Hitting Shelves This Week…

January 15, 2008

A & E Biographies

The link above may take you only to the Columbine Understanding Why biography, but there are over fifteen different biographies you can check out including: Princess Diana, Pat Tillman, Osama Bin Laden, Serial Killers, Anna Nicole Smith, and many more. Be sure to check around Amazon.com for more great titles.

DVD Features: Varies with each release

Alex Haley’s Queen

A plantation owner’s son does what was considerable unthinkable way back when and that’s fall in love with a slave. Together they have a light-skinned child named Queen that would have a hard time growing up as she wasn’t accepted by either race.

DVD Features: Audio commentaries, interviews, making of, behind the scenes, numerous featurettes

Already Dead

Thomas Archer had a wonderful life with a gorgeous wife, beautiful son, and everything going his way. One night changed his entire life though after his wife was brutalized and his son kidnapped. With those incidences, Thomas Archer’s life went down a different path. One of revenge.

DVD Features: “Police Confrontation” featurette, “Archer And The Man” featurette, “Hallway Shootout” featurette

An Affair To Remember (50th Anniversary Edition)

It has been forty years now and the made-for-each-other couple still may have their reunion at the Empire State Building, but will it actually happen? This two-disc set brings the timeless love story to life once again, but this time with tons of special features to experience it in every way possible.

DVD Features: Audio commentaries, trailers, photo galleries, behind the scenes, extra footage, numerous featurettes

The Attic

The director of Pet Semetary brings another horrid tale in the form of a little girl named Emma and her family who move into an old Victorian home. When Emma ventures into the attic one day, she sees an image of herself that is simply evil.

DVD Features: None

Be My Valentine Charlie Brown

The Peanuts gang is all getting ready to celebrate the most loving day of the year, Valentine’s Day. Linus, Lucy, Sally, and even Snoopy are getting cards by the sack full. Everyone is happy except for…Charlie Brown. Won’t he get even one valentine?

DVD Features: None

Criss Angel – Mindfreak – The Complete Season Three

Criss Angel doesn’t look like your common everyday magician. He looks like a freak, but he will also freak out your mind with his great feats of prestidigitation and tricks that would make Houdini even sit up and say “Wow!”

DVD Features: All 13 episodes from the third season

Dora The Explorer: Undercover Dora

Dora the Explorer is joined by her monkey friend Boots, her trusty Backpack, and the ever handy Map in this special two-part episode that sees them go undercover as agents to prevent Swiper the fox from stealing presents and cupcakes from birthday parties.

DVD Features: None

Dragonlance: Dragons Of The Autumn Twilight

It has been five years and a mismatch group of friends is back together amid rumors that evil and danger is taking over their beautiful home world of Krynn. It is when they meet up with a beautiful princess and her barbarian guardian that they realize exactly what they have been searching for.

DVD Features: None

Extras – The Complete Series

Ricky Gervais is back again and he keeps on trying to get the movie parts that were made specifically for him. But the hilarity ensues when “his” roles are given to bigger stars like Robert DeNiro, Orlando Bloom, Daniel Radcliffe and more. Ricky insists they aren’t better, just lucky.

DVD Features: All 13 episodes form the entire series

Family Guy – Blue Harvest Special Edition

There are those who love Family Guy. There are those who are obsessed with all that is Star Wars. Most of those people are one and the same so it seems only fitting that the story of Star Wars is told with the help of the Griffins and everyone else from Quahog.

DVD Features: Single DVD version also available (not all extras listed included though); audio commentaries, behind the scenes, interviews, trailers, 3-D glasses, trading cards, t-shirt, and much more

Ghost Son

After a young woman loses her husband in a tragic car accident, she realizes he is pregnant with his child. A complicated pregnancy is the least of her troubles as her son seems to be possessed by her late husband who wants his wife dead so they can reunite.

DVD Features: None

In the Heat of the Night (40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition)

Detective Virgil Tibbs is still on the job after forty years and plans to deliver justice in his own way and on his own terms. Amid some very racial problems he must face, Detective Tibbs plans to solve a murder in a small Mississippi town.

DVD Features: Audio commentaries, trailers, documentaries, “The Slap Heard Around The World” featurette, and more

It Came From Beneath the Sea

A brilliant looking stop-motion gigantic octopus is lurking around the Pacific Ocean and has plans to tear down the Golden Gate Bridge but an atomic submarine full of seaman aims to stop it. Explore all the action in this brand new two-disc set.

