This week, we start on television: Omnibus: Leonard Bernstein Not rated, 449 minutes. Now available on DVD.

Although admittedly dated by the standards of today’s polished, fast-moving productions, the Omnibus series was once considered the height of educational entertainment. Broadcast during the 1950s, Omnibus eventually played on all three networks. The shows seen here aired between 1954 and 1958 and featured musical genius Leonard Bernstein, who had already composed the scores for Candide and West Side Story. E1 Entertainment joined the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in restoring and remastering the original programs.

In seven episodes on four discs, the maestro delivers compelling lectures about various musical subjects. He plays his piano, stopping to explain his subject. An orchestra and singers perform his analyses. Alistair Cooke hosts, as Bernstein covers American musical comedy — featuring the first TV appearance of Carol Burnett — Bach, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Handel’s Messiah, jazz, conducting and modern music.

The programs vary from 33 to 76 minutes. The set contains a 24-page booklet by music critic John Rockwell.

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Zombieland (***1/2) This hilarious comedy-horror stars Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg as Tallahassee and Columbus (their destinations). They are survivors in a seemingly all-zombie America.

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Woody Harrelson stars in the horror-comedy Zombieland.

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They team up with Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) and head to Los Angeles, killing zombies along the way in various hilarious ways. Director Ruben Fleischer deftly mixes his genres — and his music — to render a surprisingly satisfying treat.

Rated R, 88 minutes.

The DVD includes commentary, seven deleted scenes, a 16-minute “making of” featurette, the 12-minute featurette “Zombieland is Your Land” and four visual effects progression scenes. The Blu-ray holds extra supplements, including Sony’s “movieIQ” feature.

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Amelia (**1/2) In this standard but passably entertaining biopic, Hilary Swank plays renowned aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

Swank captures the down-home qualities of the Kansas native, yet director Mira Nair fails to elevate her film beyond the formulaic. Richard Gere plays George Putnam, Earhart’s mentor and, eventually, husband. Ewan McGregor is Gene Vidal, her sometime lover and father of precocious Gore Vidal. The film pays attention to detail in design and character, leaving a mummified rendition of the story of a woman who broke so many barriers.

Rated PG, 111 minutes.

The DVD, also on Blu-ray, contains 10 deleted scenes, a 23-minute “making of” featurette and an 11-minute segment on the “Power of Amelia Earhart.” Also of note are seven brief Movietone newsreels featuring archival footage of Earhart and some of her triumphs.

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Little Ashes (**) Robert Pattinson co-stars as a young Salvador Dali, found in his budding student days of 1922 with two future artists: poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (Javier Beltran) and anti-religionist filmmaker Luis Bunuel (Matthew McNulty).

Director Paul Morrison gives his film an awkward shorthand, as events occur and words are said that seem to signal their later blooming into works of art. Knowledge of the artists’ work helps narrative comprehension greatly. The three are followed from their school days and their brief sexual liaisons to their blossoming careers, as their native Spain lurches toward civil war.

Rated R, 112 minutes.

The DVD offers four interviews, with the director and the three main actors.

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Pontypool (**1/2) A good, creepy vibe runs through this no-budget thriller in which a crew of three at a radio station carries on while it seems their small Canadian town is being overrun by someone or something.

As reports filter in, and the station entertains an interloper or two, a horde of zombies hovers perilously close.

Not rated, 96 minutes.

The DVD also offers three related short films.

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Louis Armstrong: Good Evening Ev’rybody This concert film features some never-before-released footage of Louis Armstrong’s early 70th birthday bash in 1970 at the Newport Jazz Festival. Satchmo belts out about 20 tunes, often accompanying friends such as Bobby Hackett, Dizzy Gillespie, Mahalia Jackson, Ray Nance, Wild Bill Davison, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and others.

Not rated, 92 minutes.

The DVD offers three “making of” featurettes.

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And for kids this week:

Air Bud: Golden Retriever — Special Edition One of Disney’s favorite pooches returns, and this time Buddy plays football when his owner becomes the school quarterback. Before long, they are playing for the state championship.

Rated G, 90 minutes.

The DVD includes the featurette “The Buddies Sports Channel,” in which the retrievers review the career of their dad, Air Bud. Plus: an Air Bud sport whistle necklace.

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I Heart Jonas The popular trio of brothers unites for seven episodes from the Disney Channel series Jonas. Among the highlights: Joe finds Stella two-timing him.

Rated TV-G, 155 minutes.

The DVD holds the featurette “You’ve Just Been JoBro’d: Surprising Jordin Sparks” and, where available, refrigerator magnets featuring the brothers.

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Pawn Stars — Season One Fourteen episodes of the premiere season of this unlikely cable hit arrive on two discs.

At the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop outside Las Vegas, three generations of the Harrison family — Richard, son Rick and grandson Cory — encounter an often-hilarious array of customers. But sometimes some authentic treasures appear, making the Harrisons experts on buying and selling everything from Picasso to samurai swords.

Not rated, 308 minutes.

The set includes additional footage and the featurettes “Meet the Pawn Stars” and “Real or Fake.”

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The Whitest Kids U’Know — The Complete Second Season, Uncut & Uncensored The irreverent comedy troupe performs some of its most outrageous sketches on these two discs, which include 10 episodes. Trevor, Zach, Sam, Darren and Timmy push the envelope of good taste with their send-ups of every possible subject.

Not rated, 218 minutes.

The set includes commentary with the entire cast, cast introductions and a “Best of Season One” segment.

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Also this week: More Than a Game; New York, I Love You; Murder, She Wrote — The Complete 11th Season; Mister Ed — The Complete Second Season.

DR. BOO ALLEN is an award-winning film critic for the Denton Record-Chronicle.