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Airwolf: The Movie
(1984) Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord. Fully restored, uncensored presentation of the telefilm Extras: New interview with Ernest Borgnine, stills galleries. (Shout! Factory).
Assassination Games
(2011) Jean-Claude Van Damme, Scott Adkins. Rival assassins -- each of whom are masters of their respective weapons -- form an uneasy alliance in their mission to take down a DEA-backed drug cartel.Extras: Deleted scenes. (Sony).
Babar: The Classic Series: Best Friends Forever
First appearing in "Histoire de Babar," Jean de Brunhoff's 1931 storybook classic based on a tale that his wife Cecile had invented for their children, Babar the Elephant has, for 80 years, captivated millions around the globe. The story of the little elephant who leaves the jungle, visits a big city and returns to bring the benefits of civilization to his fellow elephants has been captured in a multitude of best-selling books (over 12 million sold worldwide, and more than 1,000 titles in print) and several animated series. This release features four episodes that focus on the bonds Babar shares with his pals and family; from the HBO series that ran 1989-91. (Entertainment One).
Babar: The Classic Series: School Days
Features four episodes about Babar's own school day adventures as well as those of his friends and family; from the HBO series that ran 1989-91. (Entertainment One).
Baseball's Greatest Games
MLB has opened its archive of classic, historic, singular and momentous games and, with A&E, have put together this series. The first 10 -- at $12.95 each, are: The 1960 World Series, Game 7; 1975 World Series, Game 6; 1979 Wrigley Field Slugfest; 1985 NLCS, Game 5; 1986 World Series, Game 6; 1991 World Series, Game 7; 1993 NLCS, Game 7; 1993 World Series, Game 6; 2003 ALCS, Game 7; 2004 ALCS, Game 4. (A&E Home Entertainment).
Bed & Breakfast
(2010) Juliana Paese, Dean Cain, Julia Duffy, Eric Roberts, John Savage. Romantic comedy about a saleswoman from a large department store in Rio who discovers she has inherited property in the wine country of California; problem is, the almost ex-husband of a movie star thinks he's inherited the same property. (Green Apple Entertainment).
Care Bears: Share Bear Shines Movie
(2011) In this new Care Bears feature, Share Bear and a Twinklet named Gleamer lead a heartwarming mission in caring when they travel to Glitter City, a magical place where Princess Stargio trains Twinklets to become stars. $14.98. (Lionsgate).
A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song
(2011) Lucy Hale, Megan Park. ABC Family teen melodrama about a gifted singer who must lay down vocal tracks so her evil step-sister can win a recording contract. Extras: "Spitlighting Lucy Hale: Our New Cinderella," "So You Wanna Be a Dancer?" "Meet Prince Charming," "Flip Cam Diaries," "Bless Myself" music video, gag reel, deleted scenes. (Warner).
Clash of Empires
(2011 -- Malaysia) Stephen Rahman Hughes, Gavin Stenhouse, Gavin Stenhouse, Jing Lusi. A kidnapping threatens to set off a war between the empires of Rome, China and Malaysia in 120 AD. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Image Entertainment).
Community: The Complete Second Season
(2010-11) Four-disc set with 24 episodes, $45.99. Extras: Cast and crew commentary on every episode, deleted scenes, outtakes, Season 2 cast evaluations, "The Paintball Finale: From Script to Screen" featurette, "Creating Wonderland" featurette, animatics, more. (Sony).
Criminal Minds: Season 6
(2010-11) Six-disc set with 24 episodes, $64.99. Extras:" Making Criminal Minds: Season 6," "Crime Scenes,"
"From Script to Screen: Agent Down," "CMS6 Yearbook," gag reel, deleted scenes. (CBS Home Entertainment/Paramount).
Denise Austin: Sculpt & Burn Body Blitz
(2011) A new cross-training cardio workout, $14.98. (Lionsgate).
Dressed to Kill BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1980) Dir.: Brian De Palma; Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz. Unrated cut. Extras: "The Making of a Thriller" documentary including interviews with De Palma, Dickinson, Allen and Franz; "Slashing Dressed to Kill" featurette; "Dressed to Kill: An Appreciation by Keith Gordon" featurette; "Comparison of the Unrated, R-rated, and Network Versions" featurette; animated photo gallery. (MGM).
The Entitled
(2011) Ray Liotta, Laura Vandervoort, Kevin Zegers. Everything goes wrong when Paul Dynan (Zegers) plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family: He wants to extort a fortune from three wealthy men. The plan: to abduct their socialite children and collect a healthy ransom of $3 million. Extras: Commentary, behind-the-scenes featurette, alternate ending. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Anchor Bay).
