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ONVIDEO'S WEEKLY GUIDE TO HOME VIDEO RELEASES

For Tuesday, June 23 --  Monday, June 29

Confessions of a Shopaholic
Rebecca Bloomwood is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door -- that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company. Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into a celebrity. But when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control ... and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.Vitals: Director: P.J. Hogan. Stars: Isla Fisher, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, Hugh Dancy, Krysten Ritter, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Lynn Redgrave, Julie Hagerty, Fred Armisen, Robert Stanton, Christine Ebersole, Clea Lewis, Wendie Malick, Stephanie March. 2009, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 112 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $43.997 million, Disney.

Inkheart
Based on the book by Cornelia Funke, "Inkheart" is an adventure tale of imagination that centers on Meggie, a young girl whose father has a secret ability to bring characters from books to life when he reads them aloud. But when a power-hungry villain from a rare children's fable kidnaps Meggie's father to bring others out of the boundaries of fiction, she and a disparate group of friends -- both real and magic -- embark on the kind of adventure she has only read about in books to save him and set things right. Vitals: Director: Iain Softley. Stars: Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett, Rafi Gavron, Sienna Guillory. 2009, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 105 min., Family, Box office gross: $17.281 million, Warner.

Pink Panther 2, The
Steve Martin reprises the role of intrepid-if-bumbling French police detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau. When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen, including the priceless Pink Panther diamond, Chief Inspector Dreyfus (John Cleese) is forced to assign Clouseau to a team of international detectives and experts charged with catching the thief and retrieving the stolen artifacts. Vitals: Director: Harald Zwart. Stars: Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Andy Garcia, John Cleese, Alfred Molina, Molly Sims, Aishwarya Rai, Yuki Matsuzaki, Lily Tomlin. 2009, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 92 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $35.922 million, MGM.

Waltz With Bashir
Based on actual events, "Waltz With Bashir" is a powerful and ground breaking animated feature that follows one man's personal experience with the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. In addition to its Academy Award nomination and Golden Globe win for Best Foreign-Language film, "Waltz With Bashir" was nominated for the Palme D'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and was a 2008 official selection at the New York Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival. Inspired by actual events, "Waltz with Bashir" chronicles one man's descent into his own half-forgotten past. Filmmaker Ari Folman, an Israeli veteran of the First Lebanon War, encounters an old friend suffering from nightmares of the conflict. Ari begins to wonder why his own memories are full of gaps. In an effort to uncover the truth, he reconnects with old friends and dares to confront the horrors of war. Vitals: Director: Ari Folman. 2008, CC, MPAA rating: R, 87 min., Animated, Box office gross: $2.273 million, Sony.


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NEWS

DVD Collectibles:
There's two fascinating releases this week from The Criterion Collection. At the top of the list is Alain Resnais' "Last Year At Marienbad" (1961), starring Giorgio Albertazzi and the gorgeous Delphine Seyrig. Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais' epochal visual poem has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades. A surreal fever dream, or perhaps a nightmare, "Last Year at Marienbad" (L'annee derniere a Marienbad), written by the radical master of the New Novel, Alain Robbe-Grillet, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-bedecked chateau they now find themselves wandering. Unforgettable in both its confounding details (gilded ceilings, diabolical parlor games, a loaded gun) and haunting scope, Resnais' investigation into the nature of memory is disturbing, romantic, and maybe even a ghost story. In a new, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by Resnais. Extras include an audio interview with Resnais; a new documentary on the making of "Last Year at Marienbad," featuring interviews with many of Resnais' collaborators; new video interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau on the history of the film and its many mysteries; two short documentaries by Resnais: "Toute la memoire du monde" (1956) and "Le chant du styrene" (1958); and a booklet featuring essays by critic Mark Polizzotti and film scholar Francois Thomas, and Alain Robbe-Grillet's introduction to the published screenplay and comments on the film.

