Movies on DVD
Jonah Hex stars Josh Brolin as a bounty hunter with warrants hanging over his head who is given a mission by the U.S. Marshall’s office. In exchange for his freedom, he’s has to stop a terrorist ready to release Hell on Earth.
Special Features: Deleted scenes.
How to Train Your Dragon follows the adventures of a young Viking who dreams of becoming a dragon hunter. That is until he meets and becomes buddies with a young dragon himself and then, of course, learns there is more to the beast than what he expected.
Special Features: Behind the scenes with the cast and filmmakers of the animated feature.
The Essential Bugs Bunny is 20 Looney Tunes classics on two discs. There is no question that Bugs Bunny is a superstar and this collection is a wonderful example of why he’s still so popular with both children and adults.
Special Features: Bugs Bunny: Ain’t He A Stinker (a 2010 mini-documentary on Bugs Bunny’s extensive career), Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers, Bugs Bunny’s Bustin’ Out All Over (an Emmy nominated TV special), Bugs and Daffy’s Carnival of the Animals.
Disc one (Essential Theatrical Shorts), Elmer’s Candid Camera, A Wild Hare, The Old Grey Hare, Baseball Bugs, Hair Raising Hare, Haredevil Hare, Eight Ball Bunny, Rabbit of Seville, Rabbit Fire, Show Biz Bugs, Knighty Knight Bugs, What’s Opera Doc?
Disc two (Bugs Bunny From the Vault), My Dream is Yours, How Bugs Bunny Won the West, Bugs Bunny Wild World of Sports TV special, Carrotblanca, Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones is a documentary film shot from two concerts during their 1972 North American tour.
Christmas is arriving on DVD a bit early, but still in time for holiday planning.
A Golden Christmas is ION Television’s first originally produced TV movie. The two-hour production stars Andrea Roth, Jason London, Nicholas Brendon and Bruce Davison in a story surrounding a young boy and girl brought together by a dog years ago.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is the story about how Rudolph – a misfit reindeer and his friends searching for a place that will accept them. This was an instant holiday classic the moment it hit the television airwaves in 1964. The animated special features narration from of Burl Ives.
Then there is the box set of animated Christmas movies entitled The Original Christmas Classics. It begins with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, but the collection also includes Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Frosty the Snowman and Frosty Returns.
TV on DVD
See what all the fuss is about with The Tudors: The Final Season - a series about the reign and marriage of King Henry VIII. A revamped version of the king’s growing obsession with having an heir as he becomes distant from his wives.
Special Features: United States of Tara: Season 2, episodes one and two.
Dollhouse: The Complete Second Season attempted to gain an audience for the series, but couldn’t quite reach a viewership that made sense for the network (FOX) to give it a third year – even though the show starred Eliza Dushku and was created by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel). It was an interesting premise - the show followed the residents of a laboratory that assigns tasks for them to do - then erases the memories after completion.
Special Features: Disc one, audio commentary on Vows from Joss Whedon - Disc two, audio commentary on Belonging by Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen - Disc four, outtakes, deleted scenes, defining moments, looking back.
C.S.I. Miami: The Eighth Season is the first of the spin-off shows based on popular C.S.I. procedural drama. The program stars David Caruso as Lieutenant Horacio Caine, the no-nonsense leader of a group of forensic investigators.
Ghost Whisperer: The Fifth Season is the final year of the series revolving around Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt), a woman who has the ability to not only see and communicate with the dead, but to help the misguided ghosts crossover to the next life – not of this Earth of course.
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