DVD Releases, Top 10 Box Office, Bestseller & Box Sets

The continuing adventures of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda as they live their lives in Manhattan four years after the series ended.

Tony Stark is a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead, using his intelligence and ingenuity, Tony builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity. When he uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man.

In 1957, Indiana Jones is thrust back in action, venturing into the jungles of South America in a race against Soviet agents to find the mystical Crystal Skull.

Even for Pixar, this might be a first: an animated film that contains not only a fully realized world as photorealistic as it is full of wonder, but also the Gargantuan themes and visuals of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, the stripped-down sad-clown pathos found in classic Buster Keaton comedies, and one of the most moving and simply unique love stories in a long time....

Everyone reads her scandalous Internet commentary on the lives of Manhattan's most privileged teenagers. But exactly who is Gossip Girl? No one knows, but she certainly adds spice to the lives of these fashionable prep schoolers, divulging some of their most closely guarded secrets. The first season of this glossy series begins when party girl Serena (Blake Lively) returns to the Upper East Side from boarding school. Though she seems to have changed her ways, she still has to navigate the icy waters of her social world, including her fragile friendship with Blair (Leighton Meester), the wrongs of her past, and of course the caustic commentary of a mysterious blogger. This collection presents all 18 episodes of the series, based on the popular teen novels by Cecily von Ziegesar.

GREY'S ANATOMY is a quick-witted, warmhearted medical drama that explores the personal and professional relationships of the doctors at a Seattle hospital. After winning the 2007 Golden Globe for Best Drama, the hit series returned for a fourth season that saw the long-suffering interns--Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), Cristina (Sandra Oh), Izzie (Katherine Heigl), and Alex (Justin Chambers)--begin their first grueling year as residents. As they navigate new life-and-death situations, they must also mentor new underlings, including Meredith's half sister, Lexie (Chyler Leigh), and ex-colleague George (T.R. Knight), who remains an intern after failing his exams. Upper management has also seen a few shake-ups, as the hot-tempered Dr. Bailey (Chandra Wilson) lost the Chief Resident spot to Dr. Torres (Sara Ramirez), and now must struggle to accept her lower place on the food chain. Meanwhile, Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) tries to work despite the emotional wounds caused by the ends of his relationships with both Meredith and his ex-wife. Every episode from the 2007-08 season is included in this volume, along with deleted scenes, and a bonus "on the set" featurette with stars Dempsey and Eric Dane.

In the hilarious and cringe-worthy fourth season of THE OFFICE, Ryan "The Temp" Howard (B.J. Novak) moves up to the Dunder Mifflin corporate headquarters, sweethearts Pam (Jenna Fischer) and Jim (John Krasinski) go public with their long-awaited romantic relationship, and Dwight (Rainn Wilson), salesman geek extraordinaire, bristles as his ex-girlfriend, Angela (Angela Martin), is wooed away by the obnoxious Andy (Ed Helms)....

After playing a mild-mannered funeral home director in SIX FEET UNDER, Michael C. Hall makes a smooth transition to a serial killer in this Showtime original series. But the twist in this smart show is that Dexter chooses to prey only on other serial killers. As a child, Dexter was adopted by a cop (James Remar) who quickly realizes that his new son is no ordinary boy.

Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham pulls out all the stops--and puppets--for this holiday comedy special that's fit for the whole family. The irreverent performer and his usual characters riff on Santa, sleigh rides, and gift giving, and star in the bonus music video "Roadkill Christmas."

Produced under the supervision of director Francis Ford Coppola and cinematographer Gordon Willis, this boxed set presents THE GODFATHER trilogy in visually restored versions with remastered audio. Please see individual titles--THE GODFATHER, THE GODFATHER PART II, and THE GODFATHER PART III--for complete synopsis information.

Amazon Movies & TV editors recently gathered to vote for our Best of the Year DVDs. Everyone weighed the options, researched the contenders, and looked deep within their hearts to pick the funniest, smartest, and most insightful entertainment of 2008. Then I moved Mad Men to the top anyway. (Jon Hamm can sell me anything.)

