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Action-Packed Double Feature: Fighting Mad/ Moving Violation
"Fighting Mad" (1976): An Arkansas farmer (Peter Fonda) wages a one-man war against corrupt land developers who want to evict him and his neighbors from their farms to create real estate developments and to conduct illegal strip mining. Also starring Lynn Lowry, Scott Glenn. Written and directed by director Jonathan Demme. "Moving Violation" (1976): While passing through the small town of Rockfield, drifter Eddie Moore (Stephen McHattie) gets harassed by Sheriff Leroy Rankin (Lonny Chapman) and his deputy. When Eddie meets local waitress Camille "Cam" Johnson (Kay Lenz) in town, that's when trouble begins for both. They witness something they weren't supposed to see and are set up by the sheriff for a murder they didn't commit. Also starring Eddie Albert, Will Geer and Dick Miller. (Shout! Factory).
Anton Chekhov's The Duel
(2009) Fiona Glascott, Andrew Scott, Tobias Menzies, Niall Buggy. English-language adaptation of Anton Chekhov's 1891 novella about romance, betrayal and violence between a restless philanderer looking for something new, his beautiful but emotionally empty married mistress and his impassioned but unhinged former friend. Extras: Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Music Box Films).
The Big Bang
(2011) Antonio Banderas, Sienna Guillory, Thomas Kretschmann, William Fichtner, Sam Elliott, Delroy Lindo, James Van Der Beek, Snoop Dogg. A private detective is hired to find a missing stripper but the simple job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead. The clues send him into the city's seediest corners, from a Hollywood action star with a dirty little secret, to an enterprising porn producer who takes a personal interest in his own work, a kinky waitress with an unusual fetish for particle physics, and a reclusive billionaire and his physicist intent on recreating The Big Bang underneath the New Mexico desert. Extras: Filmmakers' commentary, behind-the-scenes featurette, extended scenes .Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Anchor Bay).
Brad Meltzer's Decoded: The Complete Season One
(2010-11) Best-selling author and history buff Meltzer separates fact from fiction as he investigates the hidden history and coded truths behind everything from the Statue of Liberty to the dollar bill to the assassination of President Lincoln. $19.95. (A&E Home Entertainment).
Burning Palms
(2011)An anthology of dark yet comic stories so decadent they could only be worthy of Los Angeles. It's a study of five lives: all different, yet all strangely similar. A father's (Dylan McDermott) relationship with his precocious teenage daughter (Emily Meade) is too close for comfort for his fiancee. A woman (Jamie Chung) becomes undone by her boyfriend's kinky bedroom request. A gay couple (Peter Macdissi and Anson Mount) brings home the ultimate lifestyle accessory: an African child. A young boy involves his brothers in disturbing games. A lonely woman (Zoe Saldana ) confronts her attacker (Nick Stahl) with a bizarre request. (Image Entertainment).
Capadocia: A Place Without Forgiveness, Season One
(2008) Five-disc set with all 13 episodes of the HBO Latin America Originals grim, bloody and chaotic series that follows the struggles of several women imprisoned in an experimental penal complex in Mexico City, $19.98. Extras: Commentary on select episodes. (Maya Entertainment).
Children's Hospital: The Complete First and Second Seasons
(2008, 2010) Two-disc set with 22 episodes of the Adult Swim series, $29.98. (Warner).
Fertile Ground
(2010) Gale Harold, Leisha Hailey, Chelcie Ross, Jami Bassman. A couple is haunted by ghosts at the woman's family home in the country. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurette, commentary by co-writer-director Adam Gierasch, co-writer Jace Anderson and actress Leisha Hailey. (Lionsgate After Dark Original).
Gnomeo & Juliet
(2010) Voices of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Jason Statham, Ashley Jensen, Patrick Stewart, Ozzy Osbourne, Maggie Smith. Available as a three-disc Blu-ray Combo Pack (Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray 3D, DVD with Digital Copy), a two-disc Blu-ray Combo Pack (Blu-ray 2D, DVD) and a single-disc DVD. Extras: "Elton Builds a Garden," "Frog Talk With Ashley Jensen," "Crocodile Rock" music video, featuring Elton John and Nelly Furtado. Blu-ray adds two alternate endings, deleted and alternate scenes, "The Fawn of Darkness" featuring Ozzy Osbourne. (Disney).
Grandview U.S.A.
