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Tennessee Williams Film Collection The Tennessee Williams Film Collection contains six films: Baby Doll, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Deluxe Edition, Night of the Iguana, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Sweet Bird of Youth and a Two-Disc version of A Streetcar Named Desire. Be sure and check out the official site. |
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Dr. Dolittle 3 Like father, like daughter! In this third volume of the popular Dr. Dolittle series, a new Dolittle has discovered the gift of animal communication. Just like father could, Maya (played by Kyla Pratt) can hear and talk to the animals, from the tamest housecats to the wildest lions. She just wants to be normal, but her talent winds up landing in trouble all the time. On vacation she tries to hide her gift and just blend in, but perhaps her talent will be more useful than she thinks. Fox's DVD includes a pair of behind the scenes featurettes, a director and star commentary session, and a television spot. If you want to laugh like a hyena, then don't miss Fox's release of Dr. Dolittle 3, in stores now. |
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The Heirloom Every family has secrets. But in The Heirloom, the secrets are more dangerous and eerie than in most. Two decades back, a mass suicide unfolded in the home of the wealthy Yang family, with no reason or motive ever learned. The event was so catastrophic, only one heir survived and he did so under a veil of secrecy, only revealing himself now. He inherits the mansion and the fortune, so he heads into the family home with his fiancee. But the darkness remains in the house, as strange and eerie events occur, can this last heir manage to break his family's curse? Tartan's Asia Extreme release of The Heirloom includes Dolby Digital & DTS options, plus a commentary with numerous crew members, a look inside the production, and some deleted scenes. If you want terror, then visit the curse of The Heirloom, out now from Tartan Films. |
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Tristan & Isolde Before Romeo and Juliet...there was Tristan and Isolde. After the fall of Rome, a warlord seeks to unite the warring English tribes, with a goal of one powerful nation. If that goal is reached, the brutal King of Ireland could be overthrown. His plan takes a curve when his finest soldier, Tristan falls in love with an Irish girl named Isolde. As tensions mount and tempers flare, will the love of these two young people ignite a war of epic proportions? Fox's DVD houses not one, but two audio commentary sessions, an extensive collection of photos, and a special glance inside the production. If epic battles and even more epic romance are for you, then check out Tristan & Isolde from Fox, available now. |
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King of the Hill: Season 6 Hank Hill is back for more fun, more lawnmowers, and of course, more beer in King of the Hill: Season 6 from Fox. Join Hank, his loving, but offbeat family, and his insane neighbors for more of the show's hilarious adventures. Fox has issued the complete sixth season of King of the Hill in a nice three disc collection. All twenty-five episodes are present, so you can revisit this award winning season whenever you wish to do so. Now mosey on over to your local store, then grab some beer, pork rinds, and King of the Hill: Season 6, on shelves now from Fox. |
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The Family Stone When Meredith, an uptight businesswoman from Manhattan, goes to meet her boyfriend's family for the first time, the potential for conflict is high. After all, she is what she is and his family is very laid back and relaxed, sometimes to a fault. She is nervous, the family is nervous and the stage is set for an awkward time together. But as time passes, she begins to let her guard down and the family warms up a little, though will it be enough to keep the romance in bloom? Fox presents The Family Stone with a pair of insightful commentaries, deleted scenes, a handful of featurettes, and more. So if you're geared toward the lighter side of romance, give The Family Stone a spin, the DVD is out now from Fox. |
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The West Wing: Season Six The West Wing's Sixth Season was certainly a step up from its disastrous fifth season, which managed to cut the show's viewership in half and nearly got the show cancelled immediately after it. The viewing public didn't particularly take to the tenser version of TWW, complete with cliched TV spots a la Third Watch: for the episode Gaza, the narrator literally intoned "Someone from the West Wing won't be coming home." John Wells went back to his roots, and the result was unmitigated disaster. Rarely during the Sorkin era were there genuine crises to deal with (except at the end of the season, usually). West Wing is a show that you tune into for solid drama and smart, funny dialogue, not defibrilation. |
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The Lucy & Desi Collection Besides making television history as the producers and stars of television's immensely popular I Love Lucy and The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, Lucille Ball and her husband, Desi Arnaz, starred in three quite agreeable feature films. The Lucy & Desi Collection includes the trio, all in excellent shape, plus a handful of nifty special features of archival interest. Many fans of Arnaz and Ball have probably seen one or both of the movies the duo made in the 1950s, at the height of their TV success: the 1954 The Long, Long Trailer and Forever Darling. Each is a comically cautionary tale about the dangers to marriage from misunderstandings, miscommunication, and differing goals. But the real find in this box set is the 1940 Too Many Girls, an energetic, Rodgers and Hart musical--direct from Broadway, with three original cast members (Arnaz, Eddie Bracken, and Van Johnson) making their movie debuts--in which Arnaz and Ball actually met. |
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Life in the Undergrowth By getting up close and personal with Life in the Undergrowth, this extraordinary BBC series sets a new standard of excellence in wildlife cinematography. Hosted by veteran nature expert David Attenborough and utilizing the latest advances in macrophotography, the five-part series is dedicated to bugs of all shapes and sizes, from microscopic gnats to cave-dwelling millipedes so large they can capture bats in mid-flight and feast for hours thereafter! The patience involved in filming such previously unseen marvels must have been grueling (as confirmed by producer Mike Salisbury in a splendid bonus interview), but the results are nothing less than astonishing, with a parade of sequences so impressive that even insect-haters will pause in amazement. With an emphasis on reproduction and mating behaviors, each program focuses on a different, generalized group of creatures, many of them never filmed before, so that lay-persons and entomologists will be equally enlightened by discoveries made in the process of filming. |








