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Beautiful Wave
(2011) Aimee Teegarden, Patricia Richardson, Lance Henriksen, Helen Slater. In Santa Cruz for the summer, a young woman discovers the sport of surfing -- and a family secret as well. Filmed on location in Malibu and Santa Cruz, Calif., and Baja, Mexico, the film follows the summer adventure of introspective teen Nicole (Teegarden), who is sent from her home in New York City to sunny Santa Cruz to spend her vacation with her estranged grandmother. Upon her arrival, Nicole meets a group of locals who work at her grandmother's surf shop. After encountering a mysterious vintage truck and special map left behind by the grandfather (Henriksen) she never met, Nicole and her new friends set out on a road trip to find the elusive "untouched" surf spot off the Baja coast. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. (Anchor Bay).
The Big C: The Complete Second Season
(2011) Three-disc set with 13 episodes, $45.99. Formats: DVD. Extras: Deleted scenes, gag reel. (Sony).
Chuck: The Complete Fifth and Final Season
(2011) Five-disc set with 13 episodes. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Three hours of never-before-seen bonus features, including six brand-new featurettes, two full-length commentaries, deleted scenes, gag reel, and an extended version of the series finale episode. (Warner).
Cold War: The Complete Series
(2011) Six-disc set with 24 episodes of the CNN documentary series that outlines the events that shaped the course of the Cold War and the United States' relationship with the Soviet Union. Released in time to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. $68.92. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, each episode delivers an impactful account of the events that fueled the rivalry between world superpowers, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The story of the Cold War is depicted through the use of striking, historical newsreel footage and interviews from key leaders and political figures such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Fidel Castro, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Lech Walesa and others. The series' 24 episodes take viewers through major historical events that impacted the world and shaped the Cold War, including the Russian Revolution in 1917, World War II, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and much more.
Formats: DVD, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: "The Hoaxters," the Academy Award-nominated (Best Documentary, Features, 1953) propaganda film that offers a short history of Russian communism and warns against its dangers to the American way of life; "Castro in His Own Words": Pat Mitchell's extensive interview with Cuban leader Fidel Castro in its entirety. (Warner).
Doctor Who: Nightmare Of Eden
When two spacecrafts collide together after emerging from hyperspace, mayhem breaks loose. From the mad scientist Professor Tryst, who is in possession of the Continuous Event Transmuter, to the unknown drug smuggler of addictive drug vraxion, the fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana (Lalla Ward) are in for a wild ride. Formats: DVD. (BBC Worldwide Americas).
Doctor Who: Dragonfire
At the Iceworld Space Trading Colony on Svartos, the seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Mel (Bonnie Langford) unexpectedly encounter an old "friend," the penniless and desperate Sabalom Glitz, whom they join to find the fabled "Dragonfire" treasure concealed somewhere in the depths of the planet. Formats: DVD. (BBC Worldwide Americas).
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
On the planet Terra Alpha, where sadness is against the law and is enforced by the uniformed Happiness Patrol, the Doctor and Ace find themselves in a sugar nightmare as they try to topple the entire regime in just one night. Formats: DVD. (BBC Worldwide Americas).
Elvira's Movie Macabre: Wild Women
Two-disc set with four 'B' films: "Untamed Women" (1952), about a tribe of beautiful, primitive cave-women discovered by a stranded American bomber pilot during WWII; "Hercules and the Captive Women" (1961), in which the mighty and heroic Hercules battles the seductive powers of the wicked Queen of Atlantis; "Wild Women of Wongo," from iconic director Roger Corman, starring Adrienne Barbeau as one of the Wild Women tasked with fending off a tribe of evil ape men; "The Wasp Woman" (1959), Susan Cabot's ("Machine-Gun Kelly") final film, in which she turns into a lusting Queen Wasp after administering a serum developed to stop the aging process. Formats: DVD. Extras: "Elvira's Movie Macabre Behind the Scenes Footage," "Photo Shoot With Chris Ameruso," "Mistress of the Dark" music video by Ghoultown "and "The Making of Ghoultown Video." (Entertainment One).
Fantasy Island: The Complete Second Season
(1978-79) Six-disc set with 25 episodes, $39.97. Formats: DVD. (Shout! Factory).
