Hitting Shelves This Week…

February 6, 2007

Hellboy Animated: Sword Of Storms

Hellboy, Abe Sapian, and Liz Sherman band together again to solve a mystery and battle the forces of darkness, but this time they’re cartoons. Unfortunately for Hellboy, he’ll be facing this one alone as he is whisked away to a mystical Japanese world and must figure out what to do before darkness takes over the Earth.

DVD Features: “Hellboy goes East” featurette, “A New Breed — Creating The New Hellboy” featurette, “To Hell And Back” featurette, and much more

Check out my very own review here.

The Science Of Sleep

A young man named Stéphane has lost his father and moved to Paris to become closer to his mother. Bored with his new job and life itself, he wants to impress the girl of his dreams, Stéphanie; but the only way he feels he can do that is by taking him where he is most comfortable his magical dream world.

DVD Features: Theatrical trailer, making of, audio commentary, “Rescue Me” music video by Linda Serbu, Adopt Some Love – a Linda Serbu film, and more

Trust The Man

Relationships are full of drama. If they’re good, then you’ll do anything you can to make sure they work out. If they are full of cheating, fighting, and even trial separations; then sometimes you’ll still do anything you can to save them and make them good again. Follow two couples as they look to rekindle their dwindling flame.

DVD Features: Audio commentary, making of, and deleted scenes

Flags Of Our Fathers

One of the most significant fighting grounds during World War II was the Battle Of Iwo Jima. Learn the story of the six men who raised the American flag on the battlegrounds paving the way for one of the most memorable images in history.

The Grudge 2

Two years ago, Karen Davis made her way into a house in Tokyo that had hidden and haunted secrets that she shouldn’t have gotten involved with. Now her sister Aubrey somehow gets intertwined with the evil and must actually unleash its power to save her own life.

DVD Features: “Tales From The Grudge” with intro by Sam Raimi, deleted scenes, East Meets West featurette, cast & crew reel change featurette, “Ready When You Are Mr. Shimizu” featurette, and much more

Hollywoodland

George Reeves has been and will always be known as TV’s Superman. In 1959, a single bullet found its mark and Reeves laying dead in his Hollywood home leaving behind all the ones he loved and that loved him. Stricken with depression and being type-cast as Superman, many have claimed that it was obvious suicide. But there are those, especially his mother, who believe otherwise.

DVD Features: Deleted scenes, director’s commentary, “Behind The Headlines” featurette, “Recreating Old Hollywood” featurette, and “Hollywood Then And Now” featurette

Running With Scissors

Augusten Burroughs as a child was in the middle of what could be called the most dysfunctional family ever. In the arms of a very unstable mother and an alcoholic father, Augusten needs to find somewhere else to live out his life. Once handed to his mother’s therapist to be raised, he doesn’t find his new bizarre family any better.

DVD Features: “A Personal Memoir by (author) Augusten Burroughs” featurette, “Inside Outsiders” featurette, and “Creating The Cuckoo’s Nest” featurette

Flicka

In a remake of 1943’s My Friend Flicka, a young girl named Katie claims a wild horse hoping to tame him. She wants to do it all on her own and be able to prove to her father she is capable of one day taking over the family’s ranch.

DVD Features: Trailers, bloopers, making of, deleted scenes, gag reel, Tim McGraw music video, and more

Romeo + Juliet: The Music Edition

The modern day version of William Shakespeare’s tragic love story is given the special treatment with a lot more focus on all the great music throughout the film.

DVD Features: Multiple audio commentaries, music jukebox to jump to your favorite songs from the soundtrack, “The London Music Mix” featurette, “Romeo + Juliet: The Music” featurette, and many more on all the music and how it fits into the film

Eddie Murphy: Delirious

In one of his first televised stand-up routines ever, Eddie Murphy lets everything out in this uncensored DVD where he does not watch his words. If you are not a fan of foul language, then you will be after watching this or perhaps be extremely insulted.

Mad About You Season 3

Follow Paul and Jamie Buchman as they go through the everyday in’s and out’s of married life.

DVD Features: All 24 episodes from the season

Charmed Season 7

Three very beautiful sisters realize they have a special gift. They have discovered their destiny is to be the “Charmed” ones and fight against the forces of evil using their witchcraft.

DVD Features: All 22 episodes from the season

Cinderella III: A Twist In Time

Cinderella’s storybook life takes a turn for the worse as her evil stepmother conjures up a spell that reverses everything that happened on the magical night she met Prince Charming. The dress is gone, the coach is gone, and the glass slipper doesn’t fit. Without finding out who actually fits the slipper, the Prince doesn’t see Cinderella as his true love.

DVD Features: “Bibbidi Bobbidi Choose” DVD game, “I Still Believe” music video by Hayden Panettiere

Check out Eric Szulczewski’s review here.

The Amazing Screw-On Head

It’s the era of the Civil War and the battle for freedom is raging on. President Abraham Lincoln turns a secret agent who has a very extraordinary and special power he’s a bodyless head that can screw on any he pleases. It’s up to him and his team to stop evil and save the world.

Disaster! The Movie

Another film in a long line of spoof films as we see disaster films ridiculed and retooled. Harry Bottoms is in charge of saving the world from the gigantic asteroid that is headed straight to Earth for its imminent destruction.

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