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Here are the DVD & Video releases for November & December 2008.

These do not include releases of classics, TV movies, and Direct-To-Video (which had never shown in cinemas).

The Advisories we include here are the one posted for that movie during cinematic release in our FoundLocally movie listings, so that parents can evaluate the movie they buy or rent for their families.

The Capsule Reviews are provided to help you a plot overview and names of leading actors, to help you decide that a movie is worth renting or buying.

The Star Ratings, are out of five and are our estimation of overall movie value fora general audience. (NOTE: items without stars were unrated by FoundLocally in theatrical releases)

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Date

Title, Advisory & Capsule Review

Our Picks:

NOVEMBER

Nov 04, 2008

M*A*S*H: Season Six

TV Series

M*A*S*H: Season Ten

TV Series

M*A*S*H: Season Three

TV Series

M*A*S*H: Season Two Collector's Edition

TV Series

Mind of Mencia: Season 4

TV Series

Mister Peepers: Season 2

TV Series

MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge Season 4.1

TV Series

MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge Season 4.2

TV Series

MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge Season 5.1

TV Series

MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge Season 5.2

TV Series

MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge Vols. 4-5

TV Series

Mysterious Island: 1st Season

TV Series

Night Gallery: The Complete Second Season

TV Series

Pink Floyd: Great Gig In The Sky

Music

Scrubs: The Complete Seventh Season

TV Series

Nov 07, 2008

Sheryl Crow: Live

Music

Nov 11, 2008

Smash Lab: Season 1, Part 1

TV Series

Smashing Pumpkins: If All Goes Wrong

Music

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

98 Mins. Sci-fi action violence throughout, brief language and momentary smoking

2.5 Animated: As the Clone Wars sweep through the galaxy, the heroic Jedi Knights struggle to maintain order and restore peace. [View Movie Trailer]

Supernatural: The Complete Third Season

TV Series

Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks 2

Music

The Perfect Holiday

96 Mins. Brief language and some suggestive humor


The Streets of San Francisco: Season 2, Volume 2

TV Series

This Christmas

117 min


Three Sheets: Season 3

TV Series

Tsubasa: Season 1

TV Series

Warner Bros. Classic Holiday Collection: Volume 1

Christmas

Warner Bros. Classic Holiday Collection: Volume 2

Christmas

Yu Yu Hakusho Season 3

TV Series

A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!

TV Series

Awake

84 Mins.Coarse language, an intense disturbing situation, and brief drug use.

3 A man (Hayden Christensen) who finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery in "anesthetic awareness", while his wife (Jessica Alba) must cope.

Bones: Season Three

TV Series

Burke's Law: Season 1, Volume 2

TV Series

Daniel Boone: Season 6

TV Series

Everest Beyond the Limit: Season 2

TV Series

Fairly Oddparents: Season 6, Volume 1

TV Series

Gene Simmons Family Jewels: The Complete Season 3

TV Series

Ghost Hunt: Season1, Part 2

TV Series

Hannah Montana: The Complete First Season

TV Series

Hawaii Five-O: Seasons 1-5

TV Series

Hawaii Five-O: The Fifth Season

TV Series

Mad Money

104 Mins. Some sexual material and language, and brief drug references

3.5 Three female janitors at the Federal Reserve (Queen Latifah, Diane Keaton, and Katie Holmes) conspire to steal a fortune in money scheduled to be destroyed.

McHale's Navy: Season 4

TV Series

National Security

TV Series

Odd Couple: The Complete Series

TV Series

Odd Couple: The Final Season

TV Series

Spongebob Squarepants: Season 5, Volume 2

TV Series

Star Trek Original Series: Seasons 1-3

TV Series

Star Trek The Original Series: Season Three

TV Series

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

117 Mins. Mature material and sensuality.

3.5 Four friends (Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Amber Tamblyn) are facing their first ever summer apart from each other. Before they leave each other, they discover magical pants that miraculously fit all of them. They decide that the Pants should circulate among them throughout the summer. [View Movie Trailer]

The Universe: The Complete Season One

TV Series

Tougher In Alaska: Season 1

TV Series

Tropic Thunder

107 Mins. Pervasive language including sexual references, violent content and drug material

4 A group of B-actors (Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr) shooting a big-budget war movie in Vietnam are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying. [View Movie Trailer]

WALL-E

103 min

4.5 Pixar animated movie about a trash-compacting robot cleaning up earth polluted by humans, when he falls for a sleek, female droid, and sets out on an intergalactic journey to be with her. [View Movie Trailer]

Ah My Goddess: Season 2 Collection

TV Series

Barenaked Ladies: Talk to the Hand Live

Music

Beverly Hills 90210: Seasons 1-6

TV Series

Beverly Hills 90210: The Sixth Season

TV Series

Case Closed: Season 3

TV Series

Fred Claus

Some mild coarse language and some rude humor

3.5 Fred Claus (Vince Vaughn), Santa's (Paul Giamatti) bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole, causing mayhem among the elves and their toy production.\

