Out on DVD today
July 22, 2008 at 12:55 pm by Helen Herbst in A&EHere are some selected titles that come out on DVD today. For more, keep an eye out for Matt Brunson’s “View from the Couch” column tomorrow.
Big Dreams, Little Tokyo
Bird — The special edition release of Clint Eastwood’s Academy Award-winning biopic of jazz musician Charlie Parker.
Duck — Philip Baker Hall stars as a suicidal retiree whose life is changed when a duckling confuses him for a mother duck.
Earth - The Biography
Kiss of the Spider Woman — The DVD debut of the brilliant 1985 film, starring William Hurt and Raul Julia, based on the novel by Manuel Puig.
“L.A. Ink” - Season 1
“Las Vegas” - Season 5
Picture This! — A grounded teenage girl (High School Musical’s Ashley Tisdale) sneaks out to a party and uses her picture phone to convince her father (Kevin Pollack) that she is studying with a friend.
“Robot Chicken” - Star Wars
“Spaced” - The Complete Series — The 14-episode cult hit series featuring Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
“Transformers” - Cybertron - The Ultimate Collection — The latest series in the
long-running animated show upon which Michael Bay’s blockbuster was based.
Turn the River — Actor Chris Eigeman’s directorial debut. Famke Janssen plays a pool shark looking for a big win so she can get her son back.
“TV Funhouse” - The Complete Series
Der Vampyr — The two-disc release of the 1920 classic German film.
Without the King — A documentary about the royal family of Swaziland, Africa’s last absolute monarchy.
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