Happy Tax Day everyone! If you need a diversion from the tax man or want to celebrate now that you've filed your 1040, the world of digital video discs has something for everyone. If you follow the home entertainment market, you might notice that this is a CROWDED week at the video store. Perhaps studios assume that you've got nothing better to do with your IRS rebate check than spend it on junk like Alien vs. Predator: Requiem or In the Name of the King. Yes, this week also sees the release of critical darlings like Juno and Lars and the Real Girl but what if you want a film somewhere in between the radical extremes of teen pregnancy and the work of Burt Reynolds in a Uwe Boll movie? Yes, there are movies and shows that fall within that spectrum and we pick them up for a column we like to call Play All. This week's smorgasbord includes two TV shows about as different from each other as possible, a great actor in a widely-unseen film, and a moving documentary. Don't spend that tax check until you hit Play All.

American Dad!: Volume Three
Studio: Fox
Starring: Seth MacFarlane, Rachael MacFarlane, Scott Grimes, Wendy Schaal, and Dee Bradley Baker
Features: Audio Commentary on Every Episode, Over 60 Deleted and Extended Scenes, Uncensored Versions of Selected Episodes and Comic-Con Table Read

It's funny how hype works. When American Dad! launched in 1995, it got a lot of press but now it's treated like the untalented kid brother of Family Guy. The show still doesn't quite live up to its more-refined sibling, but the funny thing about the hype is that, while it's died to a low murmur on American Dad!, the show has actually thrived and improved out of the spotlight. The series has struggled in the ratings, but, um, so did Family Guy at this point in its history. Adult Swim has started pushing repeats of Dad! recently and Family Guy returned from the dead because of repeats and, of course, DVD sales. And here's where you come in. Volume Three of American Dad! is the best the series has been yet, and still the ratings decline. Do we really have to jump through these hoops again? It's unlikely that Fox would pull the same cancel-and-renew trick that they did with Family Guy, but, just in case, pick up the third volume of American Dad! and see what you've been missing along with the typical insane amount of special features for a MacFarlane set, including commentaries on every episode and dozens of deleted scenes.

The Backwoods
Studio: Lions Gate
Starring: Gary Oldman, Virginie Ledoyen, Aitana Sanchez-Giyon, and Paddy Considine
Features: None

When did the day come that a good Gary Oldman performance couldn't even get a film a limited theatrical release? How do the Wayans Brothers continue to profit when one of the better actors alive gets thrown in the bargain bin on the day his new movie is released? It's shocking and unfair. But enough of our lamenting the unfair world of DVD. Oldman's latest fascinating character comes at the helm of The Backwoods, a flawed but still interesting thriller from Lions Gate. And the strong casting doesn't stop with Oldman. In America's Paddy Considine and The Beach's Virginie Ledoyen are the real stars of The Backwoods, as a couple who decide to visit a friend (Oldman) in the Basque region of Spain. When they're there, they discover a girl with horribly mutilated hands in the forest and try to help her. The problem is that when you try to help a damaged captive, you have to deal with her captors. Our heroes go on the run through a forest that the locals know a lot better than the tourists. The Backwoods is far from perfect but Oldman remains one of our better actors and Considine always makes interesting choices. It's a nice alternative for thriller fans this weekend.

Melrose Place: Season Four
Studio: Paramount
Starring: Heather Locklear, Marcia Cross, Laura Leighton, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Daphne Zuniga, Doug Savant, Josie Bissett, Grant Show, Andrew Shue, Thomas Calabro, Patrick Muldoon, Kristin Davis, and Jack Wagner
Features: None

Melrose Place went boom in the fourth season of the hit Fox show, picking up on the third-season cliffhanger that saw four bombs planted in the titular apartment complex. Once a relatively straight-forward drama, Melrose Place had become pure soap opera by the fourth season, building its reputation on being a water-cooler (or, more accurately, a high school water-fountain) show. Who would live? Who would die? Who would be blinded by the blast? Melrose Place was the kind of lurid soap that was huge in the '80s (Dallas, Falcon Crest) and that they don't really make that often any more (unless you count Desperate Housewives, which plays the soap more for comedy). Like the show that it technically sprang from as a spin-off, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place helped pioneer the summer series for Fox, which made for some very long seasons. The fourth season ran 32 episodes and over 25 hours. Some season sets run less than half the time. You're definitely getting bang, or make that boom, for your buck with Melrose Place: Season Four.

War Dance
Studio: ThinkFilm
Directed by: Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
Features: Deleted and Extended Scenes, Theatrical Trailer, and Trailer Gallery

So much was made of the films that weren't nominated for Best Documentary last year - the great The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters didn't even make the short list - that not a lot of online press was devoted to the quality of the movies that did get the nod. One of the better ones was Sean and Andrea Nix Fine's War Dance, a moving film set in Northern Uganda. The Fines tell the story of a group of children who, somewhat miraculously, can find passion through the international language of dance and music, even in one of the most war-torn and poverty-stricken areas of the world. The film follows three children in particular who participate in music, song, and dance at their school are invited to compete in a music festival in their nation's capital and the Fines are there to chronicle the journey. The documentary story of 2007 was made up of a number of good films, including Taxi to the Dark Side, No End in Sight, and Sicko, but War Dance is just as worth your time as those more heralded docs.