DVD new releases for Sept. 13

Smallville Complete Fourth Season

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Empire Falls

The Pretender Complete Second Season

Frasier Complete Sixth Season

Cheers Complete Sixth Season

One Tree Hill Complete Second Season

Quick hits

Julia Roberts' niece, Emma Roberts, will star in a big-screen "Nancy Drew" movie.

David ("Angel") Boreanz talks to TV Guide about his new drama, "Bones."

Launching in the UK, The Classic Marvel Figurine Collection is a magazine accompanied by a collectible figurine each issue.

The animated "Aeon Flux" series will be out on DVD Nov. 22.

The New York Times does a roundup of this season's supernatural TV series.

A look at how the Cartoon Art Museum pulled off a move into the Empire State Building.

Yahoo! Movies has a preview of extras from the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" DVD.

Bedazzled posts a cool old TV ad for a "Superman" t-shirt.

Superfrankenstein puts Katrina into perspective.

Tiki Tim posts some more great exotica music:

Pop Artifact! Davy Crockett lunchbox

Aurora model ads!



Details on expanded "Sin City" DVD

The two-disk edition of the film is out Dec. 13. Here's a rundown on the contents:

Disk one:

  • Original Feature Film Presentation.
  • Feature Commentary with Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller.
  • Feature Commentary with Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino.
  • Feature Commentary of Austin Premiere Audience Reaction.
  • Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes.
  • A Hard Top With A Decent Engine: The Cars of Sin City.
  • Making the Monsters: Special Effects & Make-Up.
  • Trench Coats and Fishnets: The Costumes of Sin City.
  • Booze, Broads & Guns: The Props of Sin City.
  • How It Went Down: Convincing Frank Miller to Make The Film.
  • Giving The Characters Life: Casting the Film.
  • Special Guest Director, Quentin Tarantino.
  • Sin-Chroni-City Interactive Game.
  • Teaser and Theatrical Trailers.

Disk 2:

  • Sin City Recut Extended Unrated Feature Film Presentation (with 23 added minutes).
  • 15 Minute Flick School.
  • All Green Version.
  • The Long Take.
  • Sin City: Live in Concert.
  • 10 Minute Cooking School.

Quick hits

Here's a Flickr page showcasing the art of Roy Huxle, whose paintings adorned the packaging of Matchbox military toys back in the 70s.

Director Joss Whedon has revealed some more details about the "Wonder Woman" film: "We'll meet a Wonder Woman who is similar to the one from the original comics and from the TV series to an extent," said Whedon. "Neither of them are really a template. I've never loved the comics and I didn't watch the television series, but I loved the character very much." He also said, "she doesn't really understand this world, she's very strong but she's also very naive. She's not quite as little as the girls I'm used to writing, but she's definitely one of them in the sense of she'll undergo that kind of baptism of fire that used to be relegated to the male gender. She'll have to come into the world and see how corrupt it is and learn to deal with it and with her own powers. She is kind of, in a way, the grandma of everything I've been writing my whole life, so it makes sense that we should meet."

Via Bubblegumfink: A dancing screensaver featuring my favorite "Doctor Who," Jon Pertwee.

Planet Xtabay has some fresh Les Baxter.

Here's a cool repository of rare Brian Wilson/Beach Boys performances.

Pop Artifact!

Vintage DC Comics house ad

Bozeman Blotter

Police reports from the Bozeman (Montana) Daily Chronicle:

  • A man from Italy was trying to make a U-turn on North Seventh Avenue. He had no experience driving larger American vehicles. He was given some lessons.

Yo, Joe! New series a go

Fox is debuting "G.I. Joe: Sigma 6," a new animated series based on the action figure line, this Saturday.

The weekly G.I. JOE: SIGMA 6 series will be based on a new storyline, with "SIGMA 6" being the code name for a new group of G.I. JOE heroes with highly specialized capabilities that they use to protect the world from COBRA COMMANDER and his evil forces.

G.I. JOE: SIGMA 6 will feature many of the most popular and well-known G.I. JOE characters such as: DUKE, SNAKE EYES, HEAVY DUTY, SCARLETT and TUNNEL RAT, as well as a new hero, LONG HAUL.

G.I. JOE: SIGMA 6 set to premiere this Saturday, September 10 on 4Kids on FOX affiliates nationwide at 11:00 a.m.


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