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The Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film Collections: Comedy
A 20-film collection commemorating the studio's 90th anniversary. Check out the complete list of films here. Formats: DVD, $98.92. (Warner).
Blood Runs Cold
(2011) Hanna Oldenburg, Patrick Saxe, Andreas Rylander, Elin Hugoson. A successful musician returns to her small home town for some R&R at the family cabin, only to become the target of a frostbitten killer who first slaughters all her friends. Formats: DVD, Digital. Extras: "The Making of Blood Runs Cold" featurette. (Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment).
Death By China
(2013) Documentary directed by Harvard-trained economist Peter Navarro explores the history and implications of the imbalanced U.S.-China trade relationship, China's unfair trade practices and the economic impact of multinational companies like Apple, Boeing and Caterpillar that export millions of American jobs to improve their bottom line. Narrated by Martin Sheen. Formats: DVD, $13.99; VOD. Extras: Director's commentary, original songs from the film, the award-winning documentary short "Death By Chinese Junk." Find out more here. (Area23a).
The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Complete Fourth Season BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1964-1965) Three-disc set with 32 episodes, $59.98. Extras: TV Academy tribute to Carl Reiner featuring Dick Van Dyke, Ray Romano, Brad Garrett, Rose Marie, Larry Mathews and more; Mary Tyler Moore's appearance on “The Danny Kaye Show"; commentaries with Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke and Garry Marshall; Emmy Award telecast clip featuring the cast; original network promo spots; more. (Image Entertainment).
Falcón
56 UP
(2012) Director Michael Apted's eighth film in the UP series of documentaries that tracks the lives of a dozen people in Britain from age seven on up. Formats: DVD. Extras: Interview: Roger Ebert talks with Michael Apted, photo gallery, filmmaker biography and statement. (First Run Features).
The Girl
(2012) Abbie Cornish, Will Patton, Giovanna Zacarias, Luci Christian, Raul Castillo, Lauren Galley. Ashley Colton (Cornish), a rough, ragged beauty in her mid-twenties, is trying to prove to Social Services that she's fit to be a mother and regain custody of her son, but her work at a dead-end job in south Texas and a lack of money prevents her from reaching that goal. A surprise visit from her father (Patton), a hard-drinking trucker living in Mexico, gives her a new opportunity: she discovers that he's smuggling Mexican immigrants across the border in his 18-wheeler, and she sees the chance to make some life-changing money doing the same thing. But her improvised plan goes awry, and Ashley finds herself stranded with a young girl whose mother disappeared in the late night river crossing. Though anxious to flee the tragedy and head home, Ashley can't bring herself to abandon little Rosa, so she embarks on a trip to bring the girl home to her grandmother -- a journey that may in the end save Ashley as surely as it does the girl. Formats: DVD. Extras: "A Filmmaker's Journey: The Making of The Girl." (Virgil Films).
Inescapable
(2012) Alexander Siddig, Joshua Jackson, Marisa Tomei, Oded Fehr. A now-successful and respected Canadian businessman who, as an officer in the Syrian military police, left Damascus 25 years earlier under mysterious circumstances, must return home to rescue his journalist daughter. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. (IFC Films).
The Kentucky Fried Movie BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1977) The original "take-off" cult classic from the highly successful team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker. Directed by John Landis, the spoof features a lewd, loosely connected collection of skits that spoof blaxploitation films, news shows, porno movies, TV commercials, kung fu flicks and more. Includes well-known stars such as Bill Bixby, Donald Sutherland, Tony Dow, George Lazenby and Henry Gibson in 22 segments including "Cleopatra Schwartz," "The Wonderful World of Sex," "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble," "A Fistful of Yen" and more. Extras: Commentary by director Landis, writers Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and producer Robert K. Weiss; a conversation with David and Jerry Zucker: a feature-length interview with the co-creators; original mono audio. (Shout! Factory).
Last Resort: The Complete Series
(2012-2013) Three-disc set with 13 episodes, $38.99. Formats: DVD. Extras: Featurettes on each episode. (Sony).
