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ONVIDEO'S WEEKLY GUIDE TO HOME VIDEO RELEASES
For Tuesday, October 9 -- Monday, October 15

Evan Almighty
Four years after being flummoxed by Bruce in "Bruce Almighty," Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) is a newly elected Congressman. Evan has left Buffalo behind to shepherd his wife, Joan (Lauren Graham), and three sons to the suburban town of Huntsville, Virginia, where they will begin the next chapter of their lives. As the Baxters become ensconced in their enormous home nestled within the pristine hills of northern Virginia, Evan prepares for his first day on the job as the freshman congressman from New York. The casually spiritual politico offers a prayer to God to "change the world." Little does he know that The Man (Morgan Freeman) upstairs already has big plans for him. Invited to co-sponsor a high-profile bill by one of the House's most powerful members, Congressman Long (John Goodman), Evan is sure that his prayers have been answered. His crackerjack team of aides -- assistant Rita (Wanda Syke), chief of staff Marty (John Michael Higgins) and intern Eugene (Jonah Hill) -- couldn't be more thrilled at this opportunity, although Evan realizes it will take him away from his oft-neglected family. However conflicted, power is important to Evan, and so he accepts the offer. Almost immediately, odd things begin occurring, and the self-centered representative's life becomes officially turned upside down. From mysterious deliveries of ancient tools and large parcels of wood to curious stalkings by birds of every feather, Evan is certain he's losing it. His certain descent into comic confusion culminates with a visit from a tall stranger claiming to be God who has one simple, albeit ludicrous, command: Evan must build an ark to prepare his friends and family for a mighty flood. With the help of his three boys and armed with a first edition "Ark Building for Dummies," Evan begrudgingly begins to build the ship, not knowing what's in store once it's completed. To his utter dismay, animals of all shapes and sizes begin appearing two by two, until a menagerie of God's creatures inhabits the wooded forest surrounding his home. That's not the only thing changing. Evan's normally manicured appearance heads south as his befuddled wife observes him transforming into a barely recognizable bearded, longhaired, robe-wearing weirdo. No amount of trimming, tussling or trickery keeps the beard from growing ... and growing. Despite being on the verge of losing everything he previously held precious, Evan continues to build for the flood that will either destroy the land or prove to be a figment of his imagination. And while all around him shake their heads and stare, one man must discover whether he is having an extraordinary midlife crisis or is truly onto something of biblical proportions. Vitals: Director: Tom Shadyac. Stars: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, Johnny Simmons, Graham Phillips, Jimmy Bennett, John Goodman, Wanda Sykes, John Michael Higgins, Jonah Hill, Molly Shannon, Harve Presnell. 2007, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 96 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $97.378 million, Universal.

Reign Over Me
Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle) is surprised when he sees his old college roommate, Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) cruising the streets of Manhattan on a scooter. Alan has a seemingly perfect life: a successful career as a dentist, a loving wife (Jada Pinkett Smith), and two beautiful daughters. Yet he feels bored and unfulfilled, and no longer the carefree college student he once was with his buddy Charlie. Charlie, on the other hand, lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City and has slowly built a life of isolation until the fateful run-in with his former college roommate. The chance encounter rekindles their friendship, and together with psychiatrist Angela Oakhurst (Liv Tyler), Alan and Charlie slowly reconnect to their former, happy and grateful selves. Vitals: Director: Mike Binder. Stars: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows, Donald Sutherland, Robert Klein, Melinda Dillon. 2007, CC, MPAA rating:R, 124 min., Drama, Box office gross: $19.661 million, Sony.

