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AC/DC -- Let There Be Rock
(1980) Commemorates the 30th Anniversary of the theatrical release of the filmed coverage of Australian band AC/DC's '79 appearance in Paris as part of their "Highway to Hell" tour, remastered. The film contains interview segments and backstage footage of the hard rock pioneers, especially the last interviews with flamboyant front-man Bon Scott, who died in 1980. $21.95. Also available in a Limited Collector's Edition on DVD for $39.99 and Blu-ray/DVD combo pack for $44.98, which is limited to only 90k copies and comes in a collectible steel case with keepsake premium items and more than an hour of newly added bonus features. (Warner).
American: The Bill Hicks Story
(2011) Photo-animated feature documentary, uniquely narrated by the 10 people who knew comedian Bill Hicks best. Two-disc set, $29.98. Extras: Extended interviews, unseen performances, rare clips, deleted scenes, audio journals, featurettes. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (BBC/Warner).
Angelina Ballerina: Pop Star Girls
(2011) Five episodes of the dancing mouse and her friends, $14.98. (HIT Entertainment/Lionsgate).
Another Year
(2010) Dir.: Mike Leigh; Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Oliver Maltman, Peter Wight, David Bradley, Martin Savage. Extras: Commentary with director Mike Leigh and actress Lesley Manville, "The Making of Another Year," "The Mike Leigh Method." Also available as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack. (Sony).
The Big C: The Complete First Season
(2010) Three-disc set with 13 episodes, $34.95. Extras: Outtakes, deleted scenes, complex characters featurette, eight featurettes that showcase the cast. (Sony).
Blue Crush 2
(2011) Sasha Jackson, Sharni Vinson, Elizabeth Mathis, Ben Milliken, Chris Fisher. Follows a high-spirited California surfer girl as she treks across the magnificent beaches of South Africa, making new friends, finding romance and riding epic waves. Extras: Commentary by director Mike Elliott and cast, deleted scenes, gag reel, three behind-the-scenes documentaries. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Universal).
Bob Hoskins Collection
Four films starring the eccentric British actor: "The Long Good Friday," "Mona Lisa," "Raggedy Rawney" and "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne." $29.98. (Handmade Films Collection/Image Entertainment).
Bratz: BFF
(2005-2007) Four episodes from the Bratz dolls TV series, $14.98. (Lionsgate).
Breaking Bad: The Complete Third Season
(2010) Four-disc set with 13 episodes, $39.95. Extras: Deleted scenes, outtakes, cast and crew commentary on nine episodes, five new behind-the-scenes featurettes, 20 episodes of "Inside Breaking Bad," "Team S.C.I.E.N.C.E" featurette, "AMC News Visits the Breaking Bad Writer's Room," mini video podcasts for every episode with the cast and crew. Also available on Blu-ray Disc, which adds "Breaking Bad" cast and crew photo collection. (Sony).
Burn Notice: Season 4
(2010) Four-disc set with 18 episodes, $49.98. Extras: "Sam Axe's Guide to Ladies and Libations," "Burn Notice Roasts White Collar," "White Collar Roasts Burn Notice," commentaries, behind-the-scenes stunt featurette, gag reel, deleted scenes. (Fox).
Carancho
(2010 -- Argentina) Ricardo Darin, Martina Gusman. (Strand Releasing).
Care Bears: Flower Power
(2007) Eight spring and summer-themed episodes, new-to-DVD, $14.98. (Lionsgate).
The Company Men
(2010) Dir.: John Wells; Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Maria Bello, Rosemarie Dewitt, Craig T. Nelson. Extras: Commentary with writer-director John Wells, "The Making of The Company Men" featurette, deleted scenes. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (The Weinstein Co./Anchor Bay).
