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New DVD releases: 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan'
From You Don't Mess With the Zohan to Sleeping Beauty, check out this week's new DVDs.
'Iron Man,' 'Sarah Marshall'
Most summers, a $300 million-plus blockbuster such as this would have been the heavy hitter of the season. But Robert Downey Jr.'s entry into the superhero business turned out to be the leadoff batter for the half-billion-dollar smash The Dark Knight. Iron Man, Forgetting Sarah Marshall lead this week's DVD releases.
'Sex and the City,' 'Godfather'
Carrie and her gal pals make a triumphant return as they leap from the small screen to theaters and settle into monogamous ways after years of bed-hopping "Sex and the City." The movie update reunites Sarah Jessica Parker as writer Carrie with her buddies Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon, the foursome joined by old associates including Chris Noth as Carrie's man Big and new co-stars, among them Jennifer Hudson. Also out this week, the Blu-ray version of "The Godfather," all three films, plus special features.
'Made of Honor,' 'Speed Racer'
Tom Cruise's Risky Business gets a 25th anniversary edition while Patrick Dempsey's Made of Honor arrives on DVD.
'Baby Mama,' 'Forbidden Kingdom'
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler team up for a Hollywood rarity, a female buddy flick that actually found an audience in Baby Mama. Fey plays a business executive who can't have kids but decides she desperately wants a child, and so is paired with a surrogate mother (Poehler) who behaves like a juvenile herself. Also, out this week: The Forbidden Kingdom, The Fall and several television series, including Wings, Grey's Anatomy and Ugly Betty.
'Transformers' hits Blu-ray
The huge, shape-shifting Autobots and their new best bud (Shia LaBeouf) return to fight the evil Decepticon, this time in Blu-ray high-definition format. LaBeouf stars as a youth who becomes an ally to the transforming Autobots as their war with the Decepticons comes to Earth.
'What Happens in Vegas'
What Happens in Vegas . . . , The Nightmare Before Christmas, Red Belt and more are out on DVD.
'Prom Night,' 'Street Kings'
'Prom Night,' 'Street Kings' and more get DVD release this week.
'Smart People,' 'The Wire'
Though smarter-than-your-average Hollywood comedy, this tale of academia and dysfunction still works only fitfully, despite a top-notch cast that includes Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church and Ellen Page, who earned an Academy Award nomination for the title role in 2007's Juno.
'Nim's Island,' 'Counterfeiters'
Nim's Island, The Counterfeiters lead this week's DVD releases. From television, we get Family Ties, Star Trek and Robin Hood.
'Shine a Light,' 'Harold & Kumar'
It sounds like a match made in rock n' roll heaven: The Rolling Stones and Martin Scorsese, who blazed trails when he loaded his early film Mean Streets with a hip rock soundtrack and made the great rock documentary The Last Waltz.
'21,' 'Mummy' trio, 'Doomsday'
Kevin Spacey offers a lesson to academics everywhere on how to beat the high cost of living in 21. Spacey plays a brilliant, greedy MIT professor who leads a team of math-whiz students (Kate Bosworth and Jim Sturgess among them) in developing a blackjack card-counting scheme to take Vegas casinos to the cleaners.
'The Bank Job,' 'Shutter'
Jason Statham makes an unauthorized withdrawal in this solid heist flick from director Roger Donaldson. Statham stars as a car dealer who meets up with a beautiful woman (Saffron Burrows) from his old haunts and gets in way over his head after she lets him in on a robbery of cash and jewels from a London bank.
'Batman Begins,' 'Stop-Loss'
As if Heath Ledger's death and the inherent interest from rabid fans weren't enough to fan Batman mania for The Dark Knight, the studio feeds the flames with a new DVD release and the Blu-ray high-definition debut of the 2005 hit film.
'Vantage Point,' 'Meet the Browns'
Vantage Point, Meet the Browns lead the week's releases on DVD.
