New on Blu-ray & DVD: December 4

Batman's final chapter is here in The Dark Knight Rises; Jennifer Garner stirs up trouble and magic in Butter and The Odd Life of Timothy Green; Hope Springs; Beasts of the Southern Wild; Star Trek: TNG's second season hits Blu-ray and much more this week.

The exciting final chapter in director Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy finds Christian Bale back as Bruce Wayne/Batman, battling the malevolent terrorist Bane (Tom Hardy) and his associate Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway) in an effort to protect Gotham City, which has branded him an enemy. With the help of Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman), loyal associates Alfred (Michael Caine) and Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) and Gotham policeman John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), can Batman save the citizens of the city from themselves? Marion Cotillard also stars. Contains loads of incredible special features, plus viewers can download the free The Dark Knight Rises app and sync to the Blu-ray for a unique interactive experience.

Also available: The Dark Knight Trilogy on Blu-ray containing Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises; plus a separate, limited-edition version of the new movie in a Bat Cowl collectible package.

Jennifer Garner stars in this creamy comedy as the ambitious, hard-driving Midwestern wife of a blue-ribbon butter carving king – played by Modern Family's Ty Burrell. When Ty plans to give up butter carving to become a judge, Jen decides it's her turn to go for the gold. Meanwhile, Jen's former high school sweetheart, played by Hugh Jackman, thinks the way to rekindle their romance is by helping her become the dairy carving queen. Olivia Wilde is the sassy town stripper who wants to steal Ty and melt Jen's butter champ dreams. And then there's Rob Corddry's adopted African-American girl (Yara Shahidi), whose natural carving talent could upend everyone's ambitions. Will they all melt under the pressure?

One of life's greatest gifts lands in Jennifer Garner's lap in this inspiring, magical Disney flick. Timothy Green finds Jennifer and Joel Edgerton as Cindy and Jim Green, a happily married couple who can't wait to start a family, but are having a hard time conceiving. Optimistically dreaming about what their child would be like, their lives are changed when a young boy, Timothy (CJ Adams), shows up on their doorstep one stormy night. Soon, the lives of Cindy and Jim and the residents of their small town are impacted by their miraculous new addition. But where did he come from? The whimsical film also stars Ron Livingston, Dianne Wiest, M. Emmet Walsh and Common and is directed by Peter Hedges (Dan in Real Life and the writer of What's Eating Gilbert Grape?).

This post-Katrina fable follows a young girl with an active imagination surviving in a bayou community cut off from the rest of the world. Set in a poor backwoods Louisiana area nicknamed "The Bathtub," Beasts of the Southern Wild tracks the relationship between six-year-old Hushpuppy (impressive newcomer Quvenzhane Wallis) and her ailing father Wink (Dwight Henry), who doles out tough-love as they try to both survive and enjoy their day-to-day existence in their forgotten community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee.

In this knowing romantic comedy, Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play Kay and Arnold, a devoted couple who have lost the spark in their marriage after decades together. Hoping to spice things up and reconnect with her husband, Kay seeks out a renowned couple's specialist (played by Steve Carell) in the small town of Great Hope Springs for a week of marriage therapy. Can they re-ignite the spark that caused them to fall for each other in the first place? Hope Springs is directed by David Frankel (Marley and Me, The Devil Wears Prada).

The Disney-Pixar underwater adventure classic is now on 3D Blu-ray! Winner of the Best Animated Picture Oscar, 2003's Finding Nemo follows the journey of Marlin (Albert Brooks) and his new friend Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) as they leave the safety of their coral reef to rescue his kidnapped boy, Nemo. The film also features the vocal talents of Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett, Eric Bana, Allison Janney, Geoffrey Rush and Pixar lucky charm John Ratzenberger.

Also available separately: Disney-Pixar's Up on 3D Blu-ray!

One of the most frightening movies of the year from America's top genre filmmakers is now on Blu-ray and DVD… This point of view, found-footage horror film follows a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house in the countryside and acquire a rare tape. Upon searching the house, the guys are confronted with a dead body, a hub of old televisions and an endless supply of cryptic footage, each video stranger and more inexplicably terrifying than the last... Written and Directed by Adam Wingard (The ABC's of Death, You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die), David Bruckner (The Signal), Ti West (The Innkeepers, The House of the Devil), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic, The Zone) and Radio Silence.

The second season of the now-classic Star Trek: The Next Generation soars onto Blu-ray! Join Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his intrepid crew of the starship Enterprise as they seek out new life forms and new civilizations, boldly going where no one has gone before. In addition to all 22 stellar episodes from the second season such as The Icarus Factor, Q Who?, Shades of Gray and The Emissary, special features include a roundtable reunion celebrating the series 25th anniversary and the first-ever Star Trek extended episode: The Measure of a Man. Make it so!

Bring the heat! Danny McBride returns with even more outrageous behavior as the foul-mouthed, washed-up former Major League pitcher Kenny Powers in the hit HBO show. This season he throws a curve ball that lands himself in the "Redneck Riviera" (aka Myrtle Beach, SC) to revive his baseball career. Hysterical bonus content includes deleted scenes, bloopers and more.

Cowabunga! Bart, Homer, Marge, Lisa and Maggie continue to crack up viewers with their daily animated adventures in Springfield, going strong through its 15th season! You know you have to have it…D'oh!

The epic TV miniseries starring Neve Campbell, Chris Noth, Derek Jacobi and Kevin Zegers sails onto Blu-ray and DVD! Set 100 years after the fateful maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, this 12-part story chronicles the story behind the construction of the "unsinkable" ship and the many lives it affected during its three-year assembly. To its wealthy investors, it was a dream. To the middle class who oversaw the project, it was a challenge. But to the working class who built it, Titanic was the start of a revolution. With Ireland under British rule, and the Protestant and Catholic struggle intensifying, Titanic was more than a ship...it was a symbol of ambition, hope and unity.

This magical adventure from the mind of Claymation creator Will Vinton finds Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher stowing away with Mark Twain on his magical airship to take an incredible journey through time in search of Halley’s Comet! Along the way they encounter a variety of Twain’s storybook characters from The Diary of Adam and Eve, Huckleberry Finn, The Mysterious Stranger, The Famous Jumping Frog of Caliverous County, and Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.

Steven Spielberg's fast-paced, true-life tale of one of the youngest con artists ever is now on Blu-ray! Leonardo DiCaprio portrays Frank Abagnale Jr., a young man who successfully conned countless people and cashed in millions of dollars' worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor – all before his 19th birthday. Tom Hanks plays the lawman who is always one step behind him in a riveting game of cat and mouse.

Just in time for the holidays, the perfect gift for film fans is here: This five-film collection contains some of the Oscar-winning filmmaker's best cinematic triumphs: Apocalypse Now (along with the classic film's updated and extended version, Apocalypse Now Redux), The Conversation, One From The Heart and the recent Tetro.

Join the hilarious MST3K crew as they spread holiday cheer and poke fun at awful B-movies with the newest must-have 4-DVD set, which includes Robot Holocaust, Kitten With a Whip, Revenge of the Creature and Operation Kid Brother, the knock-off spy film starring none other than Sean Connery's kid brother, Neil Connery.