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Spectacle

Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), a small town Georgia deputy, wakes up from a coma in an abandoned hospital in the AMC series The Walking Dead. He steps out into a world demolished by a zombie apocalypse and begins the search for other survivors, most importantly his wife (Sarah Wayne Callies) and son. With more time to explore the zombie infested world than a film would allow, Season 1 of the series follows Grimes through the post-apocalyptic Georgia landscape in complete, uncensored, zombie-movie fashion.

When Lara (Elizabeth Banks) is arrested for murder in Oscar Winner Paul Haggis' The Next Three Days, her husband John (Russell Crowe) tries everything to get her out of jail. With their young son forgetting his mother and no help from the legal system, John seeks the advice of Damon Pennington (Liam Neeson), a man who's broken out of prison seven times, and begins to formulate a risky plan to reunite his family. With Brian Dennehy. On DVD and Blu Ray.

A reclusive pawn shop owner (Won Bin) gets dragged into a world of drug trafficking and gangsters in The Man From Nowhere. His only connection to the outside world is a little girl whose neglectful mother is an addict on the wrong side of a large-scale drug deal... so when the bad guys abduct both mother and daughter, he has to stand up to save the only people in his life. The gangsters aren't counting on a quiet pawn shop owner's amazing skills in a fight or the mysterious past that makes him the biggest threat they've ever faced.

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Oscar Winner

An investigation into the 2008 global economic crisis, the documentary Inside Job won Best Documentary Feature at this year's Academy Awards. Narrated by Matt Damon, the film looks into the conflicts of interest within the economic and government systems, and the step-by-step progression of the United States' economy from the early 1980s to the present.

Inside Job features multiple interviews with analysts, scholars, and the controversial figures involved, including Eliot Spitzer, making it a great companion piece to Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer.

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Animation

Directed by Goro Miyazaki (son of Hayao Miyazaki), Tales from Earthsea is Studio Ghibli's newest animated feature, set in the twilight of the age of magic, where only the archmage (Timothy Dalton) still performs miraculous feats. When his life intertwines with a renegade prince (Matt Levin), the archmage takes him to the homestead of a farmer (Mariska Hargitay) where he teaches the prince the responsibilities of magic: to maintain the balance of the world. That balance is of no concern to evil sorcerer Cob (Willem Dafoe), who will stop at nothing to defeat the archmage and use the world's magic to achieve immortality.

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Motion Comic animates the series of comic books that would serve as Season 8 of the show. Produced by Dark Horse Comics, the motion comic takes the books panel-for-panel and adds voices, music, and movement, adapting it for the screen. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Laughter

Johnny Knoxville and company are back in Jackass 3, reuniting the Jackass crew and taking their stunts to the next level, including playing tetherball with a beehive and proving that you can roller skate in a buffalo herd. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Comedian Patton Oswalt's new stand-up DVD is My Weakness Is Strong, performing material on his health, the state of the union, Jet Blue, open houses, and more.

Living in Britain, Omar (Riz Ahmed) is planning a terrorist bombing in Four Lions, but his fellow jihadists are an easily confused simpleton (Kayvan Novak), an angry and confrontational convert (Nigel Lindsay), and a man who wants to train crows as bombers (Adeel Akhtar). The four of them have little chance of forcing any change on their world if their greatest enemies are each other, but the critically acclaimed film makes a comedy out of a controversial subject.

Volume 20 of the series Mystery Science Theater 3000 returns Joel and the bots to the Satellite of Love, forcing them to watch (and make fun of) the terrible movies Master Ninja 1&2, Project Moonbase, and the classic The Magic Voyage of Sinbad.

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Dramedy

Rachel McAdams is hired as the executive producer of a floundering morning show in Morning Glory, but her first act is to fire one of the hosts. Now she has to manage her remaining high-maintenance host (Diane Keaton) and the unwilling news legend (Harrison Ford) contractually obligated to cohost. As the hosts bicker and the show's ratings plummet, she has to find a way to keep the wild personalities in check and save her new show and her job. With Patrick Wilson. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Conflicted television writer Liev Schreiber is struggling with his day-to-day life in Every Day-- he can't relate to his gay teenage son, his wife (Helen Hunt) is frustrated by taking care of their house and her ailing father (Brian Dennehy), and his boss (Eddie Izzard) wants his writing to be trashier and more exploitative. When he has to team up with Carla Gugino as a writing partner, he sees her life as much more fun than his own... but his family life could be offering him something he hasn't been appreciating.