Frontline: Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown
(2012) In the desperate hours and days after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the fate of thousands of Japanese citizens fell into the hands of a small corps of engineers, firemen and soldiers who risked their lives to prevent the Daiichi nuclear complex from complete meltdown. Now, one year later, Frontline presents their story, with rare footage from inside the plant and eyewitness testimony. Formats: DVD. $24.99. (PBS Distribution).
The Genesis Code
(2010) Logan Bartholemew, Kelsey Sanders, Lance Henriksen, Fred Thomas, Louise Fletcher. A college hockey player and a female journalism student struggle to find common ground with their spiritual faith and scientific studies. Formats: DVD. (Entertainment One).
Girl Fight
(2011) Anne Heche, James Tupper. Inspired by a true story, this is the harrowing tale of a school girl who runs afoul of some friends on social media, is beaten by them, and further humiliated when the girls post the beating video on the Internet. Formats: DVD. (A&E).
Inside Nature's Giants: Great White Shark
(2012) An international team of experts explore the Great White Shark's anatomy to find out how it has evolved into one of the most feared predators in the ocean. Formats: DVD. $19.99. (PBS Distribution).
Kawa
(2011 -- New Zealand) Calvin Tuteao, Nathalie Bolt, George Henare, Vicki Haughton, Dean O'Gorman. A critically-acclaimed psychological drama that follows Kawa, a successful businessman in Auckland, New Zealand, as he is forced to reveal his lifelong secret that he is gay. Adapted from the Witi Ihimaera novel "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" by writer-director Katie Wolfe. Formats: DVD, Digital Download. Extras: (Wolfe Video).
La haine
(1995) Mathieu Kassovitz ("The Crimson Rivers") took the film world by storm with "La haine (Hate)", a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieues on Paris's outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Kounde), and Said (Said Taghmaoui) white, black, and Arabgive human faces to France's immigrant and otherwise marginalized populations, their resentment at their situation simmering until it reaches a boiling point. A work of tough beauty, "La haine" is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country's ongoing identity crisis. Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Mathieu Kassovitz, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. Formats: Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Introduction by actor Jodie Foster; "Ten Years of La haine," an 80-minute documentary that brings together cast and crew a decade after the film's landmark release; featurette on the film's banlieue setting, including interviews with sociologists Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jeffrey Fagan, and William Kornblum; production footage; deleted and extended scenes, each featuring an afterword by Kassovit; gallery of behind-the-scenes photos; trailers; booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 2006 appreciation by Costa-Gavras. (The Criterion Collection).
Love's Everlasting Courage
(2011 -- TV) Wes Brown, Cheryl Ladd, Bruce Boxleitner, Julie Mond. Takes place in the early West and follows a young husband's trials in raising his child after his wife's unexpected death. Another film based on the "Love Comes Softly" series by Janette Oke. Formats: DVD. (Fox).
Menopause in an Hour: An Appointment With Tara Allmen, MD
(2012) A two-disc set that explains menopause to the 40+ million women in North America who are experiencing it or are about to experience it. The clear and concise user-friendly program also helps family and friends understand and get involved. Includes a 48-page guidebook, "Symptoms and Solutions," that addresses hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness, sexual interest, weight gain, mood changes, cognitive issues and more. Formats: DVD. $24.98. (True Mind).
Mother's Day
(2010) Rebecca De Mornay, Jaime King, Patrick John Flueger, Warren Kole, Deborah Ann Woll. The sadistic members of a villainous family -- headed up by their mother -- return to their childhood home to terrorize the new home owners and their guests. Remake of the Troma cult film. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo. Extras: Commentary. (Anchor Bay).
Playback
(2011) Christian Slater, Johnny Pacar, Toby Hemingway, Amber Childers. The unnerving film follows a group of high school students who begin to dig into their town's infamous past and unwittingly unlock a dark secret that has been kept hidden for years. Now an evil spirit has awakened and will stop at nothing to get what it wants. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. (Magnolia Home Entertainment).
