Movies / TV
DVD Releases: Week of August 9th
By R. Flagg
Aug 9, 2005, 10:38

Notable Releases
Because of Winn-Dixie
Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City
The Features:
� Commentary by Jeff Daniels and producer Trevor Albert
� Scene-specific commentary by AnnaSophia Robb
� Gag reel
� Behind-the-scenes featurette
� "Diamond in the Ruff" dog-training featurette

Kung Fu Hustle
Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City
The Features:
� Commentary with cast and crew
� Deleted Scenes
� Outtakes and Bloopers
� Behind the Scenes of Kung Fu Hustle Featurette
� Ric Meyers interview with Stephen Chow
� Photo gallery, TV spots, and previews

Dallas: The Complete Third Season
Best Price: $27.99 @ Circuit City
The Features:
� 25 episodes on five double-sided discs
� Commentary by Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray on Sue Ellen's Choice and A House Divided
� New documentary: Who Shot J.R.? The Dallas Phenomenon

The Muppet Show - Season One (Special Edition)
Best Price: $27.88 @ Wal-Mart
The Features:
� All 24 episodes from the 1976 season completely restored and remastered
� Original pilot: "Sex and Violence!"
� Original pitch reel of the show
� Muppet morsels: viewing mode with fun facts about the Muppets
� Promo gag reel

Thundercats: Season One, Volume One
Best Price: $45.33 @ Wal-Mart
The Features:
� Feel the Magic, Hear the Roar: ThunderCats Fans Speak Out - Wil Wheaton of Star Trek and other loyal Super Fans give their memories and support to this animation classic.

Profit: The Complete Series
Best Price: $17.99 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� 7 Hour Long Episodes, plus 2 Hour pilot that shocked the viewers
� 4 Never Aired Episodes
� Commentary with Creators David Greenwalt, John McNamara and Star Adrian Pasdar
� Greed Kills: featurette with special interviews with Adrian Padar, John McNamara, Stephen J. Cannell, David Greenwalt, Lisa Zane and Lisa Blount

Crime And Punishment
Synopsis:
A stunning and emotionally charged adaptation of the classic novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky chronicling the travails of a young man in turn-of-the-century Russia, where labor camps and political turmoil make his life a series of increasingly wrenching challenges.
Best Price: $30.36 @ DVDBoxOffice.com
The Features:
� Documentaries: Dostoyevsky Musueme in St. Petersburg, Raskolnikov and A Few Days of One Film
� Interviews with the Director's Widow N. Kulidzhanova and Assistant Director A. Gabriel Yan
� Photo Album
� Text Materials: "Private Life" - F.M Dostoyevsky's Biography

Dallas 362
Synopsis:
Rusty wonders through his life, happily finding himself in the middle of trouble with the only person he can relate to, his best friend, Dallas. Without the understanding of Rusty's mother, the only adult figure in either of their lives, Rusty and Dallas would never get out of their jail cells. For sanity's sake, Mary employs her therapist boyfriend, Bob, to help set Rusty on the right path. As Rusty and Bob forge a genuine relationship, Rusty begins to embrace the life and death of his father, a rodeo star, allowing him to make bold decisions about his future that lead him to new possibilities in the lives of all three. When Rusty finds small doses of clarity and direction, Dallas chooses a darker road to a more meaningful and higher status. When the time comes to being their journeys, their friendship is pushed to the brink and they are both forced to make decisions that will change their lives forever.
Best Price: $19.79 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Commentary by Director Scott Caan
� Deleted Scenes
� Behind The Scenes

The Muppets' Wizard Of Oz
Synopsis:
Everyone's favorite story becomes one twisted tale as Kermit, Miss Piggy, and all The Muppets turn the classic novel by L. Frank Baum into a madcap adventure filled with brains, heart, courage ... and a whole lot of laughter! Grammy Award winner Ashanti stars as Dorothy, an aspiring singer whose dreams of fame and fortune seem worlds away from coming true in the Kansas trailer park where she lives with her Auntie Em (Queen Latifah) and Uncle Henry (David Alan Grier). But when a tornado transports her and Toto (Pepe the King Prawn) to the magical land of Oz, Dorothy journeys to visit the Wizard, who promises to make her a superstar, if she and her wacky new friends, the Scarecrow (Kermit), the Tin Thing (Gonzo), and the Cowardly Lion (Fozzie), can defeat Oz's #1 diabolical diva, the Wicked Witch of the West (Miss Piggy)!
Best Price: $14.99 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Extended Film Version with 20 minutes not seen in the TV broadcast
� Oz Oops! - Hilarious slip-ups that never made it into the movie
� Pepe's Making Of: A VIP backstage look at the making of the movie
� Extended Interview with Quentin Tarantino - Hear more of Pepe's one-on-prawn interview

Under Milk Wood (Special Collector's Edition)
Synopsis:
Available for the first time on DVD, famed writer Dylan Thomas' masterpiece is brought to life in this critically acclaimed film adaptation.