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.: The Complete Series

TV Series

Nov 18, 2008

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.: The Final Season

TV Series

Hancock

92 Mins. Some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and language.

3.5 A hard-living superhero (Will Smith) who has fallen out of favor with the public enters into a questionable relationship with the wife (Charlize Theron) of the public relations professional (Jason Bateman ) who's trying to repair his image. [View Movie Trailer]

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

124 Mins. Frequent adventure violence, battle images, and scary scenes

4 The 4th adventure of the famed archaeologist/adventurer (Harrison Ford) as he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind the mysterious Crystal Skulls artifacts. [View Movie Trailer]

Iron Man

126 Mins. Some intense sequences of sci-fi action & violence, brief suggestive content

3 When a wealthy industrialist (Robert Downey Jr.) is forced to build an armored suit after a life-threatening incident, he ultimately decides to use its technology to fight against evil. [View Movie Trailer]

Lunar Jim: 1st Season, Volume 1

TV Series

Lunar Jim: 1st Season, Volume 2

TV Series

Meet Dave

90 Mins. Suggestive humor, action and some language

2.5 While trying to save their planet, a crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form (Eddie Murphy), but encounter problems, when their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman (Elizabeth Banks). [View Movie Trailer]

Paul Simon: Live From Philadelphia

Music

Pumpkin Scissors: Season 1, Part 1

TV Series

Pumpkin Scissors: Season 1, Part 2

TV Series

Sasami Season 2

TV Series

Space Chimps

81 Mins.

3.5 Animated: Three NASA chimps (voices: Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Patrick Warburton) are sent to a distant galaxy, one is a fun-loving slacker but grandson of first chimp in space, and must save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from the evil dictator. [View Movie Trailer]

The Doris Day Show: The Complete Series

TV Series

The Mod Squad: Season 2 Volume 1

TV Series

The Town That Banned Christmas

Christmas

Cannon: Season 1

TV Series

Cannon: Season 1, Volume 2

TV Series

Dead Like Me: The Complete First Season

TV Series

Dead Like Me: The Complete Second Season

TV Series

Fly Me to the Moon

84 Mins.

4 Animated: Three young houseflies stow away aboard the Apollo 11 flight to the moon. (voices: Tim Curry, Robert Patrick, Kelly Ripa, Buzz Aldrin, Trevor Gagnon). [View Movie Trailer]

Inuyasha Season 6

TV Series

Jake & The Fat Man: Season 1

TV Series

Jake & The Fat Man: Season 1, Volume 2

TV Series

Kyo Kara Maoh: Season 2, Volume 9

TV Series

Maria Watches Over Us: 2nd Season

TV Series

Nov 25, 2008

Metalocalypse: Season Two

TV Series

Metalocalypse: Seasons 1 & 2

TV Series

Perry Mason: Season 3, Volume 2

TV Series

Robson Arms: The Complete 3rd Season

TV Series

Saturday Night Live: The Complete Fourth Season

TV Series

Step Brothers

Crude and sexual content, and pervasive language

2.5 Two spoiled guys (Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly) become competitive stepbrothers after their single parents (Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins) get hitched. [View Movie Trailer]

Story of Saiunkoku Season Set 2

TV Series

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

140 Mins.

4 The Pevensie siblings (William Moseley, Anna Popplewell) return to Narnia, where they are enlisted to once again help ward off an evil king and restore the rightful heir to the land's throne, Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes). [View Movie Trailer]

The Longshots

Some mature thematic elements, mild language and brief rude humor.

3 An eleven year old girl (Keke Palmer), becomes the first female quarerback to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history, on a team coached by her uncle, a down & out former high school coach (Ice Cube).[View Movie Trailer]

Three Days Grace: Live at the Palace 2008

Music

Wanted

110 Mins. Strong bloody violence throughout, pervasive language and some sexuality

3.5

Wanted A young man (James McAvoy) is lured from a miserable existence by a gun-toting hitwoman (Angelina Jolie) into the Fraternity (run by Morgan Freeman), a secret group of assassins to which his dead father belonged. [View Movie Trailer]

Deadwood: The Complete Series

TV Series

Dragon Ball GT Season 1

TV Series

Gunsmoke: Season 3, Volume 1

TV Series

Happy Days: Seasons 1- 4

TV Series

Happy Days: The Fourth Season

TV Series

Horton Hears a Who!

88 min


I Am Legend

101 min. Intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence.

