Movies on DVD

Angels and Demons puts symbologist, Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) back on the track to decipher the clues to a catastrophic conspiracy. The pope has died, a successor must be chosen, the four hopefuls for the papacy are kidnapped…all this along with an ominous threat are the basis for the flick.

Special Features: Rome Was Not Built In A Day, writing Angels & Demons, characters in search of the true story, CERN: Pushing the Frontiers of Knowledge.

Lots of dogs and Christmas – what more needs to be said about Santa Buddies, the latest installment in the successful canine franchise.

Special Features: Sing Along to Christmas Carols with the Buddies, plus the Santa Claus is Comin’ To Town music video.

Four Christmases takes a married couple en route to Fiji for Christmas and plops them right in the middle of their family’s Christmas celebrations (two sets of divorced parents). During the visit they learn more about one another and realize their lives could be better. Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn star.

Imagine That stars Eddie Murphy as a financial executive whose career is headed on a collision course who visits his daughter’s imaginary world where the solutions to his problems are plentiful.

Funny People revolves around George, a successful standup comic who learns he has less than a year to live due to an untreatable blood disorder. He meets Ira, a struggling comedian who works at a deli while performing at the same club. George hires Ira for his assistant as well as his friend.

Special Features: A flick titled Funny People has got to have a gag reel along with feature commentary with director Judd Apatow and actors Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen.

TV on DVD

Law & Order: Criminal Intent: The Fourth Year follows the Major Case Squad’s efforts to stop horrible criminal offenders in the Big Apple. Detective Robert Goren (Vincent D’Onofrio) a genius cop and his partner Detective Alexandra Eames are in charge of the investigation. The set contains five discs.

Melrose Place The Fifth Season, Volume 2 is the original series about a group of young adults living large in Melrose Place in California. They all have dreams, but there are unavoidable conflicts along with romantic hookups between them in a three disc set.

Beverly Hills 90210 The Eighth Season was based around the lives of a group of high school students from the posh zip code. This series went from high school to college with the kids surviving all sorts of drama from relationships to crises while still managing to deliver messages about society woes like alcoholism, AIDS and pregnancy. A whopping seven discs of emotional ups and downs.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season Four is a collection of half-hour stories book-ended with introductions and commentary from the Master of Suspense himself Alfred Hitchcock. Expect horror, humor and suspense, plus classic theme music (March of the Funerals) in four discs.