Dvd Tuesday: July 21st

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dubbed, Subtitles - French
Subtitles - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary:
1. Martin Barnewitz, Director; Todd Farmer, Writer

Distributor Notes: From Ghost House Pictures, the makers of Boogeyman, 30 Days of Night and The Messengers comes the suspenseful prequel to the box office hit, The Messengers. Messengers 2: The Scarecrow goes back to the farm to finally learn the story of John Rollins -- the simple North Dakota farmer, struggling to save his farm and hold his family together. When he places a mysterious scarecrow in his field, his luck changes for the better...but it may be at the cost of his sanity.

DVD Features:

NTSC
Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Subtitles - Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Behind the Scenes
Audio Commentary:
1. Michael Feifer - Director

Distributor Notes: Based on the true story of one of history’s most demented serial killers.

Ted Bundy terrorized 1970s America with a cross-country killing spree through seven states that left over 30 dead while terrorizing coed dorms, and escaping from two jails.

DVD Features:

Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - Spanish, French, English
Subtitles - English, SDH, French, Spanish
Disc 1/Side A: Theatrical Version 2D
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary: Director Henry Selick and Composer Bruno Coulais
Disc 1/Side B: Theatrical Version 3D
Disc 2/Side A: CORALINE
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes
Featurette:
1. The Making of Coraline
2. Voicing the Characters
Additional Products:
3D Glasses

Dakota Fanning voices a girl who finds a parallel universe lurking behind a door in her home, but the new world isn't all it initially appears. Based on Nail Gaiman's novel, CORALINE promises to be a favorite for both children and adults.

DVD Features:

Keep Case
Audio:
Dolby Surround 5.1 - English
Stereo 2.0 - Portuguese
Subtitles: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai
Additional Release Material:
Featurettes:
1. Presented as an on-screen Pop-Up book, narrated by Jim Dale, “Easy as Pie” will feature photos and supplementary material, while Jims narration will inform us with all manner of behind-the-scenes Tid-bits!

Distributor Notes: Despite its candy colors and sweet romance, this inventive dramedy never veers into saccharine territory. Lee Pace (MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY) stars as Ned, a piemaker with a very special gift: he can bring dead things--from his dog to rotting fruit to people--back to life with a simple touch. But the second he touches them again, they return to their previous state. If he doesn't, something else meets a dire fate. He uses his ability to solve murders and collect the reward with his business partner, a private detective named Emerson Cod (Chi McBride, BOSTON PUBLIC). But when he begins to look into the death of his childhood friend and lost love, Charlotte "Chuck" Charles (Anna Friel), Ned can't allow her to remain among the dearly departed. Since Ned and Chuck can never touch, PUSHING DAISIES presents a fascinating, romantic courtship, but it's perfectly countered by the sour humor of Emerson and the jealousy of witty waitress Olive Snook (Kristin Chenoweth). Like Tim Burton meets AMELIE, PUSHING DAISIES arrives from Bryan Fuller, the creator of cult favorite series DEAD LIKE ME and WONDERFALLS. This collection presents the show's complete second season.

DVD Features:

2-Disc Set
Director's Cut
Additional Release Material:
Music Video: Music Video: My Chemical Romance Desolation Row
Featurette:
1. The Phenomenon: The Comic that Changed Comics
2. Watchmen: Video Journals (over 30 min)
Additional Products:
Digital Copy - Theatrical Version

For those obsessed with the critically acclaimed graphic novel (which would be almost anyone who has read it), or for audiences looking for a stylish action film, WATCHMEN is worth--well--watching. But those who thought THE DARK KNIGHT was too gloomy should stay far away from Zack Snyder’s film. As far as superhero movies go, this graphic adaptation of the comic book series from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons makes even Christopher Nolan’s Batman films look like Saturday morning fare. Director Snyder and the screenwriters certainly deserve credit for crafting an adaptation of a work that has been deemed unfilmable since its 1986 release. Mammoth and mazelike, WATCHMEN follows a group of retired costumed heroes living in an alternate 1985 where Nixon is still president and fear of nuclear doomsday permeates the air. When a hero named the Comedian (an excellent Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is murdered, his former colleague--the unhinged, masked Rorschach (a perfectly creepy Jackie Earle Hayley)--begins investigating who is behind the death. The other masked crimefighters--Silk Spectre 2 (Malin Ackerman), Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), Nite Owl 2 (Patrick Wilson), and Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), a godlike being who is the only one with actual superpowers--soon learn that there may be a plot to rid the world of their kind.

Snyder’s previous work in action (300) and horror (DAWN OF THE DEAD) proves to be preparation for this visually stunning film. The fight sequences are fantastically shot by director of photography Larry Fong, and the action can alternately make viewers hold their breaths at its composition or gasp at the shocking violence. Most will agree that WATCHMEN is not a comic book movie for kids: there’s sex and violence aplenty, but it truly makes itself a film for adults with its smart, complex storytelling.

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