I Am Legend 3.5 A top scientist (Will Smith) cannot stop a lethal virus, to which he happens to be immune, and ends up being the last human survivor in a sombre looking New York City, and maybe the world, as he fights to outlast virus-affected mutants. [View Movie Trailer]

Lost: The Complete Fourth Season

TV Series

Lyrical Nanoha: Season Set

TV Series

Mcleod's Daughters: The Complete Seventh Season

TV Series

Public Enemy: Revolverlution Tour 2003 Manchester

Music

DECEMBER

Dec 02, 2008

Rawhide: Season 3

TV Series

Rawhide: The Third Season, Volume 2

TV Series

Swingtown: The First Season

TV Series

The Dark Knight

152 Mins. Intense sequences of violence and some menace.

4 Batman (Christian Bale) and James Gordon (Gary Oldman) join forces with Gotham's new District Attorney (Aaron Eckhart) to take on an ever-more psychotic bank robber known as The Joker (Heath Ledger). [View Movie Trailer]

The Homies Hip Hop Show: Best of Season One

TV Series

Tokyo Majin: Season 1, Part 1

TV Series

Wedding Peach: Season 1

TV Series

Winx: Dark Sky Season 3, Part 1

TV Series

American Dragster: 2nd Season

TV Series

Black Lagoon Season 1

TV Series

Crime 360: Season 1

TV Series

Gangland: Complete Season 2

TV Series

Ice Road Truckers: Complete Season Two

TV Series

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

124 Mins. intense battle sequences

2 A farmer (Jason Statham) sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife (Leelee Sobieski) and avenge the death of his son, taking on the Krugs, a race of animal-warriors who are controlled by the evil Gallian (Ray Liotta).

Kodocha Season 1

TV Series

Mamma Mia! The Movie

Some sex-related comments.

3 The story of an 18 year old bride-to-be (Amanda Seyfried) trying to find her real father (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård?) told using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA.[View Movie Trailer]

Negima: Season 2, Part 1

TV Series

Perfect Season: 2008 Philadelphia Phillies

TV Series

Petticoat Junction: The Official First Season

TV Series

Red Garden: Season 1, Part 1

TV Series

Red Garden: Season 1, Part 2

TV Series

Dec 09, 2008

School Rumble: Season 2, Part 2

TV Series

The A-Team: Season One

TV Series

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

114 Mins. Adventure action and violence

1.5 In the Far East, trouble-seeking father-and-son duo (Brendan Fraser & Luke Ford) unearth the mummy of the first Han Emperor of Qin (Jet Li), he and his thousands of terra cotta warriors are brought back to life.[View Movie Trailer]

American Teen

95 Mins. Ssome strong language, sexual material, some drinking and brief smoking-all involving teens.

35 A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques. [View Movie Trailer]

The House Bunny

Sex-related humor, partial nudity and brief strong language.

The House Bunny3.5 A Playboy bunny (Ana Faris), tossed from the Playboy Mansion, has nowhere to go until the seven socially clueless sorority girls take her into their sorority house, which can lose their house to a competiting sorority unless the sign a new pledge class. [View Movie Trailer]

Traitor

Intense violent sequences, thematic material and brief language.

3.5

Traitor An investigation by the CIA & FBI (Guy Pearce) into an international terrorist organization leads leads to a former special operative (Don Cheadle) [View Movie Trailer]

Burn After Reading

Pervasive coarse language, some sexual content and violence.

3.5A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent (John Makovich) ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees (Richard Jenkins, Brad Pitt) who attempt to sell it. [View Movie Trailer]

Death Race

Strong violence and language.

2.5An ex-con (Jason Statham) is forced by the warden of a notorious prison (Joan Allen) to compete in a brutal car race, in which inmates kill one another on their road to victory. [View Movie Trailer]

Hamlet 2

92 Mins. Coarse language with sexual references, brief nudity and some drug content


Save Me Lollipop Season Collection

TV Series

Ghost Town

102 Mins. Some strong language, sexual humor and drug references.

4 A man (Ricky Gervais) who is dead for 7 minutes during a "routine" colonoscopy, and awakens with the ability to see & communicate with ghosts. His ghostly patron (Greg Kinnear) asks him to meddle with the impending marriage of his widow (Tea Leoni) who lives in his building.[View Movie Trailer]

The Duchess

110 Mins. Sexual content, brief nudity and thematic material.

4 The life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana (Keira Knightly), Duchess of Devonshire, who lived an extravagant political and personal life, for which she became unpopular.[View Movie Trailer]

10 Items or Less: The Complete Second Season

TV Series

100 Dollar Taxi Ride: 1st Season

TV Series

Atonement

130 Mins. Disturbing war images, language and some sexuality.

3 A fledgling writer Briony Tallis, when 13 years old, falsely accuses the lover (James McAvoy) of her older sister (Keira Knightley) of a crime, changing many lives.

Charlie Wilson's War

97 Mins. Strong language, nudity/sexual content and some drug use.

4 An Enigmatic Texas congressman (Tom Hanks) to cajoled by a rich benefactor (Julia Roberts) to use his CIA allies to covertly arm the Afghani Mujahedeen against their Soviet Union invaders.

Dogs on Board: 1st Season

TV Series

Kyle XY: The Complete Second Season

TV Series

Nip/Tuck: Season 5, Part 1

TV Series

Dec 16, 2008

Nip/Tuck: Seasons 1-5

TV Series

Psi Factor: 3rd Season

TV Series

Secret Life of the American Teenager: 1st Season

TV Series

This Small Space: The 1st Season

TV Series





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