Page 34 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • October 10, 2012 DVD releases (continued from Restaurant page) co-star Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, stars who reigned in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s. Paired here as the Hudson sisters – Blanche (Crawford), a crippled ex-movie star, and Jane (Davis), an aging ex-vaudeville child star - the movie is a disturbing look at sibling rivalry, jealousy, and madness. Davis has the more showy role as Jane, a woman whose face is plastered with clown-like pancake makeup. Jane begrudgingly looks after Blanche and flits between an unpleasant reality and her glory days as the star of a family act. Crawford and Davis never warmed to each other during filming, so some of the on-screen venom directed from Jane to Blanche might not have been strictly acting. Under Robert Aldrich’s direction, the film offers a dark view of faded fame and lifelong embittered resentment. The two stars are in top form. Davis was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance. Special features on the new Blu-ray edition include commentary by Charles Busch, documentary profiles of Davis and Crawford, a behind-thescenes making-of featurette, and a 1962 excerpt from “The Andy Williams Show” featuring Davis. “The Barrens” (Anchor Bay) uses the Garden State as the primary location for this nightmarish tale. Richard (Stephen Moyer, “True Blood”) has a wife and young son and a teenage daughter from his first marriage. Wanting to bring everyone closer together, he takes them to the Pine Barrens for a rustic weekend camping trip, but Richard’s plans don’t go smoothly. There is a legend that the Jersey Devil, the winged beast spawned 400 years ago by Satan, still inhabits the dense forests of the region. Before long, everybody is seeing and hearing odd things, bodies keep turning up, and Richard seems to be teetering on the brink of insanity. Director Darren Lynn Bousman uses the old horror technique of isolating a group in a remote area and then building suspense. He manages to throw the viewer off balance by making one wonder whether some of the horrific happenings are the result of the legendary monster or the actions of a man who has lost his mind. Special features include audio commentary with the director and a deleted scene. Early fall means the regular baseball season has come to a close. “The World Series: History of the Fall Classic” (New Video) captures and chronicles milestone moments from every era of the World Series as seen through the eyes of those who lived them. Containing many hours of content and narrated by Bob Costas, this documentary -- available in two-disc and four-disc DVD editions -- covers the history-making events, unforgettable moments, and stars of the Series dating back to its inception in 1903. Footage comes in large part from the Major League Baseball Film & Video Archives and is blended with digital images and game sounds captured on wireless microphones. There are over 100 interviews with players, managers, writers, and broadcasters. The four-disc edition is especially generous with extras.