Surf's Up
Animated adventure that goes "behind the scenes" of the high-octane world of competitive penguin surfing. Inspired by his hero, the legendary wave rider Big Z, Cody Maverick leaves his family and his town of Shiverpool, Antarctica to travel to Pen Gu Island for the Big Z Memorial Surf Off -- Cody's first pro competition. Cody believes that winning will bring him the admiration and respect he deserves. But when he unexpectedly comes face to face with Geek, a washed up old surfer, Cody begins to understand that the greatest champion isn't always the one who comes in first. Vitals: Director: Ash Brannon and Chris Buck: Voices of : Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder, James Woods. 2007, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 85 min., Animated, Box office gross: $57.329 million, Sony.

28 Weeks Later
The creative team of Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, and Andrew Macdonald are back to re-invent the zombie movie yet again with the sequel to "28 Days Later." Lead by director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, "28 Weeks Later" picks up six months after the Rage virus has annihilated the British Isles. The U.S. Army declares that the war against the infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin. In the first wave of returning refugees, a family is reunited -- but one of them unwittingly carries a terrible secret. The virus is not yet dead, and this time, it is more dangerous than ever. Vitals: Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Stars: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Imogen Poots, Idris Elba, Mackintosh Muggleton. 2007, CC, MPAA rating: R, 113 min., Horror, Box office gross: $28.611 million, Fox.

You Kill Me
Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) is a troubled man whose drinking problem is getting in the way of his job ... as a hit man. When he sleeps through a hit, his mob boss uncle (Phillip Baker Hall) banishes Frank from Buffalo and sends him to San Francisco to sober up. There he lands a job at a mortuary and meets an usual cast of characters, including his 12-step sponsor Tom (Luke Wilson), an eccentric real estate agent (Bill Pullman), and Laurel (Tea Leoni), a smart-talking woman who's dangerously devoid of boundaries. Meanwhile, back in Buffalo, gangster Edward O'Leary (Dennis Farina) is bent on destroying Frank's mobster family, and Frank must return to seek vengeance. Vitals: Director: John Dahl. Stars: Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoni, Phillip Baker Hall, Luke Wilson, Bill Pullman, Dennis Farina. 2007, CC, MPAA rating: R, 92 min., Drama, Box office gross: $2.385 million, Genius Products.


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NEWS

Coming Soon:
Sony has set December 4 for the release of the raunchy high school-to-college coming of age comedy "Superbad," starring Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bill Hader, Seth Rogen, Martha MacIsaac and Emma Stone. The film will be available in single-disc rated and unrated versions and a two-disc special edition, the latter containing such goodies as commentaries, deleted and extended scenes, gag reel, Line-O-Rama running tally of obscenities, "Cop Car Confessions" ride along with Clark County's finest, "Making-of Superbad," press junket meltdown; music of "Superbad," "TV Safe": watch Jonah Hill try to record alternate "safe" lines appropriate for television, and more. Also available on Blu-ray Disc.

DVD Collectibles:
Due this week from The Criterion Collection is Gus Van Sant's debut feature "Mala Noche" (1985), in a new, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by Van Sant. With its low budget and lush black-and-white imagery, "Mala Noche" heralded an idiosyncratic, provocative new voice in American independent film. Set in Van Sant's hometown of Portland, Oregon, the film evokes a world of transient workers, dead-end day-shifters, and bars and seedy apartments bathed in a profound nighttime, as it follows a romantic deadbeat with a wayward crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant. "Mala Noche" was an important prelude to the New Queer Cinema of the nineties and is a fascinating time capsule from a time and place that continues to haunt its director's work.

"Brando" is the critically-acclaimed 2007 documentary -- originally airing on TCM -- that pieces together decades of Brando's performances with rare, never-before-seen footage and a series of original, in-depth interviews with family members, childhood friends and a host of his Hollywood peers and co-stars; $19.97 from Warner ... "Roots: The Complete Collection" is a 10-disc set with "Roots," "Roots: The Next Generations" and the Christmas movie "Roots: The Gift," housed in a collectible gift box that includes a 44-page four-color commemorative booklet, $119.82 from Warner.

