Planet Earth brought you the world as you’ve never seen it before.

Now the next chapter of Planet Earth begins with Life.

Available on DVD & Blu-ray June 1^st

photo by Georgette Douwma

Four years in the making, filmed over 3000 days, across every continent and in every habitat, Life is the latest wildlife blockbuster from the BBC’s award-winning Natural History Unit, the producers of Planet Earth and The Blue Planet.

Narrated by Oprah Winfrey, the series presents 130 incredible stories from the frontiers of the natural world, and details the extraordinary tactics that plants and animals have developed to stay alive, overcome challenges, and push the boundaries of behavior.

The series will be widely released on DVD and Blu-ray beginning June 1^st, but is available for giveaway here at Screenhead.

Blu-ray 4 disc set includes the following added features:

• Life on Location – Ten 10-minute production video diaries showing the exhaustive efforts of the filmmaking team
• Deleted scenes – Scenes removed from US broadcast
• “Music Only” viewing option
• French, Spanish and English Subtitles

To enter the giveaway, post your name and email address and we will pick  the winner June 30, 2010.

Screenhead’s Drop Dead Diva Giveaway! 

Lifetime has provided Screenhead with an amazing “Host a Party Like a Diva” exclusive  prize package giveaway. This kit is the perfect party pack for a ladies’ night out and retails at $150. It is branded with Lifetime’s logo as well as Drop Dead Diva’s title, and is primarily black, white, and pink. This kit includes:

Martini glasses (2)

Acrylic Martini Shaker

Pomegranate Rim Sugar

Pomegranate drink mix (2)

The Little Pink Book of Entertaining

Platter

Set of 4 Wine Charms

And, Drop Dead Diva DVD Season 1

To enter the giveaway, post your name and Screenhead will pick the winner June 14, 2010.

One of America’s most beloved entertainers shines on the small screen in a series of song- and star-studded specials in Bing Crosby: The Television Specials, Volume One, crooning on DVD May 25. 

Included in this premiere, two-disc collection are Bing’s debut special from January 1954, featuring Jack Benny; the landmark September 1959 show for Oldsmobile, with legends Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong; the May 1962 special, with long-time Road comedies co-star Bob Hope, Edie Adams, son Gary Crosby and the Smothers Brothers; and the April 1970 show, Cooling It, with Dean Martin, Bernadette Peters and Flip Wilson.

Having such talent in one DVD set is a treasure.  Jack Benny is hilarious in the opening show and it keeps getting better from there to the end when Dean Martin arrives in Cooling it.

To enter the giveaway, post your name and Screenhead will pick the winner June 17, 2010.

You’ve seen Jeff Dunham and his characters on stage at his sold-out concert events. Now see what happens when they perform in front of a live studio audience and go into the real world. 

Watch as Achmed tries to join the Marines, Walter gives relationship advice to young couples and Bubba J visits a firing range. Throw in the antics of Sweet Daddy Dee and Peanut and you’ve got the formula for another Jeff Dunham smash-hit DVD.

“The Jeff Dunham Show” DVD, released via COMEDY CENTRAL Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment, arrived in stores nationwide, May 18th,  and Screenhead is sponsoring a “The Jeff Dunham Show” DVD  giveaway. 

Post your name and we will pick the winner of “The Jeff Dunham Show” DVD June 19, 2010.

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The best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road, is now a movie. An all-star cast is featured in this epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father and his young son as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm.

A masterpiece adventure of a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of becoming, and a father and his son are sustained by love.

The Road is not the most upbeat story, but it has some dynamite actors such as Robert Duvall, Viggo Mortensen and Charlie Theron. The movie captures how bleak and hopeless it all feels.  But many feel the film should be seen despite its depressing theme.

The Road Blu-Ray and Standard DVD drops on the streets May 25, 2010.

Screenhead is sponsoring a giveaway of The Road. To enter the giveaway, post your name and we will pick the winner June 18, 2010.

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Screenhead has a copy of The Carole King and James Taylor: Live at the Troubadour for a giveaway. 

I listened to the CD, and the familiar tunes brought back pleasant memories of when I listened to my sister’s albums as girl in grade school. I had no idea who these two performers were at the time, but I knew I liked their music. King and Taylor toured together in the early seventies for two years.  They always remained close friends and talked of performing together, again.