A small Welsh fishing village begins to stir as two strangers (Richard Burton and Ryan Davies) make their way over the hills and into its cobbled streets. Blind old seafarer Captain Cat (Peter O'Toole) sits at his window, listening to the villagers going to and fro, and remembering his lost love, the lusty Rosie Probert (Elizabeth Taylor). Schoolmaster Mr. Pugh (Talfryn Thomas) dreams of murder as he brings tea to Mrs. Pugh (Vivien Merchant). Miss Myfanwy Price (Glynis Johns) sells candy to eager schoolchildren and awaits her daily letter from her suitor Mog Edwards (Victor Spinetti). A bus of tourists surveys the town, scarcely imagining the amazing tumble of humanity to be found there.
Best Price: $11.97 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Commentary by Director Andrew Sinclair
� Director's Introduction
� Feature Length Documentary on Dylan Thomas
� Original Interviews with Richard Burton and Director Andrew Sinclair
� Original 1971 Trailer
� Re-Release Trailer
� Original Production Notes
� Photo Gallery

Other Releases
Art of Game
Beautiful Boxer
Beauty And The Beast
Big Black Comedy - Volume 3
The Bottom of the Sea
Bramwell: The Complete First Season
Breathing Show
Cheddar
Chekhovian Motifs
Children In The Crossfire
Clarissa
Columbo: The Complete Third Season
The Crazy Stranger
The David Steinberg Show
Demon Spies
The Dream Team
The Emperor's New Clothes
A Farewell to Arms
Fu: Fresno Uncensored
Good Cop/Bad Cop
Grapplers Quest: 2004-2005 Copa Atlantica Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championships
Hansel And Gretel
Hardcore
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: Complete Second Series
Huckleberry Finn
In Old Chicago
Jail Party
Jerry Garcia Band: Live At Shoreline
Lady With The Little Dog
Laura Lansing Slept Here
Legion of the Dead
Lightning Bug The Locals The Lina Wertm�ller Collection
Look At Me
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
McCloud: Seasons One & Two
McMillan & Wife: Season One
Merci Docteur Rey
Mrs. Delafield Wants To Marry
Murder at the Presidio
Nobody's Child
Off The Map
Oh Heavenly Dog
Oil On Ice
Portraits of a Naked Lady Dancer
Puss In Boots
Railway Station For Two
Rap Or Die: Documentary
Redneck Comedy Roundup
Rumpelstiltskin
The Stationmaster's Wife
The Singing Princess
Slave Of Love
Snow White (1988)
Sunland Heat
T.J. Hooker: The Complete First And Second Seasons
Three Men and a Cradle
Tom Sawyer
Volcano Disaster
Wine For The Confused

Notable Horror & Sci-Fi Releases
Roswell: Season 3
Best Price: $41.88 @ Wal-Mart
The Features:
� 18 episodes on five discs
� Commentary by executive producer/director Jonathan Frakes on Secrets & Lies and Behind the Music
� Commentary by executive producer/writer Ronald D. Moore on I Married an Alien
� Commentary by executive producer/writer Jason Katims on Graduation
� "Class of 2002" featurette
� "Shiri Appleby's DVD Tour to Japan

Farscape: Season 2, Collection 2 (Starburst Edition)
Best Price: $14.99 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Building Zhaan: An in-depth, +30 minute interview with Virginia Hey (Zhaan)
� Farscape In The Raw: "The Flax" & "Through The Looking Glass" - Scenes from never-before-released director's cuts of these exciting episodes from Season 1
� The Farscape Chronicles: Behind the scenes information about every episode by Paul Simpson (Farscape: The Illustrated Companion)
� Deleted scenes
� Season 2 blooper reel
� Cool Farscape Facts
� Alien Encounters
� "Listening In" with composer Guy Gross
� Interactive FarSpeak Game: The Moya Menu
� Actor biographies for Anthony Simcoe (D'Argo) and Virginia Hey (Zhaan)
� Character backstories for D'Argo and Zhann
� Alien Races Multimedia Glossary
� Production Design Gallery