Anyhoo, here are my (with lots of input from my friends) top 10 TV DVDs of 2008. But you shouldn't take our word for it--TV is a populist art form, after all. Here's what our customers have to say:

1. Mad Men: Season 1 (available on DVD or Blu-ray):
Average customer rating: 4.5 stars
Customer quote: "It would be hard to imagine a more absorbingly intelligent American TV series--in terms of writing, acting, and visuals--than Mad Men... Ostensibly the series is about a group of advertising agency working for Madison Avenue advertising agency, the fictitious Sterling-Cooper, in 1960, during the Nixon-Kennedy presidential contest; yet on a deeper level the show wrestles with much larger questions about the meaning of obsession with having (and marketing) happiness in mid-20th-century America." --Jay Dickson

2. The Wire: Season 5 (available on DVD as a single season or in the five-season set)
Average customer rating: 4.5 stars
Customer quote: "All in all, the final season of The Wire further proves the frequently mentioned point of just how unbelievably good this show was, and how much of a shame it is that it never achieved the kind of uber-popularity that it deserved compared to many of HBO's other shows. Either way, longtime fan or late newcomer, there is nearly nothing better than The Wire, even to its bittersweet end." -N. Durham

3. John Adams (currently available on DVD or pre-orderable on Blu-ray):
Average customer rating: 4.5 stars
Customer quote: "I typically do not enjoy programs about American history, especially from the colonial days. This series goes beyond history, however. It is captivating in its psychological depiction of both John and Abigail Adams as human beings." --Not Yet a Lemming

4. The Tudors: Season 1 (available on DVD):
Average customer rating: 4 stars
Customer quote: "Yes, there are inaccuracies, as others have pointed out [on Amazon.com]. This is a dramatization and this is elegant popular entertainment. As an armchair historian, in love with the stories of Henry VIII, I find it absolutely gripping. The acting is for the most part marvelous, and the idea of doing these great personages as compellingly attractive people is a brilliant one." -Anne Rice

5. 30 Rock: Season 2 (available on DVD):
Average customer rating: 4.5 stars
Customer quote: "Watching 30 Rock during its second season was a completely exhilarating experience. It had in its rookie year quickly established itself as the funniest show on TV, but during its sophomore campaign the writing and acting got sharper and sharper with each episode. Next to Arrested Development, I honestly believe that this is the funniest American comedy series ever." -Robert Moore

6. The Office: Season 4 (available on DVD as a single season or in a four-season set)
Average customer rating: 4 stars
Customer quote: "If the writers' strike had not cut [this] season in half then I'm sure it would have ranked up there with Season 2 and 3. Season 4 offered the usual story of the complex relationship between Jim and Pam and also the odd and disturbing at times relationship between Michael and Jan." --Jason Orzello

7. Dexter: Season 2 (available on DVD)
Average customer rating: 4.5 stars
Customer quote: "I didn't think the second season of Dexter could even come close to to the brilliance of the first season, but I was wrong. Instead of the Ice Truck Killer, Season 2 begins with the Miami P.D. hot on the trail of another mass murderer dubbed as the Bay Harbor Butcher. Dexter (Michael C. Hall) already knows the identity of the killer right off the bat, because it happens to be him."-Melissa Niksic

8. Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 (available on DVD as a single season or in the three-season set)
Average customer rating: 4.5 stars
Customer quote: "%u2026the modern BSG is fast becoming for me one of THE greatest works of film making art I have ever had the privilege to witness... To be quite honest, the story line of BSG makes Star Wars seem like a cartoon by comparison..." --S. White

9. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 3 (available on DVD)
Average customer rating: 4.5 stars
Customer quote: "Tears streaming down my face, fall off the couch, beer through the nose, crude, rude HI-LARITY! If you ain't watching this, get out of your mom's basement, put down the PlayStation controller and glue your orbs to FX." --Carla D. Paschal

10. Pushing Daisies: Season 1 (available on DVD or Blu-ray)
Average customer rating: 5 stars
Customer quote: "Alternately funny and whimsical, Pushing Daisies is a visually-distinctive romantic comedy that encompasses a truly winning mix of ingredients." -The Masked Reviewer