Next up is Louis Malle's captivating and philosophical "My Dinner With Andre" (1981), in which actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with friend and theater director Andre Gregory at a Manhattan restaurant, and the two proceed into an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional on love, death, money, and all the superstition in between. In a new, restored high-definition digital transfer. Extras include new video interviews with Gregory and Shawn by filmmaker and friend Noah Baumbach; "My Dinner with Louis," an episode from the BBC program "Arena," in which Shawn interviews director Louis Malle; a booklet featuring an essay by critic Amy Taubin and the prefaces written for the printed screenplay by Gregory and Shawn.

Cinema in the 1980s saw a new wave of French auteurs explode onto the scene, redefining modernity in film. With "Diva" (1982) and "Betty Blu" (1986), director Jean-Jacques Beineix created two of the most provocative films of the era that were dark, memorable, filled with voluptuous imagery and generous dollops of sex and/or violence. Both films were international hits. In the 90s, Beineix turned towards more socially conscious subjects, directing two documentaries as well as taking up the paintbrush. He returned to feature filmmaking in 1992 with "IP5: The Island of the Pachyderms," which was the last film for renowned actor Yves Montand. This summer, film lovers nationwide will get the chance to view Beineix's work in theaters and on DVD, with several titles released for the first time in the U.S. in "The Jean-Jacques Beineix Collection. The first release is the heart-wrenching documentary "Locked in Syndrome" (1997) about editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who was paralyzed by a stroke in 1995 and learned how to communicate by blinking his left eye as he dictated his memoir (The story was made into 2007's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" by Julian Schnabel). Extras: Two Beineix shorts: "Otaku" and "Mr. Michel's Dog." (Cinema Libre Studio).  For more information, see  "The Return of Jean-Jacques Beineix."  

From TV to Video:
Due this week: "Girls Next Door Season Five" (2008-09), a three-disc set with 15 episodes, $29.98 from Fox.

Buzzin' the 'B's:
Stay out of the woods this week: Maniacal lunatics threaten a group of office workers on a survival/paint-ball company retreat in the wilderness in "Backwoods" (2008), starring Haylie Duff, Ryan Merriman, Danny Nucci and Jonathan Chase; from RHI Entertainment/Genius Products ... A spring break camping trip turns into a splatterfest when five teens meet up with homicidal twins who knock them off one by one in "Simon Says" (2006), starring Blake Lively, Crispin Glover and Margo Harshman; from Barnholtz Entertainment/Lionsgate ... In "War Wolves" (2009), starring John Saxon, Michael Worth, Tim Thomerson, Adrienne Barbeau and Natasha Alam, a special-forces unit returns to the United States from the Middle East to hunt down a soldier who has been infected with a werewolf virus. Little do they know that three of the female soldiers serving in the unit have also been infected and have already transformed into she-wolves. The she-wolf forces of evil and the special op forces of good are pitted against each other in a race to save humankind from turning into wolves. From Monarch Home Video ... A nurse finds herself embroiled in a tense and potentially deadly family affair when she falls for the son of her ruthless new husband in "Love, Murder and Deceit (AKA My Stepson, My Lover)" (1997), starring Rachel Ward, Joshua Morrow and Terry O'Quinn; from Vanguard Cinema.