From TV to Video:
"Agatha Christie's Marple, Series 3" (2005-6) is a four-disc set with four feature-length mysteries starring Geraldine McEwan as Agatha Christie's famous sleuth, from Acorn Media ... "Ben 10: Season 2" is a two-disc set with 13 episodes of the Cartoon Network's alien-fighting 10-year-old, $19.98 from Warner ... "CSI: NY: The Third Season," a six-disc set with 24 episodes, $72.99 from Paramount ... "Creature Comforts America," a two-disc set with all seven episodes of the Aardman Animations ("Wallace and Gromit") clay-animated series that features interviews with everyday Americans from across the county placed in the mouths of odd and interesting animals; $29.95 from Sony ... "Everybody Hates Chris: The Second Season," a four-disc set with 22 episodes, $42.99 from Paramount ... "Family Ties: The Second Season" (1983-84), a four-disc set with 23 episodes, $42.99 from Paramount ... "Girlfriends: The Second Season," a three-disc set with 22 episodes, $39.99 from Paramount ... "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" is a 2003 CBS telefilm starring Peter O'Toole, Robert Carlyle, Liev Schrieber, Stockard Channing, Julianna Margulies, Jena Malone, Matthew Modine and Peter Stormare. Two-disc set, $29.98 from Koch Vision ... "Jericho of Scotland Yard -- The Complete Set" is a four-disc collector's edition with all four of the popular Jericho crime mysteries: "A Pair of Ragged Claws," "The Killing of Johnny Swan," "To Murder and Create" and "The Hollow Men." Amidst the social upheaval of post-war 1950s London, Inspector Michael Jericho (Robert Lindsa) unravels headline-grabbing mysteries at Scotland Yard; $49.95 from WGBH Boston Video ... "The Lair: The Complete First Season" is a two-disc set with six episodes from the Gay vampire series, $29.95 from Genius Products, Liberation Entertainment, here! ... "Little Women" is a 1978 two-part NBC miniseries starring Meredith Baxter, Susan Dey, Eve Plumb, Greer Garson and William Shatner, $29.98 from Koch Vision ... "Meerkat Manor" is a two-disc set with 13 episodes of the docu series that used state-of-the-art camera technology above and below ground to track the lives of a group of South African meerkats, $24.95 from Genius Products ... "Robin of Sherwood, Set 2" is a five-disc set with the final 13 episodes of the 1980s British series starring Jason Connery and Ray Winstone, $59.99 from Acorn Media ... "Stargate SG-1: The Complete Series Collector's Edition" is a 54-disc set with all 214 episodes; the last four discs are jammed with bonus material; $329.98 from MGM ... "War and Peace" (1972) is the BBC's 20-episode adaptation of the Tolstoy classic, starring Anthony Hopkins; four-disc set, $49.98 from Koch Vision.

Buzzin' the 'B's:
Due this week: In "Black Sheep" (2006), an experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm, from Dimension Extreme ... "Protecting the King" (2007) stars Matt Barr, Peter Dobson and Tom Sizemore in an autobiographical look back at the turbulent last years of Elvis Presley's life as seen through the eyes of his stepbrother and bodyguard, David Stanley, who wrote and directed the film, from Echo Bridge Home Entertainment ... "Wrong Turn 2: Dead End" (2007) stars Erica Leerhsen, Texas Battle, Daniella Alonso, Crystal Lowe, Aleksa Palladino and Henry Rollins in this unrated direct-to-video sequel, from Fox ... In "Rise: Blood Hunter" (2007), starring Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis, Carla Gugino, James D'Arc and Robert Forster, an investigative reporter partners with a detective to seek revenge on a vampire cult that is taking over Los Angeles, from Sony ... "Hallowed Ground" (2005) is a horror thriller about a young woman stranded in the small town of Hope who discovers that she's part of a 100-year-old rebirth prophecy by the town's founder, who built Hope on hallowed ground and sacrificed sinners to stave off Satan's evil, starring Jaimie Alexander, Brian McNamara and Hudson Leick, from Genius Products ... The "Arabian Nights" tale and "The Thief of Bagdad" are retold and relocated to ancient China in the actioner "Son of the Dragon" (2005), starring David Carradine, Rupert Graves, John Reardon and Desiree Siahaan, from Genius Products.

