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New on DVD: "30 Rock" rocks, Seth Rogen: Mall Cop and Ol' Blue Eyes is back

That season of 30 Rock that just won another Emmy? It's on DVD. As are a controversial comedy with Seth Rogen and a lavish box devoted to a mixed bag of Paul Newman movies.

Read on for more!

I can't begin to imagine why any of you aren't already watching this brilliantly hilarious sitcom, but 30 Rock - Season Three is available to those of you who haven't been converted (as well as those who need repeated viewings to catch all of the rapid-fire gags).

This season contains two of my favorite episodes—"Believe in the Stars," in which a prescription-drug–addled Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) shares a flight from Chicago with Oprah Winfrey, and "Reunion," where Liz begrudgingly attends her high-school reunion to discover that she wasn't a picked-on nerd, as she'd remembered, but actually a bully.

Critics were sharply divided (literally, with a 51% at Rotten Tomatoes) over Observe and Report, starring Seth Rogen as a Travis Bickle–esque mall cop, but I found this exceedingly dark comedy (from the guy behind The Foot-Fist Way and Eastbound and Down) consistently hilarious. Take a look and see on which side of the debate you fall.

The Paul Newman Tribute Collection comes loaded with lots of gorgeous extras, but the movies themselves are something of a hit-and-miss proposition, as is usually the case when someone's career is anthologized based on his or her work for one particular studio (in this case, 20th Century Fox).

This box set contains some of the handsome star's best films including The Hustler, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Verdict, and at least one guilty pleasure (the Betty Comden and Adolph Green–scripted What a Way to Go!) but also some decidedly lesser work including The Towering Inferno, Quintet, and From the Terrace. Still, there are few Hollywood icons that are as fun to sit and stare at for several hours.

And finally, the always-reliable Criterion Collection delivers a Blu-Ray of one of the finest films from director Jean-Luc Godard: Pierrot le Fou, starring the unbelievably sexy duo of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina as former lovers who reconnect and go on a nihilistic crime spree. L'amour fou has rarely been this breathtaking.

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