On the Indie Front:
In 2001 unemployed actor Garth Petridis was imprisoned for one of the most unusual crimes in Australian history: Desperate for success he kidnapped members of the public and forced them to perform in a bizarre movie intended to make "Garth" a household name. "The Garth Method" (2004), starring Gregory Pakis, is his story; from Vanguard Cinema ... In "He's On My Mind" (2009), starring Sherial Mckinney, an elementary school teacher falls in love and gets married only to find out that her husband's a bigamist. Devastated, she vows to figure out "Why Men Do What They Do", and is spontaneously imbued with the ability to intercept men's thoughts; from Vanguard Cinema ... "Phoebe in Wonderland" (2008), starring Felicity Huffman, Elle Fanning, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Pullman and Campbell Scot, is a heartfelt, fantastical story about a troubled, imaginative girl (Elle Fanning) devoted to "Alice in Wonderland." Phoebe longs to be in the school production of "Alice in Wonderland" and after her peculiar drama teacher (Patricia Clarkson) casts her, Phoebe struggles to control her behavior, but begins retreating to an imaginary fantasy world peopled by characters from "Alice"; from Image Entertainment ... "Bob Funk/Font> (2009), starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Grace Zabriskie, Amy Ryan, Eddie Jemison, Stephen Root, Michael Leydon Campbell, Lucy Davis and Khleo Thomas, is in a major funk. He's outspoken and crass, has serious family issues, heavy baggage from a bitter divorce, seemingly no professional ambitions, and uses alcohol to help the cause. He works for his disapproving mother Mrs. Funk (Grace Zabriskie) at the family business "Funk Foam and Futon," Bob's life takes a turn however, when the attractive, yet charmingly clumsy, young executive Miss Thorne (Rachael Leigh Cook) joins the family-run futon business and becomes the object of his affection. And then mom fires him. From Magnolia Home Entertainment. 

Foreign:
"Alice's House" (2007 -- Brazil), starring Carla Ribas, Berta Zemel and Vinicius Zinn, is an intimate look into the life of Alice, a working class, middle-aged woman living amongst a sexually-charged household of adolescent boys and a cheating husband. Alice has a chance meeting with an old flame and is forced to re-examine her life and address her romantic dreams. Feeling her youth and sexuality slipping away, she flirts with a rapturous affair to escape her repressive family life and avoid the fate of her aging mother, who drags out her remaining years as the house-maid. From IndiePix.

For the Family:
In "Mr. Troop Mom" (2009), George Lopez stars as a widower trying to be both dad and mom for his 9-year-old daughter. Desperate to connect with her, he volunteers to chaperone her troop at the Go Girls Jamboree at Running Pines Camp -- unaware he'll be the only guy in a world of girls; from Warner ... "Tom & Jerry; The Chuck Jones Collection" is a two-disc set with all 34 shorts produced by Chuck Jones, remastered; $26.99 from Warner.

Special Interest:
"Our City Dreams" (2008) is a lyrical documentary about the intersection of location and imagination. Filmmaker Chiara Clemente shines a light on five women artists whose inspiration is fueled by living in the "cauldron of creativity" -- New York City. Although these artists are at different stages of life and have diverse cultural backgrounds, distinctive passion, character, motivation and style, they all have one thing in common: the city that they now call home and find inspiration within. The artists: Nancy Spero, Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer and Swoon. $24.95 from First Run Features ... "FEMA City" (2007) is a documentary on the trailer park city set up in Charlotte County, Florida after Hurricane Charley destroyed buildings and homes. Nearly 1,500 people moved into the more than 1,000 trailers and it took on the nickname FEMA City. $19.95 from Vanguard Cinema ... The Bible is both a religious and historical work, but how much is myth and how much is history? "The Bible Unearthed" (2006) is an investigation into the origins of the Bible visits archaeological digs in Egypt, Jordan and Israel –- including Megiddo, the cradle of biblical archaeology. Rare archival footage, ancient maps, biblical illustrations and computer simulations are put into context by world-famous archaeologists and biblical scholars, including experts from the Louvre, the museums of Cairo and Jerusalem, and the British Museum. $29.95 from First Run Features ...The Koran is one of the most ideologically influential texts in the world, with over a billion Muslims following its precepts. Yet within this singular religious community there are profound differences in attitudes about peace, violence, punishment, forgiveness, and the status of women. "Inside The Koran" (2008) goes deep into the heart of the Muslim world to explore the history and current state of Islam. $24.95 from First Run Features.

