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January 21st, 2014 by Brandon Peters
I’m a big big fan and lover of the A Nightmare On Elm Street franchise. I grew up with Freddy Krueger as well as Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees. Freddy became the absolute phenomenon of those guys though. He was everywhere. And he’s left an incredible legacy and a ton of fans. Never Sleep Again chronicles the journey from his first film to Freddy Vs. Jason. It even covers some memorabilia aspects and that TV show that’s not so fondly remembered, Freddy’s Nightmares. This came out on DVD back in 2010 and 1428 mentioned there were no plans for a Blu-ray. However, Image Entertainment has come to the rescue of us that live and die by the Blu and brought this documentary to the Blu-ray format! Continue reading ‘Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (Blu-ray Review)’
January 21st, 2014 by Blu-ray Brian
Hooray! Two Secret Agents team up for an All-New Explosive, Animated Film, Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher. Sadly, it’s not the Scarlet Johansson version of the character, but it has the Punisher in it so I’ll take it! The Action comes to Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD & Digital* on March 25th with Special Features that includes two Making-of Featurettes and a Blu-ray Exclusive Conceptual Art Gallery. So while there’s no pre-order yet up for this title on Amazon, I thought you all would like to mark this one on your release calendar and learn all about it below. Enjoy! Continue reading ‘Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher Team Up on Blu-ray This March!’
January 21st, 2014 by Blu-ray Brian
Well, it’s Award season! And it’s also the time when I eat all my words and see films that I said I wanted no part of the year before, mainly because curiosity gets the best of me. I guess the same can be said with this title in question here, Nebraska, which will be available on Digital and Digital HD on February 18th and on Blu-ray, DVD and VOD on February 25th. The critically-acclaimed film is nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Alexander Payne), Best Actor (Bruce Dern), Best Original Screenplay (Bob Nelson), Best Supporting Actress (June Squibb) and Best Cinematography (Phedon Papamichael). Check out the full press release below courtesy of Paramount and why wait? Pre-order your copy now by clicking here. Enjoy! Continue reading ‘Take A Trip To ‘Nebraska’ on Blu-ray This February!’
January 21st, 2014 by Blu-ray Brian
While these White Queen bonus features keep rolling in here on the site, this post serves a good reminder to reinvigorate your interest in this February 4th Blu-ray release. So please check out below not one, but two new Bonus Features (“Dressing The Queen” and “Book To Series”) and other relative assets from Anchor Bay’s upcoming and hotly anticipated Blu-ray & DVD release to get a taste of what the show is all about. As stated before, The White Queen will be released on a three-disc Blu-ray with Digital HD Ultraviolet and DVD set on February 4th. Make sure you pre-order yours today! And now…the clips! Things are looking good here! Continue reading ‘2 New Bonus Features from February 4th’s ‘The White Queen’’
January 20th, 2014 by Aaron Neuwirth
I am a big fan of Comedy Bang Bang and the comedic sensibilities of its creator and star Scott Aukerman. I have to follow that statement by saying Comedy Bang Bang can be very divisive, as it presents a type of absurdist humor that not everyone can go along with. Yes, the show features a ton of funny people as guests, including Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen, Amy Poehler, and more, but the show captures a far stranger type of humor than many may be used to. It definitely explains why this show is a great fit for IFC, rather than any basic cable channel. Regardless, the entire first season is now available on DVD and it is full of plenty of crazy extras to go along with the bizarre nature that is this twisted talk show.
