By David Weiner
9:26 AM PDT, June 5, 2012
Nyuck nyuck nyuck! This it it -- the ultimate collection for Three Stooges fans, with 11 hours of content that includes all 190 of their short films -- including 28 rare, never-before-released shorts -- jam-packed with mirth, merriment and mayhem. The feature-length films Have Rocket, Will Travel and Rockin' in the Rockies are also available for the first time on DVD in this 20-disc set.
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The Three Stooges Ultimate Collection
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Nyuck nyuck nyuck! This it it -- the ultimate collection for Three Stooges fans, with 11 hours of content that includes all 190 of their short films -- including 28 rare, never-before-released shorts -- jam-packed with mirth, merriment and mayhem. The feature-length films Have Rocket, Will Travel and Rockin' in the Rockies are also available for the first time on DVD in this 20-disc set.
Chuck Norris Classics on Blu-ray
MGM
Three flag-waving Chuck Norris '80s action classics are now on Blu-ray -- available exclusively at Walmart -- and Chuck will be very disappointed if you don't watch Delta Force, Missing in Action or Missing in Action 2: The Beginning in celebration of Father's Day. You don't want to disappoint Chuck, do you? Nobody dares…
Hoosiers on Blu-ray
MGM
The legendary, feel-good basketball classic based on a true story is finally on Blu-ray just in time for father's day! Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, and Dennis Hopper star in this tale of a volatile basketball coach with a dark past who arrives in a small, rural Indiana town to attempt to lead the high school team to victory in the '50s.
Yellow Submarine on Blu-ray
EMI
The classic, trippy Beatles animated movie is back and more colorful than ever on Blu-ray. Featuring such Fab Four tunes as Eleanor Rigby, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and All You Need is Love along with the title track, follow the cartoon versions of John, Paul, George and Ringo as they travel through Pepperland and wage war against the Blue Meanies to bring love, happiness and music back to the people.
Cocktail & The Color of Money on Blu-ray
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Two of Tom Cruise's biggest and most influential movies of the '80s are now available on Blu-ray fro the first time! In The Color of Money, Cruise teams of with director Martin Scorsese and acting legend Paul Newman in the long-awaited sequel to The Hustler, in which Newman returns as Fast Eddie Felson to mentor talented a young pool shark (Cruise). And in Cocktail, Cruise plays New York bartender Brian Flanagan, who learns the secrets of the trade from his new boss (Bryan Brown) before heading to Jamaica to work at a local resort tiki bar and romance an American tourist (Elisabeth Shue).
The Sting on Blu-ray
Universal
Paul Newman and Robert Redford reunite for this now-classic caper comedy, now on Blu-ray! Taking place in 1930s Chicago, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker. Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Sally Kirkland, Eileen Brennan and Ray Walston also star in the George Roy Hill film.
White Collar: Season 3
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
The unlikely partnership between charming con artist Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) and straightman FBI agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay) fuels the excitement of White Collar. Caffrey provides his expertise to help Burke catch other elusive criminals in exchange for his freedom, and together they prove that in order to solve the hardest crimes, you must hire the smartest criminal.
Burn Notice: Season 5
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Master-spy Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) has just rejoined the CIA as consultant, but after being framed for the murder of a close friend, he partners with Kim Pearce (Lauren Stamile) to clear his name. After increasingly dangerous and criminal missions, Michael comes face to face with the man who burned him and the one closest to him who knew about it all along. The suspense, betrayal and intense action make season 5 of Burn Notice a must-see!
Pretty Little Liars: The Complete Second Season
Warner Bros. Home Video
Who is "A?" Explore one of basic cable's biggest secrets with Pretty Little Liars: The Complete Second Season. Starring Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Holly Marie Combs, Lucy Hale, Ian Harding, Laura Leighton, Chad Lowe, Shay Mitchell and Sasha Pieterse.
Falling Skies: Season One
TNT
TNT's epic alien-invasion saga starring Noah Wyle is now on DVD and Blu-ray! The series chronicles the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that leaves most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, survivors band together to begin the difficult task of fighting back against the aggressive aliens. Outside of Boston, history professor Tom Mason (Wyle) helps lead a small army named 2nd Massachusetts in the battle of their lives to preserve their families and what's left of humanity.
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Eighth Season
HBO
Larry David travels to the Big Apple and finds himself battling new girlfriends, politicians and even Michael J. Fox in the eighth season of this unapologetically funny HBO series. Newly divorced, Larry is living the bachelor life and navigating the L.A. dating scene. However, when a faulty alibi ends up landing him in New York City for an extended stay, he proves that faux-pas and character assassinations can occur just as easily in Manhattan as in Hollywood. Will New York change Larry, or is it the other way around?
Breaking Bad: The Complete Fourth Season
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul are back for Breaking Bad's most shocking and explosive season yet. Chemistry teacher Walter White's dark transformation to full-blown criminal reaches lethal new heights as his battle of wits with vicious drug kingpin Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) continues.
Machine Gun Preacher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Gerard Butler stars in this explosive, inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the savior of over a thousand kidnapped and orphaned children in East Africa from starvation, disease, and enslavement. Michelle Monaghan, Kathy Baker, Madeline Carroll, Michael Shannon and Souleymane Sy Savane co-star.
Act of Valor
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
An unprecedented blend of real-life heroism and original filmmaking, Act of Valor stars a group of active-duty Navy SEALs in a powerful story of contemporary global anti-terrorism. When the rescue of a kidnapped CIA operative leads to the discovery of a deadly terrorist plot against the U.S., a team of SEALs is dispatched on a worldwide manhunt. Inspired by true events, the film combines stunning combat sequences, up-to-the minute battlefield technology and heart-pumping emotion for the ultimate action adventure. Roselyn Sanchez, Alex Veadov, Jason Cottle and Nestor Serrano also star.
John Carter
Walt Disney Pictures
Friday Night Lights and Battleship star Taylor Kitsch is transported to Mars -- and in the middle of an all-out war -- in this sweeping action-adventure. Based on the classic story by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, Civil War vet Carter becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including the nine-foot, four-armed alien Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Mars and its people rests in his mighty hands. Also starring Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, Dominic West, James Purefoy, Bryan Cranston, Polly Walker, Daryl Sabara and Thomas Haden Church.
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Warner Bros.
Dwayne Johnson headlines a cast that includes Michael Caine, Vanessa Hudgens and The Hunger Games star Josh Hutcherson in this exciting follow-up to Journey to the Center of the Earth. Sean Anderson (Josh) receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist. Unable to stop him from tracking the signal to its source, Sean's new stepfather, Hank (Dwayne), joins the quest that will take them to an island of stunning beauty, strange and threatening life forms, volcanoes, mountains of gold and more than one astonishing secret. The film is inspired by the classic Jules Verne novel.
Safe House
Universal
Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds team up for this action-thriller in which Denzel plays Tobin Frost, a renegade CIA agent who returns to the grid after a decade on the run. When the safe house in South Africa he's hiding out in is attacked, rookie operative Matt Weston (Ryan) escapes with the dangerous spy. With deadly mercenaries attempting to take them out, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead. Safe House also stars Brendan Gleeson, Sam Shepard, Vera Farmiga, Robert Patrick and Ruben Blades.
New on DVD & Blu-ray: June 5
Warner Bros.
Journey 2; Safe House; John Carter; Breaking Bad; Pretty Little Liars; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Yellow Submarine, Hoosiers, Chuck Norris action classics on Blu-ray and much, much more out this week.