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Bob Dylan Revealed
Curious George Plays Ball
(2011) Eight episodes from the kids TV series. (Universal).
The Dilemma
(2011) Dir.: Ron Howard; Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, Channing Tatum, Queen Latifah. Extras: Alternate ending, seven deleted scenes, gag reel, "This Is The Dilemma" featurette. Also available on Blu-ray Disc, which adds seven more deleted scenes; "Tour Chicago" featurette with Vaughn taking viewers to some of the city's locations used in the film; "On Ice" featurette with Vaughn, James and Howard on the ice at Chicago's United Center the year the Blackhawk's won the Stanley Cup; BD-Live; digital copy. (Universal).
Dora The Explorer: It's Haircut Day!
(2011) Four episodes from the popular pre-school series: "Dora's Hair Raising Adventure," "Happy Birthday, Super Babies," "Baby Winky Goes Home!" and "Dora's Pegaso Adventure"; $16.99. (Nickelodeon/Paramount).
Drop Dead Diva: The Complete Second Season
(2010) Three-disc set with 13 episodes, $29.95. Extras: Deleted scenes, "Begin Again" music video, three behind-the-scenes featurettes. (Sony).
From Prada to Nada
(2011) Camilla Belle, Alexa Vega, Wilmer Valderrama, April Bowlby, Nicholas D'Agosto. Extras: "From Nada to Prada" featurette, "My Family, Mi Familia" featurette, bloopers, deleted scenes. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Lionsgate).
The Green Hornet
(2010) Dir.: Michel Gondry; Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Tom Wilkinson, Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz. Available as a three-disc Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack (Blu-ray 3D, a 2D Blu-ray and a DVD), Blu-ray and DVD. Extras: "Awesoom" gag reel, filmmakers' commentary, "Writing The Green Hornet" featurette, "The Black Beauty: Rebirth of Cool" featurette. Blu-ray adds: "The Green Hornet Cutting Room," deleted scenes, "Trust Me" featurette on director Michel Gondry, "The Stunt Family Armstrong" featurette, "Finding Kato" featurette, "The Art of Destruction" featurette, movieIQ, Jay Chou audition (Easter Egg), Double Barrel (Easter Egg). 3D Blu-ray adds: 3D animated storyboard comparisons. (Sony).
Identity
(2010) North American debut of the British high-tech crime procedural about an elite police team charged with investigating the high-stakes world of identity theft. Two-disc set with six episodes, $39.99. (Acorn Media).
Mao's Last Dancer
(2010) Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Amanda Schull. Extras: "The Making of Mao's Last Dancer." Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Fox).
Megan Is Missing
(2011) Amber Perkins, Rachel Quinn, Dean Waite. Fictional drama based on actual events, about two teenage girls who encounter an Internet predator and disappear. Based on seven real cases of child abduction. (Anchor Bay).
Melrose Place Season Six Volume One
(1997) Three-disc set with 13 episodes, $42.99. (CBS/Paramount).
Penn and Teller: Bullshit! The Eighth Season
(2010) Ten episodes, $29.99. (CBS/Paramount).
A Somewhat Gentle Man
(2010 -- Norway) Stellan Skarsgard. A dark comedy about Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgard), a somewhat gentle man, as far as gangsters go, who comes home after 12 years in prison to a world he no longer knows. Though his old boss wants Ulrik to rejoin his old colleagues, Ulrik just wants to be left alone -- and he's losing his hair. (Strand Releasing).
True Blood: The Complete Third
Season
(2010) Five-disc set with 12 episodes, $59.99. (HBO).
Waiting for Forever
(2010) Rachel Bilson, Tom Sturridge, Richard Jenkins, Blythe Danner, Nikki Blonsky, Jaime King. A quirky street performer with a free spirit and a heart of pure gold reunites with his childhood sweetheart, an actress with a complicated past. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Fox).