Continue reading ‘Comedy Bang Bang: The Complete First Season (DVD Review)’
January 20th, 2014 by Sean Ferguson
After a half century of cinematic storytelling, along with countless awards and accolades, Academy Award-nominated MacGillivray Freeman Films’ best-selling documentaries have made a difference in the lives of audiences around the world. In celebration of their 50-year anniversary, this very special limited edition box set includes 10 of their most awe-inspiring adventures in spectacular high-definition. The gift set features narration from Gordon Brown, Helen Mirren, Jean-Michael Cousteau, Liam Neeson, Meryl Streep, Nia Vardalos, Pierce Brosnan, Robert Redford, and Tom Selleck and is directed by Greg MacGillivray, Jordi Llompart, and Steve Judson. Continue reading ‘IMAX & MacGillivray Freeman: 50th Anniversary Limited Edition Box Set (Blu-ray Review)’
January 19th, 2014 by Gerard Iribe
Set in the streets of New York City, RUN is a fast-paced, 3D crime thriller that follows the life of Daniel Lombardi – a troubled seventeen year old who nomadically moves from city to city with his father and utilizes Parkour to commit crimes in order to survive. Daniel soon uncovers his father’s dark past that ultimately led to their life on the run. As he gets pulled deeper into an unsuspecting world of crime, Daniel is forced to put everything he holds dear on the line, including the love of his life who has secrets of her own. Continue reading ‘Run (Blu-ray Review)’
January 19th, 2014 by Brandon Peters
“They call me Mister Tibbs” is one of the most famous lines in cinema history. It comes from the mouth of Sidney Poitier in the 1967 Best Picture winner In The Heat Of The Night (For the remainder of this review known as simply Heat). A film that was an important moment not just for filmmaking, but a an important as an advocate of racial equality. While making a big splash at the Academy Awards, the film also found success in the years after as it became a franchise. Heat ended up serving as the first piece of a Virgil Tibbs trilogy that included the follow ups They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970) and The Organization (1971). Sidney Poitier reprised his role for both films. It then became a television series of the same name that ran for 8 seasons from 1988-1995 over two networks (NBC ’88-’92, CBS ’92-’95). In this era of being obsessed with franchises, I’m surprised we haven’t seen the reboot of Virgil Tibbs. Continue reading ‘In The Heat Of The Night (Blu-ray Review)’
January 17th, 2014 by Gerard Iribe
When his late mother appears in a vision and tells him to go to Bucharest, Charlie Countryman immediately boards a plane across the Atlantic. A chance encounter with an ailing passenger leads Charlie to Gabi, a Romanian beauty, changing the course of his entire trip. As he falls head-over-heels in love with Gabi, he realizes that her dark past is riddled with dangerous baggage: namely her gangster ex-husband who has no intention of letting Gabi go. Determined to protect her, Charlie enters into a hallucinatory underworld filled with violence and, strangely enough, love.
Continue reading ‘Charlie Countryman (Blu-ray Review)’
January 17th, 2014 by Sean Ferguson
The original starship Enterprise continues its historic voyage into the final frontier of high definition when Star Trek: Enterprise – The Complete Third Season makes its debut on Blu-ray from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Media Distribution. After a surprise attack on Earth leaves over seven million people dead, Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and the crew of the Enterprise swear to find those responsible – the Xindi. Taking off into the uncharted region known as the Delphic Expanse, the crew of the Enterprise must hunt down the Xindi and stop them from enacting their ultimate plan: the total destruction of humanity. Along the way they travel to the year 2004 to prevent a bioweapon attack, fend off the mysterious Sphere-Builders, and even meet their own descendants due to a wormhole mishap – all leading up to a desperate race back to Earth to prevent its destruction. Featuring all 24 episodes from the third season, the six-disc Blu-ray set also includes never-before-seen special features that are exclusive to this release: “In A Time of War,” a new three-part documentary, and a new featurette entitled “Temporal Cold War: Declassified.” Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Enterprise – The Complete Season Three (Blu-ray Review)’
January 17th, 2014 by Sean Ferguson
In this heartwarming comedy, underachiever David Wozniak (Vince Vaughn) learns he’s actually an overachiever — he’s fathered 533 children via donations made twenty years earlier! David soon discovers that the shock of his life might just be the best thing that’s ever happened to him. Along the way he discovers not only his true self, but also the father he could become. Also starring Chris Pratt and Cobie Smulders — and complete with bonus materials, including behind-the-scenes footage — it’s a feel-good movie that really delivers. Continue reading ‘Delivery Man Arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and HD Digital March 25’
January 17th, 2014 by Brandon Peters
As you could probably predict, I’m very excited about this one. This is one of the most notable “Golden Age” slasher films of the 1980s. When doing your research on the era, this one is a pivotal movie to add to your watching. Scream Factory had originally released the first 3 movies of this series in a Roger Corman box set of the franchise. Here they’ve been able to find and develop a new HD print of the film that they once had not been able to do. They’ve brought over the old bonus content and added a new interview to boot. This is an exciting release, and I’m sure the film is going to look like never before on Blu-ray. Its nice that like the Visiting Hours/Bad Dreams 2 pack coming in February, these Shout! Factory horror movies are able to cross over into the more appropriate Scream Factory catalog (They also retroactively consider the Shout! released Blu-ray of The Stepfather a Scream Factory title, too). There are no plans right now to release part 2 and 3 of The Slumber Party Massacre series on Blu-ray, but if the sales of this one do well, then we can be sure that they would definitely start looking into it. This one releases in March and you can find all the details and a preorder below! Continue reading ‘SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE Drills Its Way To Blu-ray March 18!’
January 17th, 2014 by Blu-ray Brian
Here’s a flick that has really garnered a lot of attention, not only when it came out theatrically last year, but also during the holiday season when it was mentioned on just about everyone’s Top 10 list of films in 2013. And going into the Awards season here shortly, you can rest assured that you haven’t heard the last of what many consider Alfonso Cuaron’s masterpiece, Gravity. Heck! We haven’t even scratched the surface yet, but we are definitely going to