On the Indie Front:
"Man Push Cart" (2007) is a poignant story about a former Pakistani rock star who ekes out a living in Midtown Manhattan selling coffee and donuts from a push cart, from Koch Lorber ... In "Tara Road" (2005), two women whose lives are in shambles -- one from Dublin, Ireland, the other in Connecticut -- decide to swap houses for two months; stars Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, Stephen Rea, Iain Glen, Jean-Marc Barr and Brenda Fricker, from First Look Home Entertainment ... "Welcome to Paradise" (2007) is a family film about a preacher (Crystal Bernard) sent from the big city to help bring a new vision to a small Western town; also stars Brian Dennehy and Brad Stine, from First Look Home Entertainment ... In "Dead Letter Office" (1998), Alice's girlhood fantasies of finding her father are twisted into a bundle of letters, returned unopened from the postal service's Dead Letter Office. Hoping to learn anything that will locate her dad, Alice takes a job at the Dead Letter Office, supervised by Frank, a gloomy man from Chile hiding from his past. Their paths have crossed for a reason; stars Miranda Otto and George DelHoyo, from BFS Entertainment.

For the Family:
Hold on to your horses: Disney is releasing this week "Hannah Montana: Life's What You Make of It," a compilation of episodes from the Disney Channel series. In case you didn't know, Miley Cyrus (as the singer Hannah Montana on the TV series) is the hottest thing to hit the tween and pre-tween market since Britney and friends; sold-out concerts around the country are making parents nervous wrecks. Here's a chance to get Miley/Hannah on the sly ... "Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board" is a 2007 sequel to Disney's "Johnny Tsunami," from Buena Vista ... "The Reef (aka Shark Bait)" (2006) features the voices of Freddie Prinze Jr., Rob Schneider, Evan Rachel Wood, Donal Logue, Andy Dick, Fran Drescher, John Rhys-Davies and R. Lee Ermey in the animated tale of a young guppy, forced with his family to move to a glossy Reef under the sea, who must rid the Reef of a bullying shark; from The Weinstein Co./Genius Product ... and, lastly, for pre-schoolers there's "The Wiggles: Getting Strong," the first of new Wiggle and Learn! series of educational made-for-video releases, featuring all-new songs that children can dance, sing and learn to; $19.98 from Warner.

Special Interest:
There's music in the air this week: Retroactive Entertainment will release "The Captain & Tennille Specials," three rare television specials featuring performances by Ella Fitzgerald, B.B. King, Fats Domino, Glen Campbell, Kenny Rogers and many more: "Captain & Tennille in New Orleans" (originally broadcast on April 3, 1978), "Captain & Tennille in Hawaii" (originally broadcast on May 5, 1978) and "Captain & Tennille Songbook" (originally broadcast on March 26, 1979); $49.99 the set or $19.99 each ... From MVD Entertainment comes "Bruce Springsteen Under Review: 1978-1982: Tales of the Working Man" and "Nick Drake Under Review," both feature-length music documentaries, $19.95 each.

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THIS WEEK'S DVD RELEASES:

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Agatha Christie's Marple, Series 3 (2005-6) Four-disc set with four feature-length mysteries starring Geraldine McEwan as Agatha Christie's famous sleuth. Extras: Photo gallery, Christie bio, filmographies. (Acorn Media).

Ben 10: Season 2. Two-disc set with 13 episodes of the Cartoon Network's alien-fighting 10-year-old, $19.98. Extras: "How to Draw Heatblast," "Alien Breakdown," commentary on "Ghost Freakout" episode, deleted scenes. (Warner).

