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Hot Fuzz

Jim Broadbent · Universal Studios
Format: DVD

In Shaun of the Dead, it was the zombie movie and the anomie of modern life. In Hot Fuzz, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg set their sights on the buddy cop blockbuster and the eccentric English village. The two worlds collide when overachieving London officer Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is promoted...
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Contact (Snap Case) (1997)

Robert Zemeckis · Warner Home Video
Format: DVD

The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these days--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore...
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Half Past Dead

Don Michael Paul · Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Format: DVD video

Welcome to Alcatraz. "The Rock" has just re-opened for business, but the first criminal slated for the electric chair is also sitting on a secret worth $200 million. And an invading group of commandos (led by Morris Chestnut) isn't going to let his fortune go up in smoke....
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Shenandoah (1965)

Andrew V McLaglen · Universal Studios
Format: DVD

Shenandoah, a film well-liked in its day, recalls Friendly Persuasion and foreshadows The Patriot as it tells of an American clan traumatized by war on native soil. Virginia farmer James Stewart has never owned slaves, owes allegiance to no one beyond his own kin, and adamantly disregards...
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The lost boys

Richard Donner · Warner Home Video
Format: DVD video

When Sam, Michael, and their mother move to Santa Clara, California, strange things begin to happen. A new twist on the familiar vampire story.
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A Birder's Guide To Everything

~ Kodi Smit-Mcphee · Screen Media
Format: DVD

David Portnoy, a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history. Bonus Features: Director Commentary, Behind the Scenes,...
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Transformers (2007)

Michael Bay · Dreamworks Video
Format: DVD

"I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot. Who knew?" deadpans Sam Witwicky, hero and human heart of Michael Bay's rollicking robot-smackdown fest, Transformers. Witwicky (the sweetly nerdy Shia LaBeouf, channeling a young John Cusack) is the perfect counterpoint to the nearly...
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Road House & Youngblood - Double Feature

Patrick Swayze · 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Road House - Dalton is the best bar bouncer in the business, but he's anything but "typcial". He's a little small for his trade, has a degree in philosophy and he blieives in "being nice". But when he's hired to clean up the Double Deuce in the small town...
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Concussion

Alec Baldwin · Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

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The Rockford Files: Season 6

James Garner · Universal Studios
Format: DVD

As the final season of The Rockford Files comes to DVD, say “goodbye” to the five-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning series that earned 18 nominations during its six-year run! James Garner returns as ex-con-turned-private-eye Jim Rockford – the role that earned him the Primetime...
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Beyond the sea.

Kevin Spacey · Aec
Format: Video

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Leverage: The Fourth Season (2012)

Timothy Hutton · 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD

The stakes have never been higher in this all-new season of Leverage, the thrilling crime drama that puts you at the heart of the action. Timothy Hutton returns as Nate Ford, now more determined than ever to fight injustice with the help of his elite team of crack con artists.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Joel Coen · Touchstone
Format: DVD

Disenchanted with the daily drudge of crushing rocks on a prison farm in Mississippi, the dapper, silver-tongued Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney, THE PERFECT STORM) busts loose. Except he's still shackled to his own chain-mates from the chain gang -- bad-tempered Pete (John Turturro,...
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Island Girl Dance Fitness Workout for Beginners: Tahitian Cardio

Andrea Ambandos · Naturaljourneys
Format: DVD video

Fitness instructor Kili's fitness programs are based on the traditional Hawaiian hula dance. This beginners program combines traditional Tahitian dance moves, the 'ami, figure 8, and Tahitian bump, with cardio steps.
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Red Dragon - Collector's Edition (2002)

Ted Tally · Universal Studios
Format: DVD

A lot could've gone wrong in Red Dragon, but the movie exceeds expectations. Replacing the acclaimed Manhunter as an "official" entry in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this topnotch thriller--the second adaptation of Thomas Harris's first Lecter novel--returns to the fertile...
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