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This is a pretty slow week for DVDs, but there are two more TV-themed releases just perfect for the movie world with slices of celebs and Star Wars substance.

Spaced
Tim and Daisy are two strangers who meet while trying to find a new place to live. When they find the perfect apartment, one that requests a couple, they fake it and move in together. The pair try to keep that from the alcoholic landlady while dealing with their dysfunctional romantic lives and spending day with downstairs neighbor Brian, Tim’s best friend Mike, and Daisy’s best friend, Twist. It sounds fun adequate, but add in a ton of geeky cultural references, and names like Jessica Hynes, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost, and thereupon the rabid fandom starts to form sense.

While it’s a number of years old, Spaced has created a whirlwind in the last year — one that has stretched well beyond its UK borders. And now, finally, we’ve got the saucy new DVD. You’ve probably heard about that release by the last few months, considering it’s not your everyday DVD release. It’s a star-studded event.

The packed disc offers not only commentary from humans like Pegg, Hynes, and Frost, but additionally commentaries from Diablo Cody, Matt Stone, Quentin Tarantino, and Kevin Smith, plus Pegg teaming up with a few others — Patton Oswalt and Bill Hader. There’s plus biographies, homage-o-meter, teasers, outtakes, featurettes, alternate endings… and even more.

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Original post by Monika Bartyzel