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(2010) Christopher Gorham, Arielle Kebbel, Nelson Franklin, Chris Parnell. Comedy set in the world of competitive bar trivia, centering around a group of frustrated academics who finally get a shot at beer, women and nerdy redemption when they enter a citywide trivia tournament. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Lionsgate).
Boardwalk Empire: The Complete First Season
(2011) Five-disc set with 12 episodes, $59.99. Steve Buscemi stars as Enoch "Nucky" Thompson -- the powerful and corrupt boss of Atlantic City during the decadent and violent "roaring" 1920s. The Great War was over, Wall Street was about to boom, women got the vote and everything was for sale, even the World Series. The undisputed ruler of Atlantic City was the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (Buscemi), a political fixer and backroom dealer who was equal parts politician and criminal and equally comfortable in either role. Because of its strategic location on the seaboard, minutes from Philadelphia, hours from New York City and less than a day's drive from Chicago, the town was a hub of activity for rumrunners. And Nucky Thompson took full advantage. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurettes that delve into the creation of the 300-foot Boardwalk set, explore the main characters, reveal Atlantic City as it was in the 1920s and present an insider's view of the show through commentaries from the actors, directors and producers. Includes "Making Boardwalk Empire," "Character Dossier," "Creating the Boardwalk," "Atlantic City: The Original Sin City," "Speakeasy Tour" and commentaries. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (HBO).
A Bronx Tale
(1993) Dir.: Robert De Niro; Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Francis Capra. (Universal).
Columbo: Mystery Movie Collection 1994-2003
Three-disc set with seven Columbo TV feature movies, $26.98. (Universal).
Dennis the Menace Season Four
(1962-63) Five-disc set with all 38 episodes from the final season, $29.93. (Shout! Factory).
Diary of a Single Mom
(2011 -- TV) Dir.: Robert Townsend; Monica Calhoun, Valery M. Ortiz, Janice Lynde, Leon, Richard Roundtree, Billy Dee Williams. Chronicles the seemingly endless challenges and ultimate successes of three urban women struggling to create lives that not only sustain them and their extended families, but also inspire others toward self-determination and compassion in their own lives. (Image Entertainment).
Doctor Who Classic: The Android Invasion
Ep. 83 -- The Android Invasion, starring Tom Baker (the Fourth Doctor) and Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith). $24.98. Extras: Commentary, a making-of featurette, photo gallery, more. (BBC/Warner).
The Garfield Show: Dinosaurs and Other Animal Adventures
(2012) Six animal-themed episodes, $14.93. (Vivendi Entertainment).
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Series 2, Season 1
Four-disc set with 24 episodes and fan favorite five-part miniseries "Operation Dragonfire," $29.93. In 1989, Sgt. Slaughter once again returned to battle against Cobra and Destro in Operation Dragonfire; and the popular second series began airing thereafter. Loyal G.I. Joe fans and kids were also introduced to a group of new G.I. Joe heroes: Captain Grid-Iron, Ambush, Pathfinder and villains -- Serpentor, Cesspool, Metal-Head, Gnawgahyde, as well as new Viper troops. (Shout! Factory).
Hawaii Five-0: The Twelfth and Final Season
(1979-80) Five-disc set with 20 episodes, $54.99. Extras: Crime Wave music video tribute. (CBS Home Entertainment/Paramount Home Entertainment).
Higher Ground
(2011) Vera Farmiga, Joshua Leonard, Donna Murphy, John Hawkes, Bill Irwin, Dagmara Dominczyk, Norbert Leo Butz. Extras: Commentary by director-actress Vera Farmiga, actor Joshua Leonard and producer Renn Hawkey; deleted scenes, "The Making of Higher Ground" featurette, Los Angeles Film Festival Q & A.
Available as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack. (Sony).
An Idiot Abroad
(2011) Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, co-creators of "The Office" and "Extras," send their friend Karl Pilkington around the world ... against his will. Karl thinks he's visiting the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but along the way the "Little Englander" must endure camel rides, jungle treks, tribal customs and local oddballs while dining on toads and testicle and searching for a clean bathroom. Will this be the trip of a lifetime, or the vacation from hell? And will Karl even know the difference? Extras: Deleted scenes, photo gallery. (BBC Home Entertainment).
Killer Elite
(2011) Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Yvonne Strahovski, Dominic Purcell, Aden Young, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ben Mendelsohn. Available on Blu-ray Combo Pack with UltraViolet and DVD. Extras: Deleted and extended scenes. (Universal).
A Mile In His Shoes
(2011 -- TV) Luke Schroder, Dean Cain, George Canyon. Family-friendly film about Mickey Tussler, an autistic pitcher in the 1940s, who joins a minor-league baseball team and has a profound effect on the team and manager Arthur "Murph" Murphy over the course of a season. (Nassar Entertainment).
1911
(2011) Dir.: Jackie Chan; Jackie Chan, Li Bing Bin, Winston Chao, Joan Chen, Jaycee Chan. Details a key moment in modern Chinese history-the fall of the Qing Dynasty-and the violent rebellion that brought it down.Extras: On set interviews with Jackie Chan and Li Bing Bing, making-of featurette, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes footage. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Well Go USA).
