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September 3rd, 2014 by Brandon Peters
This September, the TV DVD archivists at StarVista Entertainment/Time Life will bring consumers back to the ’70s for the seminal, groundbreaking live music TV show on DVD, featuring extensive bonus features! THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION, available exclusively online at MIDNIGHTSPECIALDVDS.COM beginning August 12, 2014 will be released in a beautifully-packaged 11-disc set, featuring nearly 5 hours of specially-produced bonus features and a 32-page collector’s book. There will also be two retail configurations, available September 9: a 6-disc set and a single DVD. Continue reading ‘MIDNIGHT SPECIAL Collector’s Edition Rocking Its Way To DVD Sept 9!’
September 3rd, 2014 by Brandon Peters
Based on the Tony Award-winning musical, “Jersey Boys” arrives onto Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD on November 11 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Directed by Oscar® winner Clint Eastwood (“Million Dollar Baby,” “Unforgiven”), “Jersey Boys” is an inspiring drama featuring The Four Seasons’ songs that influenced a generation.
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September 3rd, 2014 by Gerard Iribe
From the director that brought audiences Sinister and Exorcism of Emily Rose comes the action-packed thriller DELIVER US FROM EVIL, debuting on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital HD Oct. 28 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. DELIVER US FROM EVIL is a chilling story inspired by the actual accounts of New York Police Department (NYPD) Sergeant Ralph Sarchie (played by Eric Bana, Lone Survivor), who teams up with “Father Mendoza” (played by Edgar Ramírez, Zero Dark Thirty) to investigate a series of strange events that are taking over and terrorizing their city. Olivia Munn (Magic Mike) co-stars as Sarchie’s wife and Joel McHale (“The Soup”) co-stars as Sarchie’s NYPD partner.
Continue reading ‘‘Deliver Us From Evil’ on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD October 28th!’
September 2nd, 2014 by Aaron Neuwirth
“Hey, brother.” Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has teamed up with series creator Mitch Hurwitz to find the ultimate “Arrested Development” fan to create the cover art for the Season Four DVD Boxed Set! To enter the contest and see all the rules, go to the official “Arrested Development” Fan Art Tumblr page at ArrestedFanArt.com. Simply follow the instructions to upload your original artwork to the Tumblr page and you will see your artwork become part of the online gallery of entries into the contest. Mitch Hurwitz will select one lucky winner to have his or her artwork become the cover of the Season Four DVD and receive a $1,000 prize. All entries must be received by September 16, and just remember, even if you don’t win there’s always money in the banana stand!
Continue reading ‘“Arrested Development” Fans Invited To Create Season Four DVD Cover Art’
September 2nd, 2014 by Aaron Neuwirth
Heads will roll as sleepyheads celebrate Headless Day today, September 2. On this National Beheading Day, viewers everywhere can share in the fun as fans prepare for the release of Sleepy Hollow: Season One on Digital HD now and arriving on Blu-ray and DVD September 16. Continue on to check out some neat eCards!
UPDATE: While the initial e-mail and this post was made in good fun and in the spirit of celebrating a television program, I’d like to add a note that was e-mailed to us –
Dear journalists, We apologize for the unfortunate timing of our Sleepy Hollow Headless Day announcement. The tragic news of Steven Sotloff’s death hit the web as the email was being sent. Our deepest sympathies are with him and his family, and we don’t take the news lightly. Had we have known this information prior, we would have never released the alert and realize it’s in poor taste. Please accept our sincerest apologies.
Best,
Sleepy Hollow Team
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Continue reading ‘Sleepy Hollow Fans Can Celebrate Headless Day with eCards!’