"Gladiator," "Braveheart," "Gump" Part of New Paramount Blu-ray Jewell Collection
Paramount Home Entertainment announced today that it will release some of the studio's highest grossing contemporary films for the first time in high definition as part of an exclusive new "Sapphire Series." According to the studio, the Sapphire Series will capitalize on the Blu-ray format "to present each cinematic gem in the highest quality for the first time in two-disc, high definition sets." The series will kick off September 1 with "Braveheart" and "Gladiator" ­followed on November 3 with "Forrest Gump." Each release will include extensive, never-before-seen special features for the ultimate presentation. bonus features for "Braveheart" include interactive timelines, a retrospective feature, a featurette on the "Smithfield Medieval Killing Fields," and "Battlefields of the Scottish Rebellion. ­Extras on "Gladiator," which will be presented in theatrical and extended versions, include commentary, trivia tracks, "Visions From Elysium: Topic Marker" that allows viewers to tag moments of interest throughout either version of the film, allowing them to create "shopping lists" of topics to learn more about when they insert the second features disc, making-of specials, and more. Celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2009, "Forrest Gump" will feature new material including a roundtable discussion. More details will follow later in the year.

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THIS WEEK'S DVD RELEASES:

Alice's House (2007 -- Brazil) Carla Ribas, Berta Zemel, Vinicius Zinn. Intimate look into the life of Alice, a working class, middle-aged woman living amongst a sexually-charged household of adolescent boys and a cheating husband. Alice has a chance meeting with an old flame and is forced to re-examine her life and address her romantic dreams. Feeling her youth and sexuality slipping away, she flirts with a rapturous affair to escape her repressive family life and avoid the fate of her aging mother, who drags out her remaining years as the house-maid. Extras: Interviews with actress Carla Ribas, director Chico Teixeira and the producers; behind-the-scenes footage. (IndiePix).

Backwoods (2008) Haylie Duff, Ryan Merriman, Danny Nucci, Jonathan Chase. Maniacal lunatics threaten a group of office workers on a survival/paint-ball company retreat in the wilderness. (RHI Entertainment/Genius Products).

The Bible Unearthed (2006) The Bible is both a religious and historical work, but how much is myth and how much is history? This investigation into the origins of the Bible visits archaeological digs in Egypt, Jordan and Israel –- including Megiddo, the cradle of biblical archaeology. Rare archival footage, ancient maps, biblical illustrations and computer simulations are put into context by world-famous archaeologists and biblical scholars, including experts from the Louvre, the museums of Cairo and Jerusalem, and the British Museum. $29.95. (First Run Features).

Bob Funk (2009) Rachael Leigh Cook, Grace Zabriskie, Amy Ryan, Eddie Jemison, Stephen Root, Michael Leydon Campbell, Lucy Davis, Khleo Thomas. Bob Funk (Michael Leydon Campbell) is in a major funk. He's outspoken and crass, has serious family issues, heavy baggage from a bitter divorce, seemingly no professional ambitions, and uses alcohol to help the cause. He works for his disapproving mother Mrs. Funk (Grace Zabriskie) at the family business "Funk Foam and Futon," Bob's life takes a turn however, when the attractive, yet charmingly clumsy, young executive Miss Thorne (Rachael Leigh Cook) joins the family-run futon business and becomes the object of his affection. And then mom fires him. (Magnolia Home Entertainment).

Catlow (1971) Dir.: Sam Wanamaker; Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, Leonard Nimoy, Daliah Lavi, Jo Ann Pflug, Jeff Corey. (Warner).

Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) Isla Fisher, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, Hugh Dancy, Krysten Ritter, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Lynn Redgrave, Julie Hagerty, Fred Armisen, Robert Stanton, Christine Ebersole, Clea Lewis, Wendie Malick, Stephanie March. Available in single-disc DVD, two-disc DVD and Blu-ray editions. Extras: Bloopers, deleted scenes, music video, digital copy. (Disney).

FEMA City (2007) Documentary on the trailer park city set up in Charlotte County, Florida after Hurricane Charley destroyed buildings and homes. Nearly 1,500 people moved into the more than 1,000 trailers and it took on the nickname FEMA City. $19.95. (Vanguard Cinema).