'In Bruges,' 'Spiderwick Chronicles'
In Bruges, 10,000 BC and Spiderwick Chronicles lead the DVD releases scheduled for June 24.
'Fool's Gold,' 'Roscoe Jenkins'
Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson play a recently divorced couple tossed back together as they find clues to the whereabouts of a Spanish ship that went down at sea with a trove of riches.
'The Bucket List,' 'Jumper'
Geezers made their mark at the box office with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman's feel-good buddy tale about getting the most out of life in the face of death.
'Dirty Harry,' Semi-Pro'
Clint Eastwood is back to make your day again as all five of his Dirty Harry cop thrillers return to DVD and debut on Blu-ray high-definition disc. Eastwood introduced the character of San Francisco inspector Harry Callahan in 1971's serial-killer tale Dirty Harry and reprised the role in Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact and The Dead Pool.
'Rambo,' 'Cassandra's Dream'
After years of flops, Sylvester Stallone worked his way back into audiences' graces by reprising one of his iconic characters in Rocky Balboa, then fell out again by resurrecting another, John Rambo, in this savagely violent jungle tale.
'National Treasure 2,' 'Diary of the Dead'
Nicolas Cage takes the current president hostage in his quest to clear an ancestor in the assassination of another. Cage scored his latest blockbuster hit with this National Treasure follow-up, reprising his role as a historian and treasure hunter who traipses around the world sorting out clues that will help exonerate one of his forebears of conspiracy in the death of Abraham Lincoln.
'Great Debaters,' Indy boxed set
'P.S. I Love You,' 'I'm Not There'
Just what every widow needs: A hubby thoughtful enough to leave behind a series of letters with life-affirming tasks so she can get on with things (or maybe he's just too selfish and perverse to go to his grave quietly and let her grief run its course naturally). Hilary Swank stars.
'27 Dresses,' 'The Golden Compass'
The romantic comedy that's also a major mystery - as in just how is it that a woman who looks like Katherine Heigl cannot find a husband? Heigl stars as the ultimate always-a-bridesmaid pal, a woman who has stood up as a member of the wedding 27 times without getting any closer to her own nuptials.
'Cloverfield,' 'Charlie Wilson's War'
New Yorkers go out of their heads (and the Statue of Liberty loses hers) as a 350-foot monster rampages through the city in this horror hit whose secretive marketing campaign was as much a part of the story as the movie itself.
'Juno,' 'Aliens Vs. Predator'
Teen pregnancy becomes less of a burden when the mother involved is the coolest, sharpest-tongued kid in school and sets out to find the perfect adoptive parents for the baby she's hatching. Ellen Page stars in ''Juno.''
'There Will Be Blood'
''There Will Be Blood'' is out this week on DVD, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, who won a Best Actor Academy Award for his potrayal of oilman Daniel Plainview.
'Sweeney Todd,' 'Alvin'
Johnny Depp's Oscar-nominated performance stars in the release this week of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
'The Kite Runner'
Marc Foster's film about two boys from Kabul who form a powerful but harrowing friendship during the days of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent takeover of the country by the Taliban is released on DVD this week.
'I Am Legend'
It's the end of the world as we know it ... or so it seems to scientist Robert Neville (Will Smith) of New York City, apparently the only survivor of a deadly virus that has killed off humankind and left only a few deadly mutants. He stars in ''I Am Legend,'' which leads this week's DVD releases.
'No Country for Old Men'
Multiple Oscar-winner No Country for Old Men is released on DVD this week.
'Into the Wild'
Into the Wild, Things We Lost in the Fire lead this week's DVD releases.
'Last Emperor' arrives in box set
Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 masterpiece about Pu Yi, the last Chinese emperor, includes high-definition, digitally restored editions of both the 163-minute theatrical film that won nine Academy Awards, including best picture, and the 215-minute television version.
'Michael Clayton' available on DVD
- Michael Clayton
