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The Jacket arrives on DVD and VHS from Warner Home Video (WHV). This intense thriller from director John Maybury takes audiences on a terrifying journey along with Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody and hot, young star Kiera Knightly. With thrilling bonus features such as additional scenes and an alternate ending, the DVD release of The Jacket will captivate you until the very end.
DVD ELEMENTS
The DVD release of The Jacket is accompanied with the following shocking bonus features:
- The Jacket: Project History and Deleted Scenes (including an alternate ending).
- The Look of The Jacket: A Featurette on Special Effects.
- Theatrical Trailer.
Look out, Las Vegas! Agent Gracie Hart is back and twice as fabulous in Miss Congeniality 2, available on DVD June 21 from Warner Home Video (WHV). Join in on the action and fun along with Sandra Bullock (Miss Congeniality, Two Weeks Notice), Regina King (Ray, Legally Blonde 2) and William Shatner (TV’s “Boston Legal”).
DVD ELEMENTS
The DVD release of Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous is accompanied with the following entertaining bonus features:
- Over 12 Minutes of Deleted Scenes.
- Theatrical Trailer.
The CD Soundtrack features 12 fantastic songs including hits such as:
- Pink – “Trouble”
- Carl Carlton – "She's A Bad Mama Jama"
- The Staple Sisters - "I'll Take You There"
- Ike and Tina Turner - "Proud Mary"
July 5thBorn to Kill, Clash By Night, Crossfire, Dillinger, The Narrow Margin, Point Blank
Born to Kill (1947)
Director Robert Wise (The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Sound of Music, West Side Story) showed his versatility with this dark gem -- a mix of heiress sisters, stone-hearted men, needy hangers-on and illicit but inevitable love. Walter Slezak portrays the verse-quoting shamus, and Claire Trevor and Lawrence Tierney are lovers who play with fire… and burn their names forever into film-noir lore.
DVD special features include:
- Commentary by film historian Eddie Muller with archival contributions by director Robert Wise
- Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
Clash by Night (1952)
Film noir master Fritz Lang (M, The Big Heat, Ministry of Fear) directs Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan and rising star Marilyn Monroe in a stark tale of lives burnished by human emotion and shattered by human failings. Intense and powerfully realistic, Clash by Night (from a Clifford Odets play) is about many towns and many families, all serene on the surface but boiling underneath with desperation.
DVD special features include:
- Commentary by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich with archival contributions by director Fritz Lang
- Theatrical Trailer
- Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
Crossfire (1947)
Robert Mitchum, Robert Young and Robert Ryan star in this landmark film noir nominated for five Academy Awards®, including Best Picture. Edward Dmytryk (Murder, My Sweet) directs, draping the genre's stylistic backdrops and flourishes around the controversial subject of anti-Semitism, a topic rarely explored in American films.
DVD special features include:
- Commentary by film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini with archival contributions by director Edward Dmytryk
- Featurette Crossfire: Hate is like a Gun
- Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
Dillinger (1945)
Oscar-nominated for its screenplay, this is a bullet-paced story of the legendary gangster whose crimes captivated and terrified the nation. Lawrence Tierney plays the title role, breaking free of screen anonymity and moving into a 50-year tough-guy career that would range from Born to Kill up through Reservoir Dogs.
DVD special features include:
- Commentary by filmmaker John Milius (director of the 1973 Dillinger) with archival contributions by writer Philip Yordan
- Theatrical Trailer
- Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
The Narrow Margin (1952)
The Oscar-nominated story, directed by Richard Fleischer (Fantastic Voyage, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) and scripted by his frequent collaborator Earl Felton, zigzags with surprise turns. Film noir favorite Charles McGraw plays a cop guarding a gangster's moll (fellow genre icon Marie Windsor) as she travels west to testify before a grand jury. Also riding the Pullmans are two determined hit men who know the moll is on the train but don't know what she looks like. The film was remade in 1990 with Gene Hackman and Anne Archer.
DVD special features include:
- Commentary by filmmaker William Friedkin with archival contributions by director Richard Fleischer
- Theatrical Trailer
- Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
Point Blank (1967)
Based on Donald E. Westlake's novel The Hunter, Point Blank is an edgy neo-noir that merges a classic revenge story with imaginative New Wave style. Directed by John Boorman (Deliverance), Point Blank stars Lee Marvin in full anti-hero mode as a thief out for payback. The film also features an outstanding supporting cast that includes Angie Dickenson, Carroll O'Connor and Keenan Wynn.
