The new DVD releases include Baby Mama, The Fall and The Forbidden Kingdom. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
September 9, 2008 - New DVD Releases:
Tagline: "Would you put your eggs ... in this basket?"
Length: 99 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and a drug reference
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler star in this comedy written and directed by Michael McCullers, and all three of these people have Saturday Night Live backgrounds. Kate (Fey) is an unmarried 37-year-old executive who desperately wants a baby and goes to a surrogacy agency run by a woman played by Sigourney Weaver. Angie (Poehler), a lower-class type, ends up carrying the child. The story involves Angie splitting from her common-law husband and moving in with Kate, forming an odd couple. Steve Martin portrays Kate's boss, and Greg Kinnear plays her love interest. Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check with your video store/online rental service for availability in other formats, including streaming video/digital download.
Tagline: "A little blessing in disguise."
Length: 117 minutesMPAA Rating: R for some violent images
Shot over a period of four years in about 18 countries by Tarsem, a longtime director of music videos and commercials, this inventive fantasy presents a stunning series of visual images, although there's little narrative drive. The film is structured around a girl named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru), who is hospitalized with a broken arm in 1915 Los Angeles. She befriends a despondent, paralyzed stuntman named Roy (Lee Pace), who wants to commit suicide. Roy tells Alexandria a tall tale, and the movie goes inside her mind as she imagines how everything looks. Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
- Also Available on Blu-ray Disc
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check with your video store/online rental service for availability in other formats, including streaming video/digital download.
Tagline: "The path is unsafe. The place is unknown. The journey is unbelievable."
Length: 113 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of martial arts action and some violence
Jet Li and Jackie Chan appear together for the first time in this martial-arts movie, but the hero is played by Michael Angarano. Jason (Angarano) is a modern-day Boston teenager who gets transported to a mythical version of feudal China. There the hard-drinking Lu Yan (Chan) and the Silent Monk (Li) first battle each other, then team up and join forces with Jason and a good-looking young female warrior called Golden Sparrow. Their objective is to deliver a magical staff to the Monkey King (Li again), but an evil warlord and a wicked witch are out to stop them. Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check with your video store/online rental service for availability in other formats, including streaming video/digital download.
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