Red Riding Hood

Warner Bros. | 2011 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 100 min | Rated PG-13
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke

In a medieval village a beautiful young girl falls for an orphaned woodcutter, much to her family’s displeasure. When her sister is killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village, the people call on a famed werewolf hunter to help them kill the wolf. As the death toll rises with each moon, the girl begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. Panic grips the town as she discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast–one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect…and bait.

Special featureS

• Secrets Behind the Red Cloak: Picture-in-Picture Commentary with Hardwicke, Seyfried, Max Irons and Shiloh Fernandez
• Five Production Featurettes
  • The Reinvention of Red Riding Hood
  • Before the Fure: Making of the CG Wolf
  • Red Riding Hood’s Men
  • Making of the Score
  • Red Riding Hood in 73 Seconds
• Deleted Scenes
• Never Before Seen Alternate Ending
• Rehearsal Footage
• Original Casting Tapes
• Music Videos
• Gag Reel
• Easter Egg

Battle: Los Angeles

Sony Pictures | 2011 | 116 min | Rated PG-13
Directed by Jonathan Liebesman

Witness the end of civilization unfold as hostile alien invaders attack the planet. As people everywhere watch the world’s great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. Now it’s up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they’ve ever encountered in this epic sci-fi action film.

Special featureS

• Acting with Aliens
• Behind The Battle
• Building the Aliens
• Creating L.A. in LA
• Preparing for Battle
• Shooting the Aliens
• Boot Camp
• Directing the Battle
• The Freeway Battle
• Staff Sergeant Nantz
• Marines Behind The Scenes
• Aliens Ambush The Marines
• Battling Unknown Forces
• Technical Sargent Santos
• Alien Autopsy
• Gas Station Explosion
• Visual FX on the Freeway
• Do You Believe in Aliens?
• Alien Command & Control
• PS3 Theme

HALL PASS

Warner Bros. | 2011 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 112 min | Rated R
Directed by Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly

From the Farrelly Brothers comes your ticket to fool around! When best friends Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) show signs of restlessness at home, their wives (Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate) take a bold approach to revitalizing their respective marriages: granting them one week of freedom to do whatever they want…no questions asked. Rick and Fred find their expectations of the single life are completely out of sync with reality.

Special featureS

• An Outrageous Additional Scene
  • Coakley (Richard Jenkins) Plays It Cool with a Cop
• And Hilarious Gag Reel

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son

20th Century Fox | 2011 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 113 min | Rated PG-13
Directed by John Whitesell

FBI agent Malcolm Turner and his stepson Trent go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder.

Special featureS

• Extended/ Theatrical versions of Feature on both Blu-ray & DVD
• Audio Commentary
• Deleted Scenes x 7
• Song & Dance: Momma Style – Featurette about the role of music and dance in the film
• Bigger Busts Countdown – Featurette Countdown of the top 10 Big Momma moments, looking back over all 3 films
• Gag Reel
• ‘Baby You Know’ – Music Video
• Lyrical Miracle – Music Video (Extended Version)
• Theatrical Trailer
• Digital Copy

Kill the Irishman

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 106 min | Rated R
Directed by Jonathan Hensleigh

In 1976, thirty-six bombs detonated across Cleveland as a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Cosa Nostra. Based on true events, this film chronicles Greene’s legendary rise from local trouble-maker to top mob enforcer. Turning the tables on loan shark Shondor Birns and joining forces with gangster John Nardi, Greene cut his ties to the Mafia, and began moving on their turf. Surviving countless assassination attempts, Greene’s infamous fearlessness and brutality eventually led to the collapse of the mafia syndicates across the U.S. and earned him the status as the one man the mob couldn’t kill.

Special featureS

• The documentary Danny Greene : the rise and fall of the Irishman

JACKASS 3.5

Paramount Pictures | 2011 | 85 min | Unrated
Directed by Jeff Tremaine

Because too much is never enough! The boys of jackass are at it again with an all-new unrated movie loaded with even more outrageous stunts, stupid, and never-before-seen pranks and mayhem, including Steve-Os up-close and personal encounter with a snapping turtle, Chris Pontius and his incredible wood pecker, and an electrifying game of limbo with the whole gang. Plus, get an inside view of paranoid life on the jackass set and the successful behind-the-scenes prank that was finally pulled on Johnny Knoxville.

Special featureS

• Jackass: The Beginning
• Deleted Scenes
• Outtakes
• Jackass European Tour

Insignificance (#566)

Criterion | 1985 | 109 min | Not Rated
Directed by Nicolas Roeg

Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room in this compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson’s play, from director Nicolas Roeg. With a combination of whimsy and dread, Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror image of fifties America in order to reflect on the nature of celebrity and lingering cold-war nuclear nightmares. Insignificance is a delirious, intelligent drama, featuring magnetic performances by Michael Emil as the Professor, Theresa Russell as the Actress, Gary Busey as the Ballplayer, and Tony Curtis as the Senator.

Director-Approved Special Edition Features

• Newly restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Nicolas Roeg and producer Jeremy Thomas, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• New video interviews with Roeg, Thomas, and editor Tony Lawson
• Making “Insignificance,” a short documentary shot on the set of the film
• Original theatrical trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: A new essay by film critic Chuck Stephens and a reprinted exchange between Roeg and screenwriter Terry Johnson
  
  New cover by Fred Davis

The Makioka Sisters (#567)

Criterion | 1983 | 141 min | Not Rated
Directed by Kon Ichikawa

This lyrical adaptation of the beloved novel by Junichiro Tanizaki was a late-career triumph for director Kon Ichikawa. Structured around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki) follows the lives of four siblings who have taken on their family’s kimono manufacturing business, in the years leading up to the Pacific War. The two oldest have been married for some time, but according to tradition, the rebellious youngest sister cannot wed until the third, conservative and terribly shy, finds a husband. This graceful study of a family at a turning point in history is a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs, shot in rich, vivid colors.

Special Features

• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Original theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Audie Bock
  
  New cover by Peter Mendelsund