The Garth Method (2004) Gregory Pakis. In 2001 unemployed actor Garth Petridis was imprisoned for one of the most unusual crimes in Australian history: Desperate for success he kidnapped members of the public and forced them to perform in a bizarre movie intended to make "Garth" a household name. This is his story. (Vanguard Cinema).

Girls Next Door Season Five (2008-09) Three-disc set with 15 episodes, $29.98. (Fox).

He's On My Mind (2009) Sherial Mckinney. An elementary school teacher falls in love and gets married only to find out that her husband's a bigamist. Devastated, she vows to figure out "Why Men Do What They Do", and is spontaneously imbued with the ability to intercept men's thoughts. (Vanguard Cinema).

Inkheart (2009) Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett, Rafi Gavron, Sienna Guillory. Combo release with both standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Extras: DVD: "Eliza Reads to Us" in which Eliza Bennett shares one of her favorite passages from the book that didn't end up in the film; Blu-ray adds "A Story From the Cast and Crew" game, "From Imagination to the Page: How Writers Write" featurette, additional scenes, BD-Live, digital copy. (Warner).

Inside The Koran (2008) The Koran is one of the most ideologically influential texts in the world, with over a billion Muslims following its precepts. Yet within this singular religious community there are profound differences in attitudes about peace, violence, punishment, forgiveness, and the status of women. This eye-opening film goes deep into the heart of the Muslim world to explore the history and current state of Islam. $24.95. (First Run Features).

The Jean-Jacques Beineix Collection: Locked in Syndrome (1997) Cinema in the 1980s saw a new wave of French auteurs explode onto the scene, redefining modernity in film. With "Diva" (1982) and "Betty Blu" (1986), director Jean-Jacques Beineix created two of the most provocative films of the era that were dark, memorable, filled with voluptuous imagery and generous dollops of sex and/or violence. Both films were international hits. In the 90s, Beineix turned towards more socially conscious subjects, directing two documentaries as well as taking up the paintbrush. He returned to feature filmmaking in 1992 with "IP5: The Island of the Pachyderms," which was the last film for renowned actor Yves Montand. This summer, film lovers nationwide will get the chance to view Beineix's work in theaters and on DVD, with several titles released for the first time in the U.S. The first release is the heart-wrenching documentary "Locked in Syndrome," about editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who was paralyzed by a stroke in 1995 and learned how to communicate by blinking his left eye as he dictated his memoir (The story was made into 2007's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" by Julian Schnabel). Extras: Two Beineix shorts: "Otaku" and "Mr. Michel's Dog." (Cinema Libre Studio). 

Last Year At Marienbad (1961) Dir.: Alain Resnais; Giorgio Albertazzi, Delphine Seyrig. Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais' epochal visual poem has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades. A surreal fever dream, or perhaps a nightmare, "Last Year at Marienbad" (L'année dernière à Marienbad), written by the radical master of the New Novel, Alain Robbe-Grillet, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-bedecked chateau they now find themselves wandering. Unforgettable in both its confounding details (gilded ceilings, diabolical parlor games, a loaded gun) and haunting scope, Resnais' investigation into the nature of memory is disturbing, romantic, and maybe even a ghost story. New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by Resnais. Extras: Audio interview with Resnais; new documentary on the making of "Last Year at Marienbad," featuring interviews with many of Resnais' collaborators; new video interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau on the history of the film and its many mysteries; two short documentaries by Resnais: "Toute la memoire du monde" (1956) and "Le chant du styrene" (1958); booklet featuring essays by critic Mark Polizzotti and film scholar François Thomas, and Alain Robbe-Grillet's introduction to the published screenplay and comments on the film. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (The Criterion Collection).

