Wednesday, October 24, 2007

When everything feels like the movies...

Looking for something new and fun to watch with the family?

Well - here's a look at the newest DVD's hitting the store shelves.

"Meet the Robinsons"
This movie is an animated time-traveling adventure, featuring the voice talents of Angela Bassett, Tom Selleck and Laurie Metcalf. The movie follows the exploits of a young inventor whisked into the future, where he teams up with a family of oddballs to take on a villain in a bowler hat.

Among the DVD extras are a handful of deleted scenes, a segment on how the film was developed from the work of children's author William Joyce, and a featurette on Walt Disney and other visionaries whose advances changed the world.

"Mr. Brooks"
This movie stars Kevin Costner as a serial killer. He plays a seemingly upright citizen, who commits a string of mass murders and taunts police. William Hurt co-stars as Brooks' Jekyll-and-Hyde evil alter ego, with Demi Moore playing a cop on the killer's trail and Dane Cook playing a witness who wants a taste of the
perpetrator's bloody glory.

The DVD has deleted footage, threemaking-of featurettes and commentary.

"Hostel: Part II"
This movie comes to home video after failing to make a splash in theaters. In this sequel, three American women studying in Europe meet up with an art-class model who baits them into a murder-for-pleasure den.

Also debuting in a two-disc DVD set and single-disc Blu-ray edition is the director's cut of the original "Hostel," with an alternate ending, four commentary tracks and a full disc of interviews and background featurettes.

"Stanley Kubrick"
This DVD features five Kubrick films in a fresh boxed-set treatment, with high-definition HD DVD and Blu-ray releases. The 10-DVD set has remastered two-disc versions of "2001: A Space Odyssey," "A Clockwork Orange," "The Shining" and "Eyes Wide Shut," plus a single-disc release of "Full Metal Jacket" and a disc with the documentary "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures."

If television is more your speed...this week's TV on DVD releases include:

- The Sopranos: Season Six, Part II
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume One
- The L Word: The Complete Fourth Season
- Veronica Mars: The Complete Third Season
- NCIS: The Fourth Season

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