September 2nd, 2014 by Brandon Peters
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’
September 2nd, 2014 by Brandon Peters
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. Continue reading ‘The Battery (Blu-ray Review)’
August 30th, 2014 by Gerard Iribe
Kurumi’s heart was broken by the sudden death of her boyfriend in a tragic airplane accident. Forced to carry on without her beloved Hal, she fell into a reclusive and joyless existence. Kurumi had given up on the world, but a brilliant scientist devised a plan to win her back. By melding futuristic technology with the binary equivalent of human emotion, they created an ultra-lifelike robotic surrogate to take Hal s place and lure Kurumi from her shroud of solitude. Resistant at first, this shattered beauty slowly yielded to her feelings of longing and took comfort in the company of a robot. Though their unique bond grew stronger with each passing day, Kurumi and Hal would soon discover that nothing about their artificial love story was quite as it seemed. Continue reading ‘Hal – The Movie (Blu-ray Review)’
August 30th, 2014 by Aaron Neuwirth
Sometimes I find myself asking, “Why wasn’t this better?” Life of Crime has everything going for it. The film is a prequel of sorts to Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown, as both films feature three key characters. More specifically, crime novelist Elmore Leonard wrote both Rum Punch and The Switch, the novels both films are based on. Regardless, the film has interesting source material and circumstances going for it, as well as a great cast, most of Leonard’s dialogue still intact, and a nice period-film aesthetic to top it all off. Still, Life of Crime never manages to be anything more than average. It is unfortunate, but I have some thoughts as to why this may have been the case.
Continue reading ‘A ‘Life Of Crime’ Should Be Better (Movie Review)’
August 29th, 2014 by Blu-ray Brian
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 pre-order! Continue reading ‘How To Train Your Dragon 2 Blu-ray Announced For October 21st!’
August 29th, 2014 by Brian White
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! Continue reading ‘‘As Above, So Below’ Is Actually Pretty “Descent” (Movie Review)’
August 28th, 2014 by Brandon Peters
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. Continue reading ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Blu-ray Review)’
August 28th, 2014 by Brandon Peters
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. Continue reading ‘Fed Up (Blu-ray Review)’
August 28th, 2014 by Aaron Neuwirth
One of my favorite films of the year (Review HERE) and destined to become a cult classic, Snowpiercer is coming to Blu-ray and DVD on October 21st. This is the film set in a frozen world, where the earth’s population is contained entirely on board a train that circles the globe. Directed by Bong Joon-Ho, the film stars a host of great talent, including Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, John Hurt, Ed Harris, and more! It’s one of the more wild and intriguing science fiction films to come along in some time and after waiting a year for an American release of Snowpiercer in theaters, the film is now coming to Blu-ray with a bevy of special features and some cool packaging. Read on to learn more about this upcoming release.
Continue reading ‘All Aboard For SNOWPIERCER, Coming To Blu-ray This October!’
August 27th, 2014 by Brandon Peters
The provocative political documentary from the creators of 2016: Obama’s America,America: Imagine the World Without Her steps onto the world stage on Blu-ray (plus Digital HD), DVD (plus Digital) and Video on Demand October 28 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The sixth-highest-grossing political documentary of all time, the “important, inspiring, informative” (Movieguide) film will be available two weeks earlier on Digital HD October 14. During its theatrical release, America: Imagine the World Without Her joined the ranks of critically acclaimed films like Schindler’s List, The Godfather, Forrest Gump and Dances with Wolves by earning one of only 52 A+ Cinema Score ratings in the last 29 years, the benchmark for audience reactions. Co-written and co-directed by The New York Times best-selling author Dinesh D’Souza, based on his book America: Imagine a World Without Her, and produced by Academy Award®-winning producer, Gerald R. Molen (Best Picture, Schindler’s List,1993), America: Imagine the World Without Her attempts to show viewers why America as a nation is more important to the world than we could ever imagine. Continue reading ‘AMERICA: IMAGINE THE WORLD WITHOUT HER Comes To Blu-ray’
August 27th, 2014 by Blu-ray Brian
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!!! Continue reading ‘A New Bonus Feature Clip From Spartacus: The Complete Series Blu-ray’
August 27th, 2014 by Brandon Peters
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.
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August 27th, 2014 by Gerard Iribe
Kelly Reichardt s suspense-thriller NIGHT MOVES is the story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam. Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard, The Killing) is a former Marine, radicalized by tours of duty overseas. His life in the military is behind him, but at heart he remains excited by the prospect of mayhem and destruction. Dena (Dakota Fanning, The Twilight Saga) is a high-society dropout who s moved west and cut ties with her family, edging ever deeper into radical politics. And Josh (Jesse Eisenberg, Social Network), their leader, is a self-made militant, devoted to the protection of the earth by any means necessary. As the three plan, carry out and then witness the fallout of their attention-grabbing act of sabotage, they find their own personal limits tested on a journey of doubt, paranoia and unintended consequences. Continue reading ‘Night Moves (Blu-ray Review)’