Plot of Fear
(1976 -- Italy) Michele Placido, Corninne Clery. Told through ingenious flashbacks, the film tells the story of a group of wealthy men and women who get murdered one by one at a decadent weekend party. In his attempt to find a connection between the victims, Inspector Lomenzo encounters a mysterious fashion model who becomes his informant. She reveals that at the drugged-out sex party one of the young girls was "accidently" killed during a gruesome practical joke ... but it seems that someone at the party is killing the others, but who and why?
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, VOD, Digital Download, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Interviews. (Rarovideo/Entertainment One).
Shock Labyrinth 3D
(2009) Yagira Yuya, Maeda Ai, Renbutsu Misako, Katsuji Ryo. Japan's first full-length, live-action digital 3D feature, directed by Takashi Shimizu ("The Grudge"). The horror-thriller follows a group of teenagers dealing with the sudden return of a friend who went missing a decade ago. When the friend falls ill they take her to a hospital, but end up trapped in a horrific labyrinth. The film was inspired by Fuji-Q High Land's famous "Labyrinth of Horrors" haunted house ride, and the film was shot at night in the amusement park.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray/DVD Combo. Extras: Making-of featurette "Behind-the-Scenes of Shock Labyrinth," interviews with the filmmakers. (Well Go USA).
Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
(2012) Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, Digital Download. (Magnolia).
Tom & Jerry: Around the World
Single-disc with 22-cartoon collection consisting of classic theatrical shorts and episodes from "Tom & Jerry Tales," $19.97.
Formats: DVD, UltraViolet (cloud). (Warner).
The Twilight Zone: More Fan Favorites
(1959 - 1964) Five-disc set with 20 episodes from the legendary series, $29.98.
Formats: DVD. (Image Entertainment).
Underworld: Awakening
(2011) Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Michael Ealy, Theo James, India Eisley, Sandrine Holt, Charles Dance. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, 3D Blu-ray, Digital Download, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Filmmaker commentary. Blu-ray adds blooper reel; "Heavy Prey" music video by Lacey Sturm featuring Geno Lenardo; five behind-the-scenes featurettes: "Selene Rises," "Casting the Future of Underworld," "Resuming the Action," "Building a Better Lycan" and "Awakening a Franchise, Building a Brutal New World"; "Cracking the Underworld" picture-in-picture experience that takes viewers on a visual journey through the history of all four "Underworld" films. 3D Blu-ray loses the "Cracking the Underworld" feature but adds previsualization 3D sequences. (Sony).
Vega$: The Third Season, Volume One
(1980-81) Three-disc set with 12 episodes, $39.99. Formats: DVD. (CBS/Paramount).
The Vow
(2012) Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Sam Neill, Jessica Lange, Scott Speedman. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo,Digital Download, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Commentary by director Michael Sucsy, deleted scenes, gag reel. Blu-ray adds three featurettes. (Sony).
Underworld: Awakening
After awakening from a 15-year coma, Selene find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species. To complicate matters, she discovers she has a vampire-Lycan hybrid daughter; the two must team to stop a bio-tech company from creating an army of super-Lycans. Vitals: Director: Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein. Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Michael Ealy, Theo James, India Eisley, Sandrine Holt, Charles Dance. 2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 88 min., Action Fantasy, Box office gross: $62.321 million, Sony.
Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
An all new feature film from the twisted minds of cult comedy heroes Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim ("Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job"). Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime ... and the sinister Schlaaang corporation is pissed. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back. When they happen upon a chance to rehabilitate a bankrupt mall full of vagrants, bizarre stores and a man-eating wolf that stalks the food court, they see dollar signs -- a billion of them. Vitals: Director: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. Stars: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim.
2012, CC, MPAA rating: R, 94 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $.087 million, Magnolia.
The Vow
Paige and Leo (Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum) are a happy newlywed couple whose lives are changed by a car accident that puts Paige in a coma. Waking up with severe memory loss, Paige has no memory of Leo, a confusing relationship with her parents (Sam Neill and Jessica Lange), and an ex-fiance (Scott Speedman) she may still have feelings for. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.
Vitals: Director: Michael Sucsy. Stars: Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Sam Neill, Jessica Lange, Scott Speedman.
2012, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 104 min., Romantic Drama, Box office gross: $122.776 million, Sony.
La haine
(1995)
Bringing Down the House
(2003)
Father of the Bride/Father of the Bride II
(1991/1996)
The War
(2007)
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