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Capsule reviews of new DVD releases follow.

SNAKES ON A PLANE (New Line Home Video) $28.98. 106 minutes. DVD. Samuel L. Jackson must save the passengers of a 747 from poisonous snakes released aboard the flight. With Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard. R (graphic violence, nudity, profanity) (CC)
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THE COVENANT (Sony Pictures) $28.95 DVD. 97 minutes. Four friends with inherited special powers join to oppose an evil their families battled in the 1600s. With Steven Strait, Laura Ramsey, Sebastian Stan, Taylor Kitsch. PG-13 (profanity, violence, partial nudity, sexual content) (CC)
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LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (20th Century Fox, ’06) $29.99. 101 minutes DVD. Two parents, who aren’t on speaking terms, drive cross-country with the rest of their dysfunctional family to enter their daughter in a beauty pageant. With Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano. R (drugs, sexual candor, profanity)
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New to DVD:

SHOTTAS (Sony Pictures) $24.96. 95 minutes. DVD. Ky-Mani Marley and Spragga Benz are two friends in Kingston, Jamaica, who, at a young age, choose the life of the “shotta” and then travel to Miami, where they take control of the city’s Jamaican drug world. With Paul Campbell, Louie Rankin, Wyclef Jean. R (CC)