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New On DVD
Death Race

Jason Statham stars in this futuristic thriller as Jensen Ames, an ex-con turned speedway champion who’s framed for a grisly murder and forced to compete in a grueling three-day televised car race against his fellow inmates. Sitting behind the wheel of a monster car outfitted with machine guns, flamethrowers and grenade launchers, Ames is in the race of his life — and the whole world is watching.
Mighty Machines: Winter Blast

When a major snowstorm hits, it’s up to professional snow removers Buzz, Stretch and Ranger to clear the roads and other areas using monster snowplows, zippy bobcats, mammoth snowblowers and colossal dump trucks. In this “cool” three-episode collection from the children’s TV series, the removal crew gets the job done with their mighty machines in the forest, at a ski hill and, of course, during a blizzard.
Skunk Fu: The Art of Monkey Launching

Kung fu student Skunk has much to learn from his wise master, Panda, in this set of installments from the animated series that follows the adventures of the young martial artist and his pals as they safeguard their valley from Dragon and his minions. These episodes find Dragon’s Ninja Monkeys wreaking havoc as they crush Skunk’s green teacake, hold Fox and Skunk captive and make off with Dr. Turtle’s notebook.
Skunk Fu: The Art of Rivalry

Martial arts student Skunk Fu learns valuable lessons about competition and strategy in this collection of episodes from the animated series about the adventures of the young kung fu fighter, his friends and his wise master, Panda. In these six installments, Rabbit creates a kung fu school to rival Panda’s, Skunk and the Ninja Monkeys battle it out on an ice hockey rink, and war looms over the valley when the monkeys build the ultimate weapon.
Word World: The Race to Mystery Island

Preschoolers will learn about the wonderful world of words with this “PBS Kids” animated series starring the WordFriends: fun-loving critters whose bodies comprise the letters that spell the word they represent. Among the episodes in this compilation are “Pig’s Present,” in which Pig discovers the benefits of patience, and “The Race to Mystery Island,” which finds Frog and Pig carrying competition too far.
The Frozen Limits

When the boys learn that the West is teeming with gold, they pack up and head for Alaska to get a piece of the treasure. Unfortunately, the hapless sextet fail to realize that they’re 40 years too late. Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox, Charlie Naughton and Jimmy Gold — collectively known as the popular British comedy troupe the Crazy Gang — star in this 1939 slapstick cult hit.
Baghead

Two screenwriting couples head to a remote cabin in the woods, hoping that the change of scenery will get the creative juices flowing. Amid the solitude, the dynamics of their relationships are revealed as they strive to write their masterworks. Complicating matters though, is the lurking presence of a strange man who wears a bag over his head. Brothers Jay and Mark Duplass wrote and directed this offbeat follow-up to 2005′s The Puffy Chair.
Beethoven’s Big Break

It’s a dog’s life for stray pooch Beethoven and his puppy family, but when a movie-star canine gets dognapped, Beethoven is chosen to take his place. And it’s up to animal wrangler Eddie (Jonathan Silverman) and his son Billy (Moises Arias) to keep the unruly new star under control. Slowly but steadily, the rambunctious St. Bernard digs his way into Eddie’s heart in this family adventure that also stars Eddie Griffin and Rhea Perlman.
Burn After Reading

In this dark comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen, ousted CIA official Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) loses his recently penned memoir into the hands of a pair of moronic gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand, in a Golden Globe-nominated role) who use it to try to turn a profit. George Clooney and Tilda Swinton round out the cast of this irreverent farce, which was nominated for a Best Picture (Comedy) Golden Globe.
Ghost Town

British funnyman Ricky Gervais (“The Office,” “Extras”) stars in his first feature film lead as Bertram Pincus, a hapless gent who’s pronounced dead, only to be brought back to life with an unexpected gift: a newfound ability to see ghosts. When Bertram crosses paths with the recently departed Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear), he gets pulled into Frank’s desperate bid to break up his widowed wife’s (Téa Leoni) pending marriage to another man.