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The Adventures of Tintin
(2011) Dir.; Steven Spielberg; Voices of Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Toby Jones. Formats: Three-disc Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD combo pack; two-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, DVD, VOD, Digital Download, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: "The Journey of Tintin and Snowy: From Beginning to End." Blu-ray adds "Toasting Tintin: Part 1," "The World of Tintin," "The Who's Who of Tintin," "Tintin: Conceptual Design," "Tintin: In the Volume," "Snowy: From Beginning to End," "Animating Tintin", "Tintin: The Score," "Collecting Tintin," "Toasting Tintin: Part 2." (Paramount).
@SuicideRoom
(2011 -- Poland) An official selection at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival and a box office hit in Poland, the film depicts a spoiled Warsaw teen (Jakub Giersza³) who seeks solace in the sinister virtual world of the "Suicide Room" after being humiliated at school. Animated sequences draw the viewer into the virtual world portrayed in the psychological drama of a teenager trying to escape the torment of bullying. Formats: DVD. (Wolfe Video).
Bag It
(2011) Americans use 60,000 plastic bags every five minutes that are then throw away. But where is "away"? Where do the bags and other plastics end up, and at what cost to our environment, marine life, and human health? This documentary follows everyman Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world. Jeb is not a radical environmentalist, but an average American who decides to take a closer look at our cultural love affair with plastics. Some of the key facts highlighted in the film include:
Bellisima
(1951 -- Italy) Dir.: Luchino Visconti; Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari. A screenstruck mother, convinced that her daughter's star potential is her ticket to a better life, invests everything into the dream that she will be discovered at an open casting in Visconti's "powerful, lyrical neorealist classic" which is being released for the first time on DVD. Newly restored and re-mastered. Formats: DVD. (Entertainment One).
Black Butterfly
(2010 -- TV) Mahogany Monae, Richard Gallion, Sheree Bynum, Tiffany J. Curtis. A strong-willed high school student with dreams of making the U.S. swim team has her life shattered when she's brutally raped. Formats: DVD. (Entertainment One).
Breakout Kings Season 1
(2011) Four-disc set with 13 episodes, $39.98. Formats: DVD. Extras: Deleted and extended scenes, "Good Cons, Bad Cons," "Bullpin Sessions," "T:Bag Dealt a Bad Hand." (Fox).
Call Me Fitz: The Complete Second Season
(2011) Two-disc set with 13 episodes, $19.98. Formats: DVD. (Entertainment One).
The Descendants
(2011) Dir.: Alexander Payne; George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause, Robert Forster, Beau Bridges, Matt Corboy. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, Digital Download. Extras: "Everybody Loves George," "Working With Alexander," "Hawaiian Style." Blu-ray adds Deleted scenes, "The Real Descendants," "Casting," "Working With Water," music videos, "Waiting for the Light," "The World Parade -- Hawaii (Silent Film)," "A Conversation With George Clooney and Alexander Payne." (Fox).
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen Special Edition
Two-disc set features the second Doctor (Patrick Troughton). Formats: DVD. Extras: Commentary. (BBC Home Entertainment).
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors Special Edition
Two-disc set features the first three doctors facing the wrath of Omega, a fallen Time Lord trapped in a universe of anti-matter, with one thing on his mind: revenge. Formats: DVD. Extras: Commentary. (BBC Home Entertainment).
Doctor Who: The Face Of Evil
The fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) encounters two warring tribes on a jungle planet. Formats: DVD. Extras: Commentary. (BBC Home Entertainment).
Doctor Who: The Robots of Death Special Edition
The fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and his new companion Leela, arrive aboard a huge sandminer on a deserted world, where the human miners begin to disappear one-by-one. Formats: DVD. Extras: Commentary. (BBC Home Entertainment).
Ghost Hunters International Season 2: Part 1
(2011) Three-disc set with 13 episodes, $24.98. Formats: DVD. Extras: Deleted scenes. (Image Entertainment).
