Entertainment > Movies / TV DVD Releases: Week of March 21st Posted by R. Flagg on Mar 21, 2006, 15:25

Notable Releases

Capote

Best Price: $18.78 @ Buy.com

The Features:

� Commentary by director Bennett Miller and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman

� Commentary by director Bennett Miller and cinematographer Adam Kimmel

� Unanswered Prayers: a documentary on Truman Capote

� 2 behind the scenes documentaries

The Squid And The Whale (Special Edition)

Best Price: $19.99 @ Best Buy

The Features:

� Commentary by director Noah Baumbach

� Behind-the-scenes

� A conversation with director Noah Baumbach and film critic Philip Lopate

Chicken Little

Best Price: $13.99 @ Circuit City

The Features:

� Deleted Scenes

� Hatching Chicken Little

� Where's Fish Interactive Game

� Karaoke Sing Along

� Cheetah Girls Music Video

� Barenaked Ladies Music Video

Derailed (Unrated)

Best Price: $16.99 @ Best Buy

The Features:

� The Making of Derailed

� Deleted scenes

� 5 minutes of additional footage not seen in theaters

In The Mix

Best Price: $16.99 @ Circuit City

The Features:

� 25 days and Not a Minute More

� Deleted Scenes

� Trailers

Stalag 17 (Collector's Edition)

Best Price: $13.56 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com

The Features:

� Commentary by actors Richard Erdman and Gil Stratton and co-playwright Donald Bevan

� Stalag 17: From Reality to Screen

� The Real Heroes of Stalag XVIIB

� Photo Gallery

� Restored Mono soundtrack

The Ten Commandments (50th Anniversary Collection)

Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City

The Features:

� Includes 1956 Oscar-winning version and Cecil B. DeMille's original 1923 silent version

� Hand-tinted footage of the Exodus and Parting of the Red Sea Sequence from the 1923 version

� Commentary by Katherine Orrison, author of "Written in Stone: Making Cecil B. DeMille's Epic, The Ten Commandments," on both the 1956 and 1923 versions

� 6-part, 37-minute "making of" documentary, featuring interviews with Charlton Heston and composer Elmer Bernstein, among others

� Newsreel footage of the New York premiere

� 3 theatrical trailers: 1956 "Making of" trailer, 1966 re-release trailer, 1989 re-release trailer

Roseanne: The Complete Third Season

Best Price: $23.99 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com

The Features:

� The Sister That Never Leaves: Laurie Metcalf Interview

� I Was A Teenage Becky: Lecy Goranson Interview

� The Best Of Season Three

Justice League: Season 1

Best Price: $ 30.99 @ Amazon.com

The Features:

� Commentary on Legends, Pt.2 & The Savage Time, Pt.2 with Bruce Timm, James Tucker, Glenn Murakami, Rich Fogel & Dan Riba

� Inside Justice League: A private panel discussion takes place between Bruce Timm and his team of creators about Justice League with some special surprises

� The Look of The League: Bruce Timm explains character design of Justice League

� The Blueprint For Justice: The creative team of Justice League discusses storyboarding process

� The First Mission: Watch this exciting "Never Seen Before" promo which helped Justice League leap into action

Batman Beyond: The Complete First Season

Best Price: $19.99 @ Best Buy

The Features:

� Commentary on Rebirth, Pt.1 with Bruce Timm, Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, Glenn Murakami, and Curt Geda

� Commentary on Shriek with Bruce Timm, Alan Burnett, Glenn Murakami, Curt Geda, and Stan Berkowitz

� Inside Batman Beyond: Every Batman fan wishes they could sit at a table with it's creators of the series. Well, now here's a chance for that to take place with a few surprises

� Music of The Knight: Bruce Timm intro's the music from five key scenes of Batman Beyond as you choose which one you would like to hear with dramatic music only

Huff: The Complete First Season

Best Price: $25.28 @ Buy.com

The Features:

� Commentary on Pilot with Creator Bob Lowry and Director Scott Winant

� Commentary on Is She Dead! with Creator Bob Lowry and Director Scott Winant

� Commentary on Christmas Is Ruined! with Creator Bob Lowry and Director Scott Winant

� Commentary on Crazy Nuts & All with Creator Bob Lowry and Director Scott Winant

� Deleted Scenes

� Behind the Therapy

� Character by Design

� Lens of Truth

Over There: The Complete First Season

Best Price: $27.99 @ Amazon.com

The Features:

� Commentary on "Pilot" by Creator/Writer Steven Bochco and Co-Creator/Writer/Director Chris Gerolmo

� Commentary on "Orphans" by Luke MacFarlane, Erik Palladino, Keith Robinson, Kirk Jones, Omid Abtahi, Lizette Carrion and Nicki Lynn Aycox

