Here are your new releases on DVD for Tuesday, May 22, 2007:

Letters from Iwo Jima
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara
Director: Clint Eastwood
Genre: Drama / History / War
Details: The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is given command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester among his staff.

Apocalypto
Starring: Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernández, Jonathan Brewer
Director: Mel Gibson
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
Details: Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man’s idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.

The Good German
Starring: George Clooney, Jack Thompson, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Details: While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation which involves his former mistress and his driver.

Epic Movie
Starring: Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Genre: Adventure / Comedy
Details: The twisted minds of two of the six writers of “Scary Movie” tackle the biggest mega-blockbusters of all time in “Epic Movie.” The story centers on four not-so-young orphans: one raised by a curator at the Louvre (where an albino assassin lurks), another a refugee from Mexican “libre” wrestling, the third a recent victim of snakes on her plane, and the fourth a “normal” resident of a mutant “X”-community.