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Animation
The third Ice Age movie, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, is new this week to DVD and Blu-Ray. The film reunites Manny the mammoth (Ray Romano: Eulogy, The Last Word), Sid the sloth (John Leguizamo: Righteous Kill, The Happening) and their ferocious protector (Dennis Leary: The Secret Lives of Dentists, Rescue Me), who, after surviving the great freeze and the meltdown, now need to live through the age of the dinosaurs. Now that the group has expanded, with the members finding mates and starting families, they have to keep their, new, larger tribe together among madcap chases in a world teeming with giant predators. Along with the feature is the DVD release of The Scrat Pack, which offers a new short featuring the series' acorn-obsessed squirrel, along with a collection of Ice Age's Scrat cartoons and other slapstick cartoons.
Nick Park and Aardman Animation's (Flushed Away, Curse of the Were-Rabbit) new Wallace & Gromit short is A Matter of Loaf and Death, their first since 1995's A Close Shave. Wallace, who has opened his own bakery, meets the Bake-O-Lite girl and is immediately smitten, but with bakers going missing, Gromit senses danger, and once again has to save his owner from imminent danger.
The last animated film of the week is Disney's newest Tinkerbell movie, Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure, where the she must adventure across the fairy kingdom to save the magical Pixie Dust Tree.
Live
Resurrected from a 1977 script, Woody Allen's (Vicky Christina Barcelona, Cassandra's Dream) Whatever Works is a return to the writer/director's classic style, with Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Radio Days) as a curmudgeonly New Yorker who meets and marries a much younger woman (Evan Rachel Wood: The Wrestler, Pretty Persuasion), a runaway from a conservative Mississippi family. Allen's comedy works with Wood's Christian 
parents (Patricia Clarkson: Lars and the Real Girl, The Woods and Ed Begley Jr: Pineapple Express, Streets of Fire) in a New Yorker's world, and with the relationship between a jaded older man and a wide-eyed young girl.
In Into Temptation, a call girl (Kristin Chenoweth: Deck the Halls, Running with Scissors) confesses that she intends to commit suicide on her birthday, and the priest (Jeremy Sisto: Waitress, Thirteen) who takes her confession undertakes a journey to find the girl and save her, despite his mentor's (Brian Baumgartner: License to Wed, The Office) warnings. The priest journeys into a dark, sinful world in trying to save her soul, and puts his own at risk.
The Christmas film Nothing Like the Holidays reunites the Rodriguez family in Chicago, as they celebrate family traditions, explore their history, and reveal their secrets. With Alfred Molina (The Hoax, Identity), Elizabeth Pena (Dragon Wars, Transamerica), and Freddy Rodriguez (Bottle Shock, Lady in the Water), the film uses both comedy and drama to celebrate family and the holidays.
The story of notorious Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti, Il Divo tells the story of the man's rise to power and his 50-year political career. Brought to trial in 1992, Andreotti was tried under allegations of ordering the murders of anyone who opposed him, and Mafia connections that carried out his orders.
The documentary Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie is about two Ohio friends who spend their time hunting for Bigfoot. The movie may not have much Bigfoot, but is a compelling portrait of the to men, and the shared interest that was the foundation of their friendship.
Perestroika stars F. Murray Abraham (The Bridge of San Luis Ray, The Name of the Rose) as a professor who returns to his Russian homeland in 1992. Once considered a traitor by the Soviets, his return to his homeland sees him as a hero, 
as he witnesses to new attitudes and lives in the world he left 17 years earlier. With Sam Robards (Che pt 1: The Argentine, A.I.).
Scary
In Orphan, a couple (Vera Farmiga: Nothing but the Truth, The Departed and Peter Sarsgaard: The Skeleton Key, Garden State) who have lost their daughter in a miscarriage adopt a 9-year-old Russian girl (Isabelle Fuhrman: Hounddog) named Esther. Though bright and charming, things seem to go wrong whenever Ester's around, and as her behavior becomes stranger and more bizarre, the family needs to find out who they've invited into their home.
The Korean film The Butcher, banned in its own country, is a POV-shot digital feature that throws a handful of people into the middle of carnage and mayhem, being filmed by gruesome snuff-film producers who are using them for their own grim ends.
New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the newest Battlestar Galactica feature The Plan, and the Doctor Who Christmas episode The Next Doctor. We also have the complete MTV sketch comedy series The State, the first two seasons of Felicia Day's (Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog) internet series The Guild, and the 6-part documentary series about the origins, creative life, and legacy of Monty Python: Almost the Truth
