Hayden
Christensen, Jessica
Alba, Lena Olin,
Terrence Howard,
Steven Hinkle,
Jennifer Pedersen,
Sam Robards, Poorna
Jagannathan, Court
Young.
AWAKE is a sexy,
psychological
thriller about a
common occurrence
called "anesthetic
awareness" a
horrifying
phenomenon wherein a
patient’s failed
anesthesia leaves
him fully conscious
but physically
paralyzed during
surgery. The
patient’s charming
new wife is forced
to struggle with her
own demons as a
terrifying drama
unfolds around the
couple...more
Extras:
Commentary by
writer-director
Steven C. Miller and
producers William
Clevinger and Mark
Thalman; "Trials and
Tribulations: The
Making of Automaton
Transfusion";
deleted scenes;
"Suffer or
Sacrifice" short
film by Director
Steven C. Miller;
"Can You Hear Me
Now" music video by
Blinded Black; "Arsenaholic"
music video by
Dancefloor Tragedy.
(Weinstein
Co./Genius
Products).
Into the Wild
(2007)
Emile Hirsch,
Vince Vaughn, Marcia
Gay Harden, William
Hurt, Catherine
Keener, Kristen
Stewart, Zach
Galifianakis.
A superb cast and
an even-handed
treatment of a true
story buoy Into
the Wild, Sean
Penn's screen
adaptation of Jon
Krakauer's
bestselling book.
Emile Hirsch stars
as Christopher
McCandless, scion of
a prosperous but
troubled family who,
after graduating
from Atlanta's Emory
University in the
early 1990s, decides
to chuck it all and
become a self-styled
"aesthetic voyager"
in search of
"ultimate freedom."
He certainly doesn't
do it halfway: after
donating his
substantial savings
account to charity
and literally
torching the rest of
his cash, McCandless
changes his name (to
"Alexander
Supertramp"),
abandons his family
(William Hurt and
Marcia Gay Harden as
his bickering,
clueless parents and
Jena Malone as his
baffled but loving
sister, who relates
much of the
backstory in
voice-over), and
hits the road, bound
for the Alaskan bush
and determined not
to be found...more
Available as a
single-disc and
two-disc special
edition.
Special
Edition Extras:
"Into the Wild: The
Story, The
Characters"
featurette, "Into
the Wild: The
Experience"
featurette.
Dustin Hoffman,
Natalie Portman,
Jason Bateman, Zach
Mills.
Mr. Magorium
(Dustin Hoffman)
owns and runs the
most magical store
in the universe,
where all of the
toys for sale are
alive. But, when the
aging shopkeeper
decides to retire
and sell the
business to his
faithful cashier
(Natalie Portman),
he hires an uptight
accountant (Jason
Bateman) to get his
affairs in order
Extras:
"Strangely Weird and
Weirdly Strange: The
Magical World of a
Wonder Emporium"
featurette, "An
Eccentric Boss and
an Awkward
Apprentice"
featurette, "To Meet
Eric Applebaum,
Start By Saying Hi"
featurette, "The
Magical Toy Store"
featurette.
Also
available on Blu-ray
Disc.
(Fox).
Other Releases
Automaton
Transfusion
(2006) Garrett
Jones, Juliet
Reeves, William
Howard Bowman. Three
teens find
themselves in a town
overrun by zombies
created by a U.S.
Army experiment run
amok.
Extras:
Commentary, "Trials
and Tribulations:
The Making of
Automaton
Transfusion,"
deleted scenes,
music videos. (The
Weinstein Co./Genius
Products).
Barney Animal ABCs
Latest title
featuring the purple
dinosaur in which
barney and friends
match animals to
letters of the
alphabet; $14.98.
Extras:
Bonus episode.
(Fox/HIT
Entertainment).
Ben 10: The Complete
Season 3
Two-disc set with 13
episodes, $19.98.
Extras:
Character gallery,
promos, deleted
scenes. (Warner).
The Billy Wilder
Film Collection
Four-disc set with
"The Apartment,"
"Some Like It Hot,"
"The Fortune Cookie"
and "Kiss Me
Stupid!" $39.98.
(MGM).
Blood +: Volume One
(2008) Single-disc
with the first five
episodes of the
Adult Swim anime
series, $24.98.
(Sony).
