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For people who are terrified of Glenn Close: Damages: The Complete Second Season

Glenn Close is chillingly great as Patty Hewes, a powerful, New York City-based attorney who'll stop at nothing to win. She's nasty and foreboding, but faces her first formidable opponent in Ellen Parsons, a young protégé at Patty's firm who wages a secret war against her malicious boss after learning some pretty compromising information at the tail end of the series' first season. Though already boasting a stellar cast in its two female leads (in addition to Tate Donovan and Ted Danson), season two included season-long arcs by William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden and Timothy Olyphant.

Hardly anyone watches Damages, but that really says nothing about the show's quality. Though I preferred the drama's debut season to the one released today, Damages is the unanimous king of plot twists, which, of course, makes for some pretty entertaining television.

**Yes, Lost included

Disc includes: Cast and crew commentaries, deleted scenes, season one recap, Season Two: Post Mortem featurette, character profiles (7)

For people who think Michael C. Hall should make the jump to theaters only when necessary: Gamer

It's a terrible shame that a truly gifted actor like Michael C. Hall – who finally won a Golden Globe on Sunday for his work on Dexter after settling for mere nods between 2007 and 2009 – signed on to star in a train wreck like Gamer. Though I never got around to seeing it (really, do you blame me?), it didn't take a brain surgeon to deduce that this thing was bad news from the beginning. One look at that trailer, which featured Hall sportin' a fancy, albeit ridiculous accent was enough for me to cry shenanigans and hope to the industry gods that the boy would never appear in a movie like Gamer ever again.

Dudes like Gerard Butler can afford this kind of slop. His 2009 also included The Ugly Truth and Law Abiding Citizen. But Hall? Certainly not, especially when his background includes pay cable hits Six Feet Under and the aforementioned Dexter, which after four seasons is coming off its best season to date.

Disc includes: Visual commentary, Gamer cheat codes, audio commentary, Inside the Game: Making Of featurette, First Person Shooter: The Evolution of Red featurette, never-before-seen theatrical trailer, digital copy

January 19, 2010

Blu-ray

According to Greta
Across the Hall
Artie Lange: Jack & Coke
Boogie Nights
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum
Che (Criterion Collection)
Children Of The Corn / Hellraiser (Double Feature)
Deadly Duo
Death in Love
Fool's Gold
Gamer
He's Just Not That Into You
The Invention of Lying (Special Edition)
The Lake House
License to Wed
Magnolia
Nights in Rodanthe
No Reservations
P.S. I Love You
Pandorum
Smokin' Aces
Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
Status Quo: Pictures Live at Montreux 2009
The Wedding Singer
Weeds: Season Five
The Women

DVD

21 Jump Street: The Complete First Season
According to Greta
Across the Hall
Artie Lange: Jack & Coke
Aziz Ansari: Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening
Che (Criterion Collection)
Cranford: Return to Cranford (Widescreen)
Dallas: Complete Seasons 1-12 (Set)
Dallas: The Complete Twelfth Season
Damages: The Complete Second Season
Death in Love
Defying Gravity: The Complete First Season (Widescreen)
Durham County: Season One
Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series
The Game: The Second Season
Gamer
Girlfriends: The Complete Series (Set)
Girlfriends: The Final Season
Hunter: The Complete First Season
The Invention of Lying (Special Edition)
Law & Order: The Seventh Year (Widescreen)
Pandorum
Smokin' Aces
Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
Thirtysomething: Season Two
Weeds: Season Five

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