Least Among Saints
(2012) Martin Papazian, Tristan Lake Leabu, Laura San Giacomo, A.J. Cook, Charles S. Dutton. Coming home to a broken marriage and uncertain future, combat veteran Anthony Hayward thinks he's at the end of his rope until his troubled 10-year-old neighbor, Wade, calls out for help. To the dismay of the boy's embattled social worker, Anthony sets out on a fool's quest to help this heartbroken and hard-to-reach child find his long-lost father, who might not even exist. In the midst of this new mission, Anthony begins to come to grips with both the costs of war and the universal power of human connection. Formats: DVD, VOD. Extras: Commentary by director-writer-star Martin Papazian, deleted scenes, "From Script to Screen" featurette, "The Cast of Least Among Saints on Veterans" featurette, "Working with Writer/Director/Actor Marty Papazian" featurette, "Veterans on Least Among Saints" featurette. (Vision Films).
Legends of the Old West
(1994 -- TV) Three-disc collection of History documentaries: "Buffalo Bill and His Wild West," "Wild Bill Hickok," ""The Legendary Cowboys,"" "The Law From Behind the Tin Star," "Meet The James Gang," "The Texas Rangers." Formats: DVD, $19.98. (Lionsgate).
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: The Complete Series
(1959-1963) "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" ignited one of the many loves of American television: stories about teenagers. Dobie Gillis was a typically indecisive young man who continually set out on hopeless quests for popularity, money and the attention of beautiful girls, all the while trying to
North & South
(1975) BBC period drama, starring Patrick Stewart, is a classic British romance in the vein of "Pride and Prejudice" and "Middlemarch," based on the celebrated novel by Elizabeth Gaskell that depicts the tensions of the Victorian era as traditional society clashed with the coming of the modern world. U.S. debut. Two-disc set with four episodes, $39.99. (Acorn Media).
6 Souls
(2012) Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Frances Conroy. A female forensic psychiatrist takes on a new patient whose multiple personalities are murder victims, and the more she finds out about him and his past, the closer she and her loved ones are to becoming murder victims themselves. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. (Anchor Bay).
Tai Chi Hero
(2012 -- China) Jayden Yuan, Angelababy, Eddie Peng, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Daniel Wu, Peter Stormare. Second installment in the steampunk-infused, video game-influenced, kung fu throwdown "Tai Chi Trilogy" that mixes elements from disparate eras in China's past and brings together different film genres in a completely unique way. Lu Chan (Yuan) is adapting to life in the Chen Village when the Grandmaster's eldest son returns and reminds the town of a legendary prophecy that may spell doom for the civilians and -- once again -- it is up to Lu Chan to save the day. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Digital. Extras: "From Zero to Hero: The Making of Tai Chi Hero" making-of featurette. (Well Go USA).
The Tower
(2012 -- South Korea) Sul Kyung-gu, Ye-jin Son, Sang-kyung Kim. A Christmas Eve party at a 108-story luxury residential building takes a horrific turn when a fire breaks out. Formats: DVD. (CJ Entertainment America).
Tower Block
(2012) Sheridan Smith, Russell Tovey, Jack O'Connel, Ralph Brown, Kane Robinson. A year after witnessing the murder of a young man, the residents of Tower Block 31 -- who stood by during the killing -- find themselves being picked off by a sniper, pitting those lucky enough to be left alive into a battle for survival. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: TBA. (Shout! Factory).
The UP Series
(2013) Seven disc special edition including all eight films: "Seven UP," "7 Plus Seven," "21 UP," "28 UP," "35 UP," "42 UP," "49 UP" and "56 UP." Formats: DVD, $79.95. Extras: Interview: Roger Ebert talks with Michael Apted, commentary by Michael Apted (on "42 UP"), photo gallery for each film, Michael Apted biography. (First Run Features).
Venus and Serena
(2012) Documentary takes an unfiltered look into the remarkable lives of the greatest sister-act professional tennis has ever seen. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Deleted scenes, interview with director Maiken Baird, interview with director Michelle Major, AXS TV: "A Look at Venus and Serena," trailer. (Magnolia Home Entertainment).
Why We Laugh: Funny Women
(2012) Documentary explores the journey and evolution of the female stand-up comedian; includes personal and in-depth interviews and live performance footage with some of the most prominent female voices in comedy and entertainment: Kathy Griffin, Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Kim Wayans, Janeane Garofalo, Rita Rudner, Kathy Najimy, Sandra Bernhard, Natasha Leggero, Aisha Tyler and many more.
