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Growing up and moving on

With Andy grown up and heading to college, there's no room in his life for the toys he loved when he was small in Pixar's Toy Story 3. The toys hope they'll be put in the attic and played with once Andy has kids of his own, but a mix-up sends Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and the gang to a day care center. Welcomed by a stuffed bear (Ned Beatty) and a Ken doll (Michael Keaton), the toys are excited to play with kids again, but the day care may not be all it seems, and they have one more epic adventure ahead of them. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Following Band of Brothers, the HBO mini-series The Pacific focuses on the US actions in the Pacific Theater during World War II, telling stories of US Marines and their battles throughout the region, from Guadalcanal to Okinawa to Iwo Jima. Over the course of 10 episodes and epic scope, the series keeps up with the cocky and rouguish Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), the Medal of Honor winning John Basilone (Jon Seda), and the driven Eugene Sledge (Joseph Mazzello) as they struggle to survive an unglamorized and hellish war. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Roman Centurion Quintus Dias (Michael Fassbender) is the only survivor of a Pict raid on his outpost in Neil Marshall's Centurion. Determined to wipe out the hordes that haunt the north or what would become the British Isles, Dias guides General Titus Flavius Virilus (Dominic West) and the legendary 9th Legion into battle, only to have the legion destroyed, the general captured, and himself isolated in Pict territory. Hunted by an unstoppable tracker (Ogla Kurylenko), Diaz has to lead the few surviving soldiers (including David Morrissey, JJ Feild, and Noel Clarke) to rescue the general and return to Roman-controlled land... but the cold and snow are formidable, wolves are on the prowl, and the the Picts are driven to ensure the 9th Legion has no survivors. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Jake Hoffman is a directionless slacker who finds himself directing an unorthodox version of Hamlet in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Undead. With a job and some pull in the theater, he gives the role of Hamlet to his best friend (Kris Lemche) and uses the part of Ophelia to win back his ex-girlfriend (Devon Aoki). Unforunately, the playwright (John Ventimiglia) is a vampire, and the show has a harder time going on when the cast is in constant danger of being eaten.

A slasher film from the 80's, Slaughter High sees a prank go awry, leaving the class nerd and butt of popular kids' jokes burned and disfigured. When the pranksters (including Bond Girl Caroline Munro and Billy Hartman) reunite for their 10 year anniversary, they're the only people at their old, abandoned school. When they start dying off one by one, they find the doors locked, sitting ducks for vicious revenge.

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Also new this week is a Blu Ray of Robert Wise's classic musical The Sound of Music, where free spirit Maria (Julie Andrews) is sent to be a governess for a strict and militant widower (Christopher Plummer) and his seven children. Based on the true story of the von Trap family's escape from Nazi expansion, their love of music, and coming together as a family.

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Based on the 1983 miniseries, the first season of V sees aliens, led by Morena Baccarin, landing on earth and guaranteeing peace for everyone, though an FBI agent (Elizabeth Mitchell) and priest (Joel Gretsch) have their doubts... as the aliens' true nature come to light over the course of season 1, the cast is fleshed out from a veritable who's who of television actors, including Morris Chesnut and Laura Vandervoort.

Finally, the second season of Star Wars: Clone Wars continues the adventures of Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (James Arnold Taylor) during the years between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith as the seperatists wage war against the Galactic Republic.