Happy Feet Two
(2011) Voices of Carlos Alazraqui, Lombardo Boyar, Jeffrey Garcia, Johnny A. Sanchez, Sofía Vergara, Robin Williams, Elijah Wood, Pink, Ava Acres, Benjamin Flores Jr, Common, Magda Szubanski, Hugo Weaving, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, 3D Blu-ray/DVD Combo, UltraViolet (cloud). (Warner).
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys -- Season Three
(1996-97) Five-disc set with 22 episodes. (Universal).
The History of the World in Two Hours
(2011) A 14-billion year tale, from the beginning of time to the present day, in 120 minutes. $19.95. Formats: DVD. (A&E).
House of Pleasures
(2011 -- France) Hafsia Herzi, Celine Sallette, Alice Barnole. For his fifth film, Bertrand Bonello depicts a highly cinematic and atmospheric look at the final days of a turn of the century brothel when much of the Parisian sex trade was confined to grand maisons, populated by elegant madams and vetted clientele. Using a bag of cinematic techniques that include split screen, time shifts and a modern soundtrack, Bonello has made a provocative and beautiful film on not only the world's oldest profession but also a commentary on history as remembered by art and literature. Formats: DVD. (IFC Films/MPI Media).
The Killing: The Complete First Season
(2011) Four-disc set with 13 episodes, $49.98. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Commentary on the pilot with showrunner Veena Sud, "An Autopsy of The Killing," deleted scenes, gag reel, "Orpheus Descending" extended season finale, commentary on "Orpheus Descending." (Fox).
La Terra Trema
(1948 -- Italy) Dir.: Luchino Visconti. A haunting film that uses the early neorealism format developed by Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica to trace the doom and disintegration of one Sicilian fishing family. Presenting a wrenching study of one family's struggle to find happiness, the neorealist classic uses a cast and a coastal village of non-professional Sicilians, whose lives undergo dramatic changes when they plot to overthrow the greedy wholesalers depriving them of a decent living. However, against the odds, they still enjoy love, laughter and friendship within their close-knit community in this re-mastered must-see from a legendary auteur at the height of his powers. Formats: DVD. (Entertainment One).
The Last Temptation of Christ BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1988) Though it initially engendered enormous controversy, the film can now be viewed as the remarkable, profoundly personal work of faith that it is. This 15-year labor of love, an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's landmark novel that imagines an alternate fate for Jesus Christ, features outstanding performances by Willem Dafoe, Barbara Hershey, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton and David Bowie; bold cinematography by the great Michael Ballhaus; and a transcendent score by Peter Gabriel. Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, with a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack by supervising sound editor Skip Lievsay. Bonus features: Commentary featuring Scorsese, Dafoe, and writers Paul Schrader and Jay Cocks; galleries of production stills, research materials, and costume designs; location production footage shot by Scorsese; interview with composer Peter Gabriel, with a stills gallery of traditional instruments used in the score; an essay by film critic David Ehrenstein. (The Criterion Collection).
Loosies
(2012) Peter Facinelli, Michael Madsen, Christy Romano, Jaimie Alexander, Joe Pantoliano, William Forsythe, Vincent Gallo. A young pickpocket in the New York subways, living a fast, free, lifestyle is confronted by a woman with whom he had a one night affair and who is now carrying his child. Suddenly faced with the responsibilities of parenthood, Bobby must reevaluate his life of crime and decide if he can ever settle down.
Formats: DVD. (IFC Films).
Melancholia
(2011) Dir.: Lars von Trier; Kirsten Dunst, Alexander Skarsgard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgard, Brady Corbet, Udo Kier. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Cast interviews, behind the scenes featurette, making-of featurette. (Magnolia Home Entertainment).
My Week With Marilyn
(2011) Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Julia Ormond, Kenneth Branagh, Pip Torrens, Emma Watson. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo. Extras: Commentary with director Simon Curtis, "The Untold Story of an American Icon" featurette. (The Weinstein Co./Anchor Bay).