Black Sheep (2006) Nathan Meister, Peter Feeney. An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm. Extras: Deleted scenes, blooper reel, featurette, commentary. (Dimension Extreme).

Bruce Springsteen Under Review: 1978-1982: Tales of the Working Man. Feature-length music documentary, $19.95. (MVD Entertainment).

The Captain & Tennille Specials. Three rare television specials featuring performances by Ella Fitzgerald, B.B. King, Fats Domino, Glen Campbell, Kenny Rogers and many more: "Captain & Tennille in New Orleans" (originally broadcast on April 3, 1978), "Captain & Tennille in Hawaii" (originally broadcast on May 5, 1978) and "Captain & Tennille Songbook" (originally broadcast on March 26, 1979); $49.99 the set or $19.99 each. Extras: Commentary by Toni Tennille and Daryl Dragon, photo gallery and original network promos. (Retroactive Entertainment)

Creature Comforts America. Two-disc set with all seven episodes of the Aardman Animations ("Wallace and Gromit") clay-animated series that features interviews with everyday Americans from across the county placed in the mouths of odd and interesting animals; $29.95. Extras: Bonus interviews with favorite creatures, deleted scenes, on-air promos, "Creature Comforts" character comps. (Sony).

CSI: NY: The Third Season. Six-disc set with 24 episodes, $72.99. Extras: Featurettes, commentary, more. (Paramount).

Dead Letter Office (1998) Miranda Otto, George DelHoyo. Alice's girlhood fantasies of finding her father are twisted into a bundle of letters, returned unopened from the postal service's Dead Letter Office. Hoping to learn anything that will locate her dad, Alice takes a job at the Dead Letter Office, supervised by Frank, a gloomy man from Chile hiding from his past. Their paths have crossed for a reason. (BFS Entertainment).

Evan Almighty (2007) Dir.: Tom Shadyac; Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, Johnny Simmons, Graham Phillips, Jimmy Bennett, John Goodman, Wanda Sykes, John Michael Higgins, Jonah Hill, Molly Shannon, Harve Presnell. Extras: Deleted scenes, outtakes, "Animals on Set Two by Two," "Animal Roundup" game, "Steve Carell Unscripted," "The Ark-itects of Noah's Ark" featurette, more. Also available on HD DVD. (Universal).

Everybody Hates Chris: The Second Season. Four-disc set with 22 episodes, $42.99. Extras: Eight featurettes, gag reel. (Paramount).

Every Woman Knows a Secret (1999) Paul Bettany, Siobhan Redmond. Charged with drunk driving in a fiery, fatal car crash, Rob is blamed for the death of Jess's son. Battling the family's hostility, Rob reaches out to Jess for comfort and their shared grief draws them together in a powerful surge of passion. (BFS Entertainment).

Family Ties: The Second Season (1983-84) Four-disc set with 23 episodes, $42.99. Extras: Bonus episodes, making-of documentary, featurettes. (Paramount).

The Film Crew: Giant Of Marathon (2007) Fourth direct-to-DVD cult film skewered with hilarious commentary by the former stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000: 1959's "The Giant of Marathon" starring Steve Reeves. (Shout! Factory).

Girlfriends: The Second Season. Three-disc set with 22 episodes, $39.99. Extras: Three featurettes. (Paramount).

Hallowed Ground (2005) Jaimie Alexander, Brian McNamara, Hudson Leick. Horror thriller about a young woman stranded in the small town of Hope who discovers that she's part of a 100-year-old rebirth prophecy by the town's founder, who built Hope on hallowed ground and sacrificed sinners to stave off Satan's evil. (Genius Products).

Hangover Square (1945) Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders. Extras: Commentary by film historian/screenwriter Steve Haberman and co-star Faye Marlowe, commentary by Richard Schickel, "The Tragic Mask: The Larid Cregar Story," "Hangover Square" vintage radio show performed by Vincent Price, restoration comparison. (Fox).

Hannah Montana: Life's What You Make of It. Compilation of episodes from the Disney Channel series. (Buena Vista).

Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003 -- TV) Peter O'Toole, Robert Carlyle, Liev Schrieber, Stockard Channing, Julianna Margulies, Jena Malone, Matthew Modine, Peter Stormare. CBS, two-disc set, $29.98. (Koch Vision).

Jericho of Scotland Yard -- The Complete Set. Four-disc collector's edition with all four of the popular Jericho crime mysteries: "A Pair of Ragged Claws," "The Killing of Johnny Swan," "To Murder and Create" and "The Hollow Men." Amidst the social upheaval of post-war 1950s London, Inspector Michael Jericho (Robert Lindsa) unravels headline-grabbing mysteries at Scotland Yard; $49.95. (WGBH Boston Video).

Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board (2007 - TV) Brandon Baker, Jake T. Austin, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Robyn Lively, Mary Page Keller. Sequel to Disney's "Johnny Tsunami." (Buena Vista).

The Lair: The Complete First Season.Two-disc set with six episodes from the Gay vampire series, $29.95.Extras: Backlot featurette, bloopers, racy photo gallery. (Genius Products, Liberation Entertainment, here!).

Little Women (1978) Meredith Baxter, Susan Dey, Eve Plumb, Greer Garson, William Shatner; two-part NBC miniseries, $29.98. (Koch Vision).

The Lodger (1944) Laird Cregar, George Sanders, Merle Oberon, Cedric Hardwicke. Extras: Commentary by film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini, "Man in the Fog: The Making of The Lodger," "The Lodger" vintage radio show performed by Vincent Price, restoration comparison. (Fox).

Mala Noche   (1985) Gus Van Sant's debut feature. New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by Van Sant. Extras: New interview with Van Sant; "Walt Curtis, the Peckerneck Poet": a documentary about the author of the book "Mala Noche," directed by animator and friend Bill Plympton; storyboard gallery; original trailer edited by Van Sant; new essay by film critic Dennis Lim. (The Criterion Collection).

Man Push Cart (2007) Ahmad Razvi, Leticia Dolera, Charles Daniel Sandoval, Ali Reza. Poignant story about a former Pakistani rock star who ekes out a living in Midtown Manhattan selling coffee and donuts from a push cart. (Koch Lorber).

Meerkat Manor. Two-disc set with 13 episodes of the docu series that used state-of-the-art camera technology above and below ground to track the lives of a group of South African meerkats, $24.95. (Genius Products).

Nick Drake Under Review. Feature-length music documentary, $19.95. (MVD Entertainment).

Protecting the King (2007) Matt Barr, Peter Dobson, Tom Sizemore. Autobiographical look back at the turbulent last years of Elvis Presley's life as seen through the eyes of his stepbrother and bodyguard, David Stanley, who wrote and directed the film. (Echo Bridge Home Entertainment).

The Reef (aka Shark Bait) (2006) Voices of Freddie Prinze Jr.,Rob Schneider, Evan Rachel Wood, Donal Logue, Andy Dick, Fran Drescher, John Rhys-Davies, R. Lee Ermey. A young guppy forced with his family to move to a glossy Reef under the sea must rid the Reef of a bullying shark. Extras: Commentary by director Howard E. Baker and producer Mark A.Z. Dippe, storyboard gallery. (The Weinstein Co./Genius Products).

Reign Over Me (2007) Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows, Donald Sutherland, Robert Klein, Melinda Dillon. Extras: "Behind The Reign" making-of featurette, extended Jam Session with Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle, photo montage. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Sony).

Rise: Blood Hunter (2007) Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis, Carla Gugino, James D'Arc, Robert Forster. An investigative reporter partners with a detective to seek revenge on a vampire cult that is taking over Los Angeles. Extras: Four storyboard to screen comparisons, four behind-the-scenes mini featurettes. (Sony).

