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Welcome to How to Spend $20, BOP's look at the latest DVDs to hit stores nationwide. This week: Bond is back, Pearl Jam celebrates its illustrious past and Andy Richter can't break from Conan's shadow.

Pick of the Week

For people who wish Amy Winehouse would have gotten her act together for the opening theme: Quantum of Solace (Special Edition)

Admit it. Quantum of Solace was a letdown. The biggest problem I had with it was the sequel's insistence on bloated and badass action in place of the rich and wickedly dark drama stuffed into Casino Royale. It's good, but not great.

Pegged as the first true sequel in the franchise's roughly 45-year history, Quantum of Solace is all about Bond avenging Vesper Lynd's untimely demise in Casino Royale. While this ongoing storyline unfolds, an environmentalist poser, Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), intends to help General Medrano (Joaquín Cosio) stage a coup d'état in Bolivia in exchange for a chunk of desert real estate.

Disc includes: "Another Way to Die" music video, Bond on Location featurette, Start of Shooting featurette, On Location featurette, Olga Kurylenko and the Beat Chase featurette, Director Marc Forster featurette, The Music featurette, Crew Files Behind-the-Scenes clips

For people who think Eddie Vedder's voice never gets old: Pearl Jam: Ten (Deluxe Edition)

Pearl Jam will celebrate 20 years as a band in 2011. To lead up to this historic feat, the alt-rockers plan to reissue their entire catalogue, as well as a ninth studio album later this year. Out today is Ten, their reputable debut album packed with all hits, like concert favorite "Jeremy" and a few of my personal favorites, "Evenflow" and "Black."

Ten will be reissued four different ways. The cream of the crop is a remastered and remixed version of the album (20+ tracks!), a DVD of the band's 1992 appearance on MTV Unplugged and an LP of their 1992 concert at Magnuson Park in Seattle.

I may or may not be drooling right now.

Disc includes: Remastered album with six extra tracks, 1992 MTV Unplugged DVD, Dropin the Park live concert LP, replica Eddie Vedder composition notebook





For people who think HBO is sending mixed messages by programming a campy, sex-crazed vampire saga with one of the network's highest quality dramas to date: In Treatment

Winner of two Emmys and one Golden Globe (and six more combined nods for both award ceremonies), HBO's In Treatment is the classic case of a great show without an audience. And though hardly anyone watched the show's supersized 43-episode first season – even by pay cable standards – people seem to be finally warming up to the finely acted drama (or are at least aware of what this thing actually is).

Based on Betipul, arguably one of the best Iraeli dramas of all time, In Treatment is about a psychotherapist, Paul (Gabriel Byrne), and his sessions with his patients (Blair Underwood, Melissa George, Mia Wasikowska, among others). Its first season ran five nights a week, with each night focusing on a specific patient.

Season two starts up April 5th. Announced stars include Hope Davis and John Mahoney. Dianne Wiest returns as Paul's therapist and mentor.

Disc includes: None

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