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Welcome to How to Spend $20, BOP's look at the latest DVDs to hit stores nationwide. This week: Hannibal Lecter gets significantly creepier, Warner Bros. encourages people to watch books and MTV ditches L.C.

Pick of the Week

For people who are patiently waiting for Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster to reunite on screen for one final Hannibal movie: The Silence of the Lambs [Blu-ray]

If Hannibal weren't already scary enough, we're now offered the opportunity to see the killer in gorgeous Blu-ray. You've officially been warned.

One of the best psychological thrillers ever to grace the big screen, The Silence of the Lambs was the first of four films to feature the famed character (with the first three starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, who earned his only Academy Award with Lambs). Of course, I'm excluding 1986's box office flop Manhunter in the tally. That movie, based on Thomas Harris's Red Dragon, is usually forgotten about anyway.

Disc includes: Breaking the Silence featurette, Understanding the Madness featurette, Inside the Labyrinth: Making The Silence of the Lambs documentary, The Silence of the Lambs: Page to Screen documentary, Scoring the Silence featurette, Original 1991 Making of featurette, deleted scenes, outtakes, Anthony Hopkins phone message





For people who are glad Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox were able to settle their scuffle: Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic

Can't wait for Watchmen? You know, the blockbuster movie brought to you by Warner Bros. and NOT 20th Century Fox. (Don't make the mistake of confusing the two). Then get your grubby hands on Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic, a DVD product that is exactly as it sounds.

Instead of paging through the most celebrated graphic novel of all time, you now can watch a digital version of the comic already sold in stores, complete with (limited) motion, voices and sound effects. How... American. The DVD takes about five hours to get through the story's 12 chapters.

Disc includes: Wonder Woman DVD sneak peek

For people who wish they had a guy like Hugh Jackman waiting for them when they went Down Under: Australia

If you got tired of all that Hugh Jackman singing and dancing stuff at the Oscars... relax... there isn't any of that going on here. Australia is very much a romance story...and at the same time a war story. So for the curious, there will be no boogying around bullets and bopping around bombs. And trust me. Nicole Kidman doesn't require her men to prance around like little gazelles to develop a thing for them.

In the period film that 20th Century Fox thought would be a contender for serious Oscar hardware, Kidman plays Lady Sarah Ashley, an English aristocrat who falls in love with an Australian drover (Hugh Jackman). The burly man helps the woman move her cattle to save themselves from the threat of a nearby town, Darwin, being bombed. It's World War II, and the bombing of Darwin, which occurred in 1942, was the largest attack ever enacted by a foreign country against Australia.

Disc includes: Deleted scenes

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