Exorcismus (La posesion de Emma Evans)
(2010 -- Spain) Doug Bradley, Sophie Vavasseur, Stephen Billington, Tommy Bastow, Richard Felix, Jo-Anne Stockham. A teenage girl is possessed by the devil and a priest is called in for an exorcism. (IFC Midnight/MPI Media group).
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
(2010) Animated original movie released to coincide with the June 17 big-screen live-action adventure starring Ryan Reynolds. Voices of Nathan Fillion, Jason Isaacs, Elisabeth Moss, Kelly Hu, Arnold Vosloo, Henry Rollins, Wade Williams, Roddy Piper. Extras: Geoff Johns interview, commentary, Green Lantern virtual comic, more.Available as a single-disc DVD ($19.98) and Blu-ray/DVD Combo ($24.98). (Warner).
HawthoRNe: The Complete Second Season
(2010) Three-disc set with 10 episodes, $29.95. Extras: "A New Season" featurette, "Fresh Faces" featurette, "Advanced Medicine" featurette, "I Run This" photo shoot featurette, cast photo shoot featurette. (Sony).
The Housemaid
(2010 -- South Korea) Do-yeon Jeon, Jung-Jae Lee. A man's affair with his family's housemaid -- an innocent beauty -- leads to dark consequences. (IFC Films).
In Her Skin (AKA I Am You)
(2009 -- Australia) Guy Pearce, Sam Neill, Miranda Otto, Ruth Bradley, Kate Bell. Ripped from the headlines tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who failed to come home from school one day and was found to have been murdered by her babysitter. (IFC Films).
Just Go With It
(2011) Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman, Nick Swardson, Brooklyn Decker, Bailee Madison, Griffin Gluck, Dave Matthews, Kevin Nealon. Available as a Blu-ray Combo Pack, single-disc Blu-ray and DVD. Extras: Blooper Reel: "Laughter Is Contagious"; deleted scenes; three featurettes, commentary by Adam Sandler, Nick Swardson and producers Allen Covert, Tim Herlihy and Steve Koren; commentary by director Dennis Dugan. Blu-ray adds more deleted scenes and nine more featurettes, (Sony).
Kingdom of War Part 1 & 2
(2006 -- Thailand) The most expensive production budget in Thai Cinema history and one of Thailand's highest grossing box office films ever; an epic historical action film about King Naresuan the Great, who liberated the Siamese from the control of Burma, changing the destiny of a nation. Two-disc set. Extras: Making-of and behind-the-scenes featurettes, international trailer. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Magnolia Home Entertainment/Magnet Releasing).
Legends of Flight
(2008) IMAX documentary on recent designs in the aircraft industry, seen through the eyes of a test pilot. Extras: Also available on 3D Blu-ray Disc. (Image Entertainment).
The Marx Brothers Singles
Re-releases of five Marx Brothers films: "Animal Crackers," "The Cocoanuts," "Duck Soup," "Horse Feathers" and "Monkey Business," $19.98 each. (Universal).
Michael Palin Collection
(2010) Three films starring the Monty Python alum: "Time Bandits," "A Private Function" and "The Missionary." $29.98. (Handmade Films Collection/Image Entertainment).
Night Flight
(1933) Unseen since it was pulled from circulation in 1942. Stars Clark Gable, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Myrna Loy, Robert Montgomery. Remastered. One of the most authentic flying movies to grace the silver screen; an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's ("The Little Prince") best-selling "Vol de Nuit," based on his harrowing experiences as an airmail pilot and director of the Aeroposta Argentina airline. The story: Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago, and there's only one way to get the medicine where it's desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous weather and forbidding peaks of the Andes. (Warner).
Pretty Little Liars: The Complete First Season
(2010-11) Five-disc set with 22 episodes, $59.98. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurettes, deleted scenes. (Warner).
Rawhide: The Fourth Season, Volume One
(1961-62S) Four-disc set with 15 episodes, $42.99. (CBS/Paramount).
