RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Media New DVDs for March 28th, 2006

Alchemy (2005) Thomas Cavanagh, Sarah Chalke, James Barbour. (Monarch Home Video).

American Muscle Car, Season 1 Two-disc set with 12 episodes, $29.98. Single discs available with two episodes, $9.98 each: "American Muscle Car '64 Pontiac GTO and Pontiac GTO Judge," "American Muscle Car '53-'62 Chevrolet Corvette and Chevrolet Camaro SS 396," "American Muscle Car '64 Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt and The Shelby Mustangs," "American Muscle Car Buick Gran Sport and Oldsmobile 442," "American Muscle Car Chevrolet Chevelle SS and Chevrolet Impala 409," "American Muscle Car Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda/Dodge Hemi Challenger and Chevrolet Nova SS." (MPI Home Video).

The Andy Milonakis Show: Season 1 (2005) Two-disc set of the MTV2 show, $26.99. Extras: Optional Commentary by Andy, Larry, Ralphie, and Rivka and NY Daily News reporter Richard Huff on select episodes; "Andy Goes Hollywood" featurette, cast interviews; un-aired skits; Ralphie outtakes; extended scenes. (Paramount).

A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969) Animated, $14.99. (Paramount).

The Children Are Watching Us (1944) Dir.: Vittoria De Sica; Emilio Cigoli, Luciano De Ambrosis, Isa Pola, Adriano Rimoldi, Giovanna Cigoli. New, restored high-definition digital transfer. Extras: New video interviews with star Luciano de Ambrosis and De Sica scholar Callisto Cosulich, booklet featuring film scholar Robert Cardullo and Stuart Klawans on screenwriter Cesare Zavattini. (The Criterion Collection).

The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold (2006) Christy Carlson, Romano Scott, Thompson Baker, Ross Thomas. Direct-to-video sequel. Extras: Commentary by director Sean McNamara and the cast, movie montage with music by Romano, photo gallery. (Sony).

Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (2004 -- TV) Benno Furmann, Kristanna Loken, Alicia Witt, Julian Sands, Max von Sydow. Extras: Making of featurette, behind-the-scenes featurette, cast featurette, visual effects featurette, "Swords"-- A Stunts and Swords" featurette. (Sony).

Dark Shadows DVD Collection 23 Four-disc set with 40 episodes, $59.98. (MPI Home Video).

Exils (2004 -- French) Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal, Leila Makhlouf, Habib Cheik. (Home Vision Entertainment).

Friends: The One With All the Babies Single-disc compilation with six themed episodes, $14.97. (Warner).

Friends: The One With All the Birthdays Single-disc compilation with six themed episodes, $14.97. (Warner).

Friends: The One With All the Weddings Single-disc compilation with six themed episodes, $14.97. (Warner).

Galileo's Battle for the Heavens NOVA documentary on scientist Galileo Galilei's incredible achievements that forever changed the way we view our place in the universe, $19.95. (WGBH Boston Video).

Genius: The Science of Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Galileo Four-disc set of NOVA biographies: "Einstein's Big Idea," "Newton's Dark Secrets," "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" and "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens"; $49.95. (WGBH Boston Video).

Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) Dir.: Jim Sheridan; 50 Cent, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joy Bryant, Omar Benson Miller, Tory Kittles, Terrence Howard, Bill Duke, Viola Davis. Extras: "A Portrait of an Artist -- The Making of Get Rich or Die Tryin'." (Paramount).

The Gladiators (1969 -- Sweden) Dir.: Peter Watkins; Arthur Pentelow, Frederick Danner, Hans Bendrik, Daniel Harle.Extras: Commentary, "The Diary of an Unknown Soldier" Peter Watkins short film, Peter Watkins filmography, 12-page booklet with new Peter Watkins interview. (New Yorker).

Godzilla: Monster Edition (1998) Dir.: Roland Emmerich; Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin Dunn, Michael Lerner, Harry Shearer, Doug Savant. Extras: "All-Time Best of Godzilla Fight Scenes" featurette, production art gallery, three Episodes from "Godzilla: The Series," "Godzilla Takes New York" (before and after) photo gallery, special effects supervisor commentary, "Heroes" music video by the Wallflowers. (Sony).

