Once an Eagle : DVD released on August 31, 2010

Once An Eagle is the epic story of America in 20th Century, told by the lives of two soldiers, spanning the tumultuous years from WWI to the Vietnam war. Based on the best-selling novel by Anton Myrer, Once An Eagle is one of the most acclaimed mini-series of all time, Sam Elliott takes on the role of Sam Damon, a courageous and compassionate man who finds his caling leading his men in war and in peacetime. Cliff Potts, on the other hand, plays Courtney Massengale, a ruthless achiever who will let nothing stand in his way to the top. The eve of America's entry into WWI finds the men friends, but as events unfold, the vast difference in their personalities leads to a face-off in a life and death struggle of good versus evil.

• Actors: Sam Elliott, Glenn Ford, Amy Irving, Cliff Potts, James Cromwell
• Directors: Richard Michaels;E. W. Swackhamer
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Timeless Media Group
• DVD Release Date: August 31, 2010
• Run Time: 520 minutes

Robinhood : DVD released on September 21, 2010

Ridley Scott's Robin Hood actor is decidedly earthier and more adult than most raging in Sherwood Forest. The presence of the over-40 Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett harness the business, loans with a dose of worldliness, a project that can about the origins of the famous character who was obviously in this incarnation will be a late bloomer. Robin Longstride (that bore his name before he started a hood) just returned from a 10-year trip back in the Crusades, when he loses his king (Danny Huston as Richard the Lionheart) and his job. Back in England, Robin folds neatly into a family of Nottingham, where a grieving widow named Marion (Blanchett) and her father-in-law take care of (Max von Sydow) is hardly that he did not much like their own deceased warrior. But the funny men and their famous sideline will have to wait with the exception of a somewhat rob from the rich (ie, give the greedy government of King John) and the poor, this film is more with creating a portrait of the royal intrigue involved, in the creation of Robin Hood than in detailing the exuberance of Nottingham outlaws went. And that's not a bad thing, for though Robin Hood lack the mechanical action beats, differ most films of its size, it creates outlines a compelling story about his political chess game (by screenwriter Brian Helgeland and apparently a few others). Crowe is in reliable crusty-tender form and Blanchett charge more than her sketchy character probably deserves, but the film has a large cast of tough, fun Starring: Mark Strong (Kick-Ass) is mandatory as the villain the treacherous friend of John King (brushing Oscar Isaac), William Hurt as a brave and wise king's power brokers, Eileen Atkins is a deliberate royal mother, and Matthew Macfadyen is a Sheriff of Nottingham, is no longer the center of infamy - if not less for his inability hissable (and a likely candidate to end the film for the No. 1 villain in the sequel). In short, not a gladiator re-do for Scott and Crowe, but a civilized history of tyrants and rebels, staged in a pleasantly old-fashioned way.

• Actors: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett
• Directors: Ridley Scott
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Universal Pictures
• DVD Release Date: September 21, 2010
• Run Time: 140 minutes

Special Features

Disc 2

Digital Copy of Robin Hood Director's Cut (expires 09/30/2011)

Deleted Scenes with Introduction & Commentary by Editor Pietro Scalia

Rise and Rise Again: Making Ridley Scott's Robin Hood

The Art of Nottingham

Marketing Archive

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time : Blu-Ray & DVD released on 9/14/2010

Jake Gyllenhaal's doe eyes and bulging biceps will make some hearts flutter in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Dastan (Gyllenhaal), adopted prince of the Persian empire, must flee into the desert when accused of murdering his royal father--but a glass-handled dagger he found as loot from a captured city turns out to hold powerful time-manipulating magic. Not only is he pursued by his vengeful brothers, his scheming uncle (Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast), and a strange cabal of assassins, but a princess/priestess named Tamina (Gemma Arterton, Quantum of Solace) wants the dagger back and will kill Dastan if she has to. Prince of Persia wants to be a rollicking adventure along the lines of Pirates of the Caribbean. Unfortunately, it's hampered by clumsy dialogue and hard-to-follow action sequences, with choppy editing that wrecks the flow of the parkour-inspired stunts. But the production design is extravagant and every time Alfred Molina (Spiderman 2) appears as a greedy sheik the movie gets a delightful jolt of energy. Gyllenhaal doesn't have much to work with--Dastan is a fairly generic hero--and whoever designed his hair should have been fired on the first day, but his lazy charm comes through and carries him through the movie.

• Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Steve Toussaint
• Directors: Mike Newell
• Writers: Boaz Yakin, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Jordan Mechner
• Producers: Chad Oman, Eric McLeod, Jerry Bruckheimer
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Walt Disney Video
• DVD Release Date: September 14, 2010
• Run Time: 116 minutes

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The Back-Up Plan : DVD released on August 24, 2010

Jennifer Lopez and Alex O'Loughlin are perfect pitch film in the romantic comedy The back-up plan - a film as easily as the foam on a root beer float's, which, however, manages to be both romantic and very funny . Lopez, who after a long absence from the screen is a pleasure to watch - a perfect (and underrated) comedian, savings can and sparks with the best of their peers, and better than most. Lopez's chemistry with the dreamy O'Loughlin will engage the audience completely. Lopez plays Zoe, an intelligent woman whose dating life was dismal - and who decides ultimately become a single mother, so that they at least reach the motherhood she always desired. As fate would have it, she meets Mr. Perfect (Mr. or Close To It), O'Loughlin's Stan, on the same day she visited the clinic and is pregnant with twins. The early stages of their courtship include Zoe's increasingly desperate measures to hide her growing belly. In time, she confesses her condition Stan is thrilled - but roiling with hormones on both sides, and get the reality about the birth approaches, both Zoe and Stan cold feet. If the action of the back-up plan is a bit predictable, hold the power of both Lopez and flinty O'Loughlin involved the viewer entirely. Actor Eric Christian Olsen, as Zoe's best guy PAL, and the beautiful and funny Michaela Watkins (The New Adventures of Old Christine) turn in terrific performances, too, and cameos by veterans, including Albert Klein (as Zoe's hyperenthusiastic doctor), Tom Bosley Linda Lavin and round out the excellent ensemble of actors. The back-up plan also provides a binding soundtrack with a danceable tune of Lopez, "What Is Love?" and unforgettable songs by Colbie Caillat, India.Arie, and more. The back-up plan shows that love does not always go according to plan - OK, it never does - but it's worth the trip, but ultimately it is the heart.

• Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Alex O'Loughlin, Michaela Watkins, Eric Christian Olsen, Noureen DeWulf
• Directors: Alan Poul
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Sony
• DVD Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Run Time: 106 minutes

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The Last Song : DVD released on August 17, 2010

This romantic tearjerker by the writer Nicholas Sparks (Dear John, The Notebook) can sometimes formulaic, but it remains interesting thanks to pace and snappy dialogue. Miley Cyrus'm sulking by The Last Song Teen Ronnie, who is her father (Greg Kinnear) angry divorce for Mom (Kelly Preston) and leave the family. A piano prodigy, refuses to Ronnie, after her father leaves the game, and they snubbed the admission to Julliard. Ronnie and her wisecracking brother Jonah (Bobby Coleman will be sent) to spend the summer with her father in a small beach town Georgia. Handsome townie want (Liam Hemsworth) strikes up a tense relationship with Ronnie, and true romance formula, they fall in love. Ronnie softened their stance and the ice between father and daughter begins to melt. But Dad has a tragic secret, and at the end, Ronnie's help to open their hearts and to heal. Cyrus is a predictable performance as the all-attitude Ronnie, but she is helped along by cute-little-brother shtick Coleman's (may be a little clumsy, but the boy is a scene-stealer). Veteran actors Kinnear and Preston are one-dimensional, but The Last Song is a harmless teen romance - who's watching the adults at all?

• Actors: Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, Greg Kinnear, Bobby Coleman, Hallock Beals
• Directors: Julie Anne Robinson
• Writers: Jeff Van Wie, Nicholas Sparks
• Producers: Adam Shankman, Dara Weintraub, Jennifer Gibgot, Tish Cyrus
• Language: English
• Subtitles: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Touchstone Pictures
• DVD Release Date: August 17, 2010
• Run Time: 107 minutes

Special Features

DVD & BD Bonus Features:
• Set Tour with Bobby Coleman – In this featurette, we’ll go on a behind-the-scenes guided tour, hosted by Bobby Coleman. This rambunctious eight-year old will bring his fans along as he does everything from interview Adam Shankman, Miley’s security team, to going on a seashell scavenger hunt. Audiences will have an all access pass to see how a film is made through the eyes of the new up-and-comer and star of The Last Song, Bobby Coleman.
• Making of the Music Video, “When I Look At You“ with Miley Cyrus – Go behind-the-scenes of the music video, “When I Look At You”. It will feature recording studio footage, b-roll from the set, interviews with Miley and crew, clips from the film and music video. Audiences will learn how the film’s motif, southern summer romance, is incorporated into feel and theme of the music video
• Miley Cyrcus Music Video: “When I Look At you”
• Audio Commentary – with Director Julie Anne Robinson and Co-Producer Jennifer Gibgot