Neverland
(2011) SyFy miniseries transports a young pickpocket and his gang to a land where time stands still and where they meet the gorgeous but deadly pirate Elizabeth Bonny, who has ruled the seas of Neverland for nearly two centuries, Smee, and a courageous Tree Spirit named Tinker Bell (voiced by Knightley). Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel, Charles Dance, Q'orianka Kilcher, Charlie Rowe, Bob Hoskins, Keira Knightley. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc,Digital Download. (RHI Entertainment/Vivendi Entertainment).
Stuck Between Stations
(2011) Sam Rosen, Zoe Lister Jones, Josh Hartnett, Michael Imperioli. Former high school classmates reunite by chance during a chaotic party-filled evening. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Lionsgate).
The Swell Season
(2011) Documentary on Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, whose songwriting collaboration in the film "Once" (2006) culminated in a jubilant Oscar win. $29.95. Formats: DVD. (Docurama).
TCM Greatest Classic Films Legends: Doris Day
Calamity Jane, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Love Me or Leave Me, Romance on the High Seas. $27.92 (Warner).
TCM Greatest Classic Films Legends: Katharine Hepburn
The Philadelphia Story, Little Women, Stage Door, Morning Glory. $27.92 (Warner).
TCM Greatest Classic Films Gangsters: Edward G. Robinson
Bullets or Ballots, Kid Galahad, Larceny, Inc., The Little Giant. $27.92 (Warner).
The Three Musketeers
(2011) Dir.: Paul W.S. Anderson; Logan Lerman, Luke Evans, Ray Stevenson, Matthew Macfadyen, Christoph Waltz, Orlando Bloom, Mads Mikkelsen, Milla Jovovich, Juno Temple, James Corden, Til Schweiger, Gabriella Wilde. Extras: Deleted and extended scenes, cast and crew stories, "17th Century Action," commentary Anderson, more. (Summit).
The Tribe: Series 1, Part 1
(1999-2000) Four-disc set with 26 episodes, $29.93. Formats: DVD. (Shout! Factory).
Titanic: The Complete Story
Three feature-length programs to celebrate the 100th anniversary (April 15, 1912) of the ship's sinking: "Death of a Dream," "The Legend Lives" and "Titanic's Achilles Heel," $19.95. Formats: DVD. (A&E).
Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention
(2010) Contains the complete six-part BBC1 TV series featuring Wallace as host introducing viewers to a number of amazing, real-world contraptions.< B>Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: "Your World of Invention," which details how to build six of your own cracking contraptions. $14.99. (Lionsgate).
The Women on the 6th Floor
(2010 -- France) Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke, Carmen Maura. An upstairs/downstairs comedy set in Paris in 1960. A bourgeois couple's world is turned upside-down when they hire Maria, a Spanish maid. Through Maria, husband Jean-Louis is introduced to an alternative reality just a few floors up on the building's sixth floor, the servants' quarters, where he befriends a group of sassy Spanish maids, refugees of the Franco regime, who teach him there's more to life than stocks and bonds, and whose influence on the house will ultimately transform everyone's life.
Formats: DVD. (Strand Releasing).
Xena: Warrior Princess -- Season Three
(1997-98) Five-disc set with 22 episodes. (Universal).
Young Adult
(2011) Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Collette Wolfe, Jill Eikenberry, Richard Bekins, Mary Beth Hurt. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, UltraViolet (cloud); VOD and Digital available March 9. Extras: Commentary by director Jason Reitman, director of photography Eric Steelberg and first assistant director/associate producer Jason A. Blumenfeld; "The Awful Truth: Deconstructing a Scene"; deleted scenes. Blu-ray adds "Misery Loves Company: The Making of Young Adult," Q&A featuring Janet Maslin & Jason Reitman at the Jacob Burns Film Center. (Paramount).
