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March 10th, 2015 by Brandon Peters
Leighton Meester and Gillian Jacobs star in keenly observant comedy Life Partners arriving on Blu-ray from Magnolia Home Entertainment. It also has Adam Brody, Abby Elliott and Kate McKinnon. I’m a huge fan of both Jacobs and McKinnon, so this film at least has that going for it in my wheelhouse. The film is the directorial debut of Susanna Fogel. It comes based off of a play by the same name, written by Joni Lefkowitz. Lefkowitz is also the producer on this film. Fogel and Lefkowitz previously starred together in a web-based series titled Joni & Susanna. This film also once had the likes of Evan Rachel Wood and Kristen Bell attached to it, but both dropped out when they were pregnant. Life Partners premiered at the Tribecca Film Festival and had a run on VOD back in November 2014. Continue reading ‘Life Partners (Blu-ray Review)’
March 10th, 2015 by Gerard Iribe
Academy Award®-nominee Mark Wahlberg stars in the “gritty, intense and wholly engrossing” (Scott Mantz, “Access Hollywood”) dramatic thriller THE GAMBLER, debuting on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and VOD April 28, 2015 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. The film arrives on Digital HD April 10. Wahlberg stars as Jim Bennett, a brilliant professor leading a secret double life as a high-stakes gambler. When Jim is forced to borrow money from a notorious gangster, he places the lives of those he loves in mortal danger. With time running out, he must enter the criminal underworld and risk everything to keep from losing it all. Directed by Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) and written for the screen by Academy Award-winner William Monahan (The Departed), THE GAMBLER also stars Golden Globe-winner John Goodman (Argo), Brie Larson (Short Term 12, 21 Jump Street), Michael Kenneth Williams (“The Wire,” “Boardwalk Empire”) and Academy Award-winner Jessica Lange (“American Horror Story”).
Continue reading ‘‘The Gambler’ on Blu-ray & DVD April 28th!’
March 9th, 2015 by Brandon Peters
Kevin Hart (Think Like a Man Too) takes wedding planning to a whole new level of hilarity as the “Best Man” money can buy in THE WEDDING RINGER, debuting on Digital HD April 14, and on Blu-ray™ and DVD April 28 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The buddy comedy also stars Josh Gad (Frozen) as Doug, who finds himself without a main groomsman only two weeks before his wedding to Gretchen, played by Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting (“The Big Bang Theory”). Given his time crunch before the big day, Doug hires Jimmy (Hart) to fill in, and an unexpected friendship develops. Also starring in THE WEDDING RINGER is Jorge Garcia (“Lost”), Academy Award® winner Cloris Leachman (Best Supporting Actress, The Last Picture Show, 1971), Jenifer Lewis (“Black-ish”) and Mimi Rogers (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery).
Continue reading ‘THE WEDDING RINGER Comes To Blu-ray April 28th!’
March 9th, 2015 by Brandon Peters
From Disney comes two-time Oscar® winner Brad Bird’s riveting, mystery adventure “Tomorrowland,” starring Academy Award® winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank (Clooney), jaded by disillusionment, and Casey (Britt Robertson), a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as “Tomorrowland.” What they must do there changes the world—and them—forever. Featuring a screenplay by “Lost” writer and co-creator Damon Lindelof and Brad Bird, from a story by Lindelof & Bird & Jeff Jensen, “Tomorrowland” promises to take audiences on a thrill ride of nonstop adventures through new dimensions that have only been dreamed of. Continue reading ‘Disney Debuts TOMORROWLAND Trailer!’
