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Bhutto
(2011) Documentary about Benazir Bhutto, the first woman in history elected to lead a Muslim nation. A favored daughter of the family often called the "Kennedys of Pakistan," Benazir was elected Prime Minister after her father was overthrown and executed by his own military. Her time in power saw acts of courage and controversy as she broke the Islamic glass ceiling, fought for the rights of women, and tried to quell the fires of religious extremism, while battling accusations of corruption. She was assassinated in December, 2007. (First Run Features).
Black Death
(2010) Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, David Warner, Carice Van Houten. Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is tasked with learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village. Extras: Behind-the-scenes footage, making-of featurette. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Magnolia Home Entertainment/Magnet Label).
Blood Junkie
(2010) Nick Sommer, Mike Johnson, Sarah Luther. A hyper-hipster 1980s horror comedy about a group of teenagers who discover a mysterious abandoned building where bad things happen. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurette, commentary. (Troma/CAV Distributing).
Blood Oath
(2007) Sarah Bloodworth, Tiffany Sheppis, Jamie Alford. A group of friends on a weekend camping trip decide to investigate a local urban legend about a twisted and evil being who feeds on the bodies of those who enter his domain. Extras:Behind-the-scenes featurette, outtakes. (Troma/CAV Distributing).
Blue Valentine
(2010) Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Faith Wladyka, John Doman, Mike Vogel. Extras: Commentary by director Derek Cianfrance and co-editor Jim Helton, "making-of" featurette, home movie, deleted scenes. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (The Weinstein Co./Anchor Bay).
Classic Doctor Who
Story 55: "Terror of the Autons" (1971, with Jon Pertwee) and Story 74: "Planet of the Spiders" (1971, with Jon Pertwee); $24.98 each. (Warner)
Christmas In July
(1940) Dir.: Preston Sturges; Dick Powell, Ellen Drew. (Universal Cinema Classics).
Cougars, Inc.
(2011) Sarah Hyland, Denise Richards, James Belushi, Kyle Gallner, Kathryn Morris, Rebecca Mader. Kicked out of every high school across the country, a young man steps up to help his mother pay for his education by launching Cougars, Inc., an escort service that allows a generation of women trying to hold onto their youth a second chance at love. Extras: Cast and Crew commentary, "The Ultimate Cougar" featurette. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Lionsgate).
Dahmer vs. Gacy
(2011) Art LaFleur, Harland Williams, Ford Austin, Randal Malone. Deep within a secret government lab, a scientist is obsessively working to create the ultimate killer by combining the DNA of two of the world's most infamous serial murderers: Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy. But all hell is unleashed when a freak accident allows their escape ... and the only hope of stopping the carnage is Ringo, a holy, buckets-of-crazy soldier "trained by God" who enters battle with a shotgun in one hand and a whiskey bottle in the other. (Walking Shadows/Virgil Films & Entertainment).
Hail The Conquering Hero
(1944) Dir.: Preston Sturges; Eddie Bracken. (Universal Cinema Classics).
The Hit List
(2011) Cuba Gooding Jr., Cole Hauser, Jonathan LaPaglia, Ginny Weirick. A down-on-his-luck businessman (Hauser) meets a mysterious stranger (Gooding Jr.) at a bar who claims to be a professional hit man, who offers to take out five targets, free of charge. Thinking it's a bad joke, the man jots down his own private hit list. To his shock, the hit man starts to make good on his promise. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Sony).
I Love Toy Trains: All Aboard!
(2011) A children's video for kids of all ages. Features live-action footage -- irresistible toy and real train action, elaborate layouts, train trivia, and six new songs by award-winning composer James Coffey. Includes the world's largest G-scale layout at the Living desert in California and a giant Lego train layout. $9.99. (TM Books & Video).
I Saw the Devil
(2010 -- South Korea) Dir.: Kim Ji-Woon; Lee Byung-Hun, Choi Min-Sik. When his pregnant fiancee becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, a secret agent blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurette, deleted scenes. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Magnolia Home Entertainment).
The Illusionist
(2010 -- France) Dir.: Sylvain Chomet; voices of Jean-Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin. Extras: "The Making of The Illusionist" featurette, "The Animation Process": A rare look at the line tests and progression sequences for seven scenes in the film. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Sony).
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
(2011) Documentary on the teen singing sensation. Available on DVD and in a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack. Extras: "Concert Dance-Off" with Bieber and his crew, "Favorite Girl" live performance from Madison Square Garden, "Giving Back" in which Bieber's team surprises fans with free tickets, "R.I.P. Hair Flip" Bieber haircut video. Blu-ray combo adds BD Live commentary by director Jon Chu, digital copy. (Paramount).
Killer Yacht Party
(2006) Kate Luyben. Partygoers on a private yacht looking to have fun on the high seas become fish food when one of the passengers turns out to be a blood thirsty nut job. Extras: Commentary. (Troma/CAV Distributing).
My First Collection Featuring Splat the Cat
(2010) Debut of Scholastic Storybook Treasures' "My First" series, a new line of DVDs created specifically to support early literacy skills and a love of reading in the pre- and early reader. Three-disc set with ""Splat The Cat ... and Other Furry Friends," "The Story About Ping ... and Other Fine Feathered Friends" and "The Napping House ... and Other Stories That Rhyme," $24.95. (Scholastic Storybook Treasures).
My Little Chickadee
(1940) Mae West, W.C. Fields. (Universal Cinema Classics).
Nova: The Smartest Machine on Earth: Can A Computer Win on Jeopardy!?
(2010) Documentary on Watson, the computer that competed on "Jeopardy!" $24.99. (PBS Distribution).
