Susan Granger’s dvd/video update for week of Friday, May 22nd:
Catch up with the Golden Globe-winning first season of HBO’s riveting new series “True Blood,” just before the second, highly-anticipated season of the show premieres. Based on the popular Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris, it stars Anna Paquin as Sookie and Stephen Moyer as Bill Compton, the alluring vampire. Bonus materials include tasty tidbits like how V-juice (vampire blood) affects humans differently.
“Paul Blart: Mall Cop” features Kevin James as a single dad who lives with his anxious mother (Shirley Knight) and teenage daughter (Raini Rodriguez) and works as a security guard at a local mall after his dreams of being a New Jersey State Trooper were dashed. Then, on Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, a loathsome gang of tattooed thieves on skateboards and bikes, led by the villainous Veck Sims (Keir O’Donnell), invades the mall and takes hostages, including Blart’s crush (Jayme Mays).
Coinciding with the theatrical release of “Terminator: Salvation,” there’s “Terminator 2 Skynet Edition Blue-ray Disc” and “T2 Collector’s Set,” loaded with over eight hours of interactive content, storyboard-script views, audio commentaries, quizzes and games.
The remake “My Bloody Valentine 3D” is a terrifying tale about Harmony, a small town that faces horrifying consequences on the anniversary of a deadly tragedy. The Special Edition and/or Blu-ray Disc includes both the 2D and 3D versions with 3D glasses, an audio commentary, two featurettes, deleted scenes and a gag reel.
Set in 1998, “Fanboys” is a road-trip comedy following four “Star Wars” obsessed geeks who try to break into George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch to view his latest installment before its release.
PICK OF THE WEEK: Intense and compelling, “Valkyrie” tells the true-story of Col. Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise), a brave German army officer who was appalled and disgusted by the atrocities being committed by Adolf Hitler. After 14 previous attempts to assassinate the Fuehrer failed, Stauffenberg launched an ambitious plan to surreptitiously place a homemade bomb, concealed in a briefcase, at a high-level briefing in the East Prussia forest compound known as Wolf’s Lair.