Roary the Racing Car
(2011) First DVD for the preschool car star and his friends Dragga, Zizzy and Lugga and human pals Big Chris, Marsha, Officer Pete and Mr. Carburettor. Six episodes, $14.98. Extras: "Roary's Day at the Seaside" music video. (HIT Entertainment/Lionsgate).
Rubber
(2011) Stephen Spinella, Wings Hauser, Roxane Mesquida, Thomas F. Duffy. Cult-fave indie is the story of Robert, a tire that has been abandoned in the desert and that suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses terrifying telepathic powers that give him the ability to destroy anything he wishes without having to move. At first content to prey on small desert creatures and various discarded objects, his attention soon turns to humans, especially a beautiful and mysterious woman who crosses his path. Leaving a swath of destruction across the desert landscape, Robert becomes a chaotic force to be reckoned with, and truly a movie villain for the ages. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Magnolia Home Entertainment/Magnet Releasing).
The Secret Life of the American Teenager: Volume 6
Three-disc set with 12 episodes, $39.99. (Disney).
Sanctum
(2011) Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd, Rhys Wakefield, Alice Parkinson. Also available as a two-disc Blu-ray set with digital copy and as a three-disc Blu-ray set with Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and digital copy. Extras: Commentary with director Alister Grierson, commentary with co-writer/producer Andrew Wight, commentary by actor Rhys Wakefield, deleted and extended scenes, "Sanctum: The Real Story." (Universal).
Shadows and Lies (AKA William Vincent)
(2010) James Franco, Julianne Nicholson, Josh Lucas, Martin Donovan. An eccentric drifter returns to New York and helps out a young woman being threatened by a hood -- who used to be the young man's boss. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Millennium Entertainment).
Transformers: Beast Wars -- Season One
(1996) Four-disc set with 26 episodes, $29.93. (Shout! Factory).
Transformers: Beast Wars The Complete Series Collector's Edition DVD Box Set
(1996-99) Eight-disc set with 52 episodes, $49.99 direct from Shout! Factory. Extras: Retrospective featurettes, a 12-page book, art galleries, special collectible 24-page comic book "Dawn of the Future's Past." (Shout! Factory).
True Grit
(2010) Dir.: Coen brothers; Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper. Extras: "Mattie's True Grit," "From Bustles to Buckskin -- Dressing for the 1880s," "Re-creating Fort Smith." "The Cast." Also available on Blu-ray Disc, which adds "Colts, Winchesters & Remingtons: The Guns of a Post-Civil War Western," "Charles Portis: The Greatest Writer You've Never Heard Of ...", "The Cinematography of True Grit," digital copy. (Paramount).
White Collar Season 2
(2010-11) Four-disc set with 16 episodes, $49.98. Extras: Spotlight on fan-favorite Mozzie, behind-the-scenes with Matt Bomer, "White Collar Roasts Burn Notice," "Burn Notice Roasts White Collar," gag reel. (Fox).
Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour
(2010) Documentary follows iconic feminist electronic band Le Tigre on their 2004-05 international tour across four continents and 10 countries. (Oscilloscope Laboratories).
The Wild Hunt
(2009) Ricky Mabe, Kaniehtiio Horn, Mark A. Krupa. A medieval reenactment game turns into a Shakespearean tragedy when a non-player crashes the event to win back his girlfriend. (FilmBuff/MPI Media Group).
True Grit
The Coen brothers' version of "True Grit," Charles Portis' novel is about a 14-year-old girl who, along with an aging U.S. marshal and another lawman, tracks her father's killer in hostile Indian territory. Mattie Ross's (Hailee Steinfeld) father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), and she is determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), she sets out with him -- over his objections -- to hunt down Chaney. Her father's blood demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory and find him before a Texas Ranger named LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) catches him and brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man. Features an incredible bravura performance as Bridges, who makes the role of Rooster Cogburn his own. The original 1969 film was a showcase for John Wayne, and starred Kim Darby as the teen, Wayne and Glen Campbell as the lawmen, Jeff Corey as the killer and featured Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper as fellow outlaws.
