Hitting Shelves This Week…

October 16, 2007

Believers: Unrated

Two paramedics go out on an emergency call to help save someone’s life and instead are taken for a wild ride of their own when they are kidnapped by members of a fanatic religious cult.

DVD Features: R-rated version also available, audio commentary, trailer, “Hidden Camera” featurette, “Forensic Video Of Crime Scene” featurette, interviews, and more

The Hoax

Clifford Irving had written an “autobiography” about Howard Hughes and actually gotten it published. With Irving’s claim of nothing but truth, his book was based on face-to-face interviews with Hughes that never actually happened.

DVD Features: Audio commentaries, making of, deleted scenes, “Business As Pleasure” featurette, “Mike Wallace: Reflections On A Con” featurette, and more

Scott checked out the DVD earlier this week, click here to read his review.

Hollow Man: Director’s Cut

A team of scientists has created a historical breakthrough when they come up with a serum that will allow the animal it is injected into to become invisible. The egotistical Dr. Sebastian Caine believes that it will work on a human and after becoming a guinea pig for the experiment, decides to use his new power to the utmost advantage.

DVD Features: “Fleshing Out The Hollow Man” featurette, “Anatomy Of A Thriller” featurette

The Invisible

Nick Powell had a great life and everything going for him that a teenage boy could want. But when he’s beaten and left for dead, he is in a race to save his own life by trying to solve his own possible murder. And the only one that can see him is a young girl who is also invisible by the fact that she’s always been ignored.

DVD Features: Audio commentaries, music videos, deleted scenes

Jingle All The Way: Family Fun Edition

Arnie stars in this Christmas story that should be familiar to any parent out there. He plays Howard Langston who realizes, on Christmas Eve, that he has forgotten to buy his son the extremely popular toy; Turbo Man. Howard must defy the odds, and a determined postman, to get the toy for his son in this hilarious adventure.

DVD Features: Audio commentaries, behind the scenes, games, interactive features, “Super Kids” featurette, “Turbo Man: Behind The Mask” featurette

Jim Norton: Monster Rain

No-holds barred, nothing is taboo, and the kids should be put to bed when comedian Jim Norton takes the stage at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington D.C. to discuss dating, celebrities, prostitutes, and much more.

DVD Features: None

MacGyver The Complete Series

Secret Agent Angus MacGyver is a smart man that can do something with everything. Using only what he has at his disposal, MacGyver will never carry a weapon, but will always save the day.

DVD Features: All 139 episodes from the entire series

Masters Of Horror: The Damned Thing

Leatherface himself, Tobe Hooper directs this adaptation of the short story by Ambrose Bierce. A young boy witnesses his parents die gruesome deaths and is haunted by it for his entire childhood. Years later the horrible visions return along with something even more sinister.

DVD Features: Audio commentary, photo galleries, making of, Tobe Hooper biography, numerous featurettes

Medium The Third Season

Allison Dubois is a simple woman who lives a good life with her family and works as a successful lawyer. Her only problem is that she has always been haunted by visions of the dead and is torn with how to use her unique ability.

DVD Features: All 22 episodes from the third season, audio commentaries, deleted scenes, gag reel

A Mighty Heart

Daniel Pearl was a reporter who went missing in Pakistan and was eventually murdered by terrorists. Hundreds of accounts of his story have been told, but now see how it was from another angle, through the eyes of his wife Mariane as she searches for her husband and aims to get him back.

DVD Features: Trailers, “Committee To Protect Journalists” featurette, public service announcement, making of

Make sure to see what Scott had to say about the DVD in his review.

Grindhouse Presents: Planet Terror – Extended And Unrated

The other half of the double-feature Grindhouse, director Robert Rodriguez brings forth an old-fashioned zombie flick complete with blood, gore, laughs, and a hot woman with a machine-gun leg ready to mow down anything in her path.

DVD Features: Audio commentary, trailers, casting, photo galleries, numerous featurettes

Be sure to read Mike’s review here.

The Reaping

Everyone has heard the stories of the Biblical plagues that tormented thousands. Some believed them to be just stories while others constantly fear they could one day happen again. Well their time has come again and the plagues are happening one by one.

DVD Features: “Science Of The Plagues” featurette, “The Characters” featurette, “A Place Called Haven” featurette, “The Reaping: The Seventh Plague” featurette

Return To House On Haunted Hill: Unrated

Sarah Wolfe somehow was able to survive the horrific massacre that occurred at the Vanacutt Mansion, but now her life has tragically ended at her own hands. Her sister Ariel gets a group together and vows to enter the house and find out the source of the evil.

DVD Features: None

Click here to read my review.

Roseanne The Complete Ninth Season

For nine years the Connors have lived the “just getting along” life but now are in the throngs of luxury after winning the lottery. Things get really wild as always, but those fun times come with some extreme hardships as well. Witness the final season as the Connors try to make it through together.

DVD Features: All 24 episodes from the ninth season, audio commentaries, interviews

Squidbillies Volume One

A group of beer-swilling, trash-talking, inbred mountain folk from the hills of Georgia are shown in all their glory…even if they are a family of squids.

DVD Features: Never before seen pilot episodes, audio commentaries, deleted scenes, art galleries, Comic Con 2004, numerous featurettes

Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip The Complete Series

Go behind the scenes of the fictional show “Studio 60” which is plummeting in the ratings and on the verge of being cancelled. Two new writers come on board and try to spice things up causing the entire cast and crew to work together.

DVD Features: All 22 episodes from the entire series

That ’70s Show Season Seven

Another year in the seventies and the group of friends consisting of Hyde, Fez, Jackie, Donna, Kelso, and Eric are back again trying to deal with the trials and tribulations of growing up with the help of a good friend named Mary Jane.

DVD Features: All 25 episodes from the seventh season, audio commentaries, behind the scenes, promos, flashbacks, documentaries

Transformers

Two clans of transforming robots have waged their intergalactic war throughout the known universe and have now landed on earth. The Autobots have come to protect the people of Earth. But they are far outnumbered by those who have come to destroy, the evil Decepticons.

DVD Features: Single and two-disc versions available, audio commentary, interactive features, trailers, making of, numerous featurettes

John has a review of the Two-Disc Edition here.

WWE Unforgiven 2007

The Dead Man himself, the Undertaker returns to take on Mark Henry in a night full of surprises. The superstars from RAW, SmackDown, and ECW come together to defend championships and rise to the tops of the ranks.

DVD Features: Eight complete matches, interviews, backstage segments

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