2 Broke Girls: The Complete Third Season on DVD October 14th!
July 1st, 2014 by Gerard Iribe
The comedic duo that goes together like cupcakes and frosting is back in business and more hilarious than ever as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group brings you 2 Broke Girls: The Complete Third Season on DVD September 30, 2014. The DVD release will include all 24 half-hour episodes from the third season, plus never-before-seen extras including deleted scenes and a gag reel. In its third season on CBS, 2 Broke Girls delivered an average of more than nine million viewers weekly and was one of network TV’s top four sitcoms among Adults 18–49. 2 Broke Girls returns for a fourth season in late fall, airing Mondays 8/7c on CBS.
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Wow. Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the ground. We’ve known for about a year that Scream Factory was going to put out the director’s cut of Clive Barker’s cult classic Nightbreed. But I don’t think in our wildest imaginations we thought THIS would be what’s coming. There are 2 releases here. One is the standard director’s cut Blu-ray which is what I think we all assumed this was going to be. BUT WAIT! A limited edition (5,000) set with 3 discs INCLUDING the theatrical cut which means WARNER BROS ACTUALLY SUB LICENSED SOMETHING!!! Also comes with a book and a 3rd disc (exclusive to the set) crammed with bonus material. Both editions also have their own exclusive artwork. It comes out just before Halloween hits too. We were all excited about this, but man, they really went and outdid themselves with this one. 
Guilame Canet’s Blood Ties is an American-language remake of the 2008 French film Les liens du sang. The film went to Cannes and really didn’t make much noise. It wasn’t a part of the film competition but received screen in the “Out Of Competition” category. And I can tell you it was just a surprise to me to see this thing screen here in the US this year, but of course in the limited variety. When I did the press release for the film it interested me enough on two levels; the cast and the setting of the film. A 70s crime film will always harken back fond memories to stuff from the likes of The French Connection during one of my favorite decades of cinema. No, i didn’t go into thinking it would be THAT good (that’s expecting it to be a perfect film, haha). I was just looking for something to, like always, merely entertain me and have me able to find merits on some level for it. 
Does anybody own the old Halloween: H20 DVD that came out back in 1998? You know, the one that was set in 4:3 Letterbox and included the worthless bonus features of ‘Trivia’ and a Creed music video? On the back of that box it said there was a commentary with Jamie Lee Curtis and Steve Miner. On the disc however, no such thing existed. Forever, people wondered what happened to it. Why was it scrapped? Is it laying around here somewhere? Would it pop up on the Blu-ray…nope…they can’t even get the correct framing on that thing. Apparently that commentary was never recorded. BUT, thank you Scream Factory (they’re doing the bonus, not Anchor Bay)! It’s going to happen and be moderated by horor community fan favorite Sean Clark. This is pretty big too, as Steve Miner doesn’t like to do commentaries. As proof that this isn’t like last time, Anchor Bay has sent along a photo! Cannot wait for what will likely be the best Blu-ray release of the year (in my eyes)! Oh, and I also included a photo of the back of the DVD case to show you guys I’m not off my rocker on that. 
This past Thursday night I finally got the chance to sit down with George Dawe, a 51-year-old actor and stuntman (you can check out his IMDB page 
How does one approach reviewing a movie like Transformers: Age of Extinction? It ultimately does not matter too much, as this Michael “Boom Boom” Bay-directed franchise has no real problem turning a profit, even while critics and a certain percentage of audiences chuck nothing but garbage its way. This is the fourth installment of the series and while all of the human actors from the past three films have been tossed aside in favor of a new cast, Michael Bay has not moved away from what he has done in the previous installments. There is some directorial evolution, sure, but this is still an overlong exercise in big-budgeted spectacle. Really though, it comes down to what I expected to see and the film with a poster that features one robot riding on the back of a dinosaur-shaped robot gave me a pretty big clue of what I was in for.
For those of you itching to get a first look at Marvel’s upcoming Guardians Of The Galaxy, you’ll get your chance to see 17 minutes of it on July 7 at participating IMAX theaters. Keep reading on reading to find out all the details! Oooga Chacka!
The Saturn Awards sure knows how to pick ’em as we both agree the Halloween 35th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray from last year was one of the year’s best. It was among my personal #1 of 2013 (I picked all John Carpenter releases and tied them together). Saturn maybe should have waited a year for the box set, haha. Or maybe the Halloween franchise can rake in back to back wins. This 35th Anniversary Edition was most notable because they got Dean Cundey to come back and get the color timing right and approve the image to be near identical to its theatrical release. And my, it looked absolutely fantastic. Almost like seeing it for the first time. There was one scratch most had on the release, and that was the lack of the original mono track. Fear not, it WILL be reinserted on the upcoming box set. Below is Anchor Bay’s statement on this great feat. Congrats! 
Let it be known before we get started here that I wanted nothing to do with this fourth film in the Michael Bay Transformers franchise. The last two, minus seeing Megan Fox and her clubbed thumbs in the second film, were absolute crud. How many times can we see the same story repeated over and over again? Decepticons come down and want to destroy the Earth. Big effing deal! Yawn. I have seen it all before. And from the looks of the trailers that have aired, going into this one, I expected more of the same with just a different looking cast. However, the curator of toys in me really couldn’t pass this press screening opportunity up to see if Michael Bay got any better in the storytelling department or not. One thing for sure, Bay won’t let you down in the hot women department. With 19-year old Nicola Peltz taking center stage, Transformers: Age of Extinction had at least that much going for it before the lights even dimmed Tuesday evening. 
I really don’t understand the big studio distributors sometimes. I really don’t. It feels like they really hold back on some things that really doesn’t make sense or they flat our will release something without a care in the world given to it instead of letting an independent distributor actually make a release worth purchasing that will bring about praise and better sales. Universal Studios Home Entertainment had the chance this week to put a GIANT GIANT cherry on top of this incredible vintage horror fans’ September box set release cake and they instead smashed a giant pie in our faces. I am so disappointed about their two home video announcements in the last 24 hours that I’ve taken to my Why So Blu soapbox to sit and whine about it. So, click on or scroll down and let me give you the rundown and then we’ll discuss. 
I’m gonna go with comedy again this week to finish out the month of June. And I’m digging into that of the teen variety, picking one of my favorites of that subgenre from the 90s. Its a film I kind of have a nostalgia for and I think is a solid film that not many people probably got a chance to see in the 90s. It also made a whopping $309 at the box office (costing $15 million).
I’ll be the first to admit, when Scream Factory announced they were doing Lake Placid, I was kinda like “Hmm”. For one, it was a newer film (weird to call a 15 year old film that), but as we’ve seen they are starting to explore late 90s and early 2000s films. I remember watching it back when it came out on video and not really caring for it. I haven’t seen it since. It’s spawned some straight to SyFy Channel sequels over the years though. What’s great is that I get to revisit this film with fresh eyes and an older, wiser mind. I don’t think I fully grasped or appreciated films like this back when I was 17, so I feel I obviously went in realizing it was probably on me last time and I may have not been on the same wavelength as this film on my initial outing. 
