The new DVD releases include Black Snake Moan, Dead Silence and Shooter. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
June 26, 2007 - New Video and DVD Releases:
Tagline: "Everything is hotter down south."
Length: 116 minutesMPAA Rating: R for strong sexual content, language, some violence and drug use
Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci and a blues soundtrack are featured in this pulpy drama that was written and directed by Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow). In a small Tennessee town, Lazarus (Jackson) is a vegetable farmer and retired blues musician whose wife has left him. One day Lazarus finds a badly beaten, scantily clad young woman near his house. She turns out to be the trashy nymphomaniac Rae (Ricci), and he takes her home and chains her to the radiator. Justin Timberlake plays a supporting role as Rae's boyfriend. Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
Tagline: "You scream. You die."
Length: 90 minutesMPAA Rating: R for horror violence and images (An unrated version of this movie is also available on DVD.)
This horror movie is written and directed by the same team that did Saw. In Dead Silence, Jamie Ashen (Ryan Kwanten) and his wife receive an unmarked box containing a ventriloquist's dummy. After Jamie goes out to get food, he returns to find his wife dead, her tongue missing. Jamie then travels to his decaying hometown of Ravens Fair, where he hears the legend of a ventriloquist named Mary Shaw who died there in 1941. He discovers some things about his own family as he tries to figure out what is going on. Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
Tagline: "Yesterday was about honor. Today is about justice."
Length: 124 minutesMPAA Rating: R for strong graphic violence and some language
Mark Wahlberg stars in this action-filled thriller directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day). In Shooter, former military sniper Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) lives simply out in the middle of the woods. Then men from the U.S. government seek his assistance in foiling a plot they've uncovered to assassinate the President. Swagger undertakes the mission, only to find himself identified as the perpetrator when an assassination in attempted. He goes on the run, but he gets help from a rookie FBI agent (Michael Peña). Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
- Also Available on Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
Next Page - Additional Video/DVD Releases of Interest This Week