New at BOP: Review: Matrix Resurrections Movie Review: Moonfall Movie Reviews: Scream The #1 Movie in America November Forecast The Many Saints of Newark October Forecast New Trivia Question All site updates Share & Save   Tweet Print this column

For people who believe The Hills is so fake that it's real that it's fake: The Hills: The Complete Fourth Season

Ladies and gentlemen, let's all bow our heads a moment and pay our respects to MTV darling The Hills, which has been confirmed to come to a close at the end of the fifth season. The new episodes are slated to air sometime in the spring.

Okay, I'm over it. How about you?

A show I've never watched (nor do I ever really care to), The Hills is itself a spinoff of faux-reality series Laguna Beach, which ceased production about two-and-a-half years ago. The show, which documents the lives of Lauren Conrad (or more properly, L.C.) and her Bobbsey twins in L.A. following her move from Laguna Beach, quickly became a ratings juggernaut for the cable network. It even spawned its own offspring, The City, which started airing original episodes at the end of 2008. (But don't fret. This franchise still has got nothing on the number of series VH1 squeezed out of Flavor Flav's Flavor of Love).

Out today is The Hills' penultimate season, which featured L.C. kicking her friend, Audrina, out; Spencer and Heidi eloping in Mexico and Whitney interviewing to work for fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg.

Disc includes: Deleted scenes, interviews, Lessons in Love featurette, after show remixes, photo shoot, Rolling Stone photo shoot, Virtual Hills featurette

For people who put family in front of breakfast: I've Loved You So Long

Last year proved to be the year of the international actor (to us Americans, at least). At the Oscars, Brit Kate Winslet won her first statue, as did Spaniard Penelope Cruz. And at the Globes, Irish bad boy Colin Farrell, Brit Sally Hawkins and again Winslet won awards. I've Loved You So Long's Kristin Scott Thomas is no exception. Though she only mustered a nod at the Globes, her performance surely brought much needed attention to her acclaimed French film while it made the rounds on the awards circuit.

Here, Scott Thomas stars as Juliette, a woman who has been in prison for committing murder. After serving the sentence, Juliette moves in with her sister's (Elsa Zylberstein) family, including her husband, his mute father and their adopted daughters. While with the family, Juliette learns to break through her bitterness and carefully open up.

Disc includes: Audio commentary, deleted scenes

March 3rd, 2009
Blu-ray
Australia
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Hi Def Moods: HD Fire
I've Loved You So Long
In the Electric Mist
Machaidze / Villazon / Petrenko / Brau: Gounod: Ro
Stargate: The Ark of Truth/Continuum
Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic
Wonder Woman

DVD
7th Heaven: The Eighth Season
Air Bud (Widescreen Special Edition)
The Art of Travel (Special Edition)
Ashes of Time Redux (Widescreen)
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Boz Scaggs: Greatest Hits Live
Creedence Clearwater Revival
ER: The Complete Tenth Season (Widescreen)
Exit Speed
Fountains of Wayne No Better Place Live in Chicago
Hotel Babylon: Season 3 (Widescreen)
A Moment in History: Inauguration of Barack Obama
My Two Dads: The Complete First Season
Nash Bridges: The Second Season
Neil Peart: Anatomy of a Drum Solo
Ozzy Osbourne: Randy Rhoad's Years
Raffi: Raffi in Concert
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares: Complete Series 1
Return Of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Rick & Steve: The Complete Second Season
Sam Cook: Legend
Scarlett Johansson Collection (Set)
The Sin
Stargate: The Ark of Truth/Continuum (Double Feature)
The Village Barbershop
Weapons (Widescreen)
Wet Kiss (Widescreen)
What Planet Are You From? (Set)
Wildfire: Season Three (Widescreen)
Wonder Woman (Special Edition)

Continued:       1       2