On DVD today September 30 2008

image-1"Image is everything in Atlanta."

"In Atlanta, money and class give you power."

"Everybody wants to be in Atlanta. It's hot!"

These are just a few of the tips I picked up watching the premier of Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" last night. It was all news to me, and I've lived in Atlanta my whole life. (Marietta, technically, but if these women — in their...

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image-1Yesterday marked the release of Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Holocaust memoir Maus. Printed in large, 10-inch-by-14-inch format, Breakdowns is, for the most part, a re-release of a collection of strips printed in 1978 with an original run of 5,000. It's a book within a book, with a facsimile of the original... | more...

image-2Here are some of the titles that come out on DVD today. For more, see Matt Brunson's View from the Couch column tomorrow.

"30 Rock" Season 2

"'Allo, 'Allo!" Series 9 and the Complete Collection

Dare Not Walk Alone

"Grace Under Fire" the Complete First Season

Halloween Unrated Three-Disc Collector's Editionimage-1

The Happening

"How I Met Your Mother"...

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image-1This week CL Charlotte’s Matt Brunson discusses the DVD releases of Ewan McGregor-Hugh Jackman movie Deception, Iron Man, the special Coppola Restoration of all three Godfather movies and more.

DECEPTION (2008). It's hard to believe a movie starring Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor, two impossibly charismatic actors, could be so dull, but the evidence is right here. McGregor...

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Greg Melville had an ambitious plan: to drive across the country from Vermont to California in a 1985 Mercedes diesel station wagon fueled only by used fryer grease. He'd be walking in the footsteps — or, perhaps, driving in the tire treads — of H. Nelson Jackson, the first man to drive across the United States in an automobile in 1903. Gas stations weren't an option for Jackson, and they... | more...