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This Week on DVD and Blu-ray: December 22, 2009

Here are some of the DVD and Blu-ray options available this Tuesday:

• (500) Days of Summer: DVD, Blu-ray
• All About Steve: DVD, Blu-ray
• American Pie Presents: The Book of Love: DVD, Blu-ray
• Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: DVD, Blu-ray
• Blind Date: DVD
• Call of he Wild 3D: Blu-ray
• District 9: DVD, Blu-ray
• Extract: DVD, Blu-ray
• Flowers in the Attic: DVD
• Ichi: DVD, Blu-ray
• It Might Get Loud: DVD, Blu-ray
• Noble Things: DVD
• Staten Island: DVD, Blu-ray

Make sure to also check out the TV-on-DVD options for this week.

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Heath Ledger: Legendary Villain

The Dark Knight has yet to hit theaters, yet it’s already shaping up to be Heath Ledger’s greatest flick. Critics are raving, the trailers primarily feature him in grotesque make-up, and Moviefone has added him to their list of great on-screen villains. There’s only one problem: I don’t agree with Moviefone’s list.

The list of Top 25 movie villains includes old favorites like Khan (Star Trek II), Cruella de Ville (101 Dalmations), Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford (Mommie Dearest), Jimmy Cagney as the Public Enemy (love, love, love Cagney), Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers. On Moviefone’s list, Heath’s Joker comes in at Number 5, trumped by Hannibal Lecter, the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of Oz), Darth Vader and Lord Voldemort.

And I think Moviefone is wrong. While there were some on the list who were truly chilling - Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in Misery, for instance - others were left off the countdown completely. So with no further delay I will name the on-screen villains I found the most frightening and fearsome in big-screen flicks. None of my villains made it to Moviefone’s list and I can’t imagine why.

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