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Baby Mama's Club
(2010) Tommy Friend, Miko DeFoor. Best friends James, a consummate womanizer who becomes a gather for the 17th time, and married Randall, who becomes a father for the first time, go to an unconventional counselor to help them with their problems: Randall to get the respect of his wife and James to control his sexual addiction. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Lionsgate).
Bubble Guppies: Sunny Days!
(2013) Six exciting underwater adventures: "The Beach Ball!," "The Legend of Pinkfoot," "Bring on the Bugs," "The Sizzling Scampinis!," "Bubble Duckies!" and "Gup, Gup, and Away!" Formats: DVD, $16.99. (Nickelodeon/Paramount).
Covert Affairs: Season Three
(2012) Four-disc set with 16 episodes. Formats: DVD. Extras: "Sights Unseen: A Covert Affairs Prequel." (Universal).
Dark Skies
(2013) Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton, Dakota Goyo, Kadan Rockett, J.K. Simmons. Formats: Blu-ray/DVD Combo. Extras: Commentary with writer-director Scott Stewart, producer Jason Blum, executive producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and editor Peter Gvozdas; alternate and deleted scenes. (Dimension Films/Anchor Bay).
Dead Mine
(2012) Joe Taslim, Sam Hazeldine, Miki Mizuno. The legend of Yamashita's Gold lures a treasure hunter and his group deep into the Indonesian jungle where they become trapped in an abandoned World War II Japanese bunker and face the terrifying reality that the only way out is to go further in. Formats: DVD. (XLrator Media).
Doctor Who: Series Seven, Part Two
The Doctor (Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith) kicks off the second half of Series Seven by searching for Clara (Jenna Louise-Coleman) -- the impossible girl he's already lost twice. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. (BBC Home Entertainment).
Doctor Who: The Snowmen
Introduces a new companion, a new look for the Doctor, plus a new monster in this movie-scale Christmas special. Starring Matt Smith as the Doctor and introducing Jenna-Louise Coleman as new companion Clara, this feature follows their mission to save Christmas from the villainous Doctor Simeon and his army of icy snowmen. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Behind-the-scenes. (BBC Home Entertainment).
George Gently Collection: Series 1-4
(2007-11) Eleven mysteries starring Martin Shaw as Inspector George Gently, an incorruptible cop transplanted from London to Northumberland in the mid-1960s. Formats: Eleven-disc DVD, six-disc Blu-ray, $99.99. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurette, text interviews, six-page insert, more. (Acorn Media).
George Gently, Series 5
(2012) Four feature-length mysteries. Formats: Four-disc DVD, two-disc Blu-ray, $59.99. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurette. (Acorn Media).
The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange: The Complete First Season
(2012) Four-disc set with 30 episodes that follows YouTube sensation Annoying Orange along with his band of produce buddies -- Passion Fruit, Pear and Marshmallow -- as they navigate the time-space continuum in their magical fruit cart. From Prehistoric Era to Colonial Times, Orange and the rest of the crew are dropped into random adventures and forced to squeeze their way out. Formats: DVD, $29.93. Extras: "Annoying Orange: Exposed," "Behind the Seeds," "Sizzle Peel," Episode Six storyboard animatic, "The Very First Annoying Orange Webisode." (Gaiam Vivendi).
Life Is Sweet
(1990) This moving film from Mike Leigh is an intimate, invigorating, and amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London -- an irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks). In it, Leigh and his typically brilliant cast create, with extraordinary sensitivity and craft, a vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy, "Life Is Sweet" is captivating, and it was Leigh's first international sensation. New high-definition digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Commentary featuring director Mike Leigh, audio recording of a 1991 interview with Leigh at the National Film Theatre in London, booklet featuring an essay by critic David Sterritt. (The Criterion Collection).
Longmire: The Complete First Season
(2011) Two-disc set with 10 episodes of the A&E Western series, $39.98.
Formats: DVD. Extras: "The Slow Burn: Shooting Longmire" featurette, gallery of still photography, unaired scenes. (Warner).
Lore
(2012 -- Germany/Australia) Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina, Nele Trebs, Ursina Lardi, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Mika Seidel, Andre Frid, Eva-Maria Hagen. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, VOD, Digital. Extras: "The Making of Lore," "Memories of a German Girl," alternate ending, deleted scenes, "Reel Talk" panel discussion. (Music Box Films).
NOVA: Mind of a Rampage Killer
(2012) A growing body of scientific research is bringing us closer to understanding the complex web of circumstances that can conspire to produce a rampage killer: uncontrolled violent urges, depression, and perceived social isolation. NOVA correspondent Miles O'Brien explores how brain function, genetics, and early life experiences may prime the brain for each of these risk factors.
Formats: DVD. (PBS Distribution).
