February 7, 2012 and February 11, 2012 - Notable New DVD Movie Releases:
DVD Releases: February 7, 2012
Anonymous DVD
Length: 130 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violence and sexual content
Rhys Ifans and Vanessa Redgrave star in this drama set in London during Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603). The movie gives its version of the struggle to determine who will succeed Elizabeth and how plays written by the Earl of Oxford came to be attributed to Shakespeare. Ifans portrays the main character, Elizabethan courtier Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Elizabeth is played as an older woman by Redgrave, and the role of young Elizabeth is taken by Redgrave's daughter Joely Richardson. De Vere writes great plays, but Will Shakespeare (Rafe Spall) is credited as their author.
- Commentary
- Widescreen
Selected Blu-ray Disc Special Features:
- Commentary
- Featurettes
- PS3 Wallpaper
- Widescreen
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas DVD
Length: 90 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for strong crude and sexual content, graphic nudity, pervasive language, drug use and some violence
This is the third in the series of raunchy and irreverent stoner comedies that includes Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) and Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008). In the new holiday film, Harold Lee (John Cho) is now married, has a job and lives in the suburbs, while Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) remains a pot-smoking slacker. Once best pals, they have drifted apart, but events reunite them on Christmas Eve, when their search for a special Christmas tree takes them on a wacky ramble. As in the two previous films, Neil Patrick Harris makes an amusing appearance.
- UltraViolet Digital Copy
- Widescreen
Selected Blu-ray Disc Special Features:
- UltraViolet Digital Copy
- Widescreen
Selected Blu-ray Disc Special Features:
- Includes: Blu-ray Disc, 3D Blu-ray Disc, and DVD
Selected Special Features:
- UltraViolet Digital Copy
- Widescreen
DVD Release: February 11, 2012
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 DVDLength: 117 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for disturbing images, violence, sexuality/partial nudity and some thematic elements
This is the fourth movie in The Twilight Saga, a series of five films adapted from Stephenie Meyer's quartet of novels. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner reprise their roles from the three earlier movies, but this time around the director is Bill Condon. The heroine Bella Swan (Stewart) reaches age 18 and marries the vampire Edward Cullen (Pattinson). But her other suitor, hunky werewolf Jacob Black (Lautner), remains in Bella's life to act as her protector. Bella's health becomes frail when she gets pregnant with a fast-growing fetus, and it all leads to another battle between werewolves and vampires.
Selected DVD Special Features:- Two-Disc Set
- Widescreen
Also Available: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part I and Blu-ray Disc
Part 2: Additional DVD Blu-ray Disc and Releases of Interest This Week
A Star is Born (1937) Kino Classics David O. Selznick Collection DVDSelected DVD Special Features:
- Region 1
Also Available: A Star is Born (1937) Kino Classics David O. Selznick Collection Blu-ray Disc
Downton Abbey Original Edition - Season Two DVDSelected DVD Special Features:
- Three-Disc DVD Set
Also Available: Downton Abbey Original Edition - Season Two Blu-ray Disc
Father Dowling Mysteries The First Season DVDSelected DVD Special Features:
- Two-Disc DVD Set
Selected DVD Special Features:
- Six-Disc DVD Set
Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
Selected DVD Special Features:
- Animated
- Deleted Scenes
- Deleted Song
- Includes Digital Copy
- Featurettes
- Three-Disc Set
- Commentary
- Widescreen
Also Available: The Lady and the Tramp (1955) Two-Disc Diamond Edition DVD and Blu-ray Disc Combo
New Tricks Season Six DVDSelected DVD Special Features:
- Three-Disc DVD Set
Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
Also Available: The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall Blu-ray Disc
Police Woman The Second Season DVDSelected DVD Special Features:
- Six-Disc DVD Set
Selected DVD Special Features:
- Commentary
Selected DVD Special Features:
- Commentary
- Widescreen
Also Available: The Sunset Limited Blu-ray Disc
Veggie Tales: If I Sang A Silly Song DVDSelected DVD Special Features:
- Animated
- Widescreen