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Celebrate George Carlin's life with All My Stuff, the 14-disc career retrospective that came out last year. The DVD set includes 12 of his HBO concert specials, spans nearly 30 years, and includes some of his memorable routines: "Baseball and Football," "A Place for My Stuff," "Losing Things," "Al Sleet the Hippie-Dippie Weather Man," "Hitler," "We Like War," "It's Not A Sport," "Why We Don't Need Ten Commandments," and - of course - the legendary "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television." More George Carlin DVDs. |
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The third season of the hit Showtime series Weeds comes out on DVD this week. Matthew Modine joins the cast as a real estate mogul who hooks up with both pot-dealing soccer mom Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) and her friendly nemesis Celia (Elizabeth Perkins). Meanwhile, Nancy's son Silas (Hunter Parrish) finds romance with a religious girl (Mary-Kate Olsen), Nancy gets a legit job, and Carrie Fisher guest stars as Celia's divorce lawyer. |
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Long before Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker starred in Square Pegs, an early '80s sitcom about two teenage girls who are desperate to overcome their geeky nature and fit in with the cool kids. The show was a Family Event for some of us, and we're thrilled it's finally out on DVD. "Totally." Check out our Sex and the City shopping guide. |
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Juno came out on DVD this week and it's already a bestseller on Amazon. If you haven't seen it, it's about a high school girl who gets pregnant and decides to give her baby up for adoption. Diablo Cody won an Oscar for the witty screenplay. USA Today calls Juno "a likably cynical comedy" that is "actually about hope" and "charming, honest, and terrifically acted." And the movie is #10 on Rolling Stone's list of the 10 best movies of 2007. |
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No Country For Old Men, the movie that won Oscars for best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay, and best supporting actor (Javier Bardem), comes out on DVD this week. Directed by the Coen brothers and based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, the movie is a modern morality tale about the violent pursuits of money and justice. It also features "one of the most horrible haircuts in history" on Javier Bardem. |
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Shopping for a Simpsons fan? The Simpsons movie just came out on DVD, and should fit in most stockings. When Homer adopts a pig and dumps the pig's waste in Lake Springfield, the government puts a dome over Springfield and Homer must find a way to save his family. With special guest appearances by Albert Brooks, Tom Hanks, Minnie Driver, and Green Day, the 87-minute movie captures the spirit of the TV show's best years. Wrap this one up with the Simpsons video game. |
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Shopping for a Harry Potter fan? Check out this limited edition Harry Potter DVD set. It comes with 2-disc versions of all 5 movies so far (Sorcerers Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, and Order of the Phoenix) plus an additional 3 hours of special content. Other extras include an interactive Harry Potter DVD game, 5 collectible bookmarks, and 16 trading cards. More Harry Potter shopping. More awesome box sets. |
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We haven't been getting out much lately because we've been at home watching Season 4 of The Wire, the best show on TV. Stringer may be gone (*sob*), but "Omar back!" (There's one especially great scene where Omar goes out in his satin pajamas to get Cheerios.) The 4th season focuses on a group of 8th graders (taught by Prez) trying to survive in the streets of West Baltimore as the city's mayoral race enters its final stages. Get previous seasons of The Wire. |
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Good news for Futurama fans: The first of 4 new straight-to-DVD Futurama full-length movies is now available. As Bender Bending Rodriguez, that lovable robot scamp, would say, "I'm Back Baby!" With the same writers and voices as the TV show, Futurama the Movie: Bender's Big Score finds the Futurama crew fighting to save Earth in an epic battle against nudist alien Internet scammers, and discovering the secret of time travel tattooed on Fry's buttocks. Extra features include commentary from Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, and cast members, as well as an animated promo for "An Inconvenient Truth" starring Bender and Al Gore. |
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Sean Connery or Roger Moore? It's one of the great pop cultural debates (up there with David Lee Roth v. Sammy Hagar and boxers v. briefs). But you don't have to choose - this James Bond Ultimate Collector's Set includes every single James Bond film ever made, all 21 of them, from Dr. No right up to Casino Royale. With 21 discs of bonus features alone, the set contains a whopping 42 DVDs. More awesome box sets. |
