New DVD releases include `Live Free or Die Hard,' `Hairspray'

"Live Free or Die Hard"

Bruce Willis' wiseguy cop John McClane has gotten a little more serious with age, but he can still give and take a punch -- a lot of punches. After a 12-year hiatus, Willis returned to his action franchise with this hit sequel that has McClane racing to foil a plot by a technology-whiz (Timothy Olyphant) to shut down vital services and infrastructure over the Fourth of July.

"Hairspray"

It started as cult filmmaker John Waters' little flick, went on to become a Broadway smash and returned to the big-screen in a musical adaptation of the stage version. Newcomer Nikki Blonsky stars as a plump, plucky Baltimore teen who enlists friends and family -- including John Travolta in a cross-dressing role as her equally portly mother and Queen Latifah as a saucy record-shop owner -- to racially integrate a TV dance show in the 1960s.

"The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause"

Tim Allen is coming to town again in the third installment of his holiday franchise. This time out, Allen's Santa Claus is transported back to the moment in the first movie when he became jolly old St. Nick, with the scheming Jack Frost (Martin Short) stepping in to hijack the Claus persona and turn the holiday in an even gaudier exercise in commercialism than it already is.