train en route to the City of Light. "Design for Living" is Lubitsch at his most adroit, an entertainment at once debonair and racy, featuring three stars at the height of their allure. New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition. Extras: "The Clerk," starring Charles Laughton -- Ernst Lubitsch's segment of the 1932 film "If I Had a Million," which he made just before "Design for Living"; selected-scene commentary by film professor William Paul; "Play of the Week: A Choice of Coward," a 1964 British television production of the play "Design for Living," introduced on camera by playwright Coward; new interview with film scholar and screenwriter Joseph McBride on Lubitsch and Ben Hecht's screen adaptation of the Coward play; booklet featuring an essay by film critic Kim Morgan. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (The Criterion Collection).
Designing Women: The Complete Fifth Season
(1990-91) Four-disc set with 24 episodes, $44.95.(Shout! Factory).
Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition
(2009) Four-disc set with all three "Dragon Tattoo" films, encompassing nine hours with characters and plot developments only seen in European versions. Extras: "Millennium: The Story," a 53 minute documentary detailing the phenomenon of the "Millennium" trilogy and the personal history of author Stieg Larsson up until his tragic death before "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was published. $59.98. Also available on Blu-ray Disc, $79.95. (Music Box Films).
The Game -- The Fourth Season
(2011) Two-disc set with 13 episodes, $39.99. (CBS Home Entertainment/Paramount Home Entertainment).
The Hangover Part II
(2011) Dir.: Todd Phillips; Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Jeffrey Tambor, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, Jamie Chung, Sasha Barrese, Gillian Vigman, Paul Giamatti. Extras: "Comedy Rhythm of Todd Phillips," "Not Your Everyday Monkey," "Bangkok Tour With Mr. Chow," "Action Mash-Up," laugh track, gag reel. Available as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack. (Warner).
The Help
(2011) Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly, Allison Janney, Anna Camp, Cicely Tyson, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin, Mike Vogel. Available as a three-disc Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy Combo Pack, a two-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack and single DVD. Extras: Deleted scenes, "The Living Proof" music video by Mary J. Blige. Blu-ray adds "The Making of “The Help: From Friendship to Film" featurette, "In Their Own Words: A Tribute to the Maids of Mississippi" featurette, three more deleted scenes. (DreamWorks).
He's Mine, Not Yours
(2011) Clifton Powell, Darius McCrary, Gabrielle Dennis, Jason Weaver. Romantic comedy about a young man -- ready to put his bachelor lifestyle behind him to marry the girl he loves -- who is tested by his fiancee, who hires a temptress to confirm her suspicion that he is unable to resist a forbidden fruit ... but the seductress falls for him, complicating things. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurette, photo gallery, outtakes. (Image Entertainment).
The Lady Vanishes
(1938) In Alfred Hitchcock's most quick-witted and devilish comic thriller, the beautiful Margaret Lockwood, traveling across Europe by train, meets a charming spinster (May Whitty), who then seems to disappear into thin air. The younger woman turns investigator and finds herself drawn into a complex web of mystery and high adventure. Also starring Michael Redgrave, "The Lady Vanishes" remains one of the great filmmaker's purest delights. High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. Extras: Commentary by film historian Bruce Eder; "Crook's Tour," a 1941 feature-length adventure film starring Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne as Charters and Caldicott, their characters from "The Lady Vanishes"; excerpts from Francois Truffaut's legendary 1962 audio interview with Hitchcock; "Mystery Train," a video essay about Hitchcock and "The Lady Vanishes" by Hitchcock scholar Leonard Leff; stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos and promotional art; booklet featuring essays by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and Hitchcock scholar Charles Barr. (The Criterion Collection).
Law & Order: The Ninth Year
(1998-99) Five-disc set with 24 episodes, $49.98. (Universal).
Life, Above All
(2010 -- South Africa) Khomotso Manyaka, Keaobaka Makanyane, Lerato Mvelase. Just after the death of her newly-born sister, 12-year-old Chanda hears a rumor that spreads like wildfire through her small, dust-ridden village near Johannesburg that destroys her family and forces her mother to flee. Sensing that the gossip stems from prejudice and superstition, Chanda leaves home and school in search of her mother and the truth. Extras: Making-of featurette. (Sony).
The Looney Tunes Show Season 1 Volume 2
(2010-11) Single disc with 10 episodes, $14.97. (Warner).
The Lucy Show: The Official Fifth Season
(1966-67) Four-disc set with 22 episodes, $42.99. Extras: The full-length special "Lucy In London," an exclusive retrospective look at the special, featurettes, outtakes, production notes, bloopers, more. (CBS Home Entertainment/Paramount Home Entertainment).
Mangus!
