Page 28 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • December 12, 2012 DVD releases (continued from Restaurant page) Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Alex Pettyfer, Kellen Lutz, Josh Hartnett, Paul Dano, and Michael Pitt. After a long series of auditions, Renner won the role. “The Bourne Legacy” is not, therefore, technically a sequel. Call it a spinoff, with a new protagonist and newto-the-franchise director Tony Gilroy expanding the saga created by Robert Ludlum. Cross faces life-or-death stakes triggered by events of the first three films. Also new to the series are Edward Norton, Rachel Weisz, Stacy Keach, and Oscar Isaac. Franchise veterans Albert Finney, Joan Allen, David Strathairn, and Scott Glenn reprise their roles. Special features on the two-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack include behind-the-scenes featurettes, feature commentary, a digital copy, and deleted scenes. “The Odd Life of Timothy Green” (Disney Home Entertainment) is a fantasy that depends less on special effects and elaborate action sequences than on average folks in familiar, everyday settings. A happily married couple, Cindy and Jim Green (Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton), saddened by their inability to conceive, spend an evening dreaming up their ideal offspring. They write his characteristics and life events on pieces of paper, place them in a box and bury the box in the backyard. One stormy night sometime later, a muddy 10-year-old (C.J. Adams) arrives at their doorstep, claiming the Greens as his own. What initially appears to be a kids’ film is not about childhood. It is more a fable. It often veers into saccharine sentimentality, but is well-intentioned. The two-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack’s extras include deleted scenes, director’s commentary, a making-of featurette, and the music video “This Gift.” The movie is also available as a single-disc DVD. “Dick Tracy” (Touchstone Home Entertainment), starring and directed by Warren Beatty, is a live-action comic strip, bringing to life the square-jawed detective created by Chester Gould. The movie has eye-popping primary colors, grotesque looking villains, the Academy Award-winning Stephen Sondheim song, “Sooner or Later,” lots of stylized action, and Madonna as torch singer Breathless Mahoney. The production design looks like a blend of ‘40s film noir and MGM Technicolor musical. Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Sorvino, and William Forsythe portray baddies. Beatty’s Tracy is surprisingly bland. He saunters through the movie, looking dashing in an garish bananayellow trench coat. The plot is fairly routine, but it is the style that is the picture’s real star. Pacino, in one of the most over-the-top performances of his career, was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. The only extra on the twodisc Blu-ray restored edition is a digital copy of the film. “Wu Dang” (Well Go USA Entertainment) takes place in 1920s China. There is a rumor that secret treasure is hidden in Wu Dang Mountain. A greegy American man brings his daughter, a prodigy in martial arts, to compete for a championship, while he plans to find and steal the riches. Presented in Mandarin, with English subtitles, the movie begins well, but sinks under the weight of a weak script. There is a making-of featurette on the Blu-ray release.