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Big Love: The Complete Fourth Season
(2010) Three-disc set with nine episodes, $59.99. Extras: "Inside the Episode" feature for each episode. (HBO).
Bitter Feast
(2009) James LeGros, Joshua Leonard, Mario Batali, Owen Campbell. A celebrity chef exacts revenge on a food blogger who torpedoes his career. Extras: Commentary by writer-director Joe Maggio, producers Larry Fessenden, Peter Phok, Brent Kunkle and sound designer Graham Reznick; "Making Bitter Feast"; "Joe Maggio Interviews Mario Batali"; deleted scene and alternate ending. (Dark Sky Films/MPI Media).
Case 39
(2010) Renee Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Callum Keith Rennie, Adrian Lester, Kerry O'Malley. Extras: "Filed Under Evil: Inside Case 39," "Turning Up the Heat on the Chill Factor," "Inside the Hornet's nest," deleted scenes and alternate ending. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Paramount)
Catfish
(2010) Megan Faccio, Melody C. Roscher, Ariel Schulman, Yaniv Schulman. Extras: Interview with director Henry Joost, director-star Ariel Schulman, and Yaniv Schulman. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Universal).
The Garfield Show: All You Need Is Love (And Pasta)
(2010) Six episodes of the Cartoon Network show, $14.93. (Vivendi Entertainment).
Gun
(2010) Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Val Kilmer, Anna Lynne McCord, James Remar, John Larroquette. Thriller sets its cross hairs on the rising crime rates and gun violence in a modern city in a slump, as the Detroit Police launches a full-scale war against the gun runners that terrify the populace. With the cooperation of the FBI they target a criminal named Rich (Jackson) and his vast arms operation. When a gun exchange goes bad and Rich's old friend Angel (Kilmer) steps up and saves his life, they form a bond that makes his supplier and lover, Gabriella (Anna Lynne McCord) paranoid and on edge. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Image Entertainment).
Howl
(2010) Documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman directed this 1950s-era tale focusing on the famous obscenity trial launched to censor Ginsberg's groundbreaking book-length "Howl." The pair were approached by the Allen Ginsberg Trust to make a film commemorating the 50th anniversary of the poem. Extras: Commentary by directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and James Franco; "Holy! Holy! Holy! The Making of Howl"; "Director's Research Tapes" original interviews with some of Ginsberg's friends and acquaintances including Eric Drooker, Peter Orlovsky, Tuli Kupferberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Steven Taylor; Allen Ginsberg reads "Howl" at the Knitting Factory in New York in 1995; James Franco Reads "Howl." Also available on Blu-ray Disc, which adds Allen Ginsberg reads "Sunflower Sutra" and "Pull My Daisy" at the Knitting Factory in New York in 1995; Q&A with directors Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman conducted by John Cameron Mitchell. (Oscilloscope Laboratories).
iCarly: Season 2, Volume 2
(2009) Two-disc set with 12 episodes, $19.99. Extras: Behind-the-scenes: "Is That Me I See?" "Reed For 2 Minutes With Mandy," "Locker Tours" and "Doors to Nowhere." (Nick/Paramount).
The Last Exorcism
(2010) Patrick Fabian, Iris Bahr, Ashley Bell, Louis Herthum, Jamie Alyson Caudle, Shanna Forrestall, Allen Bourdreaux, Tony Bentley, Caleb Landry Jones. Extras: Commentary with director Daniel Stamm and stars Ashley Bell, Patrick Fabian and Louis Herthum; commentary with producers Eli Roth, Eric Newman and Tom Bliss; "The Devil You Know: The Making of The Last Exorcism" featurette; "Real Stories of Exorcism" featurette. Also available on Blu-ray Disc, which adds "Witness to an Exorcism: An Audio Commentary With a Haunting Victim, Deliverance Minister and Clinical Psychologist"; audition footage. (Lionsgate)
Machete
(2010) Director: Robert Rodriguez. Stars: Danny Trejo, Jeff Fahey, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, Steven Seagal, Cheech Marin, Michelle Rodriguez. Extras: Deleted scenes that reveal never-before-seen characters, twisting plot lines, and more bloody good action. Also available as a two-disc Blu-ray with digital copy. (Fox).
