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Comedies, romantic and absurdist, lead off this week’s roundup of DVD releases in the FOXLight.

On the romantic side, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past has Matthew McConaughey as a celebrity photog whose callous approach to loving and leaving prompts a visit from the ghosts of his former girlfriends, lead by Jennifer Garner, to show him the errors of his ways. Also starring Breckin Meyer, and in a pseudo Fatal Attraction reunion, Anne Archer and Michael Douglas.

And if Paul Blart was the lovable, huggable mall cop, Seth Rogen’s Ronnie Barnhardt is his bizarro-twin in Observe and Report. Rogen’s dark and delusional take as a mall cop bent on nabbing a flasher in the hopes of defeating real cop Ray Liotta, and winning dream girl Anna Faris in the process, is indeed the sunny Blart’s polar opposite.

Also out this week…

Two big Blu-Ray scores for Star Trek fans! Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection has the four movies with Patrick Stewart and the TNG gang, Generations, First Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis, plus a bonus disc, in all their uncompressed Blu-Ray glory.

And Star Trek, The Original Series: Season Two features all the second season episodes with William Shatner at the Enterprise helm, also in Blu-Ray quality, and each episode appears in its original form plus a new version with updated CGI visual effects. Live long and prosper.

And other TV shows premiering on DVD this week include:

30 Rock: Season 3

Ugly Betty: Season 3

After a four-year wait, classic comedy Taxi: Season 4 finally gets released.

And Spongebob Squarepants: The First 100 Episodes collects the first 5 seasons of the hit Nickelodeon cartoon.

And, as always, all this info, plus all this week’s music releases, is available in podcast form in the embedded player at the top of this post, or you can take it with you by subscribing here: http://feeds.foxnewsradio.com/thefoxlight [Incidentally, we are quite aware there have been "issues" getting the podcast and this blog to link up correctly...our webmeister general is working on these issues diligently. So if at first the link and/or the player does not succeed, try, try again.]

In New York…Rob Maurer, FOX News Talk!

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