Entertainment > Movies / TV DVD Releases: Week of February 21st Posted by R. Flagg on Feb 20, 2006, 18:40

Notable Releases

Rent (2-Disc Special Edition)

Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City

The Features:

� Commentary by Director Chris Columbus and Selected Cast

� Feature Length Documentary: No Day But Today

� Days of Inspiration: Jonathan Larson's childhood through college

� Leap of Faith: Jonathan's move to NY and the subsequent experiences and projects that led up to writing RENT

� Without You: The death of Jonathan Larson, we then follow the show's amazing success story from off-Broadway to worldwide phenomenon

� Over the Moon: the making of the actual movie with a final tribute to Jonathan Larson

� Another Day: From conception to the final dress rehearsal

� Deleted Scenes and Musical Performances

� PSAs: Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation; National Marfan Foundation

North Country

Best Price: $16.99 @ Best Buy

The Features:

� Deleted Scenes

� Stories from the North Country: Making-of documentary

� Theatrical trailer

The Weather Man

Best Price: $17.99 @ Best Buy

The Features:

� Forecast: Becoming A Weatherman

� Relative Humidity: The Characters

� Trade Winds: The Collaboration

� Atmospheric Pressure: The Style and Palette

� Extended Outlook: The Script

� Theatrical Trailer

Domino

Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City

The Features:

� Commentary with Tony Scott and writer Richard Kelly

� Script Notes and Story Development Commentary with Tony Scott, Zack Schiff-Abrams, Ricahrd Kelly and Tom Waits

� 9 Deleted Scenes

� I am a Bounty Hunter: Domino Harvey's Life with Optional Commentary

� Bounty Hunting on Acid: Evolution of a Visual Style

� Theatrical Trailer

All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Best Price: $19.99 @ Best Buy

The Features:

� Commentary by Robert Redford

� Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of All The President's Men, with new interviews with Dustin Hoffman, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

� Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat: A profile of former FBI Associate Director W. Mark Felt

� Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire

� Vintage featurette Pressure and the Press: The Making of All the President's Men

� Vintage Jason Robards interview excerpt from Dinah!, hosted by Dinah Shore

Midnight Cowboy (Two Disc Collector's Edition)

Best Price: $19.99 @ Best Buy

The Features:

� Commentary by Producer Jerome Hellman

� After Midnight: Reflecting On The Classic 35 Years Later

� Controversy And Acclaim Documentary

� Celebrating Schlesinger

� Photo Gallery

NYPD Blue: The Complete Third Season

Best Price: $27.38 @ Overstock.com

The Features:

� Commentary on Select Episodes

� Season Three Overview

� Fathers and Sons

� Women of NYPD Blue

� The 15th Precinct

3rd Rock From The Sun: Season 3

Best Price: $24.29 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com

The Features:

� Commentaries

� Bloopers

� Brand New French Stewart Interview

� Wild About Harry: Favorite Harry Moments

� Interviews With the Cast: The Superest 2 Part Episode Ever!

� Season Three Highlights

� TV Spots

� 16 Page Collectible Booklet

Daddy Long Legs

Synopsis:

Fred Astaire becomes both the benefactor and suitor of Leslie Caron in this charming story of a playboy who falls under the spell of a beautiful French orphan. While traveling through France, Jervis Pendleton lll (Astaire) anonymously sponsors an 18-year-old girl named Julie (Caron), whom he sends to college in America. Two years later they finally meet face-to-face and start to fall in love. But complications arise and their happiness is threatened when Jervis embarks on a noble yet misguided attempt to do "the right thing" about their age difference. Featuring imaginative production numbers and a Johnny Mercer score that includes the 1955 Oscar-nominated hit for Best Song "Something's Gotta Give", Daddy Long Legs is a song-filled blend of dance and fantasy for romantics of all ages.

Best Price: $14.64 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com

The Features:

� Commentary by Film Historian Ken Barnes and Ava Astaire McKenzie

� Movietone News with Optional commentary by Film Historian Ken Barnes and Ava Astaire McKenzie

� Daddy Longlegs London Premiere

� Photo Gallery

� Original Theatrical Trailer

Family Portraits: A Trilogy Of America

Synopsis:

A desperate housewife. A troubled father. A crippled and disfigured teenage girl. Three haunted characters. Three harrowing and unforgettable journeys into self-mutilation, murder and the pits of despair, which director Douglas Buck uses to reflect on America�s declared foremost concern today; the family, struggling to survive amidst the cauldron of hollow religious practices, alienation and spiritual despair threatening at any moment to explode into violence. Family Portraits: A Trilogy Of America collects Buck's three films (Cutting Moments, Home and Prologue) as they were meant to be seen, starting with hell on Earth and ending ultimately on a small act of salvation.

