DVD Releases – August 2nd, 2011

 

Movies on DVD

 

Rio features the voice of Jesse Eisenberg as Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, who meets the fiercely independent Jewel (Anne Hathaway). He takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with this bird of his dreams.

Special Features: disc one – widescreen theatrical feature Blu-ray, deleted scenes, explore the world of Rio, saving the species: one voice at a time, the making of Hot Wings, Boom-Boom Tish-Tish: the sounds of Rio, carnival dance-o-rama, Welcome to Rio music video, Taio Cruz – Telling the World music video, Rio de JAM-eiro jukebox, Postcards from Rio, the real Rio, theatrical trailer, disc two – DVD, Disc three – digital copy.

 

Soul Surfer revolves around Bethany Hamilton (AnnaSophia Robb), a teenage pro surfer girl who summons the courage to go back into the ocean after losing an arm in a shark attack. This is based on the true story of Bethany Hamilton, who at the age of 13 survived a shark attack and eventually went back in the water to compete again.

Special Features: Deleted scenes, the making of Soul Surfer, surfing for the screen: Inside the Action, becoming Bethany, heart of a Soul Surfer documentary, Bethany Hamilton on pro surfing.

 

 

The Final Destination 3D continues the saga of people cheating death. This time around – a young man’s premonition of a deadly race-car crash helps saves the lives of his peers. That is until Death sets out to collect those who evaded their end.

Sure it’s supposed to be in 3D, but unless you have a 3D TV set and glasses, it’ll just be your average, run-of-the-mill grizzly thriller.

 

 

 

Stake Land follows the drama surrounding Martin (Connor Paolo), who was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic swept across what was left of the nation’s abandoned towns and cities. It’s up to Mister (Nick Damici), a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent’s New Eden.

 

TV on DVD

 

Everwood: The Complete Fourth Season follows the life of Dr. Andrew “Andy” Brown (Treat Williams) a widowed brain surgeon from Manhattan who moves his two children, Ephram and Delia (Gregory Smith/Vivein Cardone) to the small mountain town of Everwood, Colorado.

 

 

 

United States of Tara: Third Season details Tara Gregson (Toni Collette), who is a woman struggling to find a balance between her dissociative identity disorder (AKA multiple personalities) and raising a dysfunctional family.

 

 

 

 

 

Eastbound & Down: The Complete First Season begins years after Kenny Powers (Danny McBride) turned his back on his hometown. Now that he’s a burned-out major league ballplayer he returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school.

Special Features: The making of Eastbound & Down, Kenny Powers demo reel, Schaeffer Motors commercials – mock commercials featuring Will Ferrell, deleted scenes and outtakes, Stevie‘s dark secret, audio commentaries with Danny McBride, Jody Hill and David Gordon Green.

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