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Another Earth
(2011) Brit Marling, William Mapother. Available as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack. Blu-ray extras: Deleted scenes, music video: "The First Time I Saw Jupiter" by Fall On Your Sword; "The Science Behind Another Earth"; "Creating Another Earth"; Fox Movie Channel presents "Direct Effect with Mike Cahill," "In Character With Brit Marling" and "In Character With William Mapother." (Fox).
The Art of Getting By
(2011) Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Rita Wilson, Sam Robards, Alicia Silverstone, Elizabeth Reaser, Blair Underwood. A lonely and fatalistic aspiring young artist and a "popular" girl find themselves in a charming yet unconventional high school romance. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. Blu-ray extras: Commentary by director Gavin Wiesen, "New York Slice of Life" featurette, "On Young Love" featurette. (Fox).
Becoming Chaz
(2011) Documentary about the physical transformation of Chaz Bono (born Chastity Bono to Sonny & Cher). Extras: Rosie O'Donnell "After the Doc" roundtable discussion, Cher Interview, Chaz and Jenn interview, "Training With Rick," "Pet Discussions," "SF Farewell Dinner." (Virgil Films & Entertainment).
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
(2011) Dir.: Werner Herzog. Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (IFC Films).
Chillerama
(2011) From the depraved minds of directors Adam Rifkin ("Detroit Rock City," "The Dark Backward"), Tim Sullivan ("2001 Maniacs"), Adam Green ("Hatchet," "Frozen") and Joe Lynch ("Wrong Turn 2," "Knights of Badassdom"), comes this four-film anthology of gore, guts, goofiness and good times that celebrate the golden age of B horror schlock. It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman (Richard Riehle) has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil. What could possibly go wrong? "Wadzilla," "I Was a Teenage Werebear," "The Diary of Anne Frankenstein" and "Zom-B-Movie." Extras: Directors' video commentary, "Wadzilla" deleted scenes, "The Making of The Diary of Anne Frankenstein," "I Was a Teenage Were Bear" behind the scenes and deleted scenes, "Zom-B-Movie" deleted scenes, directors' interviews. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Image Entertainment).
Eclipse Series 30: Sabu!
In the '30s and '40s, the Indian actor known as Sabu (born Selar Shaik) captured the hearts of moviegoers in Britain and the United States as a completely new kind of big-screen icon. Sabu was a maharaja's elephant driver when he was discovered by documentary trailblazer Robert Flaherty ("Nanook of the North"), who cast him as the lead in "Elephant Boy," a Kipling adaptation Flaherty directed with Zoltan Korda ("The Four Feathers") that would prove to be enormously popular. Sabu went on to headline a series of fantasies and adventures, transcending the exoticism projected onto him by commanding the screen with effortless grace and humor. This series collects three of the lavish productions Sabu starred in for the British film titans the Korda brothers: "Elephant Boy" (1937), the colonialist battle adventure "The Drum" (1938) and the timeless "Jungle Book" (1942). (The Criterion Collection).
5 Days Of War
(2011) Dir.: Renny Harlin; Rupert Friend, Richard Coyle, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Andy Garcia, Val Kilmer. Set during the five-day war between Russia and Georgia in 2008, this thriller focuses on an American journalist, his cameraman, and a Georgian native who witness and document the devastation from the full-scale crossfire and cold-blooded murder of innocent civilians. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Anchor Bay).
Friends With Benefits
(2011) Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson, Jenna Elfman, Bryan Greenberg, Richard Jenkins, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Andy Samberg, Shaun White. Available on Blu-ray, DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack. Extras: Commentary by director Will Gluck, Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis; blooper reel, deleted scenes. Blu-ray adds "Bonus Benefits: A Pop-Up Trivia Track" and two featurettes. (Sony).
The Future
(2011) Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, David Warshofsky, Isabella Acres. Extras: Commentary by July, behind-the-scenes featurette, deleted scene. (Lionsgate).
Kidnapped
(2011 -- Spain) Fernando Cayo, Manuela Velles. Three hooded Eastern-European criminals burst into a home in a Madrid gated community, holding the family hostage in its own home, forcing the father to empty his credit cards -- or watch his wife and daughter die. (IFC Films).
Look: Season 1
(2011) Single disc with 13 episodes of the show, shot entirely from the point of view of security cameras, that looks at the things that people do when they don’t know they're being watched, taking viewers on a voyeuristic journey into the most personal parts of people's lives. $24.98. (Image Entertainment).