Best Price: $16.63 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com

The Features:

� Commentary with Douglas Buck and film professors John Freitas and Marc Lapadula

� 1994 Short Film, "After All"

� Trailers

� Deleted Scene

� Original Screenplays

� Behind-the-Scenes Footage

� Stills Gallery

� Liner Notes by Ghost Story Author Peter Straub and Wendigo Filmmaker Larry Fessenden

Other Releases

Action: Complete Series

The Alley Cats

Annihilator: Ten Years In Hell

The Belle Stars: Sign Of The Times - Live

The Blow Monkeys: Animal Magic - Live

Bon Jovi: Heaven Can Wait

Buried Alive

Camille 2000

Carmen, Baby

Champagne Safari

Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber

Conflict: Live in England

The Best Of Cracker: Get On With It

The Darkness: It Is Just Me

Death in Gaza

The Dick Cavett Show: Comic Legends

The Dirty Girls

Dorian Blues

Afterlife: DVD, Album, Single, Remixes, Journey

Edvard Munch

Eels with Strings: Live at Town Hall

Elbow: Leaders of the Free World

Elvis: The Memphis Flash - Elvis Presley, Sun Records and How it All Began

Erik The Viking (Director's Cut)

Europe: Live From the Dark (Special Edition)

Face Of Evil

A Father, a Son: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

First Descent

Flotsam & Jetsam: Live in Japan

The Band From Utopia: A Tribute To The Music Of Frank Zappa

Kid Dynamite: Four Years in One Gulp

G.G. Allin: Terror In America - Live 1993

Hot Tuna: Live At The Fillmore

Indian Babu

The Irish R.M.: Series 3

Iron Maiden: Death on the Road

The Jam: The Ultimate Review

Johnny Watson: Music Hall In Concert

King Kurt: Destination Zululand - Live

Krisiun: Live Armageddon

Kung Faux : Volume 1

Left of the Dial

Liam Lawton in Concert

The Lickerish Quartet

Little Mother

Live From Da Crib

Live The Dream: The Texas Longhorns Magical March To The National Championship

Mac Dre: Ghetto Celebrities - Volume 2

Mastodon: The Workhorse Chronicles

The Memory of a Killer

Merle Haggard: Live From Austin, Texas

VH1 Metal Mania: Stripped Across America Tour Live

Mixed Blood

Moenia: Hits Live

Molly Hatchet: Live In Hamburg

Naked World

Nick Barrett And Clive Nolan: A Rush of Adrenaline

OHM+: The early gurus of electronic music

Pin-Up Girl

The Prince & Me 2: The Royal Wedding

The Princess & the Call Girl

Ramones: The True Story

Red Alert: Under a Catalonian Sky

Redwall: Season One

Satellite: Evening Dreams

SBB: Live in Theatre

Scar Tissue

Score

The Seat Filler

Separate Lies

The Simian Line

Sodom: Lords of Depravity, Part I

Soldiers in the Army of God

Southern Justice

SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost In Time

Stuart Little 3: Call Of The Wild

Syd Barrett: Under Review

The Take

Therese and Isabelle

Third World: Music Hall In Concert

Tony Joe White: Live From Austin, TX

Torremolinos 73

TNA Wrestling: Genesis 2005

Twist of Faith

The U2 Phenomenon

Ultimate Avengers: The Movie

Waterborne

Waylon Jennings: Live From Austin, TX

Weekend in Havana

Wishbone Ash: Ultimate Collection

WWE: Divas Do New York 2006

Notable Horror & Sci-Fi Releases

Class of 1984

Synopsis:

They�re all part of a typical day for the students of Lincoln High. Into this academic abyss arrive Andy Norris (Perry King), an idealistic and na�ve music teacher who has moved into the community with his pregnant wife Diane. Appalled by the crime-infested school, Norris soon crosses sabers with its teenage kingpin, the shrewd and sadistic Peter Stegman (Timothy Van Patten). With Norris setting his sights on reforming Stegman, and the young miscreant declaring war on his teacher, the duo sets a fateful showdown into motion on the night of an important school orchestra performance.

Directed and co-written by Mark L. Lester, Class of 1984 is one of the seminal cult movies of the early 1980s. While its vision of a decaying, violence-plagued inner city school seemed over-the-top in 1982, it sadly prophesized the future of American education. Lester�s film, which caused a stir at Cannes and reputedly offended one of its own screenwriters, is also notable for its cast, which includes Roddy McDowall and a very young Michael J. Fox. Alice Cooper performs the theme song, �I Am The Future�. No longer are the students of Lincoln High the future, for the future has arrived!

Best Price: $12.99 @ Best Buy

The Features:

� Commentary with Director Mark Lester

� Blood And Blackboards: An all-new featurette containing interviews with Director Mark Lester and Actors Perry King and Merrie Lynn Ross

� Trailer & 2 TV Spots

� Poster & Still Gallery

� DVD-Rom: Screenplay

The Love Merchant/The Layout

Synopsis:

The Love Merchant:

Warhol star Louis Waldon is The Love Merchant, a biker named Click Boyd who's the personal procurer of willing women for "millionaire bum" Kendall Harvey III. While Click has no trouble finding gals eager to trade sex for cash, Kendall has his sights set on Peggy Johns. Trouble is, Peggy is not only "square", but also happily married. When her husband's business suddenly goes bust, Kendall offers to help him out IF she will be his bedmate for 48 hours. This sexploitation version of Indecent Proposal, though made 27 years earlier, is another smart skinflick from the sublime Joe Sarno that also features appearances by nudie-faves June Roberts and Cleo Nova!