The Dead Next Door
Synopsis:
Writer/Producer/Director J.R. Bookwalter spent nearly 4 years,with the help of an uncredited legendary Hollywood director, creating this low-budget yet ultra-violent epic about a nationwide attack by hungry hordes of the living dead. From the spectacle of zombies on the White House lawn to its relentless scenes of flesh-ripping carnage, this is the splatter sensation that Dark Star calls "a no-holds-barred, laugh-a-minute gore fest." True independent filmmaking doesn't come from bloated celebrities in Sundance, it lives and screams in the heart, soul and blood-drenched guts of the cult classic The Dead Next Door!

This long-awaited Special Edition has been digitally remastered from the original Super-8 film elements, complete with updated opticals, a skill-blasting Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround remix, and mind-blowing Extras that include deleted scenes, rare behind-the-scenes footage, all-new interviews and much more!
Best Price: $8.99 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com
The Features:
� Commentary with Writer/Director J.R. Bookwalter, Actor Michael Todd and Cinematographer Michael Tolochko
� Deleted Scenes
� 20 Years in 15 Minutes Featurette
� Behind-The-Scenes Footage
� Behind-The-Scenes Still Gallery
� Video Storyboards
� Auditions
� Music Video
� Frightvision 2000 Reunion
� Theatrical Trailer
� Production Still Gallery

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Synopsis:
This is the tale of a wealthy southern spinster Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis) who lives with her eccentric maid (Agnes Moorehead) in a decaying southern mansion, shunned by the townsfolk after the mysterious axe-murder of her late lover. When her jealous cousin (Olivia de Havilland) and her cousin's wily husband (Joseph Cotton) arrive for a visit, the two conspire to drive Charlotte insane and have her committed so the two can sell off her estate and pocket the proceeds.
Best Price: $9.99 @ Best Buy
The Features:
� Commentary by film historian Glenn Erickson
� Theatrical trailers, TV spots

Other Horror & Sci-Fi Releases
Alien 51/Kolobos
Ascension
Boggy Creek II
The Eye 2
Intruder (Unrated Directors Cut)
Memories Of Murder
The Mummy An' The Armadillo
The Rites Of Frankenstein
Severed Ties
Shadow Hunters
Torture Me No More
Vampire Assassin

Anime Releases
Baki The Grappler: Grappler Vs. Gripper - Volume 2
Dragon Drive: Showdown in D-Zone - Volume 10
Gantz: Fatal Attractions - Volume 7 (Box)
Get Backers: Memories, Mementos & Monkeys - Volume 8
Gilgamesh: Cage Without a Key - Volume 2
InuYasha: Glow Of The False Jewel - Volume 32
Kizuna - Volume 1
Patlabor: The Mobile Police - Volume 11
Saiyuki: Double Barrel Collection 4
Stellvia: Foundation VI
Urusei Yatsura TV Series - Volume 31
Urusei Yatsura TV Series - Volume 32
Urusei Yatsura TV Series - Volume 33

Circuit City Weekly Deals
$5.99:
Beverly Hills Cop (Collector's Edition)
Go (Special Edition)
The Cannonball Run
Cobra
Cocoon
Dog Soldiers
Double Jeopardy
The Eagle Has Landed
Juice
Kiss The Girls
The Legend of Bagger Vance
A Low Down Dirty Shame
Mars Attacks!
Martin Lawrence: You So Crazy
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Peacemaker
The Sea Chase
Serpico
Son-In-Law
Tales From the Hood
What About Bob?
When a Man Loves a Woman
$8.99:
American Psycho (Unrated Collector's Edition)
Bad Boys (Special Edition)
The Bourne Identity (Extended Edition)
Caddyshack (20th Anniversary Edition)
Dazed and Confused (Flashback Edition)
The Fast and the Furious (Tricked Out Edition)
Ice Age (Special Edition)
Meet The Parents (Bonus Edition)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Special Edition)
Apocalypse Now: Redux
Bad Santa (Unrated)
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
The Bourne Supremacy
Braveheart
The Breakfast Club
Collateral
The Crow
The Green Mile
The Haunted Mansion
Hero
The Punisher
The Ring
Schindler's List
Seven
Sixteen Candles
Unforgiven
White Chicks (Unrated)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory


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