Love, Murder and Deceit (AKA My Stepson, My Lover) (1997) Rachel Ward, Joshua Morrow, Terry O'Quinn. A nurse finds herself embroiled in a tense and potentially deadly family affair when she falls for the son of her ruthless new husband. (Vanguard Cinema).

Mr. Troop Mom (2009) George Lopez, Daniela Bobadilla, Jane Lynch, Julia Anderson, Elizabeth Thai. George Lopez stars as a widower trying to be both dad and mom for his 9-year-old daughter. Desperate to connect with her, he volunteers to chaperone her troop at the Go Girls Jamboree at Running Pines Camp -- unaware he'll be the only guy in a world of girls. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Warner).

My Dinner With Andre (1981) Dir.: Louis Malle; Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory. In Louis Malle's captivating and philosophical "My Dinner with Andre," actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with friend and theater director Andre Gregory at a Manhattan restaurant, and the two proceed into an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional on love, death, money, and all the superstition in between. New, restored high-definition digital transfer. Extras: New video interviews with Gregory and Shawn by filmmaker and friend Noah Baumbach; "My Dinner with Louis," an episode from the BBC program "Arena," in which Shawn interviews director Louis Malle; booklet featuring an essay by critic Amy Taubin and the prefaces written for the printed screenplay by Gregory and Shawn. (The Criterion Collection).

Our City Dreams (2008) Lyrical documentary about the intersection of location and imagination. Filmmaker Chiara Clemente shines a light on five women artists whose inspiration is fueled by living in the "cauldron of creativity" -- New York City. Although these artists are at different stages of life and have diverse cultural backgrounds, distinctive passion, character, motivation and style, they all have one thing in common: the city that they now call home and find inspiration within. The artists: Nancy Spero, Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer and Swoon. $24.95. (First Run Features).

Phoebe in Wonderland (2008) Felicity Huffman, Elle Fanning, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Pullman, Campbell Scot. Heartfelt, fantastical story of a troubled, imaginative girl (Elle Fanning) devoted to "Alice in Wonderland" explores the agonies of growing up as an outsider and the complexities of parenting. Phoebe longs to be in the school production of "Alice in Wonderland" and after her peculiar drama teacher (Patricia Clarkson) casts her, Phoebe struggles to control her behavior. But as Phoebe's stress mounts, her behavior grows worse, creating intense pressure on her parents (Felicity Huffman and Bill Pullman), especially when Phoebe begins retreating to an imaginary fantasy world peopled by characters from "Alice." (Image Entertainment).

The Pink Panther 2 (2009) Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Andy Garcia, John Cleese, Alfred Molina, Molly Sims, Aishwarya Rai, Yuki Matsuzaki. Available as a three-disc Blu-ray set and two-disc standard DVD set. Standard extras: 27 Pink Panther cartoons; Blu-ray extras: Gag reel, three featurettes, digital copy, 27 Pink Panther cartoons. (MGM)

Simon Says (2006) Blake Lively, Crispin Glover, Margo Harshman. A spring break camping trip turns into a splatterfest when five teens meet up with homicidal twins who knock them off one by one. (Barnholtz Entertainment/Lionsgate).

Tom & Jerry; The Chuck Jones Collection. Two-disc set with all 34 shorts produced by Chuck Jones, remastered; $26.99. (Warner). 

Waltz With Bashir (2008) Animated film that follows one man's personal experience with the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Extras: Making-of featurette, "Animatics: Building the Scenes," Q & A with director Ari Folman, commentary. Also available on Blu-ray Disc. (Sony).

War Wolves(2009) John Saxon, Michael Worth, Tim Thomerson, Adrienne Barbeau, Natasha Alam. A special-forces unit returns to the United States from the Middle East to hunt down a soldier who has been infected with a werewolf virus. Little do they know that three of the female soldiers serving in the unit have also been infected and have already transformed into she-wolves. The she-wolf forces of evil and the special op forces of good are pitted against each other in a race to save humankind from turning into wolves. (Monarch Home Video).

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