Formats: DVD, $19.98. Digital. (Lionsgate).
56 UP
"Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man." Starting in 1964 with "Seven UP," The UP Series, created by Granada Television and director Paul Almond in 1964, has explored this Jesuit maxim. The original concept was to interview 14 children from diverse backgrounds from all over England (lower, middle and upper class, all but one white), asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Every seven years, director Michael Apted, a researcher for the first film, "Seven UP," has been back to talk to them, examining the progression of their lives. Of the original 14, only 13 have continued from "Seven UP" to the current "56 UP," one young man quitting after "21 UP." From cab driver Tony to schoolmates Jackie, Lynn and Susan and the enigmatic Neil, we follow these subjects as they turn 56 and more life-changing decisions and surprising developments are revealed. And the ravages of time -- as well as its joys -- weigh heavily on the participants. The series is at once a bold sociological experiment and riveting viewing, almost a precursor to today's reality television. And if you haven't seen the previous films in the series, fear not: Apted skillfully weaves old footage with the new, though that can cause some problems: as one participant puts it, filming each of them for seven days every seven years can give odd connections between the past and the present as well as only highlights of their lives -- but what dramatic highlights! A towering achievement in the annals of cinema, the UP Series is, according to critic Roger Ebert, "an inspired, almost noble use of the film medium. Apted penetrates to the central mystery of life." Apted, by the way, is the classy director of such big-screen hits as "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Gorillas in the Mist," the Bond outing "The World Is Not Enough" and, most recently, "Chasing Mavericks."
Vitals: Director: Michael Apted. 2012, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 138 min., Documentary, Box office gross: $.691 million, First Run Features.
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An American Girl: Saige Paints the Sky
(2013) Jane Seymour, Sidney Fullmer, Alex Peters, Alana Gordillo. Nine-year-old Saige, a talented artist with a passion for horses, struggles to find her voice when her favorite class in school -- art -- gets cut and her best friend begins spending more and more time with another girl.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. (Universal).
(2012) The critically acclaimed new crime series stars Marton Csokas and Hayley Atwell and is based on the bestselling novels by Robert Wilson. Set in the magnificent Spanish city of Seville, Falcón follows a smart, intuitive detective bent on exposing hard truths and corruption. The British production features a seductive beauty and sinister undercurrent all to its own, along with stunning cinematography and stylish direction. Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón (Csokas) prowls Seville's serpentine alleys to uncover the malice lurking in the magnificent city. In these two feature-length thrillers -- "The Blind Man of Seville" and "The Silent and the Damned"-- Falcón investigates a murder connected to his father's murky past and the apparent suicide of a businessman whose former misdeeds impact the present. Falcón also contends with his attraction to a glamorous widow (Hayley Atwell) and simmering tensions with his ex-wife, Ines (Emilia Fox), and her handsome, high-flying lover, Judge Esteban Calderón. U.S. debut. Formats: Two-disc DVD, $39.99. Extras: "The Blind Man of Seville: Behind the Scenes," "Javier Falcón: Behind the Man," "Falcón's Seville with Robert Wilson," photo galleries. (Acorn Media).
make his parents happy. Created and written by humorist Max Shulman and adapted from Shulman's celebrated collection of short stories,"The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" premiered on CBS in 1959 and was a counter-culture hit throughout all four years of its network run. Starring Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver, Frank Faylen, Florida Friebus, Tuesday Weld, Warren Beatty and Sheila James, this timeless show triggered a sea change in sitcoms and dramas, which would focus on the hopes, dreams and angst of teenagers for decades to come. Guest stars included Rose Marie, Bill Bixby, Yvonne Craig, Richard Deacon, Norman Fell, Ronny Howard, Sherry Jackson, Sally Kellerman, Michael J. Pollard, Michele Lee, Steve Franken, Jo Anne Worley, among others. The long-awaited box set includes all 147 episodes on 20 DVDs in a collectible box set. Extras: Original rare pilot footage, bonus episodes from "Love That Bob!" and "The Stu Erwin Show." $139.99. (Shout! Factory). Pre-order a copy now at Amazon.
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