DVD Features: Interviews, audio commentaries, behind the scenes, making of, numerous featurettes

Johnny Suede

Brad Pitt does up the doo right as he wants to be just like his rocker idol, Ricky Nelson. Blessed with the gift of some black suede shoes, Johnny Suede goes on to live a rock star’s life complete with great music and heartbreak.

DVD Features: Audio commentary, trailer

Mr. Woodcock

John Farley is a self-help guru who is all about letting go of the past. Upon returning home to receive a huge honor though; he finds out his mom is about to remarry and it’s to his old gym teacher that tormented him as a child.

DVD Features: Making of, deleted/alternate scenes, theatrical trailer, “P.E. Trauma Tales” featurette

The New Adventures of Old Christine – The Complete First Season

Julia Louis-Dreyfous avoids the Seinfeld curse that has befallen her former cast mates and steps into the role of a divorced mom trying to keep up the quick pace with everyone around her.

DVD Features: All 13 episodes from the first season, audio commentaries, additional scenes, gag reel

The Rockford Files: Season Five

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 quite work out that way for him though as he often ends up situations almost too big for him to handle.

DVD Features: All 22 episodes from the fifth season

Sabrina, The Teenage Witch – The Third Season

Sabrina Spellman is still trying to live a normal life and go to high school like any regular teenager except it’s a bit hard considering she is a witch. She must keep it a secret from her boyfriend Harvey and other friends, but her off-the-wall aunts don’t make it easy.

DVD Features: All 24 episodes from the third season

Saving Sarah Cain

Sarah Cain is a newspaper reporter in the big city that is all about herself. Life takes a big turn though when she heads back home to Pennsylvania for her Amish sister’s funeral and finds herself now as the legal guardian of her five nieces and nephews.

DVD Features: Alternate/deleted scenes, making of

Scenes of a Sexual Nature

Follow along with seven different couples on one day in Hampstead Heath, London as they travel through tales of love, laughter, lust, and so much more.

DVD Features: Short film, trailer

She’s Gotta Have It

Another Spike Lee Joint, but this one is from way back. It tells the story of Nola Darling and the simultaneous relationships she is having with three men at the same time. Each one wants her to commit to only them, but she won’t have it.

DVD Features: Trailers

Strays

Vin Diesel’s directorial debut takes a nineties version of Saturday Night Fever and places it in the Big Apple. From the hustling, one night stands, and drug deals of the streets; Rick wants to make more of his life and starts to do that after finding Heather.

DVD Features: Trailers

Suburban Girl

Brett Eisenberg is well on her way up the publishing ladder in New York and thinks meeting well renowned writer Archie Knox will help her a bit. A couple shy glances later and the two are on their way through a tumultuous romance where Brett finds herself having to deal with Archie’s alcoholism and their age difference.

DVD Features: None

The Ten

Jessica Alba, Paul Rudd, Adam Brody, Famke Janssen, Gretchen Mol, and many more star in ten different stories; each inspired by one of the Ten Commandments.

DVD Features: Audio commentary, behind the scenes, trailers, interviews, making of, ring tones, wallpapers, weblinks, and more

Wedding Daze

Jason Biggs stars as a man at the end of his rope after the death of his fiancé and finds himself doing the only thing he can think of. He proposes to a beautiful stranger, but it doesn’t get quite the result he expected when she says yes.

DVD Features: Alternate/deleted scenes

When Harry Met Sally… (Collector’s Edition)

After a chance pairing on a long drive, Harry and Sally end up becoming great friends and keep in constant contact (somehow) over the years. As good a friends as they are and as attracted to one another as they seem to be though; they fear sex might ruin the friendship they have.

DVD Features: Audio commentaries, alternate/deleted scenes, trailers, “Billy On Harry” featurette, “I Love New York” featurette, “Stories Of Love” featurette, and more

WWE: Armageddon 2007

The stars of the WWE’s three brands come together for the last Pay-Per-View of 2007 and look to create havoc and destruction. Witness Edge, the Undertaker, and Batista battle it out for the World Heavyweight Title while Chris Jericho and Randy Orton fight for the WWE Championship.

DVD Features: Interviews, backstage vignettes, bonus footage, six more matches

Good Luck Chuck (Unrated Edition)

Chuck has a weird power. He sleeps with women, and they magically find the man of their dreams that they will marry soon after. He may have finally found the girl of his dreams in accident-prone Cam, but he’s scared to go all the way and risk losing her.

DVD Features: Audio commentary, deleted/alternate scenes, gag reel, interactive features, and numerous featurettes

.