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<< Previous   of   Next >> (click to enlarge) "21"   ADVERTISEMENT   CONTACT THE HERALD Melanie Munk, Features Editor munk@heraldnet.com   Published: Monday, July 21, 2008 Kevin Spacey counts cards in '21,' out on home video By David Germain Associated Press Selected home-video releases: "21" Kevin Spacey offers a lesson to academics everywhere on how to beat the high cost of living. Spacey plays a brilliant, greedy Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who leads a team of math-whiz students (Kate Bosworth and Jim Sturgess among them) that develops a card-counting scheme to take Vegas casinos to the cleaners at the blackjack table. Single-disc DVD, two-disc DVD and single-disc Blu-ray releases include three behind-the-scenes featurettes plus commentary with director Robert Luketic. The two-disc DVD set also comes with a digital copy of the movie for computers and portable video players; single-disc DVD, $28.96; two-disc DVD set, $34.95; Blu-ray, $38.96. "Doomsday" Thirty years after a plague in Great Britain prompts authorities to seal off the island with a wall, the deadly virus emerges again. A military unit is dispatched into the quarantine zone to find a cure among the savage society that has sprung up among the British survivors. The DVD has both the R-rated theatrical version and an unrated cut adding more footage, plus a couple of background featurettes. The Blu-ray disc has the unrated cut accompanied by cast interviews and behind-the-scenes material that can be viewed while watching the movie. Director Neil Marshall and some of the cast provide commentary on the unrated version; DVD, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.98. "The Mummy" "The Mummy Returns" "The Scorpion King" Ancient Egypt joins the Blu-ray age as "The Mummy," its first sequel and the spinoff "The Scorpion King" arrive on high-definition discs in advance of the Aug. 1 big-screen release of "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor." "The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns" pit Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz against mean old dead guy Arnold Vosloo, while "Scorpion King" turns Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's villainous character from "Mummy Returns" into a hero leading a band of freedom fighters against an evil warlord; Blu-ray discs, $29.98 each. "Spaced" "Shaun of the Dead" collaborators Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright and Jessica Hynes put together this cult favorite British comedy series centered on the misadventures of a man and woman (Pegg and Hynes) who pose as a couple so they can rent a flat together. A three-disc set has all 14 episodes, plus deleted scenes, a behind-the-scenes documentary and commentary with Pegg, Wright, Hynes, other cast members and fans of the show including Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino; DVD set, $59.98. "Las Vegas: Season Five" Tom Selleck takes over from James Caan as top dog at a Vegas casino in the drama that follows a hot, young surveillance crew keeping tabs on the gamblers and the goings-on. The fifth season's 17 episodes come in a four-disc package; DVD set, $59.98.

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