October 4, 2011 - Notable New DVD Movie Releases:
African Cats DVD
Length: 89 minutes
MPAA Rating: G
This Disney wildlife documentary is about lions and cheetahs living in the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Samuel L. Jackson narrates two intercut stories. One story is about a pride of lions with an old male called Fang because he has a dangling broken tooth. One of the pride's females is Layla, an impressive hunter who has a cub called Mara. Layla gets injured, putting Mara at risk, and other male lions threaten Fang. The second story is about Sita, a "single mom" cheetah — male cheetahs don't participate in raising the young — and her five cubs. When Sita hunts, her cubs are left unprotected.
- Two-Disc Set
- Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack
- Widescreen
- Also Available: Single-Disc DVD Edition
Fast Five DVD
Length: 130 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, sexual content and language
This is the fifth installment of the action franchise that began with The Fast and the Furious in 2001, and Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster reprise their roles. Fast Five retains the franchise's focus on cars, but is less about racing and more about a heist. This time around, Dwayne Johnson is added to the cast, but some actors familiar from previous installments appear, including Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot and Ludacris. The gang travels to Brazil, where they set out to steal the money of a drug lord, and the big scene has a large vault being dragged through the streets of Rio by two cars.
- Deleted Scenes
- Gag Reel
- Feature Commentary With Director Justin Lin
- Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack
- Includes Digital Copy
- Includes Two Versions of the Movie: Extended and Theatrical
- Widescreen
- Also Available: Single-Disc DVD Edition
Scream 4 DVD
Tagline: "New decade. New rules."
Length: 111 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence, language and some teen drinking
This horror movie is the follow-up to Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997) and Scream 3 (2000). Wes Craven is back as director, and the returning actors are Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette. New cast members include Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettierre and Rory Culkin. Sidney (Campbell) returns to the small Midwestern town of Woodsboro to promote her book, while Dewey (Arquette) is now the town's sheriff and married to Gale (Cox), a writer. But soon Woodsboro is terrorized by a new killing spree by Ghostface, a person wearing an Edvard Munch Scream mask.
- Widescreen
Additional DVD and Blu-ray Disc Releases of Interest:
Alfred Hitchcock: The Essentials Collection DVD- Five-Disc DVD Set Includes the Movies:
- Rear Window (1954)
- Vertigo (1958)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- Psycho (1960)
- The Birds (1963)
- Widescreen
- Seven-Disc DVD Set
- Widescreen
- Widescreen
- Deleted Scenes
- Outtakes
- Commentaries
- Two-Disc DVD Set
- Three-Disc DVD Set
- Widescreen
- Widescreen
- Widescreen
- Featurettes
- Widescreen
- DVD Set
- Four-Disc DVD Set
- Widescreen
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) Blu-ray Disc
- Widescreen
- Deleted Scenes
- Gag Reel
- Two-Disc DVD Set
- Four-Disc DVD Set
- Subtitled
- Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack
- Three-Disc DVD Set
- Three-Disc DVD Set
- Three-Disc DVD Set
- Widescreen
- Seven-Disc DVD Set
- Animated
- Widescreen