DVD special features include:
- Commentary by directors John Boorman and Steven Soderbergh
- Vintage Featurettes: The Rock Part 1 and The Rock Part 2
- Theatrical Trailer
- Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
July 19thKill Bill Vol. 2 (UMD)
KILL BILL Vol. 2 is the action-packed conclusion to writer/director Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" saga. After dispensing with former colleagues O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green in "Kill Bill Volume 1," the Bride (Uma Thurman, "Pulp Fiction," "Paycheck") goes out west to resume her quest for justice. She has two remaining foes on her ‘death list' to pursue – Budd (Michael Madsen, "Die Another Day") and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah, "Splash," "A Walk To Remember"). If she can survive these two assassins, she still has her ultimate goal to achieve – to kill Bill (David Carradine, TV's "Kung Fu"). This adrenaline-fueled, wildly entertaining film brings together all the plot elements from "Kill Bill Volume 1" in a stunning finale. From Miramax Home Entertainment.
Rated: "R" For Violence, Language And Brief Drug Use
Bonus material not rated.
Feature run time: Approximately 137 minutes
KILL BILL Vol. 2 Bonus Features: - Deleted Scene
Gone in 60 Seconds: Director's Cut (UMD)
Academy Award winners Nicolas Cage (1996 Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas; National Treasure), Angelina Jolie (1999 Best Supporting Actress, Girl Interrupted; Lara Croft Tomb Raider), and Robert Duvall (1983 Best Actor, Tender Mercies; Open Range) heat up the screen in GONE IN 60 SECONDS, available in a red-hot UNRATED DIRECTOR'S CUT DVD.
Nicolas Cage is Randall "Memphis" Raines, a car thief who thought he'd left the fast lane behind – until he's forced out of retirement in a do-or-die effort to save his kid brother (Giovanni Ribisi) from the wrath of an evil mobster. With speed to burn and attitude to spare, Memphis hastily reassembles his old crew, a rogues' gallery that includes Angelina Jolie and Robert Duvall. Together, Randall's team floors it in a full-throttle race to pull off the ultimate car heist: 50 exotic beauties in 24 hours – and the cops are already on to them! From Touchstone Home Entertainment.
GONE IN 60 SECONDS is written by H.B. Halicki (original screenplay) and Scott Rosenberg. Directed by Dominic Sena. From hit-making producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Armageddon, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl).
Rated: Unrated. Feature run time: Approximately 127 mins.
GONE IN 60 SECONDS (Director's Cut) Bonus Features:
- ZERO TO 60 A featurette on the film's origins, story and script development.
- WILD RIDES Come along and see how the film's incredible car stunts were filmed.
- ACTION OVERLOAD A high-energy montage of the most spectacular action scenes from the film, set to a hard-driving soundtrack.
From Dusk 'til Dawn (UMD)
It's nonstop thrills when George Clooney ("Ocean's Twelve," "Intolerable Cruelty") and Quentin Tarantino (director of the "Kill Bill" series and "Pulp Fiction") star as the Gecko brothers – two dangerous outlaws on a wild crime spree. After kidnapping a father (Harvey Keitel, "National Treasure") and his two kids, the Geckos head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety. But when they face the bar's truly notorious clientele, they're forced to team up with their hostages in order to make it out alive.
Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino. Directed by Robert Rodriguez ("Sin City"). From Dimension Home Video.
Rated: "R" For Strong Violence And Gore, Language And Nudity
Bonus materials not rated.
Feature run time: Approximately 108 minutes
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN bonus features:
- Hollywood Goes To Hell
– Making-of Featurette
- Deleted Scenes
- On The Set
- Music Video: "After Dark" by Tito & The Tarantulas
- Music Video: "She's Just Killing Me" by ZZTop
Armageddon (UMD)
Starring the explosive talents of Bruce Willis ("Hostage"), Ben Affleck ("Daredevil"), Billy Bob Thornton ("Friday Night Lights") and Liv Tyler ("The Lord of The Rings" trilogy), ARMAGEDDON is a meteor storm of action-adventure moviemaking that has you on the edge of your seat forgetting to breathe.
When NASA's executive director (Billy Bob Thornton) realizes the Earth has 18 days before it's obliterated by a meteor the size of Texas, he has only one option – land a ragtag team of roughneck oil drillers on the asteroid and drop a nuclear warhead into its core. Spectacular special effects, laugh-outloud humor, great characters, riveting storytelling and heartfelt emotion make ARMAGEDDON an exhilarating thrill ride you'll want to experience like there's no tomorrow.
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"). Screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh and J.J. Abrams (TV's "Alias," "Lost"). Directed by Michael Bay. From Touchstone Home Entertainment.
Rated: "PG-13" For Sci-Fi Disaster Action, Sensuality And Brief Language
Feature run time: Approximately 151 minutes
July 26thCowboy Be-Bop (UMD)
Based on the popular TV series airing on the Cartoon Network. Mars is under siege! Just before Halloween, 2071, a terrorist bomb destroys a tanker truck on Highway One, close to a densely populated city. There are casualties up to half a mile from the blast -- 500 killed or injured by what appears to be a biochemical weapon. The rewards for the bomber's capture is massive and there are 4 humans and a dog who really need the money. Down on their luck as usual, the crew of the Bebop get on the case.
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