Mama Flora's Family
(1998) Cicely Tyson, Erika Alexander, Blair Underwood, Queen Latifah, Mario Van Peebles, Hill Harper, Shemar Moore, Della Reese. TV melodrama follows a southern black woman in her 70s looking back on a life filled with joy and heartbreak after being called to help her troubled granddaughter. (Vivendi Entertainment).
The Ricky Gervais Show: The Complete First Season
(2010) Two-disc set with 13 episodes, $29.98. (Warner).
Thomas & Friends: Wobbly Wheels & Whistles!
(2011) Four new adventures starring every pre-schooler's favorite train, Thomas -- and introducing new engine friend Scuff; $14.98. Extras: "The Steam Team" puzzles. (HIT Entertainment/Lionsgate).
Ticking Clock
(2010) Cuba Gooding Jr., Neal McDonough, Austin Abrams, Yancey Arias. An investigative crime reporter stumbles upon the journal of a murderer replete with plans to butcher specific people, and investigates on his own, finding that every trail leads to a 9-year-old orphan living in a group home. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Sony).
Machete
Set up, double-crossed and left for dead, Machete (Danny Trejo) is an ass-kicking ex-Federale who lays waste to anything that gets in his path. As he takes on hit men, vigilantes and a ruthless drug cartel, bullets fly, blades clash and the body count rises. Based on the fake trailer in Robert Rodriguez's 2007 "Grindhouse," featuring Danny Trejo and Jeff Fahey reprising their original roles. Machete is a renegade former Mexican Federale, roaming the streets of Texas after a shakedown from drug lord Torrez (Steven Seagal). Reluctantly, Machete takes an offer from spin doctor Benz (Fahey) to assassinate McLaughlin (Robert De Niro), a corrupt Senator. Double crossed and on the run, Machete braves the odds with the help of Luz (Michelle Rodriguez), a saucy taco slinger, Padre (Cheech Marin), his holy brother, and April (Lindsay Lohan), a socialite with a penchant for guns. All while being tracked by Sartana (Jessica Alba), a sexy ICE agent with a special interest in the blade slinger.
Vitals: Director: Robert Rodriguez. Stars: Danny Trejo, Jeff Fahey, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, Steven Seagal, Cheech Marin, Michelle Rodriguez.
2010, CC, MPAA rating: R, 105 min., Action, Box office gross: $25.090 million, Fox.
Dinner for Schmucks
Tim is a guy on the verge of having it all. The only thing standing between him and total career success is finding the perfect guest to bring to his boss' annual Dinner for Extraordinary People, an event where the winner of the evening brings the most eccentric character (read: buffoon) as his guest. Tim's fiancee, Julie, finds it distasteful and Tim agrees to skip the dinner, until he bumps into Barry -- an IRS employee who devotes his spare time to building elaborate taxidermy mouse dioramas -- and quickly realizes he's struck idiot gold. Tim can't resist, and invites Barry, whose blundering good intentions soon sends Tim's life into a frenzied downward spiral and a series of comic misadventures, threatening a major business deal, bringing crazy stalker ex-girlfriend, Darla, back into Tim's life and driving Julie (or so Tim thinks) into the arms of another man. Vitals: Director: Jay Roach. Stars: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Stephanie Szostak, Bruce Greenwood, Ron Livingston, Zach Galifianakis, Jemaine Clement, Jeff Dunham, David Walliams, Lucy Punch, Chris O'Dowd, Patrick Fischler.
2010, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 114 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $65.8 million, Paramount.
