Calling all true and faithful Highlander fans:

Help create and be part of the bonus features on the upcoming DVD and win a trip for 2 to LA to have lunch with producer Peter Davis, and possibly other Highlander personalities through the Highlander Season Two Blu-ray Bonus Feature Fan Participation!

There are THREE very cool ways to enter to win – create a short documentary exploring “The Watchers,” create a video commentary for the episode “The Darkness,” or give your best answers to the questions posted here.

Every submission included in the final blu-ray release of Highlander Season Two will be entered to win. Deadlines: April 30th for all video submissions, and  April 15th for question submissions… good luck!

New Video Digital would like to add something other than coal to your stocking with some fun giveaways.

Fans of Highlander know There Can Be Only One. Our friends at Davis-Panzer Productions are now offering more than one way to win awesome things. Bullz-Eye, Geeks of Doom, and IESB are each featuring the chance to win a Connor or Duncan MacLeod katana, while Teen Hollywood, Slice of Sci-Fi, eFilm Critic, and Video Detective are bringing you the chance to win the six-volume DVD set, “Highlander – Ultimate Collection (Best of the Best).”

To help you catch up on your independent and documentary movie viewing, we’re giving away iTunes downloads of some favorite releases, including Herb & Dorothy, Objectified, Harlan Ellison: Dreams With Sharp Teeth, loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies, and many more. Visit our Facebook fan page for a complete list, and plan to gather round the screen.

If you want a break from Frosty and Heat and Snow Miser, may we suggest:  Christmas In Wonderland // The Christmas Toy // The Santa Trap // Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas // The Christmas Clause // Happy Holidays // Santa and Pete 

Here’s wishing you and yours an entertaining holiday season.

Believe it or not,
it’s 1980s TV,
You can watch it on your PC…
Believe it or not, Hulu’s free.

And while we stroll down memory lane: Co-Stan-Za.

Dame Judi Dench has donated the set of the film “Shakespeare In Love” to be turned into a replica Rose Theatre in the north of England for the British Shakespeare Company. Dame Judi was given the set as a gift after she won an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth I in the film. This is a fitting tribute to the golden age of British theater, which groomed actors whose careers continue to flourish well past their 60th birthdays. Ian McKellen and Dame Judi’s 1979 performance in Roman Polanski’s ”Macbeth” is now available on iTunes, as is Kenneth Branagh’s production of the lighthearted “Twelfth Night.”

Helen Mirren, Diana Rigg, Maggie Smith, Ian McKellen to Judi Dench.

Animation in Japan began around 1917, as the film industry in the West was in its infant stage. Techniques in drawing and filmmaking would evolve over time, but anime remains rooted in manga (comic and print cartoon) publications. One popular manga, “Tomorrow’s Joe” or “Ashita no Jō” is the prototypical underdog story that first appeared in the Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 1968. Chronicaling the life of a troubled orphan turned World Champion boxer, it was later renamed “Rocky Joe” for the plot correlation to the 1976 American film. The manga classic would spawn the animated series “Joe vs. Joe” in 1970, one of the first dramatic animations ever created globally. Over the past decades, the anime revolution has grown by leaps and bounds in the United States, with networks nabbing classic and promising titles. With the New York Anime Festival starting next week, we pay tribute to Japan’s #4 favorite all-time anime character with this week’s iTunes release of the 1980 film “Champion Joe“.

As loyal fans await the game release, seasons 1 through 4 can now travel on your iPod. Look out for the Highlander taking Immortal heads on a mobile device near you.