Godzilla: The Series: Monster Mayhem Three episodes, $9.98. (Sony).

Godzilla: The Series: Mutant Madness Three episodes, $9.98. (Sony).

The Horror of Party Beach/The Curse of the Living Corpse Double Feature The Horror of Party Beach (1963) John Scott, Alice Lyon, Allan Laurel, Eulabelle Moore, Marilyn Clarke, Augustin Mayor. The Curse of the Living Corpse (1963) Roy Scheider, Candace Hilligoss, Helen Warren, Margot Hartman, Robert Milli, Hugh Franklin. (Dark Sky Films/MPI Home Video)

Invisible Man, Season 1 Single disc with 13 episodes of the 1950s TV series; $19.98. (Dark Sky Films/MPI Home Video).

Julius Caesar (1971) Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Robert Vaughn, Richard Chamberlain, Diana Rigg, Christopher Lee. (Paramount).

Kibakichi 2 (2006 -- Japan) Ryuji Harada, Miki Tanaka, Masakatsu Funaki, Yoko Kamon, Aimi Nakamura, Masato Ibu. (MTI Home Video)

King Kong (2005) Dir.: Peter Jackson; Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis, Evan Parke, Jamie Bell, Lobo Chan. Single-disc and two-disc special edition. Extras: Special Edition: Introduction by Jackson, post-production diaries, "Skull Island: A Natural History" featurette, "Kong's New York, 1933" featurette that explores vaudeville, the skyscraper boom, the construction of the Empire State building and more. (Universal).

King Kong (1933) Dir.: Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper; Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy. Single-disc with feature only to supplement the Two-Disc Special Edition and Two-Disc Collectors Editions already available. (Warner).

Knots Landing: The Complete First Season Five-disc set with 13 episodes, $39.98. Extras: Commentary on select episodes, "Gary and Val: Together Again" featurette. (Warner).

The Left Behind Collection Three-disc set with all three faith-based films: "Left Behind: The Movie," "Left Behind II: Tribulation" and "Left Behind: World at War," $33.95. (Sony).

Little House on the Prairie (2005 -- TV) Complete six-hour miniseries, two-disc set, $29.99. Cameron Bancroft, Erin Cottrell, Kyle Chavarria, Danielle Ryan Chuchran, Barbara Kozicki, Gregory Sporleder, Dorian Harewood. (Buena Vista).

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Dir.: Rob Marshall; Ziyi Zhang, Ken Wantanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, Suzaka Ohgo. Extras: Commentary by director Marshall and choreographer John DeLuca; production commentary by Colleen Atwood (costume design), John Myhre (production design) and Pietro Scalia (editor); 11 in-depth featurettes: "Sayuri's Other Journey: From the Novel to the Screen," "The Road to Japan," "Geisha Bootcamp," "Building the Hanamachi," "The Look of a Geisha," "The Music of Memoirs," "A Geisha Dance," "The World of Geisha," "The Way of the Sumo," "Rob Marshall - An in-depth look at Director Rob Marshall," "A Day with Chef Nobu Matsuhisa." (Sony).

Northern Exposure: The Complete Fourth Season Twenty-five episodes, $59.98. (Universal).

Planet of the Apes: The Ultimate DVD Collection Fourteen-disc set, $179.98. Includes all five original "Ape" films, the live-action TV series, the animated TV series, the 2001 "Ape" remake, plus oodles of extras. (Fox).

Planet of the Apes: Legacy Edition Box Set Includes all five original "Ape" films plus a bonus disc with the documentary "Behind the Planet of the Apes" and other binuses, $49.98. (Fox).

Plymptons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton (1990) Journey through political-cartoonist-turned-animator George Plympton's canvas of animation, from his first film created during his college days, "Self Portrait," to the Academy Award-nominated "Your Face," his first solo effort. $26.95. (Docurama).

