Hitting Shelves This Week…

May 15, 2007

American Dad! Volume 2

The Smith family is back for the second installment where they deal with such issues as gun control, role-playing games, adoption, and the everyday normal life of living with a talking fish and an alien.

DVD Features: Audio commentaries, alternate and deleted scenes, behind the scenes, multiple angles, and numerous featurettes

Check out my very own review here.

Arthur And The Invisibles

Ten-year old Arthur is in the tough spot of seeing his grandfather’s house demolished and there’s nothing he can do about it. But maybe there is. Arthur goes off looking for the fabled Minimoys and hoping the miniature creatures can perform their magic to make things stay the way they are.

DVD Features: None

Coach Season 2

Coach Fox, Luther, and the incredibly inept Dauber return for all the hardships and incredibly hilarious moments that come along with trying to coach a college football team.

DVD Features: All 20 episodes from the second season

Creepshow III

Five scary tales filled with blood, the weird, and the unexplained as a 25 year old series is resurrected for a third installment. Turn off the lights, grab a friend, and keep an eye over your shoulder as you may get sucked into the stories and find yourself right in the middle.

DVD Features: Behind the scenes

Check out my very own review here.

Tex Avery’s Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection

Animation master Tex Avery brings one of his most beloved creations in this huge two-disc set all about the very somber but greatly enjoyed Droopy Dog. Follow along in his escapades with Butch The Bulldog, English Fox, and many more.

DVD Features: Gag reel, documentaries

ER Season 7

The hectic life of a Chicago hospital emergency room is documented with some of the most dramatic doctors and nurses who can’t do without each other and sometimes just can’t deal with each other.

DVD Features: All 23 episodes from the seventh season, gag reel, outpatient outtakes

Everybody Loves Raymond Season 8

Somehow Raymond, Debra, and the kids have survived many years of living across the streets from Marie and Frank. Join the family as they go through all the joys and hell of living close to one another and just trying to make it through the day.

DVD Features: All 23 episodes from the eighth season, audio commentaries, bloopers, deleted scenes, Museum of TV & Radio panel discussion with Phil Rosenthal and writers

Check out Robert Sutton’s review here.

The Fountain

Join along for a journey spanning thousands of years and linking three stories together. The existence of human life in our world is exposed in ways of love, death, spirituality and how fragile our lives have all become.

DVD Features: Inside The Fountain – Death and Rebirth (gallery of six featurettes)

Frasier Season 9

Dr. Frasier Crane and his family and friends are back again as their lives are really starting to come together as all the storylines of the past nine years are beginning their end towards some hilarious stories and one of the most anticipated weddings in decades.

DVD Features: All 23 episodes from the ninth season

Check out my very own review here.

Half Past Dead 2

Twitch is after the gold he was before but is now caught up in the middle of a racial war in prison and trying to rescue his loved ones caught somewhere in the prison. With the help of the only other non-gang person Burk, they are in a fight against time and everyone else.

DVD Features: Trailers

Check out Robert Sutton’s review here.

Home Improvement Season 6

Tim “The Toolman” Taylor and his family are together again and trying to live through the years of three young men living in a house where there is one brain (Jill) and one brawn (Tim) that is lucky to survive each day.

DVD Features: All 25 episodes from the sixth season, bloopers

Pan’s Labyrinth

A young girl goes with her mother and stepfather to live in rural Spain in the 1940’s. The girl is living in a time of post-war Fascist repression and must simply come to terms with so many changes in her life. As most children do, she creates her own dream world in which she can live, learn, and love in ways that only she can imagine.

DVD Features: Single and two-disc editions, trailers, teasers, interviews, photo galleries, storyboard comparisons, director’s notebook, numerous featurettes

Rockford Files Season 4

Ex-con James Rockford has turned to the other side of the law and become a private investigator. Not someone who is lazy or a deadbeat, but he’d rather take on cases that don’t put him in danger and don’t take a lot of effort to get through. Things never work out that way for him though as he often ends up situations almost too big for him to handle.

DVD Features: All 21 episodes from the fourth season

Seraphim Falls

Dive into the story of a Civil War veteran with a grudge named Carver who will do anything and everything to track down Gideon, the man who had committed an unforgivable sin against him during the time of the war.

DVD Features: Audio commentary, behind the scenes

Stomp The Yard

A young street dancer is trying to get over the death of his younger brother and ends up going to a historically black college in Atlanta to move on with his life. But when two fraternities realize his talents; they will do anything they can to get him on their side.

DVD Features: Audio commentary, deleted and extended scenes, “Battles, Rivals, Brothers” — the story of Stomp The Yard, gag reel, bonus dance sequences

The War At Home Season 1

Dave and Vicky are raising three teenagers and hoping to simply get them out of their house and onto college without ever having visited the police station. Not only will you join them in their household, but also in their minds to see every thought process they use in raising their kids.

DVD Features: All 22 episodes from the first season

Wings Season 4

Brian and Joe Hackett continue to run their little plane operation out of Nantucket and try to lead their normal lives. But with Helen, Fay, Roy, Lowell, and Antonio around, things are far from normal.

DVD Features: All 22 episodes from the fourth season

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