FOXLight – DVD Releases: Week of 12-5-2011

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Another fully packed DVD release week in the FOXLight, kicked off by the hit summer sequel The Hangover II, which saw Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms heading to Thailand for Justin Bartha’s wedding.  And, yep, Tyson’s back too…

Emma Stone rises to full fledged movie stardom in the film adaptation of the best selling book The Help, with Stone, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer forming a provocative multi-racial bond in 1960’s Mississippi…

The title said it all: Cowboys & Aliens.  Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford are Old West cowboys dealing with a futuristic alien invasion, and the audience largely didn’t buy it…

Jim Carrey is a house painter who unwittingly becomes host to a colony of CGI penguins in Mr. Popper’s Penguins…

Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson and Ciaran Hinds are Mossad secret agents who brought a Nazi war criminal to justice in 1966…or did they? Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas and Sam Worthington show the mission in flashback, in The Debt…

New on Blu-ray…

Just in time for the return of Tom Cruise and Mission: Impossible on the big screen, you can relive the first three in the Mission: Impossible Extreme Blu-ray Trilogy…

And the 1970 film on the attack on Pearl Harbor, Tora! Tora! Tora!

In the Music on DVD section…

Shakira: En Vivo Desde Paris, filmed this past July…

The Allman Brothers Band Live at Beacon Theatre covers their 2003 stand at the legendary New York venue…

Michael Feinstein celebrates Ol’ Blue Eyes while backed by a 32 piece orchestra in Michael Feinstein: The Sinatra Legacy…

And The Love We Make is the recently aired and unvarnished Albert Maysles/Bradley Kaplan documentary on Paul McCartney’s time in New York City just after the 9/11 attacks, and his planning of the momentus Concert For New York City.

Finally, commercial-free TV on DVD…

Big Love: The Complete Fifth Season, and The Complete Series…

Cartoon compatriots The Simpsons: The Fourteenth Season…and SpongeBob SquarePants: Complete Seventh Season…

Cable quirks Portlandia: Season One…and Mystery Science Theater 3000, Volume XXII…

Reality faves Cake Boss: Season 4, Volume 1…and The Game: The Fourth Season…

And TV classics Law & Order: The 9^th Year…Designing Women: The Complete Fifth Season…and The Lucy Show: The Official Fifth Season.

Take me with you!  That is…via the FOXLight Podcast, which combines the cream of the week’s DVD and music releases into one concise – and FREE – holiday shopping companion.

In New York…I’m Rob Maurer, FOX News Talk!