May 22, 2007

DVD Release

Apocalypto


Mel Gibson generally avoided controversy with his lush but viscerally violent tale set among the ancient Maya. The spectacla follows the journey of a roral villager who escapes from sadistic urban captors, leading them on a breakneck chase through the jungle as he tries to save his wife and children. The DVD has a deleted scene and a detailed making of, and Gibson offers commentary.


Letters from Iwo Jima / Flags of Our Fathers

Clint Eastwood delivers an unparalleled film achievement with these bookend films that cam eout just two monts apart last year: "Flags" telling the story of Iwo Jima from the side of U.S. trops invading the island and "Letters" chronicling the last stand of Japanese troops defending it. The five-disc boxed set has both films, a History Channel documentary on Iwo Jima and the 1945 short film "To the Shores of Iwo Jima".

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