The Classic Spy Series, The Avengers: Season 5, Arrives On Blu-ray November 11 From Lionsgate Home Entertainment
In my early days I was a pretty big fan of BBC’s spy show The Avengers. No, I’m not even close to old enough to have seen it when it originally aired. When I was a kid they used to show reruns of it on A&E. I was at a spending the night at a friend’s when I was in Elementary school and his older sister was watching a marathon they were doing and we joined in and were hooked. You may ask why they are starting with Season 5 and not Season 1? Well, then you probably don’t know the history of the BBC’s old catalog. A lot of old episodes of their televisions series, like Doctor Who, have been lost forever because at one point they went to their vault and started recording over their backlog tapes of shows to save space and money. One of the few shows that survived this was Monty Python’s Flying Circus thanks to Terry Jones swooping in and purchasing every episode at the last minute. They are also likely starting at Season 5 because it was the first one in full color. And who can’t wait to see Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in full high definition gorgeousness? Here’s the details of the release from Lionsgate provided below! Continue reading ‘The Classic Spy Series, The Avengers: Season 5, Arrives On Blu-ray November 11 From Lionsgate Home Entertainment’
Last year, horror was abuzz with a word of this new zombie film called The Battery. It was a super low budget indie film ($6,000), but I didn’t really know much about it. All I had seen was a picture and a really cool poster (that is the flip side of the cover art on this release). I pretty much got to go in blind. And yeah, I was definitely on board with everyone singing it praises. But, who was going to release the film on home video? That was the big question. And as a huge welcomed surprise, it ended up being Scream Factory. I had definitely said when this was announced that without it even being release yet it was their best modern horror film release, and I’m sticking to that. 
It’s official! How To Train Your Dragon 2 Blu-ray flies on the HD premium format of choice on October 21st! I can’t say where it will officially place by year’s end, but right now it’s definitely on my Top 10 list of favorite films in 2014 for sure! So you know it has to be great, right? Right-o! That’s even what Bill Zwecker says below in a quote from Fox’s press release. So join me in welcoming How To train Your Dragon 2 Blu-ray to the family and read on below for all the information you can ever want about the title and more. Oh! And don’t forget to 
There’s a funny story about this movie review. Should I tell it to you? I wrestle back and forth of whether I should or shouldn’t because it has nothing to do with the film itself, but oh what the hell. I’m all for entertainment and having a good time. Many months ago my Irish dancing friend, Gregg Senko, was sending me the same text over and over all day long in like fifteen minute intervals or something close to that. It was real annoying because I was trying to focus at work. The text simply read “As Above, So Below.” Having never seen the trailer for this film I had no idea what he was talking about. It was going on about six o’clock or so when we had just sat down for dinner and upon the arrival of yet another text I finally couldn’t take it anymore and I texted back as politely as possible something to the effect that I have no idea what the hell you’re talking about. He texted back and said it was a new movie. That was it! 
It’s a rare occurrence when a movie drops a trailer that looks incredible, has expectations set very high and then delivers. Captain America: The Winter Soldier did just that. The film also opted to be a Spring movie and in turn wound up being the highest grossing film domestically until just a week ago. Pretty impressive. Its also big enough to scare off Batman and Superman from competing head to head with the follow up. Personally, I was a big fan of the first Captain America film (It so happens to be my favorite pre-Avengers Phase I film) and was looking very forward to another Steve Rogers “solo” adventure. The film also featured one of my favorite Avengers coming back too, Black Widow. And then they were using The Winter Soldier storyline…just sounded too awesome to be true. 
The Katie Couric-produced and narrated documentary, Fed Up premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Later, it found release in theaters back in May during summer movie season. No, it didn’t finish in the Top 10 of summer films. It was widely praised by critics, with one even calling it the “Inconvenient Truth of the health movement”. The Weinstein Company bought the rights to it and are now bringing it to Blu-ray where hopefully more people will be able to become informed of what it has to offer. If you are interested in learning more about this hidden cause to obesity in America and some of what you can do to improve your health to prevent it, you can use the Amazon link to pre-order the film. 
The provocative political documentary from the creators of 
Like you needed another reason to hail Spartacus. Haha. His legend will live on when Anchor Bay Entertainment releases every season of the acclaimed Starz Original series in a complete muscular thirteen-disc Blu-ray + Digital HD with Ultraviolet and DVD box set on September 16th. From executive producers Rob Tapert, Sam Raimi, Josh Donen and Steven S. DeKnight, here is every moment – uncut and uncensored – of the series that broke all the rules and took no prisoners! Spartacus: The Complete Series is a beautifully packaged collection that contains a full disc of new bonus features. The Blu-ray + Digital HD with Ultraviolet edition contains three new audio commentaries for the first season that are exclusive to this collection. A limited edition Blu-ray + Digital HD with Ultraviolet™ set packaged with a Spartacus collector’s figurine will also be available. And now…courtesy of the best PR person in the world…here’s a new bonus feature clip!!! 
Anchor Bay is releasing the “new”est Donnie Yen film, 14 Blades. I use the term “new” loosely as its been out since 2010. The film is just now coming over to the United States after playing and being awarded elsewhere for four years. While it premiered in Hong Kong, the film truly became a hit when it opened in Singapore. It then ended up being nominated for two awards at the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards. The awards it was up for were for Best Sound Design and Best Action Choreography. Of those nomination, however, it went home empty handed winning neither of them. This isn’t the first Blu-ray release of the film either, but it is the first release of the film in the United States territory.
From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg and in association with Hasbro, Inc., Paramount Pictures’ $1 billion worldwide blockbuster Transformers: Age of Extinction makes its highly-anticipated debut September 30, 2014 on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD and VOD. Can’t wait that long? Wait for it! Paramount has you covered! The film will also be available to own two weeks earlier on Digital HD September 16, 2014. Now you have no excuse! So you want to know more, right? Of course! Check out the rest of the press release down below. Yahoo! 
With this week comes the end of Scream Factory’s “Summer Of Fear”. But in two week’s they’ll be switching gears to their “Fall Frights” slate which itself is another rock solid list of film jumping to Blu-ray beginning with Pumpkinhead. Today’s details come on one of their October titles, Jeff Lieberman’s Squirm! Here’s another cult classic horror movie get the ultimate in Blu-ray treatment. Lieberman directed one of my favorite slasher films of all time, Just Before Dawn. This one is also another treat and feature goopy gorey makeup effects from none other than Rick Baker. You can pre-order this one today and read about all the details below.
SEX TAPE, starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel, arrives Oct. 21 on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital HD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The funny and salacious comedy reunites Diaz (Bad Teacher) with Segel (“How I Met Your Mother”) as married couple, who after 10 years, two kids and crazy work schedules, long for the good old days. In an effort to reignite the spark in their love life, one night of crazy fun turns into a wild adventure, as they try to track down and delete a sex tape that has accidentally been uploaded to “the cloud.” The ensemble cast also includes Rob Corddry (“Childrens Hospital”), Ellie Kemper (“The Office”) and Rob Lowe (“Parks and Recreation”).