The Numbers Station
(2012) John Cusack, Malin Akerman, Liam Cunningham, Lucy Griffiths. After his latest mission goes disastrously wrong, veteran CIA black ops agent Emerson Kent (John Cusack) is given one last chance to prove he still has what it takes. His new assignment: guarding Katherine (Malin Akerman), a code operator at a top-secret remote CIA "Numbers Station" where encrypted messages are sent and received. When an elite team of heavily armed assailants lays siege to the station, Emerson and Katherine suddenly find themselves in a life-or-death struggle against an unknown enemy.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: "The Making of the Numbers Station" featurette. (Image Entertainment).
Rolling Thunder BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1977) William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, Dabney Coleman. A Vietnam War POW -- who endured eight years of torture -- returns home to a hero's welcome and a cash reward, but finds that his wife has fallen in love with another man. To make matters worse, a group of thugs go after his reward, in the process killing his wife and son; he then teams up with another ex-POW to exact his revenge. Extras: Interview with William Devane, theatrical trailer, TV spot. (Shout! Factory).
Shoot First, Die Later
(1971 -- Italy/France) Luc Merenda, Richard Conte, Delia Boccardo, Raymond Pellegrin. Italian director Fernando Di Leo's lost crime masterpiece, restored by Raro Video from an original 35mm print. A highly regarded police detective who is taking syndicate money in exchange for departmental favors asks his father -- a simple man, who also works for the department but at a lower level -- for a favor (he wants a certain police report that is desired by the syndicate) and it doesn't take long for the detective's father to realize his son is on the take, which leads to numerous complications. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Two featurettes: "The Master of the Game" and "The Second Round of the Game," 20 page booklet on the genesis of the film. (Kino/Lorber).
Suits: Season Two
Swimming to Cambodia
(1978) Master storyteller Spalding Gray brought his tour-de-force one-man show "Swimming to Cambodia" to the big screen, brilliantly directed by Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme and featuring the music of Laurie Anderson. Grey spent eight weeks in Southeast Asia playing the role of the Ambassador's aide in the Academy Award-winning film "The Killing Fields." Inspired by his experiences there, Gray weaves a hilarious and hypnotic tale of the making of the film, from the "sixty-six takes" of his first scene to the jarring encounters with Thai marijuana, the history of Cambodia and the inhabitants of the Asian massage parlors and sex bars. It's reality with a wry twist from a fascinating pioneer of experimental theatre. Formats: DVD. Extras: Commentary by director Jonathan Demme. (Shout! Factory).
The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents
(2013) Three-disc set of the eight-hour History series that offers a fresh perspective on how the Oval Office has evolved over the past 200 years and looks at the 44 men who have served as Commander-in-Chief -- from George Washington to Barack Obama, concentrating on the ebbs and flows of presidential power and responsibilities as each of America's leaders deal with the events, expectations and challenges of his time. Formats: DVD, $24.98. Extras: Bonus footage. (Lionsgate).
Lore
A young German girl struggles to survive the punishing conditions of post-World War II Germany and begins to understand the harsh realities of her Nazi parents and their support of Hitler and his horrifying agenda. Newcomer Saskia Rosendahl stars as Lore, a 14-year-old girl who is left to fend for herself after her Nazi parents are imprisoned by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II. Lore takes the lead as she and her four siblings set out on a harrowing journey across the devastated country, towards the safety of their grandmother's house in the North. On the road, the children struggle to survive the land's punishing post-war conditions, and Lore begins to understand the truths and consequences of her parents' actions, their support of Hitler's war, and their direct knowledge and support of the atrocities of the Holocaust. Meeting a mysterious young refugee during their travels, Lore soon finds her world shattered by feelings of both hatred and desire as she realizes that, in order to survive, she must trust the one person she has always been taught to hate. Based on the 2001 novel by Rachel Seiffert.
Vitals: Director: Cate Shortland. Stars: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina, Nele Trebs, Ursina Lardi, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Mika Seidel, Andre Frid, Eva-Maria Hagen.
2012, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 109 min., Drama, Box office gross: $.718 million, Music Box Films.
Dark Skies
Supernatural thriller follows a young family living in the suburbs bedeviled by unknown forces. Husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, unraveling their safe and peaceful home life. When it becomes clear that the family is being targeted by an unimaginably terrifying and deadly force, Daniel and Lacey take matters in their own hands to solve the mystery of what is after them.
Vitals: Director: Scott Stewart. Stars: Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton, Dakota Goyo, Kadan Rockett, J.K. Simmons.
2013, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 97 min., Horror, Box office gross: $17.178 million, The Weinstein Co./Dimension Films.
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(2012-13) Four-disc set with 16 episodes. Formats: DVD, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Commentary on select episodes, "Suits Recruits" webisodes, deleted and extended scenes, gag reel, "Suits: Sophomore Success," "The Style of Suits," "Suits Punch" reel. (Universal).
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