� Tour of Duty: Filming Over There

� Weapons Debriefing

The White Shadow: The Complete Second Season

Best Price: $27.99 @ Amazon.com

The Features:

� Commentary on Select Episodes

� The Shadow of Bruce Paltrow

� Director's Debut

� A Series of Memories

Dear Wendy

Synopsis:

Directed by Thomas Vinterberg and written by Lars von Trier, Dear Wendy is an audacious and stylish exploration of guns and violence in America. When a young loner named Dick (Jamie Bell) discovers a vintage handgun, he finds himself strangely drawn to it in spite of his pacifist views. Soon he forms a secret club with other misfits in his town who collect and revere antique guns and refer to themselves as "The Dandies." But despite their firm belief in the most important Dandy rule of all, "never draw your weapons", they eventually discover that some rules are meant to be broken.

Best Price: $15.86 @ DVDPacific.com

The Features:

� Commentary with Thomas Vinterberg and DP Anthony Dod Mantle

� 5 Deleted Scenes

� Documentary

� Short "Letters To Dear Wendy"

� Interview with Thomas Vinterberg and Lars von Trier

� Theatrical Trailer

Show Me

Synopsis:

Sarah, a thirty-something urban professional, is stuck in traffic in her freshly washed luxury sedan. At a red light, two teenaged squeegee punks ask for spare change, but when they suddenly jump into Sarah's car it becomes clear they want a lot more. And when 17-year-old Jenna overhears a phone conversation with Sarah's partner Sam, she takes control, pulling a knife and forcing Sarah to take them with her to her isolated cottage up north. The volatile kids hold Sarah captive while they plan their next move.

Best Price: $17.95 @ DVDPacific.com

The Features:

� Commentary by director Cassandra Nicolaou

� Behind-the-scenes

� Deleted scenes

� Trailer

Other Releases

21 Jump Street: The Complete 5th Season

42nd Street

Behind Enemy Lines 4 Movie Set (Commandos/The Prisoner In The Middle/Desert Commandos/Delta Force Commando)

Bewitched: The Complete Third Season

The Billy Wilder DVD Collection (Stalag 17/Sunset Boulevard/Sabrina)

The Black Crowes: Freak N Roll Into The Fog

Blackmail Boy

Break a Leg

Breasts: A Documentary

Buffalo Boy

Bukowski: Born Into This

The Busby Berkeley Collection (Footlight Parade/Gold Diggers Of 1933/Dames/Gold Diggers Of 1935/42nd Street)

The Confessor

Dave Gardner: Collector's Edition

Dimples

Dreamer: Inspired By A True Story

The Dying Gaul

ESP 2: A Tribute To Miles - Live In Stuttgart

Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film

Everything Is Illuminated

The Flying Nun: The Complete First Season

Gidget: The Complete Series

Good Morning, Night

Hercules And The Princess Of Troy/Atlas In The Land Of The Cyclops/Giants Of Rome

Hip Hop Elements: Volume 1

History's Greatest Miracles

History's Greatest Secrets

Hollywood Screen Legends Giftset (Roman Holiday/To Catch a Thief/A Place in the Sun)

The Incredible Discovery Of Noah's Ark

Junior Kerry: Live in San Francisco

Keane

Kill the Moonlight (DVD with Soundtrack CD featuring Beck, Steve Hanft)

King of the Cage: Payback

King of the Cage: Revenge

Kung Fu Theater: Land Of The Brave/Great General

Kung Fu Theater: Mantis Fists/Tiger Claws Of Shaolin

A League Of Ordinary Gentlemen

The Little Colonel

The Littlest Rebel

Loggerheads

A Lover's Revenge

Macc Lads: Come to Brum

The Martha Stewart Gardening Collection: Martha's Spring Garden

Mind Of Mencia: The Complete Uncensored First Season

Mysteries of the Ancient World

Otis Rush: Live At Montreux 1986

Pam Williams: A Night With The Saxtress

Paradise Now

Private Dicks: Men Exposed
                 

Rudolph Valentino: The Great Lover

Secrets Of Ufos: Area 51 Base

Secrets Of Ufos: Fields Of Mystery

Secrets Of Ufos: Kecksburg Ufo Crash

Secrets Of Ufos: Roswell Ufo Crash

Sequins

Sexual Confessions

Sexy Role Play

Shirley Temple Collection, Vol. 3

Shrink Rap

South Beach Sounds: Miami Music Week, Vol. 1

Southern Belles

South Park: The Complete Seventh Season

Space Mission: Reaching for the Stars

Space Views: Original, Breathtaking Pictures From The Space Shuttle

Surrender

Swimming Upstream

Taggart: Death Call Set

Taggart: Killer Set

This Is Nowhere

Tim Janis: Coastal America

Unsolved Mysteries: The Ultimate Collection

The Best of Unsolved Mysteries

The Wailing Souls: Live in San Francisco - Classic Jamaican Flava

The Way West

Whisky

Willy Deville: Live In The Lowlands

WWE: No Way Out 2006

The Young Riders: The Complete First Season

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Notable Horror & Sci-Fi Releases