Blood +: Part One
(2008) Six-disc set
with all 25 episodes
from the first half
of the Adult Swim
anime series,
$119.95.
Extras:
Exclusive T-Shirt
and Manga sampler.
(Sony).
Dr. Dolittle: Tail
to the Chief
(2008) Kyla Pratt,
Peter Coyote.
"Animal whisperer"
Maya Dolittle's
dream of going to
vet school is put on
hold when she gets a
call from the
President of the
United States to
help with the
disobedient first
dog; direct-to-video
sequel.
Extras:
"Critter Casting
Sessions" featurette,
"Working With Actors
of a Different
Breed" featurette, "Goin'
Wild at Mountain
View" featurette,
"Learning About
Endangered Animals"
featurette. (Fox).
Dr. Seuss' Horton
Hears a Who!
(1970) Remastered
deluxe edition with
three additional
animated Dr. Seuss
stories: Dr. Seuss'
"Butter Battle
Book," "Daisy-Head
Mayzie" and "Horton
Hathces the Egg!"
$19.97.
Extras:
"Who Hears Horton
Who?" feaurette.
(Warner).
Experiment
(2005) John Hopkins,
Clive Ashborn,
Georgina French.
Psychological
thriller about a man
and woman trapped in
a foreign city, both
subjects of a
terrifying and
shocking experiment,
with no escape from
their nightmares.
(MTI Home Video).
Flight 29 Down:
Season Two
Three-disc set with
13 episodes, $24.95.
(Discovery
Kids/Genius
Products).
Flight 29 Down:
Hotel Tango
Four-part movie and
season finale,
$14.95. (Discovery
Kids/Genius
Products).
Human Giant: The
Complete First
Season
Two-disc
set of the MTV
sketch comedy
series, $26.99.
Extras:
Commentary, deleted
and extended scenes,
behind the scenes
clips. (Paramount).
Johnson Family
Dinner
(2007) Lynne Conner,
Toni Sterrett,
Jerard Jones, Ashley
Shyne. (Warner).
Kill Point
(2007 -- TV)
Two-disc set of the
Spike TV series in
which John Leguizamo
as an Iraq war
veteran who leads
his ex-platoon on a
daring bank heist
faces off against
Donnie Wahlberg as a
no-nonsense hostage
negotiator who
refuses to back down
when the robbery
goes tragically
wrong. (Lionsgate).
The Love Boat:
Season One, Volume
One
Three-disc set with
the first 12
episodes, $39.99.
(Universal).
Magnum P.I.: Season
8
Three-disc set with
13 episodes, $49.98.
Extras:
Alternate Season
Seven finale.
(Universal).
Mrs. Doubtfire
Behind-the-Seams
Special Edition
(1993) Dir.: Chris
Columbus; Robin
Williams, Sally
Field, Pierce
Brosnan, Harvey
Fierstein, Polly
Holliday, Lisa Jakub,
Matthew Lawrence,
Mara Wilson, Robert
Prosky.
Extras:
Deleted and extended
scenes, alternate
scenes, photo
gallery, makeup
tests and gallery,
"From Man to Mrs.:
The Evolution of
Mrs. Doubtfire"
featurette, "Aging
Gracefully: A Look
Back at Mrs.
Doubtfire"
featurette, "A
Conversation With
Legendary Animator
Chuck Jones"
featurette, "The
Improvisation of
Mrs. Doubtfire"
featuring seven
scenes, original
1993 featurette,
"Meet Mrs. Doubtfire"
Robin Williams
interview. (Fox).
Marking Time
(2003 -- TV) A young
man falls in love
with an Afghani
refugee in a small
Australian town and
faces racism and
fear after Sept. 11.
Two-disc set of the
Australian
miniseries. (BFS
Entertainment).
My Kid Could Paint
That
(2007) In this
thought-provoking
documentary,
director
Amir-Bar-Lev tracks
the overnight
celebrity of little
Marla Olmstead, a
toddler who creates
gallery-worthy
paintings on the
dining room table of
her family home. A
media sensation by
the age of four,
critics compare her
work with Jackson
Pollock's. Sales of
her paintings reach
$300,000. But,
sadly, the bubble
bursts. When a 2005
profile by "60
Minutes" suggests
that Marla had help
making her
paintings, the
finger is pointed at
her father, an
amateur artist and
night manager at
Frito Lay. Almost
overnight, her
family is ensnared
in a web of
accusation and
denial -- with the
burden of proof
placed squarely in
their lap: Is Marla
a child prodigy or
an innocent victim
of a hoax?
