Coffin Joe Trilogy, R1

Actors: Coffin Joe
Studio: Fantoma
DVD Release Date: October 7, 2003

Unholy undertaker, evil philosopher, denizen of dreams and hallucinations...Coffin Joe, with his trademark top hat, black cape and talon-like fingernails, is a horror icon in his native Brazil. Revered as the national boogeyman, Coffin Joe has been immortalized in films, TV shows, radio programs, comic books and popular songs. He is the creation of writer-director-star Jose Mojica Marins whose perversely original and strangely personal filmmaking style has been compared to an unholy blend of Mario Bava, Luis Bunuel and Russ Meyer. Fantoma is proud to present new director approved editions of these three seminal tales of terror in a specially priced limited-edition boxed set.

The Valiant, R3

Actors: Annette Badland, Jim Broadbent, Tim Curry, Alison Dowling, Christopher Fairbanks
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney
DVD Release Date: December 13, 2005

A host of great British thespians, from Ewan MacGregor to John Cleese, lend their voices to Valiant, a computer-animated bird's-eye-view of World War II. Valiant (MacGregor, Big Fish, Down With Love), though but a small pigeon, is determined to join the homing pigeon brigade and do his part to help win the war. He and a handful of other misfits are assembled into a motley squad and suddenly find themselves thrust into combat with the responsibility of delivering a crucial message. Unfortunately, the villainous Von Talon (Tim Curry, The Rocky Horror Picture Show), a Nazi falcon, intends to tear them to feathers over the English Channel. Aside from some delightful voice work from Ricky Gervais (The Office) as a filthy but cunning pigeon, there's not much to recommend about Valiant. The story is clunky, cliche-ridden, and underdeveloped; the design is charmless and inexpressive; the characters are so generic that even a cast as talented as Jim Broadbent (Topsy-Turvy, Iris), Hugh Laurie (House), and John Hurt (1984, The Elephant Man) can do little to make them anything but bland stereotypes from a long-exhausted movie genre. Overall, poorly conceived and clumsily executed. --Bret Fetzer

Corpse Bride, R3

Actors: Johnny Depp, Emily Watson, Helena Bonham Carter
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: January 31, 2006

Donnie Darko, R2

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Patrick Swayze, James Duval, Mary McDonnell
Studio: Prism Leisure Corporation
DVD Release Date: 2 Feb 2004