Robin of Sherwood, Set 2.  Five-disc set with the final 13 episodes of the 1980s British series starring Jason Connery and Ray Winstone, $59.99. Extras: Commentaries, two retrospective documentaries, outtakes, behind-the-scenes footage, more. (Acorn Media).

Roots: The Next Generations (1979) Four-disc set of the miniseries, $59.98. (Warner).

Roots: The Complete Collection. Ten-disc set with "Roots," "Roots: The Next Generations" and the Christmas movie "Roots: The Gift," housed in a collectible gift box that includes a 44-page four-color commemorative booklet, $119.82. Extras: "The Struggle to Make Roots" 2007 featurette, "Connecting With the Past" 2007 featurette, vintage interview with Alex Haley by David Frost. (Warner).

Son of the Dragon (2005) David Carradine, Rupert Graves, John Reardon, Desiree Siahaan. The "Arabian Nights" tale and "The Thief of Bagdad" retold and relocated to ancient China. Extras: "Getting Candid with Carridine" interview, "Epic Stories in a Fabled Land: The Making of Son of the Dragon." (Genius Products).

Stargate SG-1: The Complete Series Collector's Edition. Fifty-four disc set with all 214 episodes; last four discs are jammed with bonus material; $329.98. (MGM)

Surf's Up (2007) Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder, James Woods. Extras: "The ChubbChubbs Save XMAS" animated short, "The ChubbChubbs" original Academy Award-winning animated short, "Not a Drop of Real Water" three-part documentary, Lauryn Hill "Lose Myself" music video, "Arnold's Zurfinary" kids-eye view of surf terminology, "Create Your Own Surfboard" game, "Lava Surf" game, "Whale Hopping" game, filmmaker commentary, more. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Sony).

Tara Road (2005) Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, Stephen Rea, Iain Glen, Jean-Marc Barr, Brenda Fricker. Two women whose lives are in shambles -- one from Dublin, Ireland, the other in Connecticut -- decide to swap houses for two months. Extras: Interviews. (First Look Home Entertainment).

28 Weeks Later (2007) Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Imogen Poots, Idris Elba, Mackintosh Muggleton. Extras: Commentary by director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and co-writer Enrique Lopez Lavigne, "Code Red: Making of 28 Weeks Later" featurette, "The Infected Make-Up Effects" featurette, "Getting Into the Action" featurette, "28 Days Later: The Aftermath Flash-Animated Graphic Novel," deleted scenes. (Fox).

The Undying Monster (1942) James Ellison, Heather Angel, John Howard. Extras: "Concertos Macabre: The Films of John Brahm," restoration comparison. (Fox).

War and Peace (1972 -- TV) BBC 20-episode adaptation of the Tolstoy classic, starring Anthony Hopkins; four-disc set, $49.98. (Koch Vision).

Welcome to Paradise (2007) Crystal Bernard, Brian Dennehy, Brad Stine. Family film about a preacher (Crystal Bernard) sent from the big city to help bring a new vision to a small Western town. (First Look Home Entertainment).

The Wiggles: Getting Strong (2005) First of new Wiggle and Learn! series of educational made-for-video releases, featuring all-new songs that children can dance, sing and learn to; $19.98. (Warner).

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007) Erica Leerhsen, Texas Battle, Daniella Alonso, Crystal Lowe, Aleksa Palladino, Henry Rollins. Unrated direct-to-video sequel. Extras: Commentary by director Joe Lynch and actors Erica Leerhsen and Henry Rollins, commentary by writers Turi Meyer and Al Septien, "More Blood, More Guts: The Making of Wrong Turn 2: Dead End" featurette, "Making Gore Look Good" featurette, "On Location With P-Nut." (Fox).

You Kill Me (2007) Dir.: John Dahl; Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoni, Phillip Baker Hall, Luke Wilson, Bill Pullman, Dennis Farina.Extras: Behind the scenes featurette; commentary by director Dahl with writers Markus and McFeely; before/after visual effects comparison. (Genius Products).

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