Ghost Rider
Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes

This wasn’t the best comics adaptation, but the making-of bonuses can be worth watching when there are this many special effects. The two-disc extended edition includes three behind-the-scenes featurettes, plus one on the comic’s 40-year history. It also boasts 15 minutes of new footage. We’ll let you decide whether or not that’s a good thing.

By Barbara Rice Thompson

HBO’s gritty, profanity-laden depiction of the American West went out in style, with Deadwood’s founders facing their first elections. While you wait for the two upcoming movies that will conclude the drama, lose yourself in “Deadwood Matures,� the new “historical perspective� on the era.

By Barbara Rice Thompson

This three-disc set of last year’s episodes proves our favorite angry young man hasn’t mellowed any in his mid-forties, but he’s as entertaining as ever; it includes interviews with Billy Bob Thornton and Oliver Stone. Or pick up Uncut From NYC, filmed during Rollins’s spoken-word tour.

By Barbara Rice Thompson

In our opinion, FX is the only network that would embrace a hero who drinks like alcohol is about to be outlawed and sleeps with every woman he can find—which is why it’s our favorite. This four-disc set includes a season-four preview and a half dozen featurettes, including one called—we shit you not—“Going to the Gay Place.�By Barbara Rice Thompson

Norbit
Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton

Forget the Oscar bait and the family-friendly dreck. Eddie Murphy, master of the multicharacter turn, plays the unas suming title character—not to men- tion a Chinese guy and a nasty fat chick—and he’s just the way you like him: unapologetically unsubtle and not at all worried about insulting people. Norbit doesn’t measure up to Murphy’s eighties hits, but Paramount is also releasing new editions of Trading Places and Coming to America.

By Barbara Rice Thompson

Breach
Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe

In this post-9/11 world, an FBI agent selling secrets to the KGB seems oddly quaint. Still, Robert Hanssen’s treason was the most damaging intelligence breach in American history. The always impressive Cooper inhabits Hanssen with a quiet creepiness, and Phillippe almost mea-sures up as the unlucky soul who has to double-cross the double agent.

By Barbara Rice Thompson