Everything Must Go
(2011) Will Ferrell, Rebecca Hall, Michael Pena, Stephen Root, Laura Dern, Glenn Howerton. Extras: Commentary by director Dan Rush and actor Michael Pena, "In Character With Will Ferrell" featurette, behind-the-scenes featurette, deleted scenes.Also available on Blu-ray Disc.
Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition -- The Workout
(2010) The first home workout video from the ABC series, $14.98. (Lionsgate).
Fringe: The Complete Third Season
(2010-11) Six-disc set with 22 episodes, $59.98. Extras: "Duality of Worlds": Four featurettes: "The Other You," "Visualizing an Alternate World," "A Machine of Destiny" and "The Psychology of Duality"; "Animating the Lysergic Acid Diethylamide" Episode"; "Constructing an Extrasensory Soundscape"; commentaries; "Unusual Side Effects": gag reel. Also available on Blu-ray Disc, which adds "Glimmer to the Other Side," a "Selectable Maximum Episode Mode" with pop-up experience-enhancing commentaries and featurettes. (Warner).
The Good Wife: The Second Season
(2010) Six-disc set with 23 episodes, $64.99 Extras: "A Conversation With the Kings," an interview with series creators (and husband and wife team) Robert and Michelle King; footage from the Season One DVD release party; inside look at a select episode; personal videos from Alan Cumming; deleted scenes, more. (CBS Home Entertainment/Paramount).
Hanna
(2011) Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng. Extras: Alternate ending, deleted scenes, "Anatomy of a Scene: The Escape From Camp G" featurette, commentary by director Joe Wright. Also available on Blu-ray Disc, which adds "Adapt or Die" featurette reveals the intense training and acting process Saoirse Ronan went through to become Hanna; "Central Intelligence Allegory," in which the filmmakers and cast reveal their boldly original approach to this adventure thriller; "Chemical Reaction": A look at The Chemical Brothers' creative process of writing and scoring all of the music in the film, as the musicians talk about their unique approach to the task of composition; "The Wide World Of Hanna": The filmmakers travel from icy Finland to scorching Morocco and then from empty deserts to post-punk Berlin, finding the perfect locations for the film; "Hanna" promo; BD-LIVE. (Universal).
The Hills Have Eyes DVD and BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1977) Dir.: Wes Craven; Dee Wallace, John Steadman, Susan Lanier, James Whitworth, Michael Berryman. DVD Extras: Commentary with Wes Craven and Peter Locke. Blu-ray adds: Looking Back at the Hills Have Eyes, The Directors: The Films of Wes Craven, restoration demo, U.S. and German trailers, alternate ending, still galleries, Wes Craven biography. (Image Entertainment).
The Office: Season Seven
(2010-11) Five-disc set with 24 episodes, $44.98. Extras: Webisodes, blooper reels, commentary, more. Extras: "Threat Level Midnight: The Movie (A Michael Scott Joint)" featurette, the extended version of the film Michael Scott wrote, directed and starred in; "The 3rde Floor' webisodes; commentary; deleted scenes; extended episodes; blooper reel. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Universal).
Parks and Recreation: Season Three
(2010-11) Three-disc set with 16 episodes, $39.98. Extras: Gag reels, commercials, featurettes. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Universal).
Randy Orton: The Evolution of a Predator
(2011) This three-disc set takes an in-depth look at WWE's Apex Predator from Elimination Chamber through the road to WrestleMania and Orton's brutal bout with CM Punk. Along the way, fans learn about the Viper in and out of the ring as he reflects on his career to date. $29.93. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (World Wrestling Entertainment).
Rebirth
(2011) Documentary by James Whitaker, filmed during the past 10 years since 9/11, takes a look at the physical and emotional healing process after the tragedy; it follows five people whose lives were transformed by the attack juxtaposed with a multi-camera time-lapse photographic study of the evolution of the space where the Twin Towers once stood. (Oscilloscope Laboratories).
Remembering 9/11: 10 Year Commemorative Collection
(2011) National Geographic four-disc set (with more than eight hours of programming) to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11: "Inside 9/11," "Giuliani's 9/11," "Witness 9/11" and the new program "9/11: Where Were You?" $39.97. (National Geographic Entertainment/Vivendi Entertainment)
Scarface BLU-RAY DEBUT
Scooby-Doo: Legend of the Phantosaur
(2011) New Scooby-Doo feature, $19.98. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Warner).
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters: Season 1
(1973) Three=disc set with 17 episodes of the Sid and Marty Krofft series that followed the adventures of Sigmund Ooze -- a friendly googly-eyed sea monster that ran away from his family after refusing to frighten people and lived in Johnny and Scott Stuart's backyard clubhouse. $29.33. Extras: Commentaries. (Vivendi Entertainment).
Straw Dogs BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1971) Dir.: Sam Peckinpah; Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna. Extras: original theatrical trailer, three original television spots. (MGM).