Now & Later
(2009) A former golden boy of the banking industry, Bill gets caught illegally trading assets of emerging nations and becomes a fugitive running from a prison term; deserted by his wife and friends, on the verge of suicide, he is sheltered by kind and free-spirited Angela, an illegal immigrant, who's created a magical world on a rooftop in East L.A. In a dance of politics and soul-searching leading to a passionate, uninhibited affair, Angela tears down and rebuilds the foundations of Bill's life. A film of political, social and sexual liberation. Extras: Deleted sex scenes, interviews with the cast. (Cinema Libre Studio).
Shalom Sesame: Grover Learns Hebrew
(2011) Eighth of a 12-part series that sees the Sesame Street characters travel to Israel to introduce Jewish holidays, traditions and cultures to viewers of all ages. Here Grover learns a lot of new words in Hebrew. $14.95. (SISU Home Entertainment).
Shalom Sesame: Countdown to Shavout
(2011) Ninth of a 12-part series that sees the Sesame Street characters travel to Israel to introduce Jewish holidays, traditions and cultures to viewers of all ages. This episodes celebrates the harvest festival Shavout.$14.95. (SISU Home Entertainment).
The Sign of the Cross
(1932) Dir.: Cecil B. DeMille; Charles Laughton, Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert. (Universal Cinema Classics).
Sledgehammer
(1983) Notorious as the first shot-on-tape slasher film (direct-to-video) for the then-exploding 1980s home video market. A young boy murders his mother and her lover with a hammer; 10 years later, a wave of teenage murders plagues the same area. (Severin Films).
Something Wild
(1986) A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous -- just the beginning of a capricious interstate road trip that brings the two face-to-face with their hidden selves. Featuring a killer soundtrack and electric performances from Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith and Ray Liotta, "Something Wild," directed by oddball American auteur Jonathan Demme ("Stop Making Sense," "The Silence of the Lambs"), is both a kinky comic thriller and a radiantly off-kilter love story. New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Tak Fujimoto and approved by director Jonathan Demme, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition. Extras: New video interviews with Demme and writer E. Max Frye, original theatrical trailer, booklet featuring a new essay by film critic David Thompson. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (The Criterion Collection).
Webster: The Complete Second Season
(1983-84) Four-disc set with 26 episodes, $29.93. (Shout! Factory).
Blue Valentine
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams star in this honest, moving, and uninhibited love story. A complex portrait of a contemporary American marriage, "Blue Valentine" tells the story of David and Cindy, a couple who have been together for several years but who are at an impasse in their relationship. While Cindy has blossomed into a woman with opportunities and options, David is still the same person he was when they met, and is unable to accept either Cindy's growth or his lack of it. The narrative unfolds in two distinct time frames, juxtaposing scenes of first love and youthful sexuality, with those of disenchantment and discord as they spend a night away from their daughter in an attempt to save the failing marriage. Director Derek Cianfrance creates a raw, naturalistic portrayal of the relationship, while simultaneously depicting two young people making that first, intoxicating romantic connection through music, dance and silly jokes. As it traces the arc of Dean and Cindy's relationship, the film poses questions that touch us all: How do you sustain love? Is it even possible to do so? What do you when your dreams don't come true, or your life doesn't go as planned? What do you do when your partner doesn't deliver on the promise of his or her potential? Highlighted by uncompromising scenes of sexual intimacy and emotional intensity.
Vitals: Director: Derek Cianfrance. Stars: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Faith Wladyka, John Doman, Mike Vogel. 2010, CC, MPAA rating: R, 120 min., Drama, Box office gross: $8.829 million, The Weinstein Co./Anchor Bay.
No Strings Attached
Emma (Natalie Portman) and Adam (Ashton Kutcher) are life-long friends who almost ruin everything by having sex one morning. In order to protect their friendship, they make a pact to keep their relationship strictly "no strings attached." "No strings" means no jealousy, no expectations, no fighting, no flowers, no baby voices. It means they can do whatever they want, whenever they want, in whatever public place they want, as long as they don't fall in love. The question becomes -- who's going to fall first? And can their friendship survive?
Vitals: Director: Ivan Reitman. Stars: Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Olivia Thirlby, Mindy Kaling, Cary Elwes, Greta Gerwig, Kevin Kline, Lake Bell.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 108 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $70.257 million, Paramount.
The Illusionist
Based on the script by French comic legend Jacques Tati and directed by two-time Oscar-nominee Sylvain Chomet ("The Triplets of Belleville"). A rich and touching animated feature about the father-daughter relationship between an aging magician whose art is slowly becoming obsolete and a young orphan girl just at the start of life's journey. The script -- originally penned by the late Jaques Tati ("Mr. Hulot's Holiday," "Mon Oncle") as a love letter to his daughter -- serendipitously found its way into the hands of Chomet by way of his sole surviving daughter, Sophie Tatischeff, who thought his hand-drawn animation style would perfectly suit the film. An outdated, aging magician, forced to wander from country to country, city to city and station to station in search of a stage to perform his act, meets a young girl at the start of her life's journey. Alice is a teenage girl with all her capacity for childish wonder still intact. She plays at being a woman without realizing the day to stop pretending is fast approaching. She doesn't know yet that she loves The Illusionist like she would a father; he already knows that he loves her as he would a daughter. Their destinies will collide, but nothing -- not even the magic or the power of illusion -- can stop the voyage of discovery.
Vitals: Director: Sylvain Chomet. Stars: Voices of Jean-Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin. In French with English subtitles. 2010, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 80 min., Animated, Box office gross: $1.974 million, Sony.
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
Inside look at the rise of Justin Bieber from street performer in the small town of Stratford, Ontario to internet phenomenon to global super star culminating with a dream sold out show at New York's famed Madison Square Garden. In 3D no less.Vitals: Director: Jon M. Chu.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: G, 105 min., Documentary, Box office gross: $72.686 million, Paramount.
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