(2011) Ryan Boggus, Jennifer Coolidge, Heather Matarazzo, John Waters, Leslie Jordan. Trailer trash comedy revolves around a high school senior who will do anything to fulfill his family's tradition of playing Jesus in the local annual production of "Jesus Christ Spectacular." Extras: Making-of featurette, director's commentary. (Wolfe Video).
Medea
(1969) Pier Paolo Pasolini's acclaimed production of the Greek tragedy, starring Maria Callas, one of the best-selling classical singers of all time, as the title character in the only dramatic film role of her life. Fully restored and re-mastered from a new 35mm film-to-tape transfer. Extras: Documentary on Callas. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Entertainment One).
Michael Feinstein: The Sinatra Legacy
(2011) A non-stop hit parade of songs made famous by Frank Sinatra and others in a live concert recorded in May at the Palladium in Carmel, Indiana; $19.98. Also available on Blu-ray Disc, $24.98. (Image Entertainment).
Mr. Popper's Penguins
(2011) Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury, Ophelia Lovibond, Madeline Carroll, Clark Gregg, Jeffrey Tambor, David Krumholtz, Philip Baker Hall. Available as a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack and DVD. Extras: Commentary; animated short: "Nimrod and Stinky's Antartic Adventure," "Ladies and Gentoomen" featurette; "Ready for Their Closeup" featurette; original story sampler; deleted scenes; gag reel. Blu-ray adds "The Legacy of Mr. Popper's Penguins," "Stuffy Penguin Theater," "Penguin Pandemonium," digital copy. (Fox).
Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXII
Four-disc set with "Time of the Apes," "Mighty Jack," "The Violent Years" and "The Brute Man." Extras: New introduction by Mary Jo Pehl, "Origin of the Creeper: Birth of a B-Movie Icon," introductions by August Ragone, author of "Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters," "The Making of MST3K" (1997), "Mystery Science Theater" hour wraps, "Ed-ucation": Archival interviews with Delores Fuller and Kathy Wood; four exclusive mini-posters by artist Steve Vance. (Shout! Factory).
Point Blank
(2011 -- France) Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gerard Lanvin, Elena Anaya, Mireille Perrier, Claire Perot, Moussa Maaskri, Pierre Benoist, Valerie Dashwood, Virgile Bramly, Nicky Naude, Adel Bencherif. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurette. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Magnolia).
The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Complete Fourth Season
(2011) Two-disc set of the "Doctor Who" spin-off children's series that follows the exploits of school friends Luke, Clyde and Rani, who team up with alien investigator Sarah Jane Smith and her trusty super-computer Mr. Smith to examine strange and mysterious events. $29.98. (BBC Home Entertainment).
The Simpsons Season 14
(2002-03) Four-disc set with 22 episodes, including the incredible 300th episode starring Tony Hawk and Blink-182, $49.98. Extras: Deleted scenes, featurettes, never-before-seen footage, audio commentaries, sketch galleries, original animated menus, a special language feature, more. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Fox).
Thomas & Friends: Adventure on the Tracks
Six-disc set with 36 Thomas episodes; the discs are "Percy's Ghostly Trick," "Thomas and the Jet Engine," "Rusty to the Rescue," "Percy Saves the Day," "Thomas Comes to Breakfast" and "Steamies vs Diesels." $29.98. Extras: Sing-alongs, games, read-alongs, more. (HIT Entertainment/Lionsgate).
Thomas & Friends: Rescue on the Rails
Four episodes in which Thomas and friends race to rescue friends (Bertie's stuck on Shake Shake Bridge, Gordon's derailed) on the isle of Sodor. Extras: "Who's Pulling Into the Station?" game, karaoke music video. $14.98. (HIT Entertainment/Lionsgate).
Tora! Tora! Tora! BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1970) Dir.: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda (Japanese sequences); Martin Balsam, So Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Takahiro Tamura, Eijiro Tono, Jason Robards. Extras: Blu-ray book includes the extended "Japanese Cut" containing 10 minutes of previously unreleased footage and rare photos from the Fox Archives. (Fox).
Transformers Prime: Darkness Rising
(2011) New five-part miniseries. Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Arcee, AUTOBOT Ratchet, Bulkhead, and many others are back to "roll out" against Megatron's latest attempt to conquer Earth after he acquires a rare element that allows him mastery over life itself. $14.97. (Shout! Factory).
Triple Tap
(2010 -- Hong Kong) Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Li Bingbing. A cop makes it his mission to bring down a media hero who single-handedly stopped an armored van robbery when it becomes apparent he was actually the mastermind behind the crime. Extras: Director and cast interviews, behind-the-scenes featurette, deleted scenes, photo gallery. (Well Go USA).Also available on Blu-ray Disc.
