Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Announces “Batkid Begins”
August 28th, 2015 by Blu-ray Brian
Experience the story of one small super hero who had the courage to inspire millions when Batkid Begins arrives onto DVD and Digital HD on October 6th from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. The documentary Batkid Begins chronicles the one day, in one city, when the world came together to grant one 5-year-old cancer patient his wish. The film will be available early on Digital HD starting on September 25. Much to my surprise, Brandon and Logan are sadly not interested in this treasured Batman collectible, but surely people out there reading this are. Find out more in the full press release down below courtesy of Warner Bros. Continue reading ‘Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Announces “Batkid Begins”’
When the Blu-ray includes trailers for The Condemned, See No Evil, See No Evil 2, and Leprechaun: Origins, you know you’re about to see the finest film of the year. Lo and behold, those rascals at WWE have done it again. I don’t follow wrestling, so I have no clue who The Big Show is, but with a name like that, how can you go wrong? Vendetta offers enough goofiness to sustain ten films, with acting so over the top and action so brutal and bloody, I have to ask myself, “is this possibly my new favorite film?” (No.) 
I have a fascination with Nicolas Cage that is paramount to most things in my life. I googled bio-sonar once because I was on a walk in the dead of the night on the hem of a field of straw far from existence and I thought I heard Nicolas Cage’s voice from Adaptation and immediately jumped to the conclusion that we must have a secret way of communicating, a harmonic composition if I may. Then I thought to myself, “that must be my new cochlear implant malfunctioning.” And then I thought — “I don’t have a cochlear implant” — and then I thought, “I am a microbat bat and Nicolas Cage is a horseshoe bat and we can communicate through echolocation.” I had this friend who was telling me a story once about how he’d met Nicolas Cage, after the conversation I thought about what an imaginative yarn my friend was spinning, yet I found myself jogging and soon running to said location and their I saw an Owl. It looked me in the eye and I knew it was him. I chased after it but it soon left me to the light of the moon and there I did the same hand gesture that they do in Mad Max when someone dies — in a state of displeasure I comforted myself by walking home and watching a crowd pleaser,The Runner.
Today, Instagram announced that – in addition to square posts – you can now share photos and videos in both portrait and landscape orientation on their platform. With this update, Instagram users can upload widescreen video which will be more cinematic than ever. This morning, @StarWars released an exclusive look at their upcoming film, The Force Awakens, using Instagram’s new landscape orientation. As part of this collaboration, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the very first video content to be showcased in this new format for the Instagram community.
A tragic death leaves a married couple devastated, but their misery soon turns into mortal fear in the thoroughly haunting new film WE ARE STILL HERE. The Dark Sky Films/MPI theatrical release, from the producers of The House of the Devil and Cheap Thrills, comes to Blu-ray and DVD on October 6, 2015.
Extra! Extra! The adventures of Bilbo Baggins come to an epic conclusion (thank goodness) when The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson, is released as an Extended Edition on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group. The extended cut of the final film in The Hobbit Trilogy includes 20 minutes of extra footage and more than 9 hours of bonus features (yea) that will complete every Hobbit fan’s collection. The film, the third in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on November 17 and will be available early on Digital HD on October 20. Read all about it in the full press release below. 
The movie title No Escape (not the 1994 one) sounds so familiar, doesn’t it? At least to me it does. It sounds like it could easily be a name of a KISS song from the 1980s or something when they were struggling to find their sound during the Killers era, but I digress. Perhaps what shocked me even more was seeing Owen Wilson on the movie poster when I received the press invite to cover this one. I instantly thought why have I never heard of this film and of course what is funny man Owen Wilson doing in a film like this. I almost dismissed this one had it not been for the trailer. After viewing it I thought wow if it’s a great story and Owen Wilson can really pull this one off, it could be quite good me thinks. After all, I thought his brother Luke did a great job in the serious role he portrayed in 2007’s Vacancy, one of my earliest Blu-ray titles in my collection (a little Brian White trivia for ya). So let’s do this. Let’s talk some No Escape. 
Anchor Bay Entertainment announced YESTERDAY that they will release the thrilling STARZ Original series Black Sails The Complete Second Season on Blu-ray + Digital HD with Ultraviolet and DVD on November 3, 2015. The Emmy Award-winning series, created by Jonathan E. Steinberg (“Jericho,” “Human Target”) and Robert Levine (“Touch”) and executive produced by Michael Bay (the Transformers franchise, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor), and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Purge), follows the most feared pirate of the day, Captain Flint (Toby Stephens), and takes place twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island. Check out the full press release down below. 
Dreamers Wanted…Disney invites you to an incredible world of epic imagination where anything is possible.
Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel, The Green Inferno) presents the riveting directorial debut of writer Guillermo Amoedo (Aftershock, The Green Inferno, Knock Knock) with this macabre and gruesome tale set in a small Canadian town. 
I have to be honest with y’all. I’ve been anxiously waiting for this day to come ever since I first saw Mad Max Fury Road this past May. I’ve seen it not once, not twice, not even three times, but five triumphant times in the theater with one of them being a gigantic IMAX screen presentation. Like a preacher to his gospel, I’m a natural born marketer for this feature. Through natural selection I was born to promote this one, and rightfully so because this is the dope, action movie event of the year. Others have tried to imitate, but none this year can ever come close to matching all the brilliance and insanity Mad Max Fury Road has to offer. It contradicts that old saying, you CAN have your cake and eat it too. The proof is in Mad Max Fury Road pudding. Now if for ANY reason you’re reading this Blu-ray review before September 1st and this feature is still playing in your local neighborhood cinema, drop everything and go see this on the biggest screen possible right the hell now. Then come back of course and finish reading this Blu-ray review, 
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Feel the magic and make it rain when Magic Mike XXL arrives onto Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD on October 6th from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Emmy Award winner Gregory Jacobs (“Behind the Candelabra”) directed Magic Mike XXL, which reunites Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez and Gabriel Iglesias – the stars of the 2012 worldwide hit Magic Mike. Ladies…you know you all want this. So put your hands in the air and wave them like you just don’t care over the following announcement below. 
In this exquisitely-made and terrifying new horror film, the age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic and possession are innovatively brought together to tell the intimate and riveting story of one family’s frightful unraveling. Set in New England circa 1630, The Witch follows a farmer who get cast out of his colonial plantation and is forced to move his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of an ominous forest rumored to be controlled by witches. Sounds great huh? Check out the rest of the verbiage supplied to us as well as the film’s first trailer and poster. 
Ahoy there! Here’s some exciting news to brighten up your Wednesday! We have the brand NEW trailer for 20th Century Fox’s upcoming film, The Martian. Featuring a star-studded cast that includes Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Michael Peña, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Donald Glover, The Martian is based on a best-selling novel, and helmed by master director Ridley Scott. Feels a little too close to Interstellar with a couple of this names huh? Nah! Don’t worry. I’m looking forward to the October 2nd release of this one. Enjoy the trailer! 