The Descendants
Based on the best-selling novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings and set in Hawaii, "The Descendants" is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King (George Clooney), an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki, putting her into a coma. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with the revelation that his wife was having an affair with a married man, as well as having to decide whether or not to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
Vitals: Director: Alexander Payne. Stars: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause, Robert Forster, Beau Bridges, Matt Corboy.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 115 min., Comedy Drama, Box office gross: $75.572 million, Fox.
The Adventures of Tintin
First in the series of 3D motion capture films based on the iconic character created by Georges Remi, better known to the world by his pen name "Herge." The film stars Jamie Bell as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig as the nefarious Red Rackham. Tintin is on the trail of a big story, and when he uncovers the directions to a sunken ship, the young boy and his dog Snowy go off to find the treasure it contained. The sunken ship may hold a vast fortune -- but also an ancient curse -- and Tintin must face off against the notorious Rackham before he solves the mystery.
Vitals: Director: Steven Spielberg. Stars: Voices of Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Toby Jones.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 106 min., Family Adventure, Box office gross: $76.323 million, Paramount.
My Week With Marilyn
In the early summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of "The Prince and the Showgirl," the film that famously united Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Nearly 40 years later, his diary account, "The Prince, the Showgirl and Me," was published, but one week was missing, and this was published some years later as "My Week With Marilyn." This is the story of that week. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life: An idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
Vitals: Director:. Stars: Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Julia Ormond, Kenneth Branagh, Pip Torrens, Emma Watson.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 96 min., Drama, Box office gross: $11.501 million, The Weinstein Co.
Young Adult
A writer of teen literature (Charlize Theron) returns to her small hometown in Minnesota to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her high school sweetheart, who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter. When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, she forms an unusual bond with a former classmate who hasn't quite gotten over high school either.
Vitals: Director: Jason Reitman. Stars: Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Collette Wolfe, Jill Eikenberry, Richard Bekins, Mary Beth Hurt.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 93 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $16.193 million, Paramount.
Melancholia
In this strange movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgard) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire's best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth.
Vitals: Director: Lars von Trier. Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Alexander Skarsgard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgard, Brady Corbet, Udo Kier.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 135 min., Drama, Box office gross: $2.539 million, Magnolia.
Happy Feet Two
The sequel to "Happy Feet" returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica. Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven -- a penguin who can fly! Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model. But things get worse when the world is shaken by powerful forces. Erik learns of his father's "guts and grit" as Mumble brings together the penguin nations and all manner of fabulous creatures -- from tiny Krill to giant Elephant Seals -- to put things right.
Vitals: Director: George Miller. Stars: Voices of Carlos Alazraqui, Lombardo Boyar, Jeffrey Garcia, Johnny A. Sanchez, Sofia Vergara, Robin Williams, Elijah Wood, Pink, Ava Acres, Benjamin Flores Jr, Common, Magda Szubanski, Hugo Weaving, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 100 min., Animated Family, Box office gross: $62.091 million, Warner.
The Three Musketeers
After discovering an evil conspiracy to overthrow the King, the three Musketeers -- Porthos, Athos, and Aramis, who serve the King of France -- come across a young, aspiring hero — D'Artagnan — and take him under their wing. Together, the four embark on a dangerous mission to foil the plot by a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer that not only threatens the Crown, but the future of Europe itself.
Vitals: Director: Paul W.S. Anderson. Stars: Logan Lerman, Luke Evans, Ray Stevenson, Matthew Macfadyen, Christoph Waltz, Orlando Bloom, Mads Mikkelsen, Milla Jovovich, Juno Temple, James Corden, Til Schweiger, Gabriella Wilde.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 110 min., Action Adventure, Box office gross: $20.315 million, Summit.
The Last Temptation of Christ
(1988) (Criterion)
Wizards 35th Anniversary Edition
(1977)
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Formats: DVD. $29.95. (Docurama).
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