March 9th, 2015 by Blu-ray Brian
It never fails. Every time I leave the Austin, TX area it’s either nice weather then or something really cool happens. Since I’m in California this week, the latter is happening! My independent filmmaker heroes Adam Green and Joe Lynch are coming to town and I won’t be there to see it. Dammit! The Geeknation’s “Movie Crypt” hosts will be making a special appearance this Wednesday evening at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar for a double feature screening of Digging Up The Marrow and Everly plus more! Read on below to find out all the pertinent details! Continue reading ‘Digging Up The Marrow & Everly Double Header at the Alamo Drafthouse’
March 7th, 2015 by Gerard Iribe
The action and fun of CHiPs Season 3 continues in this wildly popular action-drama that stars Golden Globe nominated Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox returning as high-spirited California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers Francis “Ponch” Poncherello and Jon Baker. Pursuing justice was never cooler as these two fearless partners take to the roads under the bright Southern California sun. Nothing stops them from joining the action … from high-speed car chases to confrontations with armed criminals … CHP officers Ponch and Jon are on patrol — ready, willing, and more than able- in this 5-disc collection of non-stop adventure. Continue reading ‘‘CHiPs’: The Complete Third Season (DVD Review)’
March 6th, 2015 by Brandon Peters
Steve McQueen was certainly “the man” when it comes to the start of action heroes, and his run in the 1960s and 1970s. Bullitt, The Getaway, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Great Escape and many others are downright staples of anyone studying action in film. And McQueen was easily one of the biggest and most larger than life stars to ever walk the planet. The man was the epitome of “Guys wanna be him, girls wanna be with him”. Here we have a documentary celebrating that legendary career and also giving us the story who he was as a man too. This documentary features the likes of Pierce Brosnan, Gary Oldman, Ali MacGraw and many others talking about his importance to film and the legacy. Continue reading ‘I Am Steve McQueen (Blu-ray Review)’
March 5th, 2015 by Aaron Neuwirth
I like Vince Vaughn and have tried to support his efforts over the years, but what are we doing here? At some point in the scripting of this film about three men going on a business trip to Germany, the creative decision was to have a character named Mike Pancake, because silly last names equal laughs. Later on, that same character (who we come to learn is mentally challenged) slips and falls face first into an exposed penis. Maybe you weren’t expecting me to explain a penis gag in the opening paragraph of a review for Unfinished Business, but hey, I was not really expecting to see so many in the film as a whole either. This is just one of many haphazardly assembled ‘jokes’ thrown at the wall in this aggressively unfunny comedy.
Continue reading ‘‘Unfinished Business’ Had Lots Of Unfinished Jokes (Movie Review)’
March 5th, 2015 by Aaron Neuwirth
In case you missed the premiere episode of DIG on USA, here’s an extended first look at Furious 7. We have already had the slick trailers, but if you were hankering for more, well you are in luck, because this is just another slice of the fun people will surely be having this coming April. Take a look and enjoy the new poster as well!
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March 5th, 2015 by Aaron Neuwirth
Great to see in HD, but this release should prove to be interesting, given the nature of the remastering. Anyway: Hailed as “one of the best and most original series on television in decades” (The New York Times), the groundbreaking hit series The Wire makes its highly anticipated debut on Blu-ray June 2, 2015. For The Wire: The Complete Series Blu-ray, the entire legendary series has been beautifully remastered in 16×9 Full-Frame HD from more than 8,000 reels of original 35mm camera negative, allowing for a tighter fit on widescreen TVs. Featuring brand new package art to match its HD upgrade, the box set will be a must-own for fans who loved The Wire from the beginning and for those watching for the first time.
Continue reading ‘The Wire Is Coming To Blu-ray In Full This June!’
March 5th, 2015 by Brian White
Make no mistake about it, I’m here discussing Unfinished Business today because of Vince Vaughn. I love just about every comedic role the guy’s ever been in and no way was I staying home and missing this press screening despite the complete opposite of balmy, icy and blistery temperatures we’re suffering through in Austin, TX (I am the Cleveland, OH curse to this town as far as weather is concerned). Given the amount of chuckles the film trailer bestowed upon me within my very first viewing of it I think it was safe to say, without a shadow of a doubt and despite this being of a completely different genre, I did not think I would walk away as mad from this as I did from last month’s Jupiter Ascending. So going into Unfinished Business, at least it had that much going for it, a trailer that hooked me in from the get go and made me laugh out loud. After all, laughter is the best medicine they say. I need all of that I can get in my life currently. And so that’s my prologue, monologue or whatever the heck you want to call it. I digress. We have a movie to discuss here! Continue reading ‘‘Unfinished Business’ Rides Coach (Movie Review)’
March 5th, 2015 by Brandon Peters
He captured the hearts of million viewers worldwide and has been called the most embarrassing man on earth. He is the character who everyone wants to help out of his sticky situations, but nobody would invite for tea. Behold the man who is a bean, Mr. Bean! Starring award-winning British comedy genius Rowan Atkinson (Blackadder,Johnny English, Mr. Bean’s Holiday and Bean), internationally acclaimed TV series MR. BEAN, two box office hit films and animated series continue to enthrall audience worldwide and maintain universal popularity. This highly anticipated 25th Anniversary Collection DVD set contains all 14 laugh-out-loud episodes of the beloved series, recently remastered. Special bonus features include previously missing scenes from the original U.S broadcast, a 40-minute documentary, the best bits of Mr. Bean and much more that will complete your Whole Bean. Continue reading ‘Mr. Bean: The Whole Bean – Remastered 25th Anniversary Collection (DVD Review)’
March 5th, 2015 by Aaron Neuwirth
Writer/director Neill Blomkamp’s latest big screen project is a film that tackles the ideas of artificial intelligence and the big questions that come from creating a machine that thinks. It is set in Johannesburg, a few years in the future, and finds the lead characters dealing with robots and their effectiveness in a world where criminal activity and the lines between beings that are different from each other very much matter. It is basically another Blomkamp movie, which should inspire more good faith if one were to only judge him off of his ambitious first film, District 9, the 2009 Best Picture nominee that twisted an apartheid allegory into a sci-fi/thriller. Unfortunately, after the step down that was Elysium, a film that dealt with economic turmoil and healthcare, wrapped up in the guise of a sci-fi/thriller, Chappie feels like another step down. The film has some ideas and certainly looks good (as one would expect), but is all over the place and lacks much coherence, beyond honest intentions.
