The Incredibles is Available for Pre-Order! More details revealed…
January 21st, 2011 by Sean Ferguson
We have some new information about the upcoming April 12 release of The Incredibles on Blu-ray and it is now available for Pre-order from Amazon.com! This is probably my favorite Pixar release and it combined several of my favorites together: the superhero world with a James Bond inspired production design and soundtrack from Michael Giacchino. Continue reading ‘The Incredibles is Available for Pre-Order! More details revealed…’
For those of you that don’t know, Jay Leno thinks that Kathleen Madigan is one of America’s best female comedians. Madigan is also the winner of an American Comedy Award winner for Best Female Comic and she was also a Last Comic Standing contestant. Even if you don’t recognize her name, you’ve probably seen her on Comedy Central or something else. For this Blu-ray, Madigan’s act was filmed in New York City’s Gramercy Theater. 
I’ll be honest…I really had extremely low expectations for this movie since the main star is a rapper who also happened to be the screenwriter for the movie. Curtis Jackson also known as “50 cent,” wrote and produced this movie because “…it was a socially conscious story about how guns go from the manufacturing point to retail and purchased by law-abiding citizens and how they fall into the wrong hands.” 
This story about a legendary horse and the family that owned him is a perfect fit for the big screen but unfortunately, this is one race that Secretariat lost due to following Seabiscuit who stole a lot of his thunder. Secretariat has a great cast (Diane Lane, John Malkovitch, Scott Glenn, James Cromwell and a director (Randall Wallace), who is no stranger to making movies about historical events and people (he was involved in Braveheart, We Were Soldiers, and Pearl Harbor). 
For fans of the first Death Race remake who wondered who Frankenstein was and how Death Race came to be, this movie is for them. Actually, this movie is also for anyone that enjoys vehicular destruction too. Death Race 2 despite being sold as a sequel is actually a prequel to the first movie. While this is a direct to Blu-ray release, Universal made sure to get some well known actors to headline the movie including Sean Bean, Luke Goss, Ving Rhames, and Danny Trejo. 
I think a lot of people (especially guys) dream of being a superhero and got our fix through comics, movies, or videogames. I grew up on a steady diet of DC and Marvel comics and sat through countless iterations of Batman (the 60s show, guest starring on Scooby Doo, etc.) and the SuperFriends. I know I am dating myself but I bet there’s a lot of you that did the same thing.
Tony Scott’s UNSTOPPABLE arrives this Frbruary 15th and I’m excited to see it since I missed it in the theaters. If you’d like, you can read Aaron Neuwirth’s review for the movie 
I recently reviewed an episode that was was excerpted from this season five set, The Universe – 7 Wonders of the Solar System in 3D which you can read 
If you are a fan of The History Channel’s series “The Universe,” you may have seen this segment during Season 5’s run. The difference between the episode on this disc and the one on the Season 5 set is that this one is in both 2D and 3D whereas the season set only offers the 2D version. For those of you that aren’t aware of the show, it’s a documentary series that premiered in 2007 on The History Channel that explains astronomical concepts and objects through the use of computer generated graphics and a group of experts whose expertise includes astronomy, cosmology, and astrophysics. 
While this movie wasn’t a box office smash, it was well received on the indie circuit and its tale of a man and his imaginary superhero friend is now available on Blu-ray. The movie came about during a bleak time for the husband and wife team of Kieran and Michele Mulroney who almost had their Justice League movie filmed until it was canceled at the last minute which left them despondent over show business. They wrote and directed this movie during that period when they weren’t sure if they even wanted to continue in their profession.
In the interest of full disclosure, the Beatles are my favorite band and I’ve enjoyed all of their post-Beatles efforts as well. Now that that’s out of the way, LENNONYC is a glimpse into the life of John Lennon after the Beatles disbanded and he moved to New York City with Yoko Ono. 
At long last, the Star Wars Saga is coming to Blu-ray this September and is available for pre-order right now! The Star Wars Saga and the Indiana Jones Trilogy are the movies I’ve been the most anxious to arrive in high definition and it’s awesome that we finally have a release date of September 16, 2011! 
If you enjoyed the first two Family Guy Star Wars spoofs (Blue Harvest and Something Something Dark Side) like me, then you will probably enjoy the final installment in the saga, It’s a Trap! I’ve always been impressed with how much effort the Family Guy team puts into matching the source movies down to the smallest details such as the music cues and the editing with its dead on accuracy that thrills the inner Star Wars geek in me. 
Another year has come and almost gone, leaving in its wake, many Blu-rays littered about. Some good, some not so good. In what will be an ongoing tradition, WhySoBlu has asked for my thoughts on the best Blu-rays of the year. The following article is MY personal top ten favorite Blu-rays of 2010 for your viewing and reading pleasure. Please keep in mind that I have not seen or reviewed every blu-ray that has come out this year, so if you don’t see a film that you think is great that I may have missed, don’t be upset. I probably haven’t seen the Blu-ray or the post office lost my package. Here is my list. 
Making a Top Ten list of Blu-rays was a lot harder than I thought it would be. The fact that there’s so many excellent releases that I haven’t seen yet just made it even harder because I know a lot of them would be on my list. So I decided to make a list of the Top 10 Blu-rays that I’ve seen and most likely reviewed, and another list of Blu-rays that I really want to see and would most likely would have been included in this list if I had seen them. 
