New home-video releases

Selected home-video releases:

"Troy"

It's that old story of boy meets girl, boy steals girl, boy and girl hole up in walled city, wily Greeks storm the joint inside a wooden horse. Brad Pitt stars as mythical Greek warrior Achilles, the frontman in the Greek army's siege of Troy after young prince Paris makes off with cuckold Menelaus' trophy wife Helen. Director Wolfgang Petersen's so-so historical epic comes to DVD with an equally so-so batch of extras. The two-disc set has featurettes examining the historical truths behind Homer's Trojan tale "The Iliad," the movie's visual effects and the battle scenes (the best thing about the flick). There's also a computer-animated ramble through Mount Olympus offering background about the Greek gods, an odd addition considering no deities appear in the movie. DVD set, $29.95. (Warner Bros.)

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"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

In the heart of Hollywood's awards season, the studio quickly follows up a single-disc release of Jim Carrey's peculiar romance with a well-stocked two-disc set. Carrey and co-star Kate Winslet, who both earned Golden Globe nominations and have a shot at Academy Awards nominations, star as former lovers who have arranged to have memories of each other erased. The set has previously released extras including deleted scenes and audio commentary by director Michel Gondry, plus an extra disc of materials, among them still more deleted footage, a discussion between Winslet and Gondry, and the filmmakers' detailed deconstruction of the street scene in which Carrey's character finds his recollections collapsing. DVD set, $27.98. (Universal)

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"Little Black Book"

Raise your hand if you're sick of Brittany Murphy romantic comedies. Murphy stars as another yet another screechy heroine, this time violating her boyfriend's Palm Pilot to check up on his ex-girlfriends. Holly Hunter and Kathy Bates had the misfortune of getting wrangled into this rubbish. The sparse DVD extras include a making-of featurette and a pointless background piece on daytime TV talk shows, one of the movie's plot points. The disc has widescreen and full-screen versions. DVD, $26.96. (Columbia TriStar)

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"Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle"

This cretinous buddy comedy slipped in and out of theaters almost as fast as one of those little White Castle hamburgers - affectionately known as "sliders" - passes through the digestive tract. John Cho and Kal Penn play roomies on a Friday weed high who get the munchies and spend the rest of the night on a moronic, madcap quest to get to the nearest White Castle restaurant. The DVD has deleted scenes, commentary with Cho, Penn and director Danny Leiner and a featurette on the "art" of passing gas. The disc is available with either the R-rated theatrical version or an unrated cut that adds raunchier footage. DVD, $27.95. (New Line)

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TV on DVD:

"CSI: Miami - The Complete Second Season" - Year two of the spinoff featuring the most ubiquitous three letters on television. David Caruso and his Florida crime-fighting forensics posse are featured in 24 episodes, seven accompanied by audio commentary by the show's writers and producers. The seven-disc set also has featurettes on visual effects and the team's crime labs. DVD set, $64.99. (Paramount)

"Millennium: The Complete Second Season" - The gloomy but gripping series from "The X-Files" creator Chris Carter continued its labyrinthine turns in year two, which comes to DVD in a six-disc set packing 23 episodes. Lance Henriksen stars as a crime profiler with an uncanny ability to put himself into the heads of the most grisly serial killers since "Seven." DVD, $59.98. (20th Century Fox)

"Las Vegas: Uncut & Uncensored - Season One" - James Caan and Nikki Cox headline the cast in this slickly produced soap opera set at a Vegas casino resort catering to the spoiled rich. The craggy Caan leads a team of pretty young things working casino security. The three-disc set has the first 23 episodes, with racier unaired footage, plus a mini-movie featuring John Elway, Jon Bon Jovi and the show's cast centering on the Arena Football League. DVD set, $59.98. (Universal)

"God, the Devil and Bob" - The short-lived animated series about an ordinary guy and his dealings with two polar-opposite working stiffs - God and Satan - arrives on DVD in a two-disc set with all 13 episodes, 10 of which never aired in its original run. Each episode has commentary by creators and producers of the show, which features the voices of French Stewart, James Garner and Alan Cumming. DVD set, $26.98. (20th Century Fox)