*Nim's Island: Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin team up for this sturdy family adventure adapted from Wendy Orr's novel. Breslin stars as the title character, a fearless young girl left alone on an island after her scientist dad (Gerard Butler) vanishes.
Extras: The DVD and Blu-ray disc come with a huge selection of deleted scenes, three featurettes and commentary from Foster, Breslin and husband-and-wife directors Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett.
*The Counterfeiters: Based on a true story from World War II, this Austrian film, 2007 Academy Award winner for foreign-language films, follows the convoluted path of a master counterfeiter (Karl Markovics) who is thrown into a Nazi concentration camp but gets preferential treatment by leading a team that prints phony Allied currency.
Extras: Accompanying the film on DVD and Blu-ray are deleted scenes, an interview with Markovics, a question-and-answer session and commentary with director Stefan Ruzowitzky and a conversation with a real-life counterfeiter and Holocaust survivor.
*Starship Troopers: Giant bugs are back to take on Earth in this adaptation of Robert Heinlein's sci-fi novel, which makes the leap to Blu-ray accompanied by the debut of Starship Troopers 3: Marauder and the previous small-screen sequel Starship Troopers: Hero of the Federation. Casper Van Dien and Jolene Blalock star. The original Starship Troopers and Marauder are available as separate Blu-ray releases, while all three movies come in a Blu-ray boxed set. New DVD releases of all three also are available.
*Pete Seeger: The Power of Song: The life, times and music of folk-protest patriarch Seeger are chronicled in this documentary that features interviews with the singer and admirers including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie and Peter, Paul and Mary.
Extras: DVD extras include deleted footage and five short films from the Seeger family archives on such topics as playing banjo and making your own steel drum.
*I Got the Feelin': James Brown in the '60s: The hardest-working man in show business graduated from godfather of soul to keeper of the peace after Martin Luther King Jr. was slain in 1968. The night after the assassination, Brown's concert at the Boston Garden aired live on public television as his plea to the city's residents to stay off the streets and avoid a riot. This three-disc set includes the documentary The Night James Brown Saved Boston. The set also includes the full videotaped concert from that night along with a show at the Apollo Theater the previous month.
*Lonesome Dove: In this adaptation of Larry McMurtry's tale, two ex-Texas Rangers (Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones) lead a cattle drive to Montana.
Extras: This new two-disc DVD version and Blu-ray two-disc set come with a making-of documentary and interviews. A DVD gift set includes the miniseries, a branded flask and a deck of cards packaged in a wooden box.
Extras: The DVD and Blu-ray disc come with a huge selection of deleted scenes, three featurettes and commentary from Foster, Breslin and husband-and-wife directors Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett.
*The Counterfeiters: Based on a true story from World War II, this Austrian film, 2007 Academy Award winner for foreign-language films, follows the convoluted path of a master counterfeiter (Karl Markovics) who is thrown into a Nazi concentration camp but gets preferential treatment by leading a team that prints phony Allied currency.
Extras: Accompanying the film on DVD and Blu-ray are deleted scenes, an interview with Markovics, a question-and-answer session and commentary with director Stefan Ruzowitzky and a conversation with a real-life counterfeiter and Holocaust survivor.
*Starship Troopers: Giant bugs are back to take on Earth in this adaptation of Robert Heinlein's sci-fi novel, which makes the leap to Blu-ray accompanied by the debut of Starship Troopers 3: Marauder and the previous small-screen sequel Starship Troopers: Hero of the Federation. Casper Van Dien and Jolene Blalock star. The original Starship Troopers and Marauder are available as separate Blu-ray releases, while all three movies come in a Blu-ray boxed set. New DVD releases of all three also are available.
*Pete Seeger: The Power of Song: The life, times and music of folk-protest patriarch Seeger are chronicled in this documentary that features interviews with the singer and admirers including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie and Peter, Paul and Mary.
Extras: DVD extras include deleted footage and five short films from the Seeger family archives on such topics as playing banjo and making your own steel drum.
*I Got the Feelin': James Brown in the '60s: The hardest-working man in show business graduated from godfather of soul to keeper of the peace after Martin Luther King Jr. was slain in 1968. The night after the assassination, Brown's concert at the Boston Garden aired live on public television as his plea to the city's residents to stay off the streets and avoid a riot. This three-disc set includes the documentary The Night James Brown Saved Boston. The set also includes the full videotaped concert from that night along with a show at the Apollo Theater the previous month.
*Lonesome Dove: In this adaptation of Larry McMurtry's tale, two ex-Texas Rangers (Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones) lead a cattle drive to Montana.
Extras: This new two-disc DVD version and Blu-ray two-disc set come with a making-of documentary and interviews. A DVD gift set includes the miniseries, a branded flask and a deck of cards packaged in a wooden box.