(1984) Dir.: Randal Kleiser; Jamie Lee Curtis, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Troy Donahue, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Windom, M. Emmet Walsh. A high school senior gets involved with an older woman who runs the local demolition derby. (CBS/Paramount)
The Great Dictator
(1940) In his notorious masterpiece "The Great Dictator," Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin (in his first pure talkie) brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish "Tomanian" dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, "The Great Dictator," boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.'s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin's famously impassioned plea for tolerance. New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition. Extras: New commentary by Charlie Chaplin historians Dan Kamin and Hooman Mehran; "The Tramp and the Dictator" (2001), a documentary narrated by filmmaker Kenneth Branagh and featuring interviews with author Ray Bradbury, director Sidney Lumet, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., screenwriter Budd Schulberg, and a host of others; two new visual essays, by Chaplin archivist Cecilia Cenciarelli and Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance; on-set, color production footage shot by Chaplin's half-brother, Sydney; deleted scene from Chaplin's 1919 film "Sunnyside"; theatrical trailer; booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Wood and a 1940 article by Chaplin on the film. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (The Criterion Collection).
IRT: Deadliest Roads: The Complete Season One
(2010) Three-disc set with 13 white-knuckled episodes, $24.95. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (A&E Home Entertainment).
The Kids in the Hall: The Complete Series Megaset
Twenty-two disc set with nearly 800 sketches, $99.95. (A&E Home Entertainment).
The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town
(2010) Two-disc set of the eight-part comedy series with all the parts played by the Kids; When Death gets off the Greyhound bus in small town Shuckton, Ontario, everyone in town is implicated when one of its most distinguished citizens is found murdered. Extras: Commentaries by Dave Foley and Bruce McCulloch, deleted and extended scenes, bloopers. (A&E Home Entertainment).
Le Mans
(1971) Steve McQueen. Forty-five international racing stars joined Steve McQueen in this classic, highlighted by the revving engines of legendary Porsche 917s and Ferrari 512s. Returning to France to compete a year after he'd been injured, American driver Michael Delaney (McQueen) finds himself drawn to the widow of a racer who was killed in the same accident. Filmed on location in France, the film's spellbinding cinematography provides a dazzling look at the world's most extraordinary cars and the unique personalities of the people drawn to the circuit. McQueen, himself a championship racer, did most of his own driving on the harrowing 8.5 mile Le Mans course -- often at speeds exceeding 200 miles per hour. Extras: "Filming at Speed: The Making of the Movie "Le Mans." Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (CBS/Paramount).
Lemonade Mouth: Extended Edition
(2011) Disney Channel Original Movie about five ragtag freshmen who first meet in detention and bond through music, eventually forming a high school garage band. (Disney).
Melissa & Joey: Season One, Part One
(2010) Two-disc set with the first 12 episodes, $29.97. Extras: Blooper reel, featurettes. (Shout! Fcory).
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Great
Outdoors
(2011) Mickey Mouse and his famous pals (Minnie, Donald, Pluto,
Goofy and Daisy) join efforts to inspire preschoolers around the
country to enjoy the outdoors by camping, fishing and exploring
nature with five episodes from the Disney Channel's Mickey Mouse
Clubhouse. Packaged as a special DVD Play Set (DVD plus Digital Copy
plus Mickey Mote), $29.99. (Disney).
The North Star ... And More Stories About Following Your Dreams
(2011) Five stories narrated by Tim Curry, Zooey Deschanel and others: The title story as well as "That Book Woman," "Players in Pigtails," "Yo! Yes?" and "Swamp Angel," $14.95. (Scholastic Storybook Treasures).
Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
(2008) Documentary looks at how early filmmaking influenced the Cubist painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. $29.95. (Arthouse Films).
Reagan
(2011) Documentary celebrates the centennial of the 40th president's birth, examining the man behind the myth. $19.95 (A&E Home Entertainment).
The Royal Wedding of William & Catherine
(2011) Complete coverage of the royal wedding. Extras: "William and Kate: A Royal Engagement." (BBC/Warner).
Scrambled States of America ... and More Stories by Laurie Keller
(2011) In the title story, the states are bored and long for a change, so they decide to swap spots in hopes that each can get to see a different part of the country. Also includes "The Scrambled States of America Talent Show," "Do Unto Otters (A Book About Manners)" and "Open Wide: Tooth School Inside," $14.95. Extras: Discussion questions, interview with the author,"Tooth School Anthem" music video. (Scholastic Storybook Treasures).
