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OnVideo's Weekly Guide to Home Video Releases Get the latest DVD release information (free) every Tuesday morning. Subscribe here. Follow OnVideo on Last Week's Releases: May 4-10 Tuesday, May 11 -- Monday, May 17 All DVD Releases This Week's Top Pick: Daybreakers The year is 2019. A mysterious plague has swept over the earth, transforming the majority of the world's population into vampires. Humans are now an endangered, second-class species -- forced into hiding as they are hunted and farmed for vampire consumption to the brink of extinction. It's all up to Edward Dalton, a vampire researcher who refuses to feed on human blood, to perfect a blood substitute that might sustain vampires and spare the few remaining humans. But time and hope are running out -- until Ed meets Audrey, a human survivor who leads him to a startling medical breakthrough. Armed with knowledge that both humans and vampires will kill for, Ed must battle his own kind in a deadly struggle that will decide the fate of the human race. Vitals: Director: Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig. Stars: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman, Sam Neill, Vince Colosimo, Isabel Lucas. 2010, CC, MPAA rating: R, 98 min., Horror, Box office gross: $29.423 million, Lionsgate. Advertisement Edge of Darkness Thriller set at the intersection of politics and big business. Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) is a veteran homicide detective on the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his only child, 24-year-old Emma (Bojana Novakovic), is murdered on the steps of his home, everyone assumes that he was the target. But he soon suspects otherwise, and embarks on a mission to find out about his daughter's secret life and her killing. His investigation leads him into a dangerous, looking-glass world of corporate cover-ups, government collusion and murder -- and to shadowy government operative Darius Jedburgh (Ray Winstone), who has been sent in to clean up the evidence. Craven's solitary search for answers about his daughter's death transforms into an odyssey of emotional discovery and redemption. Vitals: Director: Martin Campbell. Stars: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts, Bojana Novakovic, Frank Grillo, Gbenga Akinnagbe. 2010, CC, MPAA rating: R, 117 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $40.310 million, Warner. Legion In this supernatural action thriller, an out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner and the Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany). Their mission: protect a waitress and her sacred unborn child from the relentless, bloody siege of the demonic legion. Vitals: Director: Scott Stewart. Stars: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Doug Jones, Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki, Kevin Durand, Willa Holland. 2010, CC, MPAA rating: R, 100 min., Sci-Fi Horror, Box office gross: $36.101 million, Sony. Watch the "Legion" trailer All DVD Releases Billy Owens and the Secret of the Runes (2010) Dalton Mugridge, Ciara O'Hanlon, Christopher Fazio, Mikayla Ottonello, Roddy Piper. Three students have to find a way to free their teacher's soul from an enchanted amulet. (MTI Home Video). Cantinflas Collection Four classic slapstick comedies featuring the Mexican comedian, first time on DVD: "El Gendarme Desconocido" (The Undercover Policeman) 1941; "Los Tres Mosqueteros" (The Three Musketeers) 1942, "El Circo" (The Circus) 1943, "A Volar Joven" (1947); $14.94. (Sony). Daria: The Complete Animated Series (1997-2001) Eight-disc set with all five seasons of the MTV animated series. Extras: Both movies, cast & crew interviews, the pilot "Sealed With a Kick," Daria Day intros, more. (Paramount). Daybreakers (2010) Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman, Sam Neill, Vince Colosimo, Isabel Lucas. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Lionsgate) Edge of Darkness (2009) Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts, Bojana Novakovic, Frank Grillo, Gbenga Akinnagbe. Available as a standard DVD and a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack. Extras: Additional/alternate scenes. Blu-ray Combo Pack adds "The Past and Present of Edge of Darkness," with nine "Focus Point" video pods: "Scoring the Film," "Revisiting the Edge of Darkness Mini-series," "Edge of Your Seat," "Making a Ghost Character Real," "Adapting the Edge of Darkness Mini-series," "Director Profile Martin Campbell," "Boston as a Character," "Mel's Back" and "Craven's War of Attrition"; digital copy. (Warner). Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense (2009) Jazz is a living thing, a conversation between musicians and each other, as well as the audience, and the genre today is undergoing changes of monumental magnitude and importance. This highly-acclaimed documentary captures the metamorphosis of jazz by showcasing the words, music, and spirit of the artists that are paving the way for an unprecedented musical revolution. Through interviews with 75 jazz artists culled from over seven years and over 25 hours of live performance footage and concerts, the film explores the thoughts and lives of the musicians at the forefront of today's jazz front lines. Focuses the spotlight on many current jazz icons including Terence Blanchard, Jason Moran, Ravi Coltrane, Dave Douglas and Brass Ecstasy, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Medeski Martin and Wood. It also features the legendary predecessors and influences of today's contemporary jazz stars, including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Wynton Marsalis. $24.95. Extras: "Jazz and the Grateful Dead" featurette, "Jazz and Pearl Jam" featurette, additional performances. (IndiePix Films). Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk (1996) F. Murray Abraham, Keith Carradine, Brian Dennehy, Edward James Olmos, Jennifer Garner, Jonny Lee Miller, David Arquette. A miniseries prequel to the "Lonesome Dove" miniseries franchise: Young Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call face hostile Indian territories and brutal landscapes in a dangerous adventure across the untamed West. (Vivendi Entertainment and RHI Entertainment). Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo (1995) James Garner, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Ned Beatty. Last story of the "Lonesome Dove" miniseries franchise. When a wealthy railroad president hires wizened bounty hunter Woodrow F. Call to track down a cold-blooded bandit, he travels south to seek out the fugitive and encounters an array of old acquaintances along the way. (Vivendi Entertainment and RHI Entertainment). The Legend of the Tsunami Warrior (2008 -- Thailand) A rebel prince, Black Raven Pirates, a Queen and a village orphan gypsy battle on the high seas for coveted ocean treasures, with plenty of sorcery, swordplay and a touch of romance. Extras: Making of documentary, deleted scenes. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Magnolia Home Entertainment). Legion (2010) Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Doug Jones, Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki, Kevin Durand, Willa Holland. Extras: "Creating the Apocalypse," "Humanity's Last Line of Defense," "From Pixels to Picture. Also available on Blu-ray Disc, which adds "Bringing Angels To Earth: Picture-in-Picture," movieIQ+sync, BD-Live, digital copy. (Sony). Malice in Wonderland (2009) Maggie Grace, Danny Dyer, Matt King, Nathaniel Parker. Twisted thriller take on "Alice in Wonderland" follows American law student Alice (Maggie Grace), who after being knocked down by a London taxi, finds herself in a strange underworld called Wonderland, where she's joined by the cabbie on a dark and dangerous journey home, attempting to dodge gangsters, pimps and prostitutes, and avoiding a shadowy group determined to take her captive. Extras: "Making of Malice in Wonderland," behind-the-scenes photo gallery. (Magnolia Home Entertainment). North Face (2010 -- German) Benno Fuermann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek, Ulrich Tukur. The North Face side of the Swiss Alps' Eiger Mountain, also referred to as the "murder wall," was once one of the most deadliest walls to scale, and in 1936, a small group of German mountain climbers decided to face the incredible challenge head-on without ever looking back. Based on a true story, this is a gripping adventure drama about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. In 1936, Nazi propaganda urges German Alpinists to conquer the mountain, bringing two reluctant climbers to begin their daring ascent and attempt to scale the infamous rock face. Closely followed by two Austrians, all goes well at first as both rope teams make good headway ... but then the climbers lose their advantage over the mountain, and the race against time and the forces of nature begins. (Music Box Films Home Entertainment). Robin Hood Four Robin Hood films new to DVD just in time for the May 14 release of the Ridley Scott/Russell Crowe version. The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946), starring Cornel Wilde; Prince of Thieves (1948), starring Jon Hall; Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950), starring John Derek and Alan Hale; Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960), starring Richard Greene and Peter Cushing; $14.94 each. (Sony). thirtysomething: The Complete Third Season (1989-90) Six-disc set with 24 episodes, $59.97. Extras: New introduction by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz; commentaries by Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, writer Liberty Godshall, actors Peter Horton, Patricia Wettig and Melanie Mayron and writer Joseph Dougherty. (Shout! Factory). Tidal Wave (2009 -- South Korea) Seismic activity detects an impending mega-tsunami is barreling towards the picturesque shores of a tourist-packed beach resort, and as a marine geologist races to alert the authorities, he encounters his ex-wife and the daughter he never knew he had, just as the massive wave heads their way at 500 mph. Extras: Deleted scenes, gag reel, 'making of' featurette, more. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Magnolia Home Entertainment). | Contents/Site Map | Home | Resources | Sell-Through | Reviews | Links | E-mail: mail@onvideo.org © 1996 -- 2010 OnVideo. All rights reserved May 9, 2010