Thomas & Friends: Day of the Diesels: The Movie
(2011) The steamies and the diesels face off in this new action-packed feature that has Diesel 10 masterminding an attempt to take over the Steamworks on the Isle of Sodor. Extras: Karaoke songs, "Fiery Flynn to the rescue" game, "Steamies and Diesels: Learn How They Work" featurette. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (HIT Entertainment/Lionsgate).
Triad Underworld
(2004-- Hong Kong) Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Shawn Yue, Edison Chen. An Asia Extreme gangster thriller. On the same night his wife gives birth to their first son, Triad mob boss Hung (Lau) learns that an assassin plans to kill him within the next 12-hours. Encouraged to leave town by his best friend Lefty (Cheung) and three untrustworthy lieutenants, Hung decides to stay and makes plans to protect himself and his family. Meanwhile, two low life-gangsters are collaborating to rise up through the ranks and as the dawn approaches, the gritty streets of Hong Kong become the stage to a bloody triad showdown.Extras: Making-of featurette, music video. (Palisades Tartan).
Two and a Half Men: The Complete Eighth Season
(2010-11) Two-disc set with 16 episodes, $44.98. (Warner).
X-Men: First Class
(2011) James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Lawrence, January Jones, Rose Byrne, Zoe Kravitz, Nicholas Hoult, Lucas Till, Oliver Platt. Blu-ray Extras: Ten Marvel "X-Men" digital comics with exclusive "X-Men: First Class" backstory comic; more than two hours of never-before-seen extras, including: "Cerebro Mutant Tracker," the complete interactive Mutant Database with interactive videos giving fans the ability to learn about their favorite mutants in the X-Men film franchise; "Children of the Atom," an eight-part behind-the-scenes featurette, charting the film from pre-production through post-production, including visual effects techniques and cataloguing X-Men transformations through prosthetic make up and costume design; "X Marks the Spot" interactive feature allowing viewers the opportunity to learn more about specific scenes with talent interviews and behind-the-scenes footage; extended and deleted scenes; BD-Live Portal with additional Cerebro Mutant Tracker profiles; composer's isolated score. (Fox).
X-Men: First Class
Charts the beginning of the X-Men saga. Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.
Vitals: Director: Matthew Vaughn. Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Lawrence, January Jones, Rose Byrne, Zoe Kravitz, Nicholas Hoult, Lucas Till, Oliver Platt.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 135 min., Fantasy Action, Box office gross: $143.455 million, Fox. Due Friday, Sept. 9
Hanna
Saoirse Ronan stars as Hanna, a 16-year-old girl raised in the desolate, icy wilds of Finland by her ex-CIA agent father Erik and trained to become the perfect assassin. Every moment of Hanna's childhood and adolescence has been spent building up the strength, stamina and survival instincts she needs to prepare for the day she must strike out on her own. That day has now come; armed with the skills her father has imparted to her and the mantra "adapt or die," Hanna must cross Europe and face her family's longtime enemy, lethal intelligence operative Marissa Wiegler. Featuring a ground-breaking original soundtrack from The Chemical Brothers and filmed on location in Finland, Berlin and Morocco.
Vitals: Director: Joe Wright. Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 111 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $40.201 million, Universal.
Everything Must Go
Adapted and directed by Dan Rush, and based on a short story by Raymond Carver, "Everything Must Go" tells the story of Nick Porter (Will Ferrell) a career salesman whose days of being on top are long gone. The same day Nick gets fired -- for falling off the wagon one last time -- he returns home to discover his wife has left him, changed the locks on their suburban home and dumped all his possessions out on the front yard. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line -- or more properly, on the lawn -- reluctantly holding a yard sale that becomes a unique strategy for survival. And with the help of a few quirky neighbors and friends, he begins a journey to change his life.
Vitals: Director: Dan Rush. Stars: Will Ferrell, Rebecca Hall, Michael Pena, Stephen Root, Laura Dern, Glenn Howerton.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 97 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $2.706 million, Lionsgate.
Dressed to Kill
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The Hills Have Eyes
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Scarface
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(1983) Dir.: Brian de Palma; Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, Miriam Colon, F. Murray Abraham, Harris Yulin. Special Limited Edition Blu-ray. English DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1/DTS Surround 2.0. For a limited time only, the Scarface Special Limited Edition Blu-ray will come with collectible SteelBook packaging, 10 exclusive art cards, a digital copy of the film and a DVD of the original 1932 "Scarface." $34.98. And, for the ultimate collector and cigar enthusiast, an elegantly hand-crafted "Scarface"-themed humidor -- made with untreated Spanish cedar -- will be made available in an exclusive, never-before-available, limited edition of 1,000, $999.99 (that's right). Read more about the "Scarface" Blu-ray. (Universal).
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