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The first season of Flight of the Conchords, the hilarious HBO show, is now out on DVD. The show follows the trials and tribulations of a 2-man, digi-folk band from New Zealand as they try to make a name for themselves in their adopted home of New York City. If you've never heard of Flight of the Conchords, do yourself a favor and check out this "Business Time" video on YouTube. More box set gifts. |
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A must-have for hard-core Seinfeld fans, this Seinfeld box set contains 32 DVDs with all 180 episodes of the show, plus 104 hours of extras that include deleted scenes, documentaries for all 9 seasons, bloopers, "notes about nothing," and commentaries. It also comes with a 226-page Official Coffee Table Book that's filled with photos, quotes, and trivia from every episode. More awesome box sets. |
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The first season of Ugly Betty, for which America Ferrera won a 2006 Golden Globe Award, comes out on DVD this week. Ferrera's character, Betty Suarez, sticks out like a sore thumb in her job as a fashion editor's assistant. We're pretty sure Betty wouldn't last 2 minutes working for Anna Wintour, but this is (highly entertaining) fiction. The DVD set contains all 23 episodes of the first season, on 6 DVDs, as well as a full complement of original featurettes, deleted scenes, audio commentaries, bloopers, and a Spanish audio track. Hey ABC, where are the Ugly Betty action figures?? |
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The new Simpsons movie is only 87 minutes long. If that's not enough to keep you entertained this weekend, pick up The Simpsons - Season 10, now out on DVD. The 4-disc set contains all 24 episodes from the 1998-1999 season, including "Treehouse of Horror IX," "Simpsons Bible Stories," and "Viva Ned Flanders," with guest stars ranging from Alec Baldwin to Stephen Hawking. DVD extras include alternate and deleted scenes, bonus shorts, featurettes, and a sketch gallery. More Simpsons on DVD. |
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We're too cheap to pay for HBO, so we're super excited that the third (and final) season of the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning Deadwood comes out on DVD today. This is how we like our history lessons: Vivid, well-acted, and full of murder and mayhem. The DVD set contains 12 hours of entertainment, plus extra featurettes, audio commentary, and a photo gallery of historic Deadwood. |
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Oprah Winfrey calls Planet Earth "the most beautiful, wondrous, and truly majestic series - the best thing I've ever seen on TV." Produced by the Discovery Channel and narrated by Sigourney Weaver, this 5-disc, 11-part natural history series covers mountains, oceans, deserts, jungles, ice worlds, and everything in between, with startling views of locations captured by cameras for the first time ever, plus unprecedented high-definition production techniques. |
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We can think of several reasons people will buy Casino Royale, the most recent James Bond film, which comes out on DVD this week. There's Daniel Craig's powerful performance as Bond, of course, with Dame Judi Dench perfectly cast in the role of M, and a villain who weeps blood. The opening action sequence is well-done as is the Venetian implosion. But for some women we know, it's all about the image shown here. More Daniel Craig movies. |
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan comes out on DVD this week. You can wait a month for it to become available on Netflix, or you can buy it now, and find out why Entertainment Weekly calls it a "specimen of satirical brilliance so fearless and liberatingly offensive that it ought to be included in every high school syllabus pertaining to (a) multicultural sensitivity and (b) the craft of socially relevant comedy." Check out these Borat t-shirts. |
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From Mike Judge, one of the creative minds behind Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill, and Office Space, comes Idiocracy, an outrageous sci-fi comedy about a not-so-bright guy who awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed-down by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he's become the smartest guy on the planet. Filled with razor-sharp sarcasm and outrageous sight gags, Idiocracy will make you laugh out loud whether you're an absolute genius - or a complete idiot. |
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Little Miss Sunshine, a low-budget comedy about a dysfunctional family road trip from Albuquerque to California, has been nominated for 4 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Alan Arkin as Grandpa), and Best Supporting Actress (Abigail Breslin as Olive). Rolling Stone calls the movie "hilarious, heartbreaking, and achingly true." More Oscar-nominated movies. | |