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Death at a Funeral : DVD released on August 10, 2010

No more than 3 years after the 2007 Brit-com "Death at a Funeral" in the cinemas, this offered an almost scene for scene remake of variation to the original. Once again, a family gathered for the dignified funeral of a patriarch, elder son (Chris Rock) has prepared a eulogy, younger son (Martin Lawrence) has flown in on his fame as a bestselling author; favorite niece (Zoe Saldana) has brought her fiance ( James Marsden, Flipping out suspect), without that he inadvertently made a hallucinogen by their pharmaceutically-minded brother (Columbus Short, Cadillac Records included). You know, the usual fare for a funeral. The Joker is a stranger (Peter Dinklage, the only member of the cast of his role from the 2007 film repeat), which has something urgent to give the two sons. There is nothing terribly elevated on the slapstick, and a certain scatological sequence tests the limits of endurance (30 Rock's Tracy Morgan, unbounded in its usual form, takes the brunt of this scene). The unexpected director Neil LaBute, who shows off his sense of comic timing and keeps the entire apparatus to move along briskly. Besides the relatively subdued alternately by Rock and Lawrence, among the major actors Danny Glover, Regina Hall, Luke Wilson, and Loretta Devine. It is almost irrelevant to debate whether this version or ventilated improved the original, both hit their notes, which provide broad yuks and left feeling a mostly mechanical. But the task is completed - now rest in peace

• Actors: Loretta Devine, Peter Dinklage, Danny Glover, Regina Hall, Martin Lawrence
• Directors: Neil LaBute
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony
• DVD Release Date: August 10, 2010
• Run Time: 92 minutes

Special Features

Commentary with Director Neil LaBute and Chris Rock
Deleted Scenes
Family Album
Death For Real
Death at a Funeral: Last Rites, Dark Secrets

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Letters to God : DVD released on August 10, 2010

A postal worker finds his life is turned upside down by a boy struggling with cancer. Tyler Young Doherty (Tanner Maguire) faces his cancer with a strong spirit and good humor, and retains his faith in God through letters - letters which the postman of the new neighborhood, Brady McDaniels (Jeffrey Johnson), do not know how to handle. He gradually finds himself drawn into the McDaniels Doherty family life ... and created on lonely Tyler's mother, Maddy (Robyn Lively). Letters to God is serious and family friendly, with moments of slapstick humor to leaven Tyler's difficult circumstances. Each viewer response to letters to God is on his or her faith from, devout Christians will find it an uplifting and sincere testimony of the love of God, while non-Christians find it clumsy and saccharine. But it certainly is a polished production, with a professional camera, a written clean (if a little obvious) script and solid performances from the attractive cast.

• Actors: Jeffrey Johnson, Tanner Maguire, Michael Bolten, Ralph Waite
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Possibility Pictures
• DVD Release Date: August 10, 2010
• Run Time: 113 minutes

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Date Night : DVD released on August 10, 2010

Tina Fey and Steve Carell are two of the most fascinating artists in entertainment today. Their attractiveness Goofy makes them a perfect couple in Date Night: an unassuming man and a woman from New Jersey, they receive for crooks in Manhattan is wrong and sends them on a wild night full of snooty waiters and waitresses, crooked cops, glitter speckled-strippers, a shirtless super spy (Mark Wahlberg, as buff as ever), and a bizarre chase. The film makes no effort to be remotely plausible, and the final third is really out of joint, and it would probably be better served by less familiar faces in supporting roles (bit parts by Mark Ruffalo, Kristen Wiig, Common, James Franco, played Mila Kunis, William Fichtner, and Ray Liotta). It is disappointing that the dialogue does not crackle as it goes on 30 Rock or office. But Fey and Carell the film take by sheer pluck along nerdy. Rarely has a couple really seems in a film devoted to each other, not from wild passion, but for all the things that a real marriage is built on: patience, humor, share a willingness to deal with day-to-day annoyances and simple affection. Carell and Fey look like a couple would actually enjoy going out to dinner with. In today's world, which is more than romantic sunsets and bouquets of roses.

• Actors: Steve Carell, Tina Fey
• Directors: Shawn Levy
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: August 10, 2010
• Run Time: 88 minutes

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