Quantum Leap: The Complete Fourth Season Twenty-two episodes, $49.98. Extras: "The Great 80's TV Flashback" featurette. (Universal).

Robot Chicken: Season 1 Two-disc set with 20 11-minute episodes, $29.98. Extras: Deleted scenes, animation meetings, FX/Wire to episode comparisons, alternate audio takes, deleted animatics, photo gallery, gag reel. (Warner).

Sliver (1993) Dir.: Phillip Noyce; Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker, Colleen Camp, Amanda Foreman, Martin Landau, CCH Pounder, Nina Foch. Unrated and uncensored. (Paramount).

Snoopy, Come Home (1972) Animated, $14.99. (Paramount).

A Sound of Thunder (2005) Dir.: Peter Hyams; Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack, Ben Kingsley. (Warner).

Stay (2005) Dir.: Marc Forster; Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Kate Burton, Naomi Watts, Elizabeth Reaser, Bob Hoskins, Janeane Garofalo, B.D. Wong. Extras: Scene specific commentary by director Forster, "Departing Visions" featurette. (Fox).

The Story of Qiu Ju (1992 -- China) Dir.: Zhang Yimon; Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang. (Sony)

Tales of the Unexpected Set 4 Three-volume set with 20 episodes, $39.99. (Acorn Media).

3 Films by Louis Malle Four-disc set with "Murmur of the Heart," "Lacombe, Lucien" and "Au Revoir Les Enfants," fourth disc of extras. $79.95 set or $29.95 each. New, restored high-definition digital transfers. Extras: "Murmur": New essay by film critic Michael Sragow; "Lacombe": Pauline Kael's 1974 New Yorker review; "Revoir": New essay by film critic Philip Kemp; Fourth Disc: New interviews with actor and Louis Malle widow Candice Bergen and biographer Pierre Billard; excerpts from a French TV program featuring the director on the sets of "Murmur of the Heart" and "Lacombe, Lucien"; audio interviews with Malle from 1972, 1980, and 1988; "The Immigrant," Charlie Chaplin's 1917 short comedy, featured in "Au revoir les enfants"; profile of the provocative character of Joseph from "Au revoir les enfants," created by filmmaker Guy Magen in 2005; Louis Malle filmography. (The Criterion Collection).

TransGeneration (2005) Eight-part miniseries on four students transitioning from their birth sex. $29.95. (Docurama).

The Triangle (2005) Eric Stoltz, Catherine Bell, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bruce Davison, Sam Neill. Sci-Fi Channel miniseries. Extras: "Sci-Fi Inside: The Triangle." (Lionsgate).

Violent Midnight (1964) Lee Philips, Shepperd Strudwick, Jean Hale, Lorraine Rogers, Margot Hartman, James Farentino, Dick Van Patten, Sylvia Miles. (Dark Sky Films/MPI Home Video).

Walking the Bible (2005) PBS documentary series follows award-winning author and host Bruce Feiler through 10 countries and four war zones as he searches for traces of the great biblical heroes; $39.95. Extras: Behind-the-scenes photos, Q&A with Bruce Feiler on turning his book into the television series, slide show featuring selected images from the companion book "Walking the Bible: A Photographic Journey," excerpt from the companion book "Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses." (WGBH Boston Video).

Wonder Showzen: Season 1 -- Uncensored (2005) MTV2 absurdist comedy/variety show, spiked with a team of puppets, kids, cartoons and old educational films. Two-disc set, $26.99. Extras: Easter Eggs, auditions and outtakes, "Storytime With Flava Flav," "Sneek Peek" cartoon, special guest commentaries by Gordon Lish, Dick Gregory, and others. (Paramount).

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Pig Iron said:
The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold (2006) Christy Carlson, Romano Scott, Thompson Baker, Ross Thomas. Direct-to-video sequel. Extras: Commentary by director Sean McNamara and the cast, movie montage with music by Romano, photo gallery. (Sony).
WTF? Is this neccessary?

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