The Last Exorcism
When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine "exorcism" on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcised before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy. Buckling under the weight of his conscience after years of parting desperate believers with their money, Cotton and his crew plan to film a confessionary documentary of this, his last exorcism. But upon arriving at the already blood drenched family farm, it is soon clear that nothing could have prepared him for the true evil he encounters there. Now, too late to turn back, Reverend Marcus' own beliefs are shaken to the core when he and his crew must find a way to save Nell -- and themselves -- before it is too late.
Vitals: Director: Daniel Stamm. Stars: Patrick Fabian, Iris Bahr, Ashley Bell, Louis Herthum, Jamie Alyson Caudle, Shanna Forrestall, Allen Bourdreaux, Tony Bentley, Caleb Landry Jones.
2010, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 87 min., Horror, Box office gross: $40.1 million, Lionsgate.
Case 39
Devoted family services specialist Emily Jenkins (Renee Zellweger)has seen it all -- lies, neglect, abuse -- domestic horrors of every type. That is, until she takes on Case 39: the case of 10-year-old Lillith Sullivan, whose eerie, secretive family leaves Emily shaken and disturbed. When Lillith's parents attempt to harm their only child in a late-night ritual, Emily intervenes. Heartbroken by Lillith's loneliness and innocence, Emily decides to do something she has never allowed herself to do in the past: get personally involved. Hoping to do the right thing for the withdrawn girl, Emily offers Lillith a caring, happy home until she can find an adoptive family. That's when the real terror begins. Shot in 2006, this dud sat on the shelf for more than three years before Paramount released it this fall.
Vitals: Director: Christian Alvart. Stars: Renee Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Callum Keith Rennie, Adrian Lester, Kerry O'Malley.
2010, CC, MPAA rating: R, 109 min., Horror, Box office gross: $13.248 million, Paramount.
Catfish
Is-it-or-is-it-not-documentary about the world of online social relationship. Nev, a 24-year-old New York-based photographer, has no idea what he's in for when Abby, an 8-year-old girl from rural Michigan, contacts him on MySpace in 2007, seeking permission to paint one of his photographs. When he receives her remarkable painting, Nev begins a friendship and correspondence with Abby's family. But things really get interesting when he develops a cyber-romance with Abby's attractive older sister, Megan, a musician and model. Prompted by some startling revelations about Megan, Nev and filmmakers Ariel Schulman (Nev's brother) and Henry Joost embark on a road trip in search of the truth.
Vitals: Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman. Stars: Megan Faccio, Melody C. Roscher, Ariel Schulman, Yaniv Schulman.
2010, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 94 min., Documentary, Box office gross: $3.151 million, Universal.
Howl
James Franco stars as Allen Ginsberg in the story of how the young poet's seminal work broke down societal barriers in the face of an infamous public obscenity trial. In his famously confessional style, Ginsberg -- poet, counter-culture icon, and chronicler of the Beat Generation -- recounts the road trips, love affairs and search for personal liberation that led to "Howl," the most timeless work of his career. The film interweaves three stories: the unfolding of the landmark 1957 obscenity trial; an imaginative animated ride through the prophetic masterpiece; and a unique portrait of a man who found new ways to express himself and, in doing so, changed his own life and galvanized a generation.
Vitals: Director: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Stars: James Franco, Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Daniels, David Strathairn, Alessandro Nivola, Treat Williams, Bob Balaban.
2010, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 84 min., BioDrama, Box office gross: $.540 million, Oscilloscope Laboratories.
The Lena Baker Story
(2008) Tichina Arnold, Beverly Todd, Peter Coyote, Michael Rooker. The story of an impoverished and uneducated African-American woman's struggles in rural 1940s Georgia, the only woman to be sentenced to death by electric chair in the state. Her trial (before a jury of wite men) lasted less than four hours. After a six-decades-long campaign, her family finally earned her a posthumous pardon in 2005 from Georgia's Pardon and Parole Board. Recently, her weed-covered grave was rediscovered at the church where she once worshipped and a collection was taken to buy her a modest marker. (Barnholtz Entertainment/Lionsgate Entertainment).
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