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Given my ambivalence about the quality of the first season of Dollhouse, I understand your reticence in watching the whole season. If you want to pick and choose your episodes after the pilot, Man on the Street, Echoes, Briar Rose and Omega are the best the first season has to offer. For those of you who are fans of Felicia Day, the box set also includes the previously unaired 13th episode. This is the one that set off a Twitter flame war when Day revealed Fox had no plans to air the episode, a coda to the season rather than a part of it. Buffy the Vampire Slayers have drawn the logical equivalent that this could be Dollhouse's answer to Restless, the final episode of season four, one that took place after Adam had been thwarted. Whether this proves to be the case or not, the most pressing question in my mind is whether Day sings.

Disc includes: Unaired pilot, audio commentary, deleted scenes, Making Dollhouse featurette, Coming Home featurette, Finding Echo featurette, Designing the Perfect Dollhouse featurette, A Private Engagement featurette

For people who wonder whether a future movie in this series will be named Fast Furious; Furiously Fast or Faster, Furious-cat! Kill! Kill!: Fast & Furious (Special Edition)

Fast & Furious, the fourth entry in the widely popular Fast and the Furious film series, reteamed the key players who made the original 2001 movie a pop culture hit: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Michelle Rodriguez. The audience approved – though by no means a critical darling – flick scored the franchise's biggest opening weekend to date at $70.9 million. It also finished above Fast and the Furious' final domestic tally by about $11.5 million. To put a little perspective on this, the franchise's bastard child, Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, scored just $62.6 million total. Fast & Furious had that beat by day three. Clearly mere pieces of Vin Diesel's biceps (yes, this can be measured) are a bigger box office draw than Bow Wow's entire person.

Expect 5 Fast 5 Furious – that's what they're calling it! – next year or the year after. What is it with this franchise and its poorly named titles?

Disc includes: Audio commentary, gag reel, Under the Hood: Muscle Cars & Imports featurette, High Octane Action: The Stunts featurette, Shooting the Big Rig Heist featurette, Driving School with Vin Diesel featurette

For people who didn't know the Italians had John Carpenter beat by about five years: Torso (Uncut)

Lovers (and haters) of the modern slasher movie have a little Italian movie called Torso to thank. It's widely considered to be one of the forerunners of the genre. The movie made its DVD debut in 2000, and is re-released today in stores in complete uncut and uncensored form. (Much of its controversial violence was originally removed by those nasty censors).

Like any slasher, Torso's got a lot of sex, a lot of isolated villas, a lot of boobies and a lot of beautiful college young things. Here, the girls – four of ‘em – head for the hills when a series of gruesome murders frighten their campus. During their "weekend vacation," the killer tracks them down and attempts to have his way with them.

Disc includes: None

July 28, 2009
Blu-ray
12 Monkeys
Bad Boy Bubby
Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5
Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series
Clear And Present Danger
Dollhouse: Season One
Dr. Who: Planet of the Dead
Dragonball: Evolution (Special Edition)
Drillbit Taylor
Eagles Over London
Fast & Furious (Special Edition)
Green Lantern: First Flight (Special Edition)
The Hunt For Red October
Inglorious Bastards
The Love Guru
Miss March (Unrated)
National Geographic: Rhino Rescue
Patriot Games
Pirates of Penzance: Gilbert & Sullivan / Austrail
Repulsion (Criterion Collection)
A River Runs Through It
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood
This Is Spinal Tap
Torchwood: Children of the Earth
Torchwood: The Complete Second Season
Transformers

DVD
Alzheimer's Project
Bad Lieutenant (Special Edition)
Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5
Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series
Combat Shock (Director's Cut)
Dollhouse: Season One
The Donna Reed Show: Season Two
Dr. Who: Planet of the Dead
Dragonball: Evolution (Special Edition)
Drillbit Taylor
Eagles Over London
Early Edition: The Second Season
Extra: Collection Of Outstanding Music Videos
Fast & Furious (Special Edition)
Fast & Furious 4-Movie Collection (Set)
The Green Hornet
The Green Hornet Strikes Again
Green Lantern: First Flight (Special Edition)
Ichi The Killer (Special Edition)
Inglorious Bastards
Jim Breuer: Let's Clear the Air
Knight Rider (2008): Season 1
Liberace: Greatest Songs (Special Edition)
Life on Mars (UK Version): Series 1
The Middleman: The Complete Series
Miss March (Unrated)
Mulligan (Unrated)
Nobody (Unrated)
Nobody Loves Alice (Director's Cut)
Repulsion (Criterion Collection)
Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin'
Torchwood: Children of the Earth
Torchwood: The Complete Second Season
Torso
UFC 95 & 96 (Double Feature)
WWE: Great American Bash 2009
xxxHOLIC Collection (Boxed Set)

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