Continue reading ‘‘Chappie’ Is A Reject (Movie Review)’
March 5th, 2015 by Brandon Peters
A beautiful new film out of Ireland, The Legend of Longwood, is coming to DVD on June 4 from Shout! Factory, following its appearance at several film festivals in early 2015. An adventure for all ages, the release includes a fascinating behind-the-scenes featurette as a bonus feature.
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Continue reading ‘New Irish Film THE LEGEND OF LONGWOOD On DVD June 2 From Shout! Factory’
March 5th, 2015 by Brandon Peters
Based on Jane Mendelsohn’s best-selling young adult novel of the same name, the chilling story comes to life in the spine-tingling horror film, Innocence. Directed by Hilary Brougher (Stephanie Daley), the eerie feature stars Sophie Curtis (Arbitrage), Kelly Reilly (Flight, Heaven Is For Real) and Graham Phillips (“The Good Wife”). Haunted by the death and dreams of her beloved mother in a Montauk surfing accident, 16-year-old Beckett and her father, novelist Miles Warner, move to Manhattan and attempt to piece together their shattered life. Now enrolled at the exclusive Hamilton preparatory school, her psychosis and hallucinations intensify with the dubious suicides of current and past students, as does her first love for Tobey Crawford. The discovery that her new school may be run by a coven of beautiful and seductive women who perpetuate their youth by drinking the blood of virgins becomes the ultimate challenge of Beckett and Tobey’s young lives. Continue reading ‘Innocence (Blu-ray Review)’
March 5th, 2015 by Brandon Peters
Get ready to journey into one of the greatest minds in history! From Creator and Executive Producer David S. Goyer, comes the second season of Da Vinci’s Demons, bigger and bolder as Leonardo da Vinci travels to South America, Naples, and Turkey, in his quest to find answers. Science mixes with love, lust and thrills in an adventure that is as inventive as the man who inspired it. This is the must see series that critics are calling “Explosive” and a “Fantastical drama” (TV Guide Magazine), “Compelling” and a “Well-crafted story” (New York Daily News) and simply “a whole heck of a lot of fun” (Zap2it). Da Vinci’s Demons: The Complete Second Season is unlike anything ever seen, a historical fantasy drama that truly soars to new heights! Continue reading ‘Da Vinci’s Demons: The Complete Second Season (Blu-ray Review)’
March 4th, 2015 by Brandon Peters
Fans around the world assembled on Twitter to unlock a brand new Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer and it’s now available. Marvel Studios presents “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the epic follow-up to the biggest Super Hero movie of all time. When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure. Continue reading ‘The Final AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Trailer Is Here!!!’
March 4th, 2015 by Brandon Peters
John Cusack (Say Anything…, Grosse Pointe Blank) and Daphne Zuniga (Spaceballs) take a road trip to romance in The Sure Thing, a charming and thoughtful comedy classic that only the ’80s could deliver, presented here in a special 30th Anniversary edition on Blu-ray from Shout! Factory. The release gives the film a brand new transfer and ports over all the extras from teh DVD special edition that was released back in 2003. And I don’t think its been released at all on any format since then. Directed by Rob Reiner (This Is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride), The Sure Thing is exactly what the title suggests for fans of raucously funny road trips, red-hot romantic comedies and romps through 80’s angst featuring John Cusack! Continue reading ‘The Sure Thing: 30th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray Review)’