Underbelly: The Trilogy
(2008) Twelve-disc set of the Australian miniseries (broadcast on DirecTV) that portrayed the violent, drug-fueled crime wave that rocked that country from the 1970s through the early 2000s, $99.98. Extras: Two featurettes. (Entertainment One).
The Help
Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Emma Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives -- and a Mississippi town -- upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Viola Davis), Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up -- to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter's life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories -- and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly -- and unwillingly -- caught up in the changing times. Based on the best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett.
Vitals: Director: Tate Taylor. Stars: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly, Allison Janney, Anna Camp, Cicely Tyson, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin, Mike Vogel.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 138 min., Drama, Box office gross: $159.373 million, DreamWorks.
The Hangover Part II
Phil, Stu, Alan and Doug travel to exotic Thailand for Stu's wedding. After the unforgettable bachelor party in Las Vegas, Stu is taking no chances and has opted for a safe, subdued pre-wedding brunch with pancakes, coffee ... and no alcohol. However, things don't always go as planned. Two nights before the big day, at a fabulous resort in Thailand, Stu relents. One beer each. In sealed bottles. What could go wrong? What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in Bangkok can't even be imagined.
Vitals: Director: Todd Phillips. Stars: Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Jeffrey Tambor, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, Jamie Chung, Sasha Barrese, Gillian Vigman, Paul Giamatti.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 102 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $254.455 million, Warner.
Cowboys & Aliens
It's 1873 when gunslinger Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) awakens in the Arizona desert with no memory of his past and a mysterious metal shackle encircling his wrist. Stumbling into the nearby town of Absolution, Lonergan discovers a tightly closed community that takes its orders from the iron-fisted Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford) ... and Dolarhyde has a bone to pick with Lonergan. But the colonel’s influence wanes when the desolate city is attacked by monsters that drop from the sky with blinding force and abduct the helpless townsfolk one by one. As Lonergan's memory slowly returns, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella (Olivia Wilde), he assembles a posse comprised of former opponents: townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors. United against a common enemy, they prepare for an epic showdown for survival. Based on the Malibu Comics graphic novel.
Vitals: Director: Jon Favreau. Stars: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Ana de la Reguera, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, Clancy Brown , Keith Carradine, Noah Ringer.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 119 min., Sci-Fi Western, Box office gross: $99.552 million, Universal.
The Debt
The powerful story of Rachel Singer (Helen Mirren), a former Mossad agent who, along with two other agents (Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wilkinson), endeavored to capture and bring to trial a notorious Nazi war criminal -- the Surgeon of Birkenau -- in a secret Israeli mission in 1966 that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must go back to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents (played by Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas), the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.
Vitals: Director: John Madden. Stars: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, Jesper Christensen, Romi Aboulafia.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 113 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $30.073 million, Universal.
Point Blank
Samuel (Gilles Lellouche) is a happily married nurse working in a Paris hospital who saves the life of a wounded criminal, Sartet (Roschdy Zem). When his very pregnant wife (Elena Anaya) is kidnapped before his helpless eyes, everything falls apart. After being knocked unconscious, he comes to and his cell phone rings: He has three hours to get Sartet, now under police surveillance, out of the hospital. Shot on location in wide lens, "Point Blank" is an exhilarating non-stop ride through Paris' streets, subways, hospitals, warehouses, and police stations, as Samuel quickly finds himself pitted against rival gangsters and trigger-happy police in a deadly race to save the lives of his wife and unborn child. In French with English subtitles.
Vitals: Director: Fred Cavaye. Stars: Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gerard Lanvin, Elena Anaya, Mireille Perrier, Claire Perot, Moussa Maaskri, Pierre Benoist, Valerie Dashwood, Virgile Bramly, Nicky Naude, Adel Bencherif.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 84 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $.533 million, Magnolia.
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Mr. Popper (Jim Carrey), a driven businessman divorced from his wife and kids is clueless when it comes to the important things in life until he inherits six, "adorable" and mischievous penguins from his arctic explorer father. As Popper quickly gets acquainted with -- and increasingly attached to -- his winged roommates, his life quickly unravels: the deal he's long been working on with a formidable socialite, Mrs. Van Gundy, to take over valuable property, is derailed and Popper almost lands in jail. While Popper's penguins turn his swank New York apartment into a snowy winter wonderland, they also teach him valuable lessons about family. Very loosely based on the Newbery Medal award-winning novel, originally published in 1938, by the husband and wife team of Richard and Florence Atwater.
Vitals: Director: Mark Waters. Stars: Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury, Ophelia Lovibond, Madeline Carroll, Clark Gregg, Jeffrey Tambor, David Krumholtz, Philip Baker Hall.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 100 min., Family, Box office gross: $68.131 million, Fox.
Design for Living
(1933) (Criterion)
The Lady Vanishes
(1938) (Criterion)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
(1970)
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