The new DVD releases include Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and This Christmas. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
November 11, 2008 - New DVD Releases:
Hellboy II: The Golden Army DVD
Tagline: "Believe it or not -- he's the good guy."
Length: 120 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and some language
Directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro, this fantasy is the sequel to Hellboy (2004). Again the characters are based on those in Dark Horse Comics, and actors Ron Perlman, Selma Blair and Doug Jones are back. The superhero Hellboy (Perlman), the combustible Liz Sherman (Blair) and the amphibian Abe Sapien (Jones) still work for the secret US paranormal lab. This time around an ancient feud between elves and humans is revived, leading to a huge battle involving 4,900 mechanical warriors. Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) creates astonishing creatures. 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: "PG for sci-fi action violence throughout, brief language and momentary smoking."
Length: 98 minutesMPAA Rating: PG for sci-fi action violence throughout, brief language and momentary smoking
This animated movie tells a story set between Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The characters are nearly all familiar from Star Wars live-action films, but few of the previous actors' voices are heard in the animated movie. (Exceptions: Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Anthony Daniels.) The story is driven by a kidnapping of Jabba the Hutt's baby and the attempt by Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and his new female Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, to rescue the infant. They must fight their way past Count Dooku's droids. 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: "You can't exchange family. "
Length: 117 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for comic sexual content and some violence
This is an upbeat holiday dramedy about what happens when an African-American family gets together for the first time in four years. At the center is the Whitfield family matriarch (Loretta Devine), now divorced and living with her boyfriend (Delroy Lindo). Also present are a businesswoman daughter with a lot of 'tude, another adult daughter and her philandering husband, a college student daughter and her boyfriend, a son who's AWOL from the Marines and has married a white woman, a son (Idris Elba) in financial hot water, and a teenage son who wants to become a singer. 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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