Tales From The Crypt: The Complete Third Season

Best Price: $27.99 @ Amazon.com

The Features:

� 14 episodes on three discs

� A Tall Tales Panel: series creators and admirers discuss the show in a Crypt seminar

� A Tales From the Crypt Reunion: A Panel Discussion

� Music video: Crypt Jam"

The Choke

Synopsis:

When news breaks that the lead singer of The Choke is going solo, their last gig promises to be packed with bad feelings�and murder. The band and their entourage mysteriously find themselves trapped in an old meatpacking plant that is now Club 905. But the tension turns into real panic when the body of a red-hot groupie turns up mutilated in a meat locker. Now the group recognizes that they are trapped with a vicious killer.

The Features:

� Commentary by director Juan A. Mas and crew

� The Choke: The Legend Begins

� Trailers

House of the Dead II

Synopsis:

A growing zombie infection overtakes an isolated university campus. Hoping to stop the spread of the infection and end the zombie plague, a secret government agency is sent in to find "Patient Zero," the original zombie from which the infection started, and create an antidote. Once on campus, agency operatives Nightingale (Emmanuelle Vaugier) and Ellis (Ed Quinn) find the entire university has been completely overrun! Immersed in a giant zombie battle, Nightingale and Ellis discover some of their fellow agents have their own plans for the zombie DNA.

Best Price: $16.72 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com

The Features:

� Commentary with producer Mark A. Altman and director Mike Hurst

� The Making of House of the Dead II

� Deleted Scenes

� Trailers

Other Horror & Sci-Fi Releases

Charms

Kiss Daddy Goodbye

Mansion of the Doomed

Monster Of London City/Mystery Of The Red Orchid

Night Creatures (The Feral Man/Ghoul School)

Night of a 1000 Cats

Ring Around the Rosie

Slasher Cinema (The Demon/Craze/The Glove/Memorial Valley Massacre)

Snakeman

Anime Releases

Baki The Grappler: King Hanma - Volume 6

Daphne In The Brilliant Blue: Regenesis - Volume 7

Dragonball Z: Vegeta Saga 2 - Saiyan Invasion (with Art Box)

E's Otherwise, Volume 6 - Calvaria: The Will Of The Planet, The Fate Of The Chosen

Fafner: Rebirth - Volume 5

Ghost In The Shell: S.A.C. 2nd Gig - Volume 4

Ghost In The Shell: S.A.C. 2nd Gig - Volume 4 (limited edition with collectible toys, CD soundtrack, and tin case)

Godannar: Two's A Combat Team, Three's A Crowd - Volume 4

Princess Tutu: Prinz Und Rabe - Volume 4

Yugo The Negotiator: Russia 2 - Rebirth

Circuit City Weekly Deals

$5.99:

Contact (Special Edition)

A Perfect Murder (Special Edition)

What Dreams May Come (Special Edition)

Absolute Power

Analyze This

Austin Powers: Goldmember

BASEketball

Black Sheep

Bonnie & Clyde

The Cell

Changing Lanes

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Double Jeopardy

Dreamcatcher

Empire of the Sun

Empire: Two Worlds Collide

Enemy At The Gates

National Lampoon's European Vacation

Fallen

Forever Young

How To Be A Player

The Incredible Mr. Limpet

Kiss The Girls

The Last Boy Scout

The Last Castle

Laws of Attraction

The Legend of Bagger Vance

The Life of David Gale

The Lost Boys

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

Money Talks

Murder at 1600

The Peacemaker

Pretty In Pink

Purple Rain

Rock Star

A Simple Plan

Summer Rental

Uncle Buck

Wayne's World

$9.99:

The Jerk (26th Anniversary Edition)

King Arthur (Unrated Director's Cut)

The Longest Yard (2005 Collector's Edition)

Million Dollar Baby (2-Disc)

Office Space (Special Edition with Flair!)

Team America: World Police (Unrated Collector's Edition)

The Transporter (Special Delivery Edition)

XXX: State of the Union (Special Edition)

Are We There Yet?

Coach Carter

Constantine

Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth

Hotel Rwanda

Kung Fu Hustle

Richard Pryor Stand Up Comedy Double Feature