Featurette: 'The Women of THE SPIRIT'

Because let's be honest. They're the only reason most of us will be seeing the movie anyway. (Courtesy of Lionsgate)

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TV on DVD: Freaks and Geeks, Sports Night & MST3K

It seems like every week there's an announcement that some old TV show is getting released on DVD. But it's never the ones you want. Granted, there must be some audience for the 'Golden Girls Season 4' and 'The Best of Dr. Katz' or they wouldn't release them, but it seems like the best shows are always out of print. Until now. This holiday season, Shout! Factory is releasing 3 TV-on-DVD box sets that had me updating my Amazon wishlist for the first time in a long time.

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First up, the 'Freaks and Geeks Yearbook Edition'. The show that launched the career of Judd Apatow and pretty much everyone he knows has a rabid cult following and has been out of print for years. And now, not only do you get 6 DVDs of a great show, you get 2 discs of extra stuff and a completely superfluous 80-page yearbook of photos and stuff. It's pretty much your dream come true.

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'Sports Night: The Complete Series 10th Anniversary'. I can't believe it's been 10 years since Aaron Sorkin affected his way into the hearts of American TV watchers with his signature snappy dialogue and steadicam hallway walk-n-talks. Those became standards of his later, more well-known series 'The West Wing' (which ruled) and 'Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip' (which blew). If you liked either of those, you owe it to yourself to check out 'Sports Night'.

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And of course, MST3K. There's certainly no shortage of available DVDs for this one, but it's all just so good I can't help but plug it when new stuff comes out. This 20th Anniversary Edition features 4 DVDs of the series' most requested shows, 4 lobby cards and a figurine of Crow. It also happens to come in a tin box, which I think is meant to be a selling point.







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Kidulthood on DVD

Not many people saw KIDULTHOOD, but those of us who did won't soon forget it. Dark, graphic and downright disturbing, it's sort of an updated, underground British version of Larry Clark's movie KIDS from 1995. Both are harsh, gritty and pretty hard to watch at times, earning most of their cred from their unflinching realism. As a side note, KIDULTHOOD also happens to boast a pretty stellar soundtrack, especially for fans of UK hip-hop. Here's the trailer. (Trailer courtesy of Image Entertainment)

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The Spirit - The Short Trailer

Apparently our Red Bull brains can't sit still for a full 2 1/2 minute trailer, thus necessitating the advent of the 'short trailer'. Here's the new one from THE SPIRIT, due out Christmas Day. The previous full-length trailers have left lots of us feeling uninspired. Is the short one any better? Your thoughts. (Trailer courtesy of Lionsgate)

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Transporter 3 - New Clip!

It's hard to not love Jason Statham. Even when he does crap movies like DEATH RACE and that even more crap Uwe Bol DUNGEON SIEGE movie, he still manages to pull off whatever the badass male version of the 'hooker with a heart of gold' thing is. And for us, it all started with the TRANSPORTER movies. Number 3 is due out in the US on November 26. Here's a new clip. (Clip courtesy of Lionsgate)

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