Vitals: Director: Coen brothers. Stars: Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper.
2010, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 110 min., Western, Box office gross: $169.381 million, Paramount.
Another Year
A happy couple for over 30 years, Tom (Broadbent) and Gerri (Sheen) act as a steady anchor to their unmarried circle of family and friends, including their son, a male friend from Hull, and single, unhappy, middle-aged Mary (Manville). But as the seasons change and another year passes, Tom and Gerri's support is put to the test in this masterful look at life, love and the meaning of friendship. Using his trademark production method of improvisation, director Mike Leigh once again delivers a moving and detailed portrait of his characters' inner lives. This process has yielded some of the finest performances ever put on film, and it has generated an Oscar-nominated screenplay for four of his previous films: "Happy Go Lucky," "Vera Drake," "Topsy Turvy," and "Secrets and Lies." Read the entire synopsis here.
Vitals: Director: Mike Leigh. Stars: Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Oliver Maltman, Peter Wight, David Bradley, Martin Savage.
2010, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 129 min., Drama, Box office gross: $3.162 million, Sony.
The Company Men
Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck) is living the American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward (Chris Cooper) and Gene McClary (Tommy Lee Jones) jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Walker, whose sense of self crumbles after losing his job, soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law (Kevin Costner) which does not play to his executive skill set, and perhaps the realization that there is more to life than chasing the bigger, better deal. Company founder McClary tries to fight the good fight against the layoffs, only to discover that he has made himself a target. And older worker Woodward gives in to blind fury as he waits for the inevitable. With humor, pathos, and keen observation, writer-director John Wells (the creator of "ER," "The West Wing," "Southland" and "Shameless") introduces us to the new realities of American life.
Vitals: Director: John Wells. Stars: Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Maria Bello, Rosemarie Dewitt, Craig T. Nelson.
2010, CC, MPAA rating: R, 109 min., Drama, Box office gross: $4.266 million, The Weinstein Co./Anchor Bay.
Carancho
Sosa (Ricardo Darin, "The Secret in Their Eyes") is an ambulance-chasing personal injury attorney with questionable ethics who makes his living in the flourishing, barely legal Argentinean industry founded on insurance payouts from traffic accidents. Sosa tours the A&E Departments of the public hospitals and the police stations in search of potential clients. Lujan (Martina Gusman) is a young, idealistic country doctor, new to the city. Sosa and Lujan first meet in the street: She's trying to save a man's life; he wants him on his client portfolio. After their paths repeatedly cross, the two form an unlikely romance that is threatened by Sosa's turbulent past. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Vitals: Director: Pablo Trapero. Stars: Ricardo Darin, Martina Gusman.
2010, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 107 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $.074 million, Strand Releasing.
Just Go With It
After telling his much younger schoolteacher girlfriend (Brooklyn Decker) that he's married as a means of avoiding real commitment, a plastic surgeon (Adam Sandler) must recruit a fake family to prove his honesty. So he enlists his loyal assistant (Jennifer Aniston) to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up his careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii to sort things out.
Vitals: Director: Dennis Dugan. Stars: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman, Nick Swardson, Brooklyn Decker, Bailee Madison, Griffin Gluck, Dave Matthews, Kevin Nealon. 2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 116 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $101.917 million, Sony.
Sanctum
Conceived and shot in 3D. From executive producer James Cameron comes a thrilling underwater adventure based on true events. Master diver Frank McGuire leads a team -- including his 17-year-old son -- to explore the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. But when a tropical storm cuts off their only escape route, the team must work together to find their way through an uncharted and dangerous underwater labyrinth to make it out alive.
Vitals: Director: Alister Grierson. Stars: Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd, Rhys Wakefield, Alice Parkinson.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 108 min., Action, Box office gross: $18.035 million, Universal.
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