Seconds Apart
(2011) Orlando Jones, Edmund Entin, Gary Entin, Samantha Droke. Telekinetic twins wreck havoc on their high school classmates, killing them in twisted and bizarre ways until jealousy begins to divide them and soon they can no longer trust each other, leading to a face-off between the brothers. Extras: Behind-the scenes featurette. (Lionsgate After Dark Original).
A Small Act
(2010) Documentary. A young Kenyan's life changes drastically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, he founds his own scholarship program to replicate the kindness he once received. $29.95. (Docurama).
Solaris
(1972) Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness. In "Solaris," the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky gives us a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself. High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition. Extras: Audio essay by Andrei Tarkovsky scholars Vida Johnson and Graham Petrie, co-authors of "The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue"; nine deleted and alternate scenes; video interviews with actress Natalya Bondarchuk, cinematographer Vadim Yusov, art director Mikhail Romadin, and composer Eduard Artemyev; excerpt from a documentary about Stanislaw Lem, the author of the film's source novel; booklet featuring an essay by critic Phillip Lopate and an appreciation by director Akira Kurosawa. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (The Criterion Collection).
Sweet Dreams
(2011) Eight sleepytime episodes from Thomas & Friends, Barney, Bob the Builder, Angelina Ballerina, Timmy Time, Fireman Sam, Kipper and Roary the Racing Car, $14.98. (HIT Entertainment/Lionsgate).
Transcendent Man
(2009) Documentary gets inside the mind of the award-winning scientist and A.I. specialist Ray Kurzweil through extensive interviews with Kurzweil and revealing conversations with friends and colleagues. The film outlines Kurzweil's theory of singularity -- the point when change occurs so rapidly that humans will need to merge with technology to keep up -- while also chronicling his history, his myriad accomplishments (including 24 U.S. patents), and his unique vision of the future (Within 25 years, computers will have consciousness and humans will soon be bionic). $29.95. (Docurama).
The Unknown War: WWII and the Epic Battles of the Russian Front
(1978) Hosted and narrated by Burt Lancaster; script adaptation and music score by Rod McKuen. Perfectly timed for Memorial Day and just one month shy of the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, this five-disc box set includes all 20 episodes of the gripping 1978 docu-series, as well as provocative bonus content. Features rare and stunning footage recorded by Soviet camera crews on the front lines -- most of it unseen since the series' original broadcast on public television 30 years ago. The docu-series delivers a sweeping chronicle of the Soviets' struggle against -- and ultimately victory over -- the Nazi war machine. From Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 to the Russians' victorious march into Berlin in 1945, "The Unknown War" takes a 360-degree look at the strategies, suffering, heroism and courage of the Soviet experience with footage retrieved from the vaults of the Kremlin. Here are the devastating battles in the air, at sea and on land; and the poignant stories of daring and loss from what the Russians call "The Great Patriotic War." This epic documentary series sheds new light on the Red Army's massive contribution to the Allies' defeat of Hitler. Extras: Interview with Rod McKuen; analysis by Willard Sunderland, Associate Professor of Russian History at the University of Cincinnati. (Shout! Factory).
William & Kate: Planning a Royal Wedding
(2011) PBS documentary on the royal wedding, $12.99. (PBS Distribution).
Gnomeo & Juliet
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is recast in this modern animated update with garden gnomes as the star-crossed lovers. Caught up in a feud between neighbors, Gnomeo and Juliet must overcome as many obstacles as their namesakes. But with flamboyant pink flamingos and epic lawn mower races, can this young couple find lasting happiness? Features music by Elton John. In 3D.
Vitals: Director: Kelly Asbury. Stars: Voices of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Jason Statham, Ashley Jensen, Patrick Stewart, Ozzy Osbourne, Maggie Smith.
2010, CC, MPAA rating: G, 84 min., Animated, Box office gross: $96.866 million, Disney.
I Am Number Four
Three are dead. Who is Number Four? Extraordinary teen John Smith (Alex Pettyfer) is a fugitive on the run from ruthless enemies sent to destroy him. Changing his identity, moving from town to town with his guardian Henri (Timothy Olyphant), John is always the new kid with no ties to his past. In the small Ohio town he now calls home, John encounters unexpected, life-changing events -- his first love (Dianna Agron), powerful new abilities and a connection to the others who share his incredible destiny. Based on the young adult novel by Pittacus Lore.
Vitals: Director: D.J. Caruso. Stars: Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Dianna Agron, Teresa Palmer, Callan McAuliffe.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 104 min., Science Fiction, Box office gross: $53.868 million, DreamWorks.
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