There’s a growing trend among families and friends to give Christmas gifts AFTER the holidays are over when prices are dramatically slashed. If the people on your wishlist aren’t buying that excuse, stick an IOU in their stocking and tell ‘em you’ve got this giveaway on LOCKDOWN. To support the release of the Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon DVD & Blu-ray, we’re giving away the aforementioned title along with Cowboys & Aliens, The Change-Up, Fast Five, AND a Blu-ray player. So, why not roll the dice and enter? You’re already in the doghouse for that stunt you pulled at Thanksgiving. Find out how to enter after the jump.

The new Robot Chicken Star Wars Episode III special came out on DVD and Blu-ray July 12th. It’s the first-ever Blu-ray release for the Robot Chicken franchise, which means you can actually see the puppet strings along with the fingerprints of the handler’s on the figures’ naughty parts. COED had the opportunity to interview co-creator… Click to read more

Season 1 of Louis CK‘s hit FX show “Louie” released on DVD and Blu-ray this past Tuesday (June 21st). The much-anticipated second season premieres tonight (Thursday, June 23rd). Louis’ a veteran comic who’s been around the block – many say he’s the reason Dane Cook is rich and famous. Yet, he’s not a well-known face or name outside the stand-up comedy circuit. Shocking when you consider all of his accomplishments. S,o to celebrate the Season 2 premiere and S1 on DVD – and to give credit where credit is due – we compiled a list of little known facts about the red-headed menace. Check ‘em out after the jump.

We’ve all seen the dirty little in-jokes that Disney inserts into their cartoons. Some animated films, however, are more blatant about their adult humor or too oblivious to realize the alienation of their young audience. In that respect, there are plenty of animated films that fell victim to either bad response, production issues or just general corporate brew-ha-ha. Here are just a few of those animated films that never saw the light of day on home video (at least, not legally). See which cartoon movies made the list after the jump.

Have you ever found yourself so bored with the shameless repetition of holiday specials that you crave some violence? By about the billionth time you’ve seen A Christmas Story, you really do want Ralphy to shoot his eyeball out with that bee-bee gun, complete with blood and gore. The holiday season can leave us all quite a bit jaded with the overload of cheer and glee to the point of being toxic. For that kind of depression, nothing brightens up one’s day more than a horror movie to turn this festive time of year on its candy-coated ass. Here is a list of some much needed counter-programming.

Combining some of the hottest female porn stars in the business, humor and expert knowledge on how to get any girl off, is a new video sex guide called “How Players Do It.”

Ah the celebrity sex tape. Right now it seems that if you’ve never had a sex tape, you’ve never been famous. The speculation of celebrities with sex tapes reads like a who’s who of famous fornicators and the trend doesn’t seem to be stopping any time soon. So today I give you a list of what some of the most notable tapes should have made and why.

And after watching this tirade, it’s clear that Lewis is just saying what the rest of us are thinking: what about our seafood? I’m all for preservation of the Gulf of Mexico but I’m slightly more concerned about the condition of my salmon and catfish. So, if you’re scoring my priority scale at home, that’s food at number one and the condition of one of our most prized natural resources is at number two.

Don’t give up your favorite seat on the couch just because the weather is getting nicer. There are a few worthwhile movies coming out this week on Blu Ray and DVD, especially for fans of the supernatural and martial arts.

Here are all the hot DVDs being released this week.

Here are the DVDs being released this week that you must check out. We start things off with the action thriller Law Abiding Citizen.

Here is a look at the hot new DVD’s hitting stores this week.

This week sees the release of animated masterpiece, Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic, which tells the first part of a medieval story about Dante Alighieri’s journey through the afterlife. Based on a poem from the 1300s called The Divine Comedy (Not the Band!) and written by the real-life Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Inferno shows us the first stage of his journey

Couples Retreat
Written by and starring Vince Vaughn (Old School) and Jon Favereau (Ironman, Friends), Couples Retreat follows four couples as they holiday on a beautiful, tropical island. One of the couples is there for some relationship counseling, while the others are just there to enjoy themselves, but they soon find out that they must all participat… Click to read more

Zombieland
Woody Harrelson is on top form in Zombieland as Tallahasse, the zombie killing machine.  Accompanying him is Jesse “I want to be Micheal Cera” Eisenberg, as the nervous, nerdy survivor, who lives by his own set of rules to help him survive. This movie is more about the dysfunctional family dynamic than the zombies, but there is still… Click to read more