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The Great Mouse Detective: Special Edition Blu-ray — You probably only know about the under-the-radar 1986 Disney gem if you watched it and adored it as a kid.

E.T. the Extra Terrestrial 30th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray — Steven Spielberg's folksy 1982 tale of friendship between a boy (Henry Thomas) and a young, lost

There are so many reasons to hate Pitch Perfect, and yet it's impossibly tough to do so. It's a movie that you'll laugh at as much with, then store in the back

American Horror Story: Season 1 — FX's gothic, wildly unpredictable yet always entrancing miniseries hooks you with a sordid pilot and never loosens its grip.

Movie studios play this little game where they try to pretend the source of movie piracy is people recording preview screenings on their cell phones. They post

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 — Frank Miller's beloved 1986 comic book miniseries gets a loving and faithful animated adaptation. The plot finds Bruce

America's Book of Secrets: Season 1 — Yet another tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy-obsessed History Channel series — a close cousin of Ancient Aliens — this one

The Big Bang Theory: Season 5 — The nerd-tastic, academia-set sitcom that's stuck with the unfortunate laugh track shows no signs of fading as it reaches the

Bored to Death: Season 3 — One of the quirkier series in HBO's stable, the noir-themed detective yarn stars Jason Schwartzman as a struggling writer who doubles

The square-dancing whiskey runners in the Prohibition-era Virginia-set movie Lawless may not think much of regulations from smarmy, moonshine-hating Yankees,

Battleship — As far as movies based on board games go, you could do a lot worse than this big, dumb yet thoroughly entertaining Navy procedural. Taylor Kitsch

The Aristocats Blu-ray — Disney's oft-overlooked, feline-focused 1970 film gets some overdue HD love. Set in Paris, the story is a barely comprehensible

There may or may not be an actual movie hidden among all the showstopping musical numbers in Sparkle. Not that there needs to be. Sparkle is all about the

Astonishing X-Men: Torn — The Joss Whedon-penned series of graphic novels gets the motion-comic treatment once again. This outing focuses on whack-job telepath

I'm pretty sure Tommy Lee Jones was born crotchety and bitter. He must have emerged from the womb with a snide remark about the lighting and a dry, sarcastic

Adventures in Babysitting Blu-ray — One of the definitive way-over-the-top 1980s tween fantasies — fitting in alongside the likes of Ferris Bueller's Day Off

It's not uncommon to have hot, sweaty dreams involving Jessica Biel, but the problem with Colin Farrell's Biel dreams is that they only involve him and her

La Grand Illusion Blu-ray — Jean Renoir's World War I-set 1937 think piece tells a grim tale of French POWs who are trapped inside an all-but-inescapable

There's a scene in watch in which the four leads are crammed into a car on a stakeout, complaining about how bored they are. It's all too easy to identify. A

Boss: Season 1 — After playing the role of Frasier for more than 20 years, Kelsey Grammer has finally managed to redefine himself as the iron-fisted Mayor of

"Mmmph blrrg grug Batman glogg freedom raaar!" -Christian Bane, The Dark Knight Rises The movie's gimp mask-wearing, MMA fighter-like villain no doubt has many

Casa de mi Padre — This bizarre, Spanish-language-with-subtitles mockery of Telemundo-style soap operas stars Will Ferrell as a Mexican rancher who struggles

American Reunion — The year is more than half over, and surprisingly this stands as not only my favorite comedy of the year so far, but my favorite movie,

"Is this Spider-Man 4?" my 5-year-old son, Luke, whispered as the movie started. "No, it's Spider-Man 1," I replied, bracing myself for the inevitable

Barbarella Blu-ray — Jane Fonda's saucy 1968 space caper casts her as a super-sexual futuristic adventurer who faces off against the vile Durand Durand, which

Seth MacFarlane is a clever bastard. He knows that the only way to get away with transferring his Peter Griffin voice to a walking, talking teddy bear in a

Deliverance Blu-ray — The stomach-turning 1972 horror flick probably permanently harmed rural Southern tourism. Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty and Ronny

It would really suck if we found out a meteor was careening toward earth, set to end all life in a matter of days. But as Seeking a Friend for the End of the

Big Miracle — The earnest-to-a-fault family flick recounts the true 1988 story of the rescue of whales trapped under an ice shelf in Alaska. John Krasinski and

Way back in the olden days, Adam Sandler was the funniest man alive. He was so talented that he actually made Saturday Night Live a show that you looked forward

Entourage: Season 8 — HBO's comedy about a superstar actor (Adrian Grenier) and his buddies living the Hollywood dream hit its peak a couple seasons ago, but

A note to future space explorers: When searching out the galaxy for intelligent life, steer away from planets filled with aliens with mouths inside of mouths

Breaking Bad: Season 4 — In the latest season of AMC's drama about a meth-dealing, cancer-stricken teacher (Bryan Cranston), the plot abandons the dual-life

Goon — In a departure from his usual cutup roles, Seann William Scott plays a directionless thug who stumbles onto a tryout with a local minor league team. He

Men in Black 3 is not only a time travel movie, but a time machine that takes you back to when a Men in Black movie could actually be good. Too bad it can't

Red Tails — Executive produced by George Lucas, this by-the-numbers war film tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a squadron of black World War II pilots who

A lot of brilliant movie comedians blow their loads early in their careers with their best stuff, collecting enough fans to stick by them as they get less

The Big C: Season 2 — In the Showtime series that seems to be the feminine answer to Breaking Bad, Laura Linney plays Cathy, a cancer patient who re-examines

Clueless Blu-ray — In this subversive 1995 satire of teen solipsism, based on The Taming of the Shrew, Alicia Silverstone plays a popular high school girl who

There’s got to be more than just one of Jason Segel. There’s no way one dude can juggle a starring role in a sitcom along with writing, producing and acting in

Cinema Verite — Diane Lane and Tim Robbins play a bickering couple that was the focus of the groundbreaking 1971 PBS documentary miniseries An American Family —

If those guys who make all those Scary Movie-style parodies ever tried to make fun of Nicholas Sparks books, you’d hardly be able to tell their mockeries from

Chinatown Blu-ray — In director Roman Polanski's 1974 throwback to 1940s film noir, Jack Nicholson plays a private eye who is hired to track down a husband

Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous — Adapted from a graphic novel series by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday, the hourlong, voice-acted motion-comic spins a gripping and

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked — The first two live-action/CGI Alvins were surprisingly charming, but the wheels fall off during the third outing. The

Battle Royale: The Complete Collection Blu-ray — An off-the-rails, hyper-violent cult favorite series from Japan, the films are cited by many as inspiration for

Jonah Hill is no longer the discount version of Seth Rogen. He's emerging as a formidable talent that matches or surpasses that of his mentor/pal. Hill has

The Adventures of Tintin — Steven Spielberg goes the route of The Polar Express in this whimsical adaptation of the Belgian comic book series about a baby-faced

The Deer Hunter Blu-ray — Director Michael Cimino's devastating, Oscar-winning 1978 best picture drama about how serving in Vietnam affects a group of

Hugo – Martin Scorsese's whimsical adaptation of Brian Selznick's magical realism-infused novel is a relentlessly charming, although a slightly overrated family