STREAMERS (Shout! Factory): During the 1980s, filmmaker Robert Altman enjoyed a lengthy association with the stage and with stage-to-screen adaptations (including Secret Honor, Fool for Love and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean).

GIVE 'EM HELL MALONE (National Entertainment Media): There's plenty of action and attitude in this hip, flip, modern-day film noir that pays homage to the genre even while sending it up. With his ever-present fedora and five o'clock shadow, Thomas Jane is ideally cast as hard-boiled ex-private eye Malone, who finds himself up to his neck in trouble when he comes into possession of a metal suitcase that contains "the meaning of love."

A series of mysterious animal deaths in a small Arizona town piques the curiosity of veterinarian Rack Hansen (the one, the only William Shatner) and entomologist Diane Ashley (Tiffany Bolling), who deduce that tarantulas have become enraged (and have organized!) because pesticides have eradicated their natural insect prey.

A PERFECT GETAWAY (Universal Studios Home Entertainment): There are plenty of twists and turns in writer/director David Twohy's taut, fastmoving suspense thriller, in which "paradise lost" becomes "purgatory found" for a group of tourists. Hawaii has long been a haven for honeymooners, but lately an inordinate number of couples have been turning up murdered on the islands.

The year is 1987. The place is beautiful Pittsburgh. Our hero is young James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg), a virginal college graduate whose girlfriend (of 11 days) has just dumped him and whose parents suddenly cant afford his tuition for graduate school.

Jared Paladecki portrays the young college student Thom Kinkade, who returns home to Placerville, Calif. for the holidays in 1978 to spend time with his his estranged parents (Marcia Gay Harden and Richard Burgi), his younger brother (Aaron Ashmore) and his mentor, the aging - and ailing - painter Glen Wesman (Peter O'Toole).

There's more jeer than cheer in this Christmas farce, with Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn as a (seemingly) happy unmarried couple whose plans for a holiday getaway are thwarted by bad weather, which inspires them to visit their respective parents instead.

(AE Home Entertainment): Devotees of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's immortal sleuth are in for aroyal treat this Christmas season, with the release of this '60s TV series broadcast by the BBC in the United Kingdom.

WORLD'S GREATEST DAD (Magnolia Home Entertainment): The topic of teen suicide isn't exactly conducive to humor, but writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait (one and the same) has made the best film of his career with this bold, uncompromising, frequently hilarious black comedy - thanks to a huge assist from leading man Robin Williams

Adapted by Robert Rossen, this mature and thoughtful film takes a realistic approach to war and the men who wage it. The soldiers of the Texas Infantry aren't chest-thumping, flagwaving he-men, but determined and often frightened Everymen whom fate has thrown together, doing their best to stay alive against the odds.