NOVA: Deadliest Volcanoes
(2011) NOVA travels with scientists who are attempting to discover how likely volcanoes are to erupt, when eruptions might happen and how deadly they could prove to be. $24.99. (PBS Distribution).
NOVA: Iceman Murder Mystery
(2011) Join NOVA to defrost the ultimate time capsule -- 5,000-year-old Otzi, the mummified corpse pulled from an Alpine glacier nearly two decades ago. Undergoing an autopsy like none other, scientists attempt to unravel more mysteries from this ancient mummy. $24.99. (PBS Distribution).
Primeval: Volume Three
(2011) Four-disc set of the complete U.K. seasons four and five. Extras: Documentary "New Dawn: Making the New Primeval," Season Four episode prequels. $49.98.Also available on Blu-ray Disc, $59.98. (BBC Home Entertainment).
The Scorpion King 3: Battle For Redemption
(2012) Victor Webster, Ron Perlman, Billy Zane. Second sequel; direct to video. The Scorpion King's kingdom has fallen, he's lost his queen to plague, and he's now an assassin for hire; he must defend a kingdom from an evil tyrant and his ghost warriors for the chance to regain the power and glory he once knew. Extras: Commentary by director Roel Reine, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes featurettes. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Universal).
Sinners and Saints
(2010) Johnny Strong, Kevin Phillips, Costas Mandylor, Sean Patrick Flanery, Bas Rutten, Clifford "Method Man" Smith, Kim Coates, Louis Mandylor, Jolene Blalock, Tom Berenger. The leader of an elite "Street Crimes" task force squad in New Orleans must not only cope with the death of his young son and the abandonment of his wife, he must deal with the ambush and the vicious murder of his partner and a baffling gangland homicide case that points toward one of his childhood friends, a security contractor just back from the Middle East. Features high-powered gunfights, bloody fist fights, high-octane car chases and 100 percent adrenaline-rushing non-CGI action. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Anchor Bay Entertainment).
There Be Dragons
(2011) Dir.: Roland Joffe; Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott. Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life. Extras: "Facing Your Dragons": Inspiring testimony from Wes Bentley, deleted scenes. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Fox).
What's Your Number? Unrated Ex-tended Cut
(2011) Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Ari Graynor, Blythe Danner, Ed Begley Jr. Extras: Extended cut of movie, extended flashback dates, deleted scenes, Gag reel. Available in a Blu-ray/DVD Combo and a single-disc DVD. (Fox).
Moneyball
Based on Michael Lewis' nonfiction bestseller "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game," about Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, who assembled a contending baseball club on a shoestring budget by employing a sophisticated computer-based analysis to draft players. Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's, who continually loses his star players to other teams with bigger budgets. Beane has an epiphany: All of baseball’s conventional wisdom is wrong. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, Beane seeks a way outsmart the richer clubs: The onetime jock teams with Ivy League grad Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in an unlikely partnership -- using computer modeling -- to recruit bargain players that the scouts call flawed, but all of whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and win games. It’s more than baseball, it’s a revolution -- one that challenges old school traditions and puts Beane in the crosshairs of those who say he's tearing out the heart and soul of the game.
Vitals: Director: Bennett Miller. Stars: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Chris Pratt, Stephen Bishop, Brent Jennings. 2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 133 min., Sports Drama, Box office gross: $72.641 million, Sony.
Killer Elite
Adapted from Ranulph Fiennes' best-seller "The Feathermen." Based on real events, the story follows a group of former British special forces members who are being hunted by assassins. Statham plays a former Navy Seal who is forced out of retirement to save his closest friend. Not a remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1975 feature "The Killer Elite."
Vitals: Director: Gary McKendry. Stars: Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Yvonne Strahovski, Dominic Purcell, Aden Young, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ben Mendelsohn.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 117 min., Action Thriller, Box office gross: $25.093 million, Universal.
What's Your Number?
After reading a magazine article that insists if a woman has slept with at least 20 people that they have already missed Mr. Right, marketing executive Ally Darling (Anna Faris) begins to panic, thinking that she will be alone forever. With the help of her hunky new neighbor (Chris Evans), Ally starts tracking down all her ex-boyfriends, hoping to find her real true love while she helps him escape his latest fling. Hijinks and adventure ensues as Ally goes on her wild search for the best "ex" of her life, only to find what she is looking has been right in front of her all along.
Vitals: Director: Mark Mylod. Stars: Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Ari Graynor, Blythe Danner, Ed Begley Jr. 2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 106 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $14.008 million, Fox.
Higher Ground
Pregnant, married and awkward at 18 years, Corrine Miller grows more and more interested in Jesus, eventually giving herself over to a radical New Testament church. Amidst her community of self-described "Jesus Freaks," Corrine's daily life consists of hours of Bible study, alternative family practices and bracing for the oncoming Rapture. It's only when her marriage begins to unravel that Corrine dares to question the religious dogma she has embraced for her entire life. Vitals: Director: Vera Farmiga. Stars: Vera Farmiga, Joshua Leonard, Donna Murphy, John Hawkes, Bill Irwin, Dagmara Dominczyk, Norbert Leo Butz.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 109 min., Drama, Box office gross: $.825 million, Sony.
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