Howdy there everyone, get your checkbooks out and pick up a few Easter gifts for the kids this week as there is plenty to chuck into their baskets. Jerry Seinfeld’s Bee Movie is buzzing into stores while Tom And Jerry have yet another volume of tales to keep the little ones busy with. For the adults though, there’s some great titles to keep busy with as Hitman, Dan In Real Life, and the award-winning No Country For Old Men are all making their way onto the shelves. Make it a fun week folks and write those lists quick before the Easter Bunny makes his way to stores and hops away with them all.
March 11, 2008
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is asked to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial. But if he doesn’t do it, the judge will have him disbarred.
DVD Features: Audio commentary, deleted scenes, interviews
August Rush
Young Evan Taylor is known as August Rush and has a unique musical talent that most people can’t accomplish in an entire lifetime. Orphaned by his parents after one night they had together and now a young boy, August uses his great talents on the streets of New York hoping to reunite with his parents.
DVD Features: Additional scenes
Awake
It is a rare occurrence, but it does happen. One in seven hundred people each year wake up during surgery and sometimes they are in a comatose state but their mind is never truly under. Clay Beresford is experiencing that and overhears his doctors planning his murder, and he can do nothing about it but listen to it all happen.
DVD Features: Audio commentary, behind the scenes, deleted scenes
Bee Movie (Jerry’s Two-Disc Special Edition)
Barry B. Benson has just graduated from college and doesn’t like the career path laid out for him, making honey. One day while outside the hive, he befriends a human and finds out that humans actually eat honey and decides to do something no bee has ever done. Sue all humans.
DVD Features: Single disc version also available, behind the scenes, alternate ending, music video, and numerous featurettes
Bobby Deerfield
Bobby Deerfield is a famous American racecar driver on the European circuit and finds a young woman that he falls in love with. Everything is great about his and Lillian’s relationship except that she is terminally ill.
DVD Features: Behind the scenes
Dan In Real Life
Dan Burns is a single father that is widowed and dedicates his every waking moment of life to his children. One day at the bookstore though he meets Marie who he instantly falls in love with, but soon finds out that she is his brother’s girlfriend.
DVD Features: Audio commentary, “Creating The Score” featurette, deleted scenes, making of, outtakes
Hitman
Agent 47 is a hired hitman that is put to work by a group known only as The Agency. His line of work soon gets him involved in some form of political conspiracy that forces him to hide all throughout Europe with Interpol and the Russian military on his tail.
DVD Features: Single disc version also available, unrated and rated versions available, alternate/deleted scenes, alternate ending, outtakes, trailers, behind the scenes, and much more
Housewife 49
Follow Nella Last through the Second World War as she, against the wishes of her reserved husband, volunteers to aid the war effort with other housewives. Nella is initially ignored or looked down on by the other housewives, but, battling depression and low self-esteem, slowly gains their respect and admiration.
DVD Features: Interviews, filmographies, photo galleries
Love American Style – Season 1, Vol. 2
Love and romance have been a part of life as long as anyone can remember and it is no different in the bedrooms of your neighbors. You simply didn’t know it…until now. See a comedic look into the love styles of others in short vignettes and all its erotic glory.
DVD Features: The second set of episodes completing the first season
The Mod Squad – Season 1, Volume 2
Pete Cochran, Julie Barnes, and Linc Hayes are three young law-breakers that have turned the tables on themselves. Instead of serving time, they’ll be serving the law as undercover agents.
DVD Features: Remaining 13 episodes from the first season
The longtime mini super sleuth is hot on the trail. Nancy Drew is just like any other normal teenager except that she has a hobby not like any other teenager…she likes to solve crimes in her spare time instead of going to the mall.
DVD Features: Gag reel, music video, mini-featurette gallery, photo gallery
No Country For Old Men
Sometimes luck just finds a way of getting into the lives of those that deserve it. For Llewelyn Moss, his luck came in the form of a satchel full of money. As soon as his cup of luck runneth over by finding it though, it ran out all at the same time because a drug dealer owns that satchel and he’s willing to do anything to get it back.
DVD Features: “Diary Of A Sheriff” featurette, “Working With The Coens” featurette, making of
In 1923 legendary film director Cecil B. DeMille finished the epic film The Ten Commandments. After filming was completed, he bulldozed the sets into the Guadalupe Sand Dunes of the central California coast. Hi reasons for doing so were very mysterious. This story gives an explanation as to why he did it. There was actually a legitimate Egyptian artifact amongst the props but they didn’t know which one was trapping the spirit of an Egyptian avenging god. Mysterious murders and accidents while making the film brings things back to the surface today and it starts all over again.
DVD Features: Deleted scenes, cast interviews
The Secret Things Of God
Noted author and psychologist, Dr. Henry Cloud explores the Judeo-Christian perspective on “The Secret” phenomenon, revealing age-old truths about the powerful attraction that exists in the between God and the creation whom He loves. Unlock spiritual realities that make life work: true joy, inner peace, sustaining hope and powerful purpose.
DVD Features: None
Sleuth
Andrew Wyke is an aging British author that lives alone in a high-tech mansion after his wife Maggie left him for a younger man. At that time, the younger man, Milo Tindle, comes to Wyke’s house trying to convince him to just sign the divorce papers and let Maggie go. The author though has other ideas in mind for his wife’s new lover.
DVD Features: None
Tom and Jerry: Tales, Vol. 4
Enjoy your favorite cat and mouse team as Tom chases Jerry through a variety of locations from a Sultan’s palace to the jungles of Africa. The duo even gets super powers in three of the shorts taking their classic chase to new heights!
DVD Features: Includes 12 cartoon shorts
Visions Of Ireland
If you’ve been there yourself or have never had the pleasure of stepping foot anywhere in Ireland, this tour is for you. Witness the Cliffs of Moher, the gorgeous landscape of the Burren, the bustling cities of Belfast and Dublin, and so much more.
DVD Features: Bonus footage
On their way to Cabo San Lucas, the cast and crew of a low-budget film get lost and come upon “La Sangre De Dios”, a ghost town with a spine-tingling legend about an insane Mexican wrestler. One by one, the cast and crew are snatched, beaten and dragged to a bloody death. The few left alive must figure out how to beat the wrestler at his own deadly game, or die trying.
DVD Features: Audio commentary, “Wrestling The Maniac” featurette, trailers
For a decade and a half, the Dead Man has reigned supreme at the greatest wrestling event each year, WrestleMania. Many have stepped into the squared circle and tried, but no-one has been able to dethrone the Undertaker on grandest stage of them all.
DVD Features: None
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