Taken : DVD released on May 12, 2009

What can an agile but ordinary action movie gets a surprising emotional weight of the presence of Liam Neeson as the hero. Bryan Mills (Neeson) has his career as a spy for a relationship with his estranged teenage daughter - but then, on a trip to Paris, she is kidnapped by slavers, Mills used all his connections and skills to the city lights down and rescue her. As most of the films of writer / producer Luc Besson has a hand in (such as La Femme Nikita, The Transporter, Unleashed, and many other French action films), which drips with gruesome violence (a bit watered down to PG -- 13 rating, but there is still enough of), deranged sentimentality and stereotypes of all kinds. But this does not stop his films effective kick-runs, and taken, is no exception. Account pays just enough attention to the illusion of the procedure - which seems Mills knows the correct steps to trace his daughter - that movie gay seduces your suspension of disbelief, despite many plot holes and scenes in which Mills does not get scratched despite bullets fly in all directions or pretends to be, despite a French policeman not speak French or even adopting a French accent. What keeps it all together, Neeson and his gravitas and emotional availability of his character - the usual fantasy action impossible competence and righteous anger - some of the real and relatable.

• Actors: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, French, Spanish
• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating:
• Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: May 12, 2009
• Run Time: 93 minutes

True Blood complete 1st season DVD : released on 5/19/09

TRUE BLOOD chronicles the backwoods Louisiana town of Bon Temps ... where vampires have emerged from the coffin, and no longer need humans for their fix. Sookie Stack House (Anna Paquin, Golden Globe (R)-winner for the "True Blood", Academy Award ® winner for "The Piano") works as a waitress in rural bar Merlot's. While outside a typical young woman, she remains a dangerous secret: she has the ability to monitor the thoughts of others. Her situation is further complicated when the bar gets its first vampire patron - 173-year-old Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer, "Quills") - and the two outsiders are immediately drawn to. Providing the best of what public have come to expect of the Creator and Executive Producer Alan Ball (writer of Oscar ®-winning Best Picture "American Beauty", creator of the Emmy ® Award ®-winning HBO series "Six Feet Under" ), TRUE Blood is a dark and sexy story that courage in the heart - and neck - the Deep South.

• Actors: Anna Paquin
• Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 5
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: HBO Home Video
• DVD Release Date: May 19, 2009
• Run Time: 720 minutes

Boston Legal Season 5 : DVD released on May 5, 09

Not really much to say - this kind of intelligent humor and character development will be sorely missed.

• Actors: James Spader, John Larroquette, Christian Clemenson, Tara Summers, Candice Bergen
• Directors: Bill D'Elia, James R. Bagdonas, Michael Lohmann, Mike Listo, Robert Yannetti
• Writers: Amanda Johns, Corinne Brinkerhoff
• Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Rating:
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: May 5, 2009
• Run Time: 607 minutes

Little Dorrit : DVD released on April 28, 2009

Shameful secrets, strangling bureaucracy and crippling debts collide in the imperative BBC / Masterpiece Classic adaptation of Charles Dickens' major novels, which debuted in serial form in 1855. Mrs Clennam (Judy Parfitt), a shut-in, start the complex story in action when she hires 21-year-old seamstress Amy Dorrit (newcomer Claire Foy, a warm and sympathetic presence) several days before her son, Arthur (Matthew Macfadyen, Pride & Prejudice) returns to London after 15 years at sea. Amy lives with her proud father, William (a heart-rending Tom Courtenay), in the Marshalsea, the debtor's prison, where Dickens' own father did time. Despite his mother's denials, Arthur is convinced that a relationship between the Clennams and Dorrit, so he tries to solve the mystery on his own with the help of sniveling rent collector Pancks (Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky) and obstruction of surly servant Flintwinch (Alun Armstrong, New Tricks) and the aptly named verbiage Office.

Last filmed in 1988, Little Dorrit offers material - about greedy lenders and investors enthusiastic - ripe for reinterpretation. If the series does not exceed Bleak House, a high-water mark in Dickens adaptations, screenwriter Andrew Davies, the author still proud despite a sketchy subplot about a miserable girl and her mysterious protector. But some things never change and Dickens presents extensive scene steal opportunities, which Amanda Redman as a chilly social lite, Pam Ferris as a shallow nanny, Russell Tovey as lovesick admirer, and Andy Serkis as a Gallic psychopath - are creep iest character since Gollum - fully potential. The Featurette, cast and crew a perceptive look at the making of this timely drama.