Mission Impossible: The 88 TV Season
(1988-89) Five-disc set with 19 episodes, 32.99. (CBS Home Entertainment/Paramount Home Entertainment).
Needle
(2011) Michael Dorman, Travis Fimmel, Ben Mendelsohn, Trilby Glover, John Jarratt, Jessica Marais, Tahyna Tozzi. College student Ben Rutherford (Dorman) inherits a strange 18th century machine with supernatural powers from his deceased father and when the device goes missing, Ben's friends turn up dead -- all having been killed in bizarre ways; the machine was built for revenge and is seeking retribution for his father's sins. Extras: Making-of featurette. (Lionsgate).
One Day
(2011) Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Ken Stott, Romola Garai, Jamie Sives, Rafe Spall, Jodie Whittaker. Extras: Commentary by director Lone Scherfig, deleted scenes, featurettes: "Em and Dex Through the Years," "Anne Hathaway: Bringing Emma to Life," "The Look of One Day." Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Universal).
Our Idiot Brother
(2011) Paul Rudd, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Elizabeth Banks, Rashida Jones, Adam Scott, T.J. Miller, Kathryn Hahn, Steve Coogan, Shirley Knight, Hugh Dancy, Sterling Brown. Extras: Commentary by director Jesse Peretz, "The Making of Our Idiot Brother" featurette, deleted and extended scenes. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Anchor Bay/The Weinstein Co.)
Radioactive Wolves
(2011) It's been 25 years since disaster struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant deep in the former Soviet Union. Radioactive fallout from the accident created a "dead zone" around the reactor, too contaminated to be safely inhabited by humans. In the interim, something remarkable has happened: forests, marshes, fields and rivers have reclaimed the land. Now that access to the zone is permitted, at least on a limited basis, scientists are trying to learn how the surviving wildlife is coping with the invisible blight of the land. As the top predators in this new wilderness, wolves reflect the condition of the entire ecosystem. And, surprisingly, they're doing well. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (PBS Distribution).
Seven Days In Utopia
(2011) Robert Duvall, Deborah Ann Woll, Lucas Black, Melissa Leo. (Arc Entertainment.).
Smallville: The Complete Tenth Season
(2010-11) Six-disc set with 21 episodes, $59.98. Extras: Commentaries, deleted scenes, featurettes. Also available on Blu-ray Disc, which includes an UltraViolet Digital Copy for streaming from a digital cloud. (Warner).
The Smurfs
(2011) Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Hank Azaria, Sofia Vergara; voices of Jonathan Winters, George Lopez, Alan Cumming, Paul Reubens, Katy Perry, Kenan Thompson, Anton Yelchin and Fred Armisen. Available as a three-disc Holiday Gift Set (Blu-ray + DVD + "The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol" DVD (a new mini-movie starring the Smurfs), a 3D/2D Blu-ray/DVD combo and DVD. DVD extras: "Find The Smurfs" game, Blue-pers, "Happy Music" montage, commentaries, two featurettes: "The Smurfs: Comic Book to the Big Screen" and "Going Gargamel." The 3D/2D Blu-ray/DVD combo adds The Smurfs Fantastic Adventure Game," deleted and extended scenes, "Smurf Speak: Meet the Cast" featurette and progression reels. The Holiday Gift Set adds "Smurf-O-Vision: Second Screen Experience." (Sony).
30 Rock: Season 5
(2011) Three-disc set with 22 episodes, $49.98. (Universal).
The Six Million Dollar Man: Season 1
(1974-75) Six-disc set with all 13 uncut episodes; all three made-for-TV movies in their original, unedited versions; and over two hours of never-before-seen bonus materials. (Universal).
30 Minutes or Less
(2011) Jesse Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson, Dilshad Vadsaria, Michael Pena, Fred Ward. Available as Blu-ray/DVD Combo, Blu-ray and DVD. (Sony).
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
(2011) Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine, Katrina Bowden. Horror comedy has best friends Tucker and Dale heading out for a relaxing weekend of fishing at their secluded cabin. Unfortunately for them, evil has different plans when a series of misunderstandings and tragic events start killing a group of preppy college students, who believe Tucker and Dale are backwoods hillbillies out to kill them. Extras: Commentary, behind-the-scenes featurette. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Magnolia Home Entertainment's Magnet Label).
