Fox and NBC present THIS IS US: SEASON 2 (review)

Season two of NBC's THIS IS US finds the three Pearson siblings celebrating their thirty-seventh birthday and facing new and old challenges.  Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore star.

REVIEW LINK: Twentieth Century Fox (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

THIS IS US: SEASON 2 DVD specs:

• Eighteen episodes on five dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles
• Aftershow discussions for each episode

Fox elects AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT (review)

The seventh season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT finds a restaurateur suffering a nervous breakdown in the aftermath of the 2016 election and stumbling onto a cult whose leader is seeking political power and planning to perpetrate an abominable act of mass murder.  Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters star.

REVIEW LINK: Twentieth Century Fox (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT DVD specs:

• Eleven episodes on three dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, and Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles
• FX Promo Spots

Fox solves a MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (Review)

Kenneth Branagh directs and stars as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in his most challenging case solving a MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS with Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, and Michelle Pfeiffer.

REVIEW LINK: Twentieth Century Fox (US) Region A Blur-ray (DVDCompare)

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, English Audio Descriptive Dolby Digital 5.1, Czech Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, Hindi Dolby Digital 5.1, Hungarian Dolby Digital 5.1, Polish Dolby Digital 5.1, Portuguese Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, Thai Dolby Digital 5.1, Turkish Dolby Digital 5.1, and Urdu Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English SDH, Arabic, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Croatian, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Korean, Malay, Mandarin (Traditional), Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese subtitles
• Audio Commentary by actor/director Kenneth Branagh and screenwriter Michael Green (with optional English, French, Korean, and Spanish subtitles)
• "Agatha Christie: An Intimate Portrait"
• "Let's Talk About Hercule Poirot"
• "Unusual Suspects" three-part featurette
• "The Art of Murder"
• "All Aboard!: The Making of Murder on the Orient Express"
• "The Music of Murder on the Orient Express"
• Deleted Scenes
• Extras feature optional subtitles in English, Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin), Czech, French, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Portugese, Spanish, Thai, and Turkish.

Fox Entertainment proclaims THIS IS US: SEASON 1 (Review)

The lives of three people who share the same birthday are inextricably intertwined with one another and their past upbringing as they seek fulfillment in love and work and emotional closure for old wounds in NBC's award-winning family drama.

REVIEW LINK: Twentieth Century Fox (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

THIS IS US: SEASON ONE DVD specs:

• Eighteen episodes on five dual layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese and Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
• Optional English SDH, French, Portuguese, and Spanish subtitles
• "Aftershow" discussion for each episode 

Fox digs up BONES: THE FLESH AND BONES COLLECTION (Review)

Fox's long-running forensics procedural BONES came to an end this year and has been commemorated with a twelve season, sixty-seven DVD boxed set with all episodes of the series, commentaries, and extras from the individual season sets.  David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel star as an FBI agent and forensic anthropologist who use heart and brains to solve murders and give faces back to murder victims.  Based on the series of novels by forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.

REVIEW LINK: Fox Home Entertainment (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

BONES: THE FLESH AND BONES COLLECTION DVD specs:

• All twelve seasons of the series on sixty-seven DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 (all seasons except Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo on the pilot), Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 (seasons eleven and twelve), and Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround (seasons two, nine, and ten)
• Optional English SDH (all seasons), Spanish (all seasons), French (all seasons), Portuguese (seasons five, six, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve), and Chinese (seasons nine through twelve) subtitles
• Eleven audio commentaries with David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Caleb Deschanel, Hart Hanson, Stephan Nathan, Ian Toynton, and Karine Rosenthal
• 100th and 200th episode featurettes
• Selected episode featurettes
• "The Director's Take" featurettes
• Special Effects featurettes
• Season Two Retrospective
• "Back to the Lab" series retrospective
• and more! 

Only seasons four through eight were made available on Blu-ray and are sold separately:

National Geographic sets foot on MARS (review)

From Ron Howard and National Geographic comes the science fact adventure MARS, part cinematic speculation on the first manned mission to Mars in 2033 and 2016 documentary of our current efforts to get there.

REVIEW LINK: National Geographic (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

MARS Blu-ray specs:

• Six episodes on two Blu-ray discs with a third Bonus Blu-ray
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1; French and German DTS 5.1; Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround (for episodes only, other extras have English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo only)
• Optional English SDH, French, Spanish, German, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish subtitles (for episodes only, other extras have all subtitles except for Spanish)
• "Making Mars" bonus episode
• "Before Mars: A Prequel"
• "Before Mars" behind the scenes
• "Getting to Mars" featurettes
• "Living on Mars" featurettes
• "More Mars" featurettes
• Behind the Scenes featurettes
• Cast and Crew Interviews

Fox vistis SLEEPY HOLLOW: THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON (review)

Eighteenth century British double agent Ichabod Crane and modern day cop Abbie Mills battle more supernatural terrors in season three of the Fox series SLEEPY HOLLOW.

REVIEW LINK: Twentieth Century Fox (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

SLEEPY HOLLOW: THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON DVD specs:

• Eighteen episodes on six dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English and Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles
• Deleted Scenes
• Gag Reel

Fox seeks HOMELAND: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON (review)

In season five of HOMELAND, Carrie (Claire Danes) has left the CIA to work for a German philanthropist trying to improve things in the Middle East.  Her new and old worlds collide when a hacktivist data breach exposes CIA spying operations in Berlin to circumvent German privacy laws, exposing the country to terrorist threats and making Carrie the target on both sides.

REVIEW LINK: Twentieth Century Fox (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

HOMELAND: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON Blu-ray specs:

• Twelve episodes on three Blu-ray discs
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Castilian Spanish DTS 5.1, and Italian DTS 5.1
• Optional English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Castilian Spanish subtitles
• "The Evolution of Carrie Matthison" featurette
• "HOMELAND in Berlin" featurette

Twentieth Century Fox visits SLEEPY HOLLOW: SEASON TWO (review)

The second season of Fox's outrageous take on "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" from the creators of the HAWAII FIVE-0 reboot, SCORPION, and the upcoming LIMITLESS series finds eighteenth century soldier Ichabod Crane battling the the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in twenty-first century America with cop Abby Mills.

REVIEW LINK: Twentieth Century Fox (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SLEEPY HOLLOW: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and French DTS 5.1
• Optional English SDH, French, Spanish, and Dutch subtitles
• Eighteen episodes on four BD50 discs
• Audio Commentary by show runner Mark Goffman and actress Nicole Beharie on "Mama"
• Audio Commentary by show runner Mark Goffman and actor Tom Mison on "The Akeda" and "Tempus Fugit"
• "Mystery and Mythology: Secrets of Season Two" featurette
• "Monsters and Mayhem: The Creatures of Season Two" featurette
• "Hollow History" featurette
• "A Salute to Sleepyheads" featurette
• Deleted Scenes
• Gag Reel