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New DVD Picks of the Week: 'Spaced' & 'Robot Chicken: Star Wars'

This is a pretty slow week for DVDs, but there are two more TV-themed releases just perfect for the movie world with slices of celebs and Star Wars content.

Spaced
Tim and Daisy are two strangers who meet while trying to find a new place to live. When they find the perfect apartment, one that requests a couple, they fake it and move in together. The pair try to keep this from the alcoholic landlady while dealing with their dysfunctional romantic lives and spending time with downstairs neighbor Brian, Tim's best friend Mike, and Daisy's best friend, Twist. It sounds fun enough, but add in a ton of geeky cultural references, and names like Jessica Hynes, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost, and then the rabid fandom starts to make sense.

While it's a number of years old, Spaced has created a whirlwind in the last year -- one that has stretched well beyond its UK borders. And now, finally, we've got the saucy new DVD. You've probably heard about this release over the last few months, because it's not your everyday DVD release. It's a star-studded event.

The packed disc offers not only commentary from people like Pegg, Hynes, and Frost, but also commentaries from Diablo Cody, Matt Stone, Quentin Tarantino, and Kevin Smith, plus Pegg teaming up with a few others -- Patton Oswalt and Bill Hader. There's also biographies, homage-o-meter, teasers, outtakes, featurettes, alternate endings... and even more.

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Robot Chicken: Star Wars
Family Guy wasn't the only show to take on Star Wars, and at this rate, Seth Green is becoming the IT guy for the Star Wars spoofing universe. In usual RC fashion, and borrowing from all six movies, the special whipped together 30 shorts that range from a chat between the Emperor and Darth Vader after the Death Star blew to Dubya finding out that he's a Jedi.

And while the shorts are really, well, short, there's an absolute ton of special features that range from animation meetings to behind-the-scenes clips to deleted scenes to alternate audio, galleries, and episode commentaries. You'll definitely spend a heck of a lot more time with the features than what actually aired.

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Other New DVD Releases (July 22)

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Kiss of the Spider Woman (2-disc)
Picture This!
Bird (2-disc)
The Last Winter

Be sure to visit Peter's Indies on DVD for the other new releases this week.

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