Live at the Troubadour was recorded in 2007 when James Taylor, Carole King and members of their original band (Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar and Russell Kunkel) returned to the Troubadour in LA to celebrate the venue’s 50th anniversary.  This now legendary reunion was the inspiration for Carole and James’ current and highly successful “Troubadour Reunion” summer tour. 

The CD/DVD set is available now and debuted at #4 on Billboard’s Top 200!  The release has sold over 77,000 units in the first week, including an impressive #1 Internet debut.

The album contains familiar hits including “Carolina on My Mind,” “Something in the Way She Moves,” “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” “Fire and Rain,” “Up On the Roof” and “I Feel the Earth Move.”

The DVD has the legendary performers sharing anecdotes about their hits songs. Taylor refers to “Something in the Way She Moves” as the song that opened the door to his first recording contract with Apple Records (owned by Paul McCartney and John Lennon).

You can even see the duo perform together on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on May 18, 2010.  PBS will additionally air Live at the Troubadour nationally beginning in June.

To try and win The Carole King and James Taylor: Live at the Troubadour CD/DVD post your name and we will pick the winner June 5, 2010.

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Laser is an everyday word that actually stands for an acronym: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. The popular technology was invented fifty years ago this month.

You might remember the laser taking a foothold as a powerful beam weapon in Hollywood movies. The classic 1964 movie Goldfinger placed James Bond in harm’s way. He nearly gets burned below his belt by the laser beam.

Aside from Hollywood’s take on the laser, it is used to mend rather than to tear apart body parts. Today, the laser is most commonly used for repairing torn retinas, tweaking corneas or eliminating cancerous tumors.

We mustn’t forget its reliably for reading off the messages contained in DVDs and CDs.

I’m certain you’ve heard the sad news that legendary, multi-Grammy Award-winning songstress Lena Horne passed away this past weekend.

The enchanting jazz singer and actress was best known for her plaintive, signature song “Stormy Weather” and for her triumph over bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences (but not socialize with them).  She was also one of the first black performers hired to sing with a major white band, to play the Copacabana nightclub in New York City and, when she signed with MGM, was among a handful of black actors to have a contract with a major Hollywood studio.

Horne also delighted fans when she appeared on The Judy Garland Show in 1963, performing “I Want to Be Happy,” “Where is Love?” and “He Loves Me,” as well as a delightful medley of classics with Garland. 

This treasured episode is featured in The Judy Garland Show: Volume Three, recently released on DVD as part of a special, 13-volume collector’s set being released by Infinity Entertainment Group (Volumes 1, 2 and 4 are also available now). 

Screenhead held a giveaway for The Judy Garland Show: Volume Three and happily announced its winners.  

We are holding another giveaway of the DVD in remembrance of the great songstress Lena Horne.  Simply post your name and you might win a copy of The Judy Garland Show: Volume Three. The winner will be picked June 9, 2010.

Deadliest Warrior Season One DVD hit the streets today as a nationwide release by Spike TV Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. 

You will watch as the most feared warriors of civilization has ever known are pitted against each other in battle. Using 21st century science and the latest in CGI technology, each episode enlists warrior-specific world class fighters and experts to analyze every facet of their unique skills of destruction and to answer the all-important question: Who is the Deadliest Warrior?

Bonus Materials:

The Aftermath: Post-fight analyses, producers’ roundtables, Season One wrap-up

Screenhead has a copy of Deadliest Warrior to give away.  Post your name and we will pick the winner Friday, May 28, 2010.

You need to love Extreme Cage Fighting to watch Unrivaled because the story centers on that sport.  Some heavy players are in the movie. If you know ECF, you will recognize the champions.

One day, at Ringo’s local training gym, the ECF owner and current heavyweight champion enter the gym followed by a camera crew. Christopher watches Ringo practicing. Christopher, aware of Ringo’s mother, chats with Ringo and ends up putting on the gloves for a quick spar. Ringo knocks him down as the cameras roll and it ends up on sports news shows across the nation. Will he fulfill his life long dream and continue his mothers legacy? Will he be the best fighter in the world?

Unrivaled DVD hits the streets May 24, 2010.