New home-video releases

Here's a look at what's new in home DVD and video release and a calendar of what's coming:

THE FOG (SONY, $28.95): Producer John Carpenter oversees a remake of his 1980 horror tale about a town tormented by its dark past one night when a fog rolls in from the sea. Tom Welling, Maggie Grace and Selma Blair star in the feeble tale of vengeful ghosts of lepers killed in a shipwreck a century earlier, who pop out of the mist to get payback. The movie is available in a full-screen edition with the PG-13 theatrical cut or a widescreen unrated version that adds a few minutes of footage. Both include deleted footage accompanied by commentary from director Rupert Wainwright, who also offers commentary for the full unrated cut of the movie.

OLIVER TWIST (SONY, $28.95): Roman Polanski picked an empty pocket with the follow-up to his Holocaust saga The Pianist, which earned him a best-director Academy Award. Mr. Polanski's take on Charles Dickens' tale of orphan boy Oliver sumptuously re-creates the physical environs of 19th century London but fails to inject much emotional or dramatic weight to the story. Barney Clark stars as Oliver, an urchin scorned and abused by society, who finds a dubious foster family among the young pickpockets in the gang run by the sinister Fagin (Ben Kingsley). The DVD has three features, one offering reflections on the film by Mr. Polanski, one examining the design, music and other crafts, and the third presenting interviews with the movie's child stars.

THE VIRGIN SPRING (CRITERION, $39.95): Rape, murder, vicious vengeance, savage paganism contending with the incipient morality of Christianity. This is not your typical Ingmar Bergman film. Based on a 13th century Swedish ballad, the film stars Max von Sydow as patriarch of a Christian farm family bent on revenge over the violation and murder of a daughter by heathens. An Oscar winner for foreign-language film, the 1960 tale comes to DVD with an introduction by filmmaker Ang Lee and commentary with Bergman scholar Birgitta Steene, along with interviews by two of the film's lead actresses. The DVD has an audio recording of a 1975 seminar Mr. Bergman conducted at the American Film Institute.

DALLAS: THE COMPLETE FOURTH SEASON (WARNER BROS., $39.98): Year four of the prime-time soap opera solves the mystery of who shot J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman), the conniving oil baron who was blasted within an inch of his miserable life in the previous season's cliffhanger finale. Season four comes in a four-disc set with 23 episodes, plus a 2004 TV special reunion.

THE TOMORROW SHOW WITH TOM SNYDER: PUNK & NEW WAVE (SHOUT, $29.98): Late-night talk-show host Tom Snyder was scarcely a punk-rock fan, but he welcomed many key players of the 1970s musical revolution to his show. A two-disc set gathers eight episodes featuring interviews and performances by Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop, the Ramones, The Jam and others.

THUMBSUCKER (SONY, $26.96): Sucking your thumb is not just for toddlers anymore. Lou Pucci plays a teenager whose family and his New Age dentist (Keanu Reeves) go to extremes to break the kid of his oral fixation. The film, which also stars Tilda Swinton, Vince Vaughn and Vincent D'Onofrio, is accompanied by commentary from writer-director Mike Mills.

- David Germain, Associated Press

Coming attractions

Just out: Aristocrats, Flightplan, The Fog, Oliver Twist and Thumbsucker

Coming Tuesday: Corpse Bride, Dear Wendy, In Her Shoes and Supercross

FEB. 7: Cote d'Azur, Daltry Calhoun, Doom, Eros, Mirrormask, Paper Clips and A State of Mindfeb. 14: Proof

FEB. 21: Left of the Dial