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For people who need a movie suggestion when Hiro Nakamura comes calling for a recommendation: The Forbidden Kingdom (Special Edition)

Both Jackie Chan and Jet Li have been active professional actors for more than a quarter of a century, and yet the men, both Chinese martial artists, have yet to appear in a film together - until now. The Forbidden Kingdom marks the first time the vet actors showcased their fighting skills in the same release.

The Forbidden Kingdom is about an obsessed-with-kung-fu-classics American teenager (Michael Angarano) who makes quite the discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Monkey King, a Chinese sage and warrior. With relic in hand, the boy unexpectedly travels back through time to ancient China to embark on a quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King (Li) alongside a crew of mythic martial arts warriors. While Chan plays the role of Lu Yan, the Drunken Immortal, Li puts in double duty as both the Monkey King and Lan Cai He, the Silent Monk.

The flick marks kid-vid helmer Rob Minkoff's first venture into more adult subject matter. His previous directorial credits include The Lion King, Stuart Little (and its poor performing sequel) and The Haunted Mansion. And his action director, Yuen Woo-ping, is legendary. He's had a hand in some of the most popular martial arts/action films from the past decade, like The Matrix trilogy; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill franchise.

Disc includes: The Kung Fu Dream Team featurette, Dangerous Beauty featurette, Discovering China featurette, Filming in Chinawood featurette, Monkey King and the Eight Immortals featurette, blooper reel, deleted scenes, audio commentary, previsualization featurette.

For people who enjoy verbal harassment: Judge Judy: Second to None

Since its 1996 debut, Judge Judy has maintained a firm stranglehold on daytime ratings, consistently drawing in more viewers than any other courtroom-themed reality show. Surprised by this? I'm not. When courtroom television is the topic of conversation, this special 65-year-old bundle of sass is likely to instantly pop in your head. The woman is so in bed with pop culture that she even scored her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame a little over two years ago.

After finding success last year with her first direct-to-DVD title, Judge Judy: Justice Served, the lady storms back in stores today with a collection of nearly two more hours of her finest moments separated into 10 small-claims cases. Highlights include a man suing a young girl for filing a phony police report and an eBay user who cons bidders into buying pictures of cell phones for hundreds of dollars. Tisk tisk.

Disc includes: Judyisms featurette, Judy on Entertainment Tonight featurette, Tribute to Judy from The Montel Williams Show featurette.

September 9, 2008

Absent Minded Professor / Son of Flubber (Double Feature)
Avril Lavigne: Best Damn Tour Live in Toronto
Awakening
The Bad Pack
Beauty And The Beast (Essential Art House)
Bicentennial Man / Mission To Mars (Double Feature)
Black Stallion (Includes Music CD)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Spike - Love is Hell
Chaos
Charles Dickens (Includes Music CD)
Child's Play (Widescreen Anniversary Edition)
A Christmas Without Snow (Full Screen)
Cider House Rules / Shipping News (Double Feature)
Cool Hand Luke (Deluxe Edition)
CSI Miami: Seasons 1-6 (Set)
CSI: Miami - The Sixth Season
A Day at the Beach
Day Watch (Unrated)
The Death Of The Incredible Hulk
The Elevator Movie
Emily of New Moon: 1st Season
Event Horizon (Lenticular Artwork)
Evolve Your Brain
The Fall (Widescreen)
A Family Of Cops (2-Disc Edition)
A Family Of Strangers (Full Screen)
The Fast And Furious Collection (Double Feature)
Fist Of Legend (Ultimate Edition)
Foreign Exchange
Friday The 13th (Lenticular Artwork)
Gangster World
Grey's Anatomy: Season 4 Expanded
Gulliver's Travels (Widescreen)
A Haunting: Season 4
Heckler (Widescreen)
The Hills Have Eyes Unrated Collection (Unrated)
House Of The Dead (Director's Cut)
The House of Traps (Widescreen)
How The West Was Won (Special Edition)
I Want Candy
Inspector Gadget / Inspector Gadget 2 (Double Feature)
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 3
Jaded
Jerry Maguire
Knife In The Water
Last Days of Left Eye
Light and the Sufferer
Lord Of The Flies (Essential Art House)
Medium: Seasons 1-4 (Set)
Medium: The Fourth Season
Metro / Holy Man (Double Feature)
Moreno
Night Watch
Nowhere Land
Nympha (Widescreen)
Pet Sematary (Lenticular Artwork)
The Plans of Man
Pumpkinhead (Lenticular Artwork)
Red Eye (Lenticular Artwork)
The Ring (Lenticular Artwork)
Seed (Unrated)
Sleepy Hollow (Lenticular Artwork)
Smallville: Seasons 1-7 (Set)
Smallville: The Complete Seventh Season
Something Beneath (Widescreen)
Son of Sam (Widescreen)
South of Pico
Species Collection (Set)
Star Appeal
Superman Returns (TrueHD Audio)
Through the Valley
Tortoise vs. Hare
Trail Of A Serial Killer
Ugly Betty: The Complete Second Season
We Are Together (Widescreen)
What Lies Beneath (Lenticular Artwork)
Wings: Seasons 1-7 (Set)
Wings: The Seventh Season

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