• Actors: Claire Foy, Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Courtenay, Alun Armstrong
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: BBC Warner
• DVD Release Date: April 28, 2009
• Run Time: 452 minutes

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button : DVD released on May 5, 09

The technical dazzle of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a truly amazing to behold, this story of a man who ages backwards requires Brad Pitt to begin life as a small old man, then blossom in middle age, and finally , point to become young. The director David Fincher - with make-up artists, special effects wizards, and body doubles - reached one of the main sources of fascination roles in the beginning of the film. The premise is loosely borrowed from a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald (and bears a stronger resemblance to Andrew Sean Greer's novel The confessions of Max Tivoli), with the young / old Benjamin growing up in New Orleans, the girl of his dreams (Cate Blanchett), and sharing a few years its delightful to their different aging agenda send them in opposite directions. The love story of the second half of the image, such as Eric Roth's script begins to resemble his work on Forrest Gump. This is unfortunate, because Benjamin's early life is a wonderful picaresque novel journey, including a series of midnight liaisons with a Russian woman (Tilda Swinton) in a cozy hotel. Fincher notes, all with an entomologist eyes, cool and tough, that the material from all gooey. Still, Hurricane Katrina framing story feels put-on, and the late Benjamin slide film scenes during the later stages - curious indeed.

Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Julia Ormond, Tilda Swinton, Tom Everett
Directors: David Fincher
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Number of discs: 2
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Criterion
DVD Release Date: May 5, 2009
Run Time: 165 minutes

Lost in Austen : DVD released on April 14, 2009

Amanda Price is sick of the modern world. She yearns for the romance and elegance found in the books of her favorite author Jane Austen. But they have to get a rude awakening when one fateful evening, she is in the plan propelled the 19th century world of Pride and Prejudice, while the book by Elizabeth Bennet is hurled at her. As the book familiar plot unfolds, Amanda triggers new romantic curves within the Bennet family circle as they clumsily try to help the sisters NAB spouses and even jump the provocative Mr. Darcy himself. But what about Elizabeth ... and what will be one of the world's largest liefdesverhalen?

• Actors: Jemima Rooper, Elliot Cowan, Hugh Bonneville, Florence Hoath, Alex Kingston
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: April 14, 2009
• Run Time: 180 minutes

Caprica DVD : released on April 21, 2009

An amazing breakthrough form on the planet Caprica. The rapidly evolving field of human conflict and mechanical engineering, along with the fate of two families. Joined by the tragedy in one explosive moment of terror, two rival clans led by powerful patriarchs, Joseph Adama (Esai Morales) and Daniel Greystone (Eric Stoltz) duel in an era of questionable ethics, corporate machinations and unbridled personal ambition as the last war for humanity looms. The most recent phenomenon of the executive producers of Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D. Moore and David Eicke), in a time of more than 50 years earlier, Caprica is absolutely its own world - challenging, exciting and surprisingly relevant to our own.

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Michelle Andrew, Roger R. Cross, Magda Apanowicz, Genevieve Buechner
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: Unrated
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: April 21, 2009
Run Time: 93 minutes

The Wrestler : DVD released on April 21, 2009

The mystery of Mickey Rourke's career is a grungy apotheosis in The Wrestler the much-battered actor's triumphant return to the top rope. He plays Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a heavily battered and medicinal Battler the past twenty years his best moment in the ring. But he remains on schleps every second rate fight card he can learn, hands the paycheck (more likely a handful of cash) and what is nursing his pride. His attempts to adapt to a more normal form of life is the most absorbing parts in the film, though it is flirting with a stripper (Marisa Tomei is in good shape, in every sense of the word), establishing a link understandably angry with his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood), or work behind the counter on a delicate matter inconspicuous Megastore. Rourk is commander of the role he obviously spent hours in the gym and tanning salon, and are easy with the semi-documentary style by director Darren Aronofsky leaves him naturalistically interact with colorful real-life wrestlers who crowd the film ultra---credible sites. All that helps distract from the movie in general compliance with the old formula. You might find yourself waiting for the scene where the risk-taking Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream) pulls the switch and reveals his true motives for the pursuit of otherwise sentimental story, but there is no switch. The Wrestler is an old-fashioned grit Hoke machine given by an actor who does not seem to really carry out the role of a survivor on the hit.

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Fox Searchlight
DVD Release Date: April 21, 2009
Run Time: 111 minutes