Vampires
(2010 -- Belgium) Carlo Ferrante, Vera Van Dooren, Pierre Lognay. Mockumentary has a film crew recording the day-to-day existence of a bored family of vampires in Belgium who eat illegal immigrants, children, and the handicapped -- and bleed the country's social benefits for all they're worth. (IFC Films).
The Wave
(2008 -- Germany) Jurgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich. A high school teacher's unusual experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit that takes on a life of its own as The Wave. (IFC Films).
The Smurfs
When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the Smurfs out of their village, they're forced through a portal, out of their world and into ours, landing in the middle of New York's Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down.
Vitals: Director: Raja Gosnell. Stars: Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Hank Azaria, Sofia Vergara; voices of Jonathan Winters, George Lopez, Alan Cumming, Paul Reubens, Katy Perry, Kenan Thompson, Anton Yelchin and Fred Armisen.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 86 min., Live-Action Family Comedy, Box office gross: $139.4 million, Sony.
Friends With Benefits
Dylan (Justin Timberlake) is done with relationships. Jamie (Mila Kunis) decides to stop buying into the Hollywood cliches of true love. When the two become friends, they decide to try something new and take advantage of their mutual attraction -- but without any emotional attachment. Physical pleasure without the entanglements sounds easy enough for two logical adults, but they soon realize romantic comedy stereotypes might exist for a reason.
Vitals: Director: Will Gluck. Stars: Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson, Jenna Elfman, Bryan Greenberg, Richard Jenkins, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Andy Samberg, Shaun White.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 109 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $55.802 million, Sony.
Our Idiot Brother
Every family has one: The sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz (Emily Mortimer), Miranda (Elizabeth Banks) and Natalie (Zooey Deschanel), that person is their perennially upbeat brother Ned (Paul Rudd), an erstwhile organic farmer whose willingness to rely on the honesty of mankind is a less-than-optimum strategy for a tidy, trouble-free existence. Ned may be utterly lacking in common sense, but he is their brother and so, after his girlfriend dumps him and boots him off the farm, his sisters once again come to his rescue. As Liz, Miranda and Natalie each take a turn at housing Ned, their brother's unfailing commitment to honesty creates more than a few messes in their comfortable routines. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned's family comes to realize that maybe, in believing and trusting the people around him, Ned isn't such an idiot after all.
Vitals: Director: Jesse Peretz. Stars: Paul Rudd, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Elizabeth Banks, Rashida Jones, Adam Scott, T.J. Miller, Kathryn Hahn, Steve Coogan, Shirley Knight, Hugh Dancy, Sterling Brown.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $24.603 million, Anchor Bay/The Weinstein Co.
Another Earth
The worlds of two people collide after a tragic accident: Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT's astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (William Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child. Their intimate drama plays out against the astounding discovery of Earth 2, a parallel world in the solar system that poses provocative and fascinating possibilities. Does a new Earth mean a chance at another life? Another destiny? Another self?
Vitals: Director: Mike Cahill. Stars: Brit Marling, William Mapother. 2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 92 min., Science Fiction Drama, Box office gross: $1.292 million, Fox.
30 Minutes or Less
Nick (Jesse Eisenberg) is a small town pizza delivery guy whose mundane life collides with the big plans of two wanna-be criminal masterminds (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson). The volatile duo kidnap Nick, strap a bomb to his chest, and force him to rob a bank. With mere hours to pull off the impossible task, Nick enlists the help of his ex-best friend, Chet (Aziz Ansari). As the clock ticks, the two must deal with the police, hired assassins, flamethrowers, and their own tumultuous relationship.
Vitals: Director: Ruben Fleischer. Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson, Dilshad Vadsaria, Michael Pena, Fred Ward.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 83 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $37.053 million, Sony.
One Day
Twenty years ... two people. After one day together -- July 15th, 1988, their college graduation -- Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. She's a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He's a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. For the next two decades, key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives. Together and apart, Dex and Em move through laughter and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Somewhere along their journey, they realize that what they are searching and hoping for has been there all along: As the true meaning of that one day back in 1988 is revealed, they come to terms with the nature of love ... and life itself.
Vitals: Director: Lone Scherfig. Stars: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Ken Stott, Romola Garai, Jamie Sives, Rafe Spall, Jodie Whittaker.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 107 min., Romantic Drama, Box office gross: $13.437 million, Universal.
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