The Green Hornet
Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is the son of L.A.'s most prominent and respected media magnate and perfectly happy to maintain a directionless existence on the party scene -- until his father (Tom Wilkinson) mysteriously dies, leaving Britt his vast media empire. Striking an unlikely friendship with one of his father's more industrious and inventive employees, Kato (Jay Chou), they see their chance to do something meaningful for the first time in their lives: fight crime. But in order to do this, they decide to become criminals themselves -- protecting the law by breaking it, Britt becomes the vigilante The Green Hornet as he and Kato hit the streets. Using all his ingenuity and skill, Kato builds the ultimate in advanced retro weaponry, The Black Beauty, an indestructible car equal parts firepower and horsepower. Rolling in a mobile fortress on wheels and striking the bad guys with Kato's clever gadgets, The Green Hornet and Kato quickly start making a name for themselves, and with the help of Britt's new secretary, Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz), they begin hunting down the man who controls L.A.'s gritty underworld: Benjamin Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz). But Chudnofsky has plans of his own: to swat down The Green Hornet once and for all. Vitals: Director: Michel Gondry. Stars: Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Tom Wilkinson, Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz.
2010, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 108 min., Action, Box office gross: $96.637 million, Sony.
The Dilemma
Since college, confirmed bachelor Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and happily married Nick (Kevin James) have been through thick and thin. Now partners in an auto design firm, the two pals are vying to land a dream project that would really launch their company. With Ronny's girlfriend, Beth, and Nick's wife, Geneva, by their sides, they're unbeatable. But Ronny's world is turned upside down when he inadvertently sees Geneva out with another man and makes it his mission to get answers. As the amateur investigation dissolves his world into comic mayhem, he learns that Nick has a few secrets of his own. Now, with the clock ticking and pressure mounting on the biggest presentation of their careers, Ronny must decide how and when he will reveal the truth to his best friend.
Vitals: Director: Ron Howard. Stars: Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, Channing Tatum, Queen Latifah. 2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 118 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $48.221 million, Universal.
Mao's Last Dancer
Based on Li Cunxin's bestselling autobiography of the same name,
"Mao's Last Dancer" is the fascinating and epic tale of Li Cunxin, a
peasant boy from rural China who beats impossible odds to become a
world-renowned ballet dancer. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a
poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to
Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to
Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he
managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for
the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian
Ballet.
Vitals: Director: Bruce
Beresford. Stars: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan
Chen, Amanda Schull.
2010, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 117 min., Drama, Box office gross:
$4,664 million, Fox.
From Prada to Nada
A contemporary, Latina version of Jane Austen's classic novel "Sense and Sensibility." Two sisters, one a young beauty who chooses passion over logic, the other a law student whose fixed moral compass keeps her from following her desires, are uprooted from their luxurious home when their father suddenly passes away. Out of money and out of options, the women move into their Great Aunt Aurelia's modest, but lively home in the Latino-centric Boyle Heights neighborhood of East L.A., where they find themselves thrown into a world that, despite their heritage, seems completely foreign. Over time, they discover the beauty of the culture they once fought so desperately to hide. And in the process they find the one thing that had eluded them: love.
Vitals: Director: Angel Gracia. Stars: Camilla Belle, Alexa Vega, Wilmer Valderrama, April Bowlby, Nicholas D'Agosto.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 107 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $3.016 million, Lionsgate.
(2010) When Bob Dylan turns 70 in May, his iconic career will have spanned five decades. Through exclusive insider interviews, and never-before-seen photos and footage spanning Dylan's 50-year career, "Bob Dylan Revealed" offers an intimate biography of who Bob Dylan was, and who he is today. Producer Jerry Wexler and award-winning songwriter Al Kasha provide an account of Dylan's early days at Columbia Records in 1962. Drummer Mickey Jones chronicles the 1966 Bob Dylan and the Band electric world tour that changed rock 'n' roll forever, while soon after, Dylan used the cover of a motorcycle accident to enter drug rehab. Dylan's 1974 comeback tour is illustrated by tour photographer Barry Feinstein through his finest photos and behind-the-scenes accounts. In 1975, Bob Dylan hit the road with a rag-tag band of folk troubadours, culminating in "The Night of the Hurricane." Following a stint as The Entertainer in 1978, Bob Dylan fell into the arms of the Lord through the Vineyard Christian Fellowship Church, producing three Gospel albums. Pastor Bill Dwyer, journalist Joel Selvin, singer Regina McCrary, keyboardist Spooner Oldham, and Dylanologist AJ Weberman share intimate accounts of Bob Dylan's "born-again" transformation -- and his return to Judaism. The film culminates with Dylan's Never Ending Tour that began in 1992 and continues to this day. $14.95. (Highway 61 Entertainment and MVD Visual).
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