‘Escape From Tomorrow’ on DVD & Blu-ray April 29th!
March 11th, 2014 by Gerard Iribe
Featured in IndieWire’s top 5 first features of 2013, and called “a cult classic in the making” (Salon), Escape From Tomorrow comes to DVD and Blu-Ray April 29 from Cinedigm. Unlike any film ever made, the most buzzed about debut at Sundance 2013 enraptured audiences with the fearless methods used by its writer/director Randy Moore, along with its compelling take on childhood fantasy gone awry. Secretly shot at two world-famous theme parks, Escape From Tomorrow uses covert techniques that take guerilla filming to another level, placing it amongst one of the most revolutionary films in history. Continue reading ‘‘Escape From Tomorrow’ on DVD & Blu-ray April 29th!’
You may have heard about In Fear just a tad if you’ve been a loyal Why So Blu? reader. It’s a unique take on the home invasion subgenre of horror, that was a pretty big hit over at Sundance. Anchor Bay has been pretty excited to be the home distributor for the film and has been pumping the hype machine for quite some time. Now, its finally here and we can see what all this hub bub is about. I liked what I was reading from the early pressers, so I wanted to go in blind as possible. I know I had been posting clip after clip, but I had no idea what I was posting as I didn’t want a single bit of it spoiled for me upon my viewing. So now we get to the nitty gritty and I finally get to share with you my experience with In Fear. Did it hold up or live up to its hype? Read on to see if how I went with this motorized tale of terror. 
In 2010, Easy Money or Snabba Cash released and became a pretty solid success. It got the attention of people for actor Joel Kinnaman, who had a terrific attention-getting performance of ‘JW’ in the first film. JW was a college kid who was taxi driving/drug dealing his way through school while schmoozing rich kids to try and be accepting by doing their papers and homework. The film was filled with suspense, some crazy intensity and plenty of doublecross. It had some wonderfully realized characters and focused on 3 very different characters that you both loved and couldn’t trust the whole time. It took some surprising turns and always kept you at attention. So, it was with great pleasure to see what they did to continue this series as its now become a trilogy. Today we check out the second installment, Easy Money: Hard To Kill or the much more fun to say title – Snabba Cash II. 
Now here’s a flick thai I am personally salivating to see having missed it in the theaters. It’s a tale from Scott Cooper, the critically acclaimed writer and director of Crazy Heart, complete with a gripping and powerful drama about family, fate, circumstance and justice. Who doesn’t love a tale like that? It goes a little something like this. Russell Baze (Christian Bale) leads a dead-end life – he works a meaningless steel mill job all day, and cares for his terminally ill father at night. When Russell’s brother Rodney (Casey Affleck) returns home from Iraq, he is lured into one of the Northeast’s most ruthless crime rings and mysteriously disappears. When the police fail to solve the case, Russell puts his life at risk in order to seek justice for his brother. The film features an all-star cast that includes Woody Harrelson, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, Zoe Saldana and Sam Shepard. Read on below for more information about this March 11th Blu-ray release and how you can win a Blu-ray of your own courtesy of Fox. 
Marvel Knights returns with a new Wolverine release. This one features Wolverine fighting against Deathlok the Demolisher! This is a hugely anticipated titled, but you’ll be able to see what all the hub bub is about come May 13! Below are some details, a synopsis, a look at the bonus and most importantly of all – the pre-order link that will secure you a copy when this gets released. Comic book and X-Men fans alike should be pretty excited to see this one when it hits shelves. Just in time for you to feed a little bit of that Days Of Future Past fix you’re going to be having!
In an early announcement to retailers today, Showtime Networks, CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Media Distribution have made known the June 10th Blu-ray and DVD release date for the first season of the powerful family drama Ray Donovan. For those of you that do not know, Ray Donovan (Live Schreiber) is the go-to guy who makes the problems of Los Angeles celebrities, superstar athletes and business moguls disappear. However, this drama truly unfolds and opens up when Ray’s father (Jon Voight) is unexpectedly released from prison, setting off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core. I have only seen the first half of the season before Showtime was yanked last summer for TWC customers, but from what I saw it had me wanting more and I can’t wait to finish this one up in June..on Blu-ray! 
Disney animation made a sweeping return to form and comeback in 2013 with Frozen. The film is now the winner of 2 Academy Awards, including Best Animated Feature (the other for Best Original Song for “Let It Go”). Not only did the film receive high praise and reviews from critics, but it was a sensation globally. Just last weekend the film crossed the 1 billion dollar mark at the global box office (and the film still hasn’t opened in Japan yet). That leaves only Toy Story 3 ahead of it in terms of animated films all time box office (without adjusting for inflation), making it then the highest grossing animated non sequel of all time. So yeah, this movie was pretty huge. And I’m pretty honored to be covering it for Why So Blu? today! 
Thinking about this today, it’s been way too long hasn’t it? I’m talking about of course the amount of time that has passed since 2007 when Warner Bros. brought Roman soldiers with unbelievably chiseled pecs and abs into our living rooms on our early adoption HDTV sets during the Red vs. Blu Wars (HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray). Can you believe it has been that long and for that matter has taken this long to get a sequel out to the wildly insane, testosterone driven 300? I still remember my first theatrical viewing of that feature. It was quite a visual spectacle to behold and take in. It was like the raw pages of Frank Miller’s graphic novel of the same name just magically came to life on the big screen. Were those chiseled bodies real or CG? Hell no! Gerald Butler and the rest of the gang went through some rigorous training to achieve those astonishing physiques. Now it wasn’t all about the awe, shock and gratuitous violence/sex, it was actually a quite entertaining and solid movie that took us on an incredible journey and did not let go of us leaving us thirsty for even more blood and vengeance by the time the credits rolled. After all, our king, as mighty as he was, had fallen. Vengeance was an instant mandate. And now the time is upon us! Ladies and gentlemen…I proudly introduce to you 300: Rise of an Empire. 
These Tinker Bell straight to video films are a pretty hot item and if you have a daughter, niece, granddaughter or what-have-you, I’m sure you’re well aware. There’s a new one in the fold and its coming pretty soon. In anticipation of Disney’s The Pirate Fairy releasing on Blu-ray Combo Pack on April 1, we’re excited to share an Extended Sneak Peek of the new film below. The Pirate Fairy features the voices of Christina Hendricks and Tom Hiddleston and an original song byNatasha Bedingfield. Below you can also find a pre-order option to secure yourself a fine mint condition copy by the street date! 
