Season two’s 12 episodes come in a two-disc set. “Creature Comforts: The Complete Second Season” - Aardman Animation, creators of “Chicken Run” and “Wallace & Gromit,” presents its latest clay-animated tales, featuring dogs, cats, penguins and other critters speaking out on the animal issues of the day. All 12 episodes from season three are included in a four-disc set, along with a handful of featurettes. “The L Word: The Complete Third Season” - America’s favorite circle of lesbian friends and lovers returns in the show set among a hip group of Los Angeles residents looking for romance. A seven-disc set packs all 25 episodes from season three, plus three featurettes and commentary from creator Josh Schwartz. “The O.C.: The Complete Third Season” - The glitzy soap opera continues among teens and their families in the swanky environs of southern California’s Orange County. The two-disc set has all eight episodes, plus commentary with Parker, Stone and cast members. “That’s My Bush!” - “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone spoofed sitcoms and the White House with this short-lived 2001 comedy about the wacky domestic life of George W. The three-disc set has 22 episodes, with two featurettes and commentary by Lisa Loring and Ken Weatherwax, who played the Addams children, and Felix Silla, who played Cousin Itt. John Astin and Carolyn Jones star as Gomez and Morticia, heads of the macabre household that includes towering butler Lurch and a meandering severed hand. “The Addams Family: Volume One” - The creepy and kooky family of the 1960s sitcom debuts on DVD. “Complete Film Collection” DVD set, $119.98 “Volume 2” DVD set, $59.92 single DVDs, $19.97 each. The films also are available as single DVDs. For those who bought the earlier set but want the whole thing in one tidy box, there’s a partial “Complete Film Collection” set for sale with the final five movies plus empty cases for the first five. If you already bought the “Volume 1” boxed set, “Volume 2” with the last five films is available separately. “Astaire and Rogers: The Complete Film Collection”Following up on an earlier five-film collection, all 10 of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’ song-and-dance collaborations are gathered in a 12-disc set: “Top Hat,” “Swing Time,” “Follow the Fleet,” “Shall We Dance,” “The Barkleys of Broadway,” “Carefree,” “Flying Down to Rio,” “The Gay Divorcee,” “Roberta” and “The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle.” The films are accompanied by vintage shorts and cartoons, plus a new documentary on Astaire and Rogers. The movie is available in regular DVD format or as a high-definition Blu-Ray disc. The DVD comes with seven featurettes examining the technology and methods of motion-capture, along with commentary from the filmmakers. The story centers on three intrepid kids who try to unravel the spooky mysteries lurking in the home of a crazy old recluse. This one’s a story about humans, created through the same motion-capture technique used in the holiday tale “The Polar Express,” in which live actors are filmed with dozens of infrared cameras that render 3-D images of movements and facial expressions, which animators use as the basis for the finished characters. Something different rises up among this year’s rush of animated movies featuring cute talking animals. The DVD also has deleted scenes and five behind-the-scenes featurettes. Black and his producing partner, co-writer Mike White, join Hess for audio commentary. And, like Napoleon, he finds a stoic sidekick and strikes up a chaste relationship with a wallflower, in this case one of the orphanage nuns. With a shock of hair reminiscent of Napoleon’s, Jack Black stars as a cook at a Mexican orphanage who moonlights as a masked lucha libre wrestler to buy better food for the kids and earn respect for himself. “Nacho Libre”For his follow up to “Napoleon Dynamite,” writer-director Jared Hess essentially does “Nacho Napoleon Dynamite,” transplanting things south of the border for another tale of odd outsiders finding kinship.
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