Extras:
Commentary, "Back to
Binghamton" mini-doc
with director Amir
Bar-Lev that
includes follow-up
interviews, Sundance
Q & A, deleted
scenes, more; "Kimmelman
on Art" a mini-doc
with the New York
Times art critic.
(Sony).
101 Dalmatians:
Platinum Edition
(1961) Two-disc set
with enhanced
picture and sound,
$29.99.
Extras:
"Virtual
Dalmatians," "101
Pop-Up Trivia
Facts," Cruella De
Vil music video,
"Redefining the
Line: The Making of
101 Dalmatians," "Cruella
De Vil: Drawn to be
Bad," "Sincerely
Yours: Walt Disney,"
deleted songs, more.
(Disney).
The Other Boleyn
Girl
(2003) Natascha
McElhone. Jodhi May,
Jared Harris. BBC
tale of sex, passion
and royal intrigue:
This is the
little-known story
of Mary Boleyn who
was mistress to King
Henry VIII before he
married her older
sister, Anne.
Inspired by Philippa
Gregory's best
selling novel.
(Warner).
The Pink Panther &
Friends Classic
Cartoon Collection
Volume Six: The
Inspector
Single disc with 17
episodes (cartoons)
from 1965 - 1967,
$14.98. (MGM).
Pistol Whipped
(2008) Steven
Seagal, Lance
Henriksen. An elite
ex-cop (Seagal)
buries himself
deeper and deeper
into financial
trouble with his
uncontrollable
gambling and
drinking problems
... until a
mysterious man
offers to relieve
him of his money
troubles in exchange
for the
assassination of the
city's most
notorious gangsters.
Extras:
Deleted scenes.
(Sony).
The Shepherd: Border
Patrol
(2008) Jean-Claude
Van Damme, Stephen
Lord.
Direct-to-video
actioner. A rogue
American Special
Forces unit schemes
to smuggle $35
million worth of
heroin into the
United States, and
all that stands in
its way is border
patrol agent Jack
Robideaux, an
ex-homicide cop with
a hidden agenda.
(Sony).
Sorrell and Son
(1984)Miranda
Richardson,
Stephanie Beacham,
Richard Pasco. BBC
Masterpiece Theatre
minisereies about
faithfully adapted
from Warwick
Deepings
best-selling novel
set in the early
'20s about one man's
sacrifice in order
to provide his son
with the gentleman's
life he feels he
deserves. (Koch
Vision).
TCM Archives:
Forbidden Hollywood
Volume 2
Three-disc set with
five restored and
remastered pre-code
classics plus a
feature-length
documentary: "The
Divorcee" (1930)/"A
Free Soul" (1931);
"Three on a Match"
(1932)/"Female"
(1933); "Night
Nurse" (1931)/
Documentary: "Thou
Shalt Not: Sex, Sin
and Censorship in
Pre-Code Hollywood."
$49.92. (Warner).
Terry Pratchett's
Hogfather
(2006) David Jason,
Marc Warren,
Michelle Dockery,
David Warner, Joss
Ackland. Live-action
adaptation of one of
the international
best-selling "Discworld"
novels by Terry
Pratchett that takes
place in a parallel
universe drifting
through space
perched on top of
four elephants
standing on the
shell of a giant
turtle, a universe
where the Auditors
want the human race
destroyed. (Genius
Products).
Things We Lost in
the Fire
(2007) Halle Berry,
Benicio Del Toro,
David Duchovny,
Alison Lohman.
Extras:
"A Discussion About
Things We Lost in
the Fire," deleted
scenes. Also
available on HD DVD.
(Paramount).
12 Angry Men
(1957) Dir.: Sidney
Lumet; Henry Fonda,
Lee J. Cobb, Jack
Warden, Martin
Balsam, Ed Begley,
Jack Klugman.
Extras:
"Beyond a Reasonable
Doubt: The Making Of
12 Angry Men"
featurette, "Inside
the Jury Room"
featurette. (MGM).