The Layout:

Wendy Dawn is committing adultery with a building contractor, and Pam Ritchie crumbles under the advances of an outraged wife!" So summarizes evil Ellen as she surveys The Layout of cousin Pam and her suburban-Florida swingers. Anxious to prove that "untouchable" Pam is less an ice princess than a latent lesbian, Ellen seduces Pam's female friends until they all end up in Pam's bedroom for one big girl-girl party. Featuring the infamous Chuck Traynor, the man who introduced Linda Lovelace to the world, as the only guy in the cast, here's another slick Sarno straight from the Golden Age of the American Nudie!

Best Price: $19.99 @ Best Buy

The Features:

� Vintage Peepland Short #1: "Private Secretary!"

� Vintage Peepland Short #2: "Two Reel Cuties!"

� Gallery of Underground Sexploitation Movie-Magazine Covers with Audio Oddities!

� Trailers

She Mob/Nymphs Anonymous

Synopsis:

She Mob

She-Madness! Wait'll you see Big Shim! Big-boned, butch, and wearing a leather cone-tipped bra, she's the lesbian leader of the She Mob, a gang of prison escapees shacked out at an isolated farmhouse. Eager for a man, the gals ask stud-for hire Tony to make an emergency house call. When Big Shim learns that a wealthy businesswoman is currently keeping Tony, she ties him to a bed and holds him for ransom. Though the girls are only too happy to take advantage of Tony's prowess, Big Shim goes ballistic when her special galpal "Baby" tries to help Tony escape. Stringing him up in Baby's lingerie, Big Shim is about to turn Tony into a soprano when who should show up but private-eye Sweetie East. A twisted cult fave, She Mob is not only hilariously outrageous but a one-of-a-kind gutter-trash classick!
 

Nymphs Anonymous

No longer satisfied with her he-man husband Stan, sexually-insatiable Laura Ellis attacks a bill collector, a vacuum-cleaner salesman, and a psychiatrist before finally joining Nymphs (Anonymous), an organization catering to the needs of nymphomaniacs. Unfortunately, when Stan finds Laura in the company of the club's studs, he does what any good husband would do, he puts on a monster mask and goes on a killing spree. Punchline: Stan is blackmailed into becoming an Official Nympho Sex Slave in this crackpot mix of sex, comedy, and corpses!

Best Price: $19.99 @ Best Buy

The Features:

� Vintage Peepland Short #1: Tease for Two!

� Vintage Peepland Short #2: Smoke Rings!

� Gallery of Sexplotation Ad Art with Exploitation Audio!

� Trailers

Vice Squad

Synopsis:

Season Hubley stars as Princess, a loving single mom turned Hollywood hooker who can provide any depraved pleasure for the right price. But when a volatile cop (Gary Swanson) uses her to trap a sadistic killer, Princess becomes the prey of a psychotic pimp known as Ramrod (Wings Hauser). Tonight, the neon jungle of Los Angeles will explode in an orgy of vengeance and violence. And the only outlaws more desperate than the hustlers, whores and freaks that rule the streets are the Vice Squad.

Best Price: $12.14 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com

The Features:

� Commentary with Co-Writer/Director Gary Sherman and Moderator David Gregory

� Theatrical Trailer

� Radio Spots

� Poster And Still Gallery

Other Horror & Sci-Fi Releases

2069: A Sex Odyssey/Run, Virgin, Run

Cerberus: The Guardian Of Hell

Curious Obsessions

Pulse

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Vol. 1

Watch the Skies! (The Cosmic Man/The Flying Saucer/Stranger From Venus)

Anime Releases

Burst Angel: Guardian Angel - Volume 6

Case Closed: The Investigation Is Afoot - Volume 1.1

DearS: Fourth Contact - Volume 4

Fighting Spirit: The Red Wolf - Volume 10

Gantz: Season 1 Collection

Gatchaman: Volume 9

Gatchaman: Volume 10

Gatchaman Collection 5

Hare + Guu: Volume 2

IGPX: Volume 1 (Uncut Edition)

IGPX: Volume 1 (Toonami Edition)

Ultra Maniac: Magical Love - Volume 6

Circuit City Weekly Deals

$5.99:

Contact (Special Edition)

A Perfect Murder (Special Edition)

Absolute Power

Bonnie and Clyde

Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Empire of the Sun

National Lampoon's European Vacation

Austin Powers in Goldmember

The Incredible Mr. Limpet

The Last Boy Scout

The Lost Boys

Murder at 1600

Purple Rain

Rock Star

$7.49:

Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)

The Butterfly Effect (Director's Cut)

Forrest Gump (Collector's Edition)

The Italian Job (Collector's Edition)

The Last Samurai (2-Disc)

Mean Girls (Collector's Edition)

Starship Troopers (Special Edition)

White Chicks (Unrated)

Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie

A Cinderella Story

The Clearing

Closer

The Mask

Ocean's Eleven

The Sandlot 2

Seven