The Girl Next Door - BLU-RAY

The Hustler - Blu-ray - Paul Newman heads a superb cast featuring Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott and Piper Laurie in the riveting film that received an Academy Award nomination as Best Picture of 1961 and brought all four of it's Oscar nomination. Newman (Best Actor nominee) is electrifying as Fast Eddie Felson, an arrogant, amoral hustler who haunts backstreet pool rooms fleecing anyone who'll pick up a cue. Determined to be acclaimed as the best, Eddie seeks out the legendary Minnesota Fats (Gleason, Supporting Actor nominee), who's backed by Bert Gordon (Scott, Supporting Actor nominee), a predatory gambler. Eddie can beat the champ, but virtually defeats himself with his low self-image. The love of a lonely woman (Laurie, Best Actress nominee) could turn Eddie's life around, but he won't rest until he beats Minnesota Fats, no matter what price he must pay.

Disney's memorable 1991 animated musical take on the classic Gallic fable received a rich, popular, and equally enchanting live-action do-over, as fate brings the lovely and literate village lass Belle (Emma Watson) to a cursed castle whose lord has been doomed by his cruelty and arrogance to live out his days as the hideous Beast (Dan Stevens). Will he-and his coterie of houseservants transformed into housewares-be rescued by the curative power of love? Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson. Kevin Kline, Luke Evans, Josh Gad also star. 120 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English. Two-disc set.

Peter Weir's mix of sweeping high-seas action and character study stars Russell Crowe as author Patrick O'Brian's famed Captain Jack Aubrey, who leads a British frigate defending English territories during the Napoleonic Wars. When a French warship is spotted off the coast of South America, Aubrey and his loyal crew engage their opponent in a deadly cat-and-mouse chase, despite being massively outgunned. Paul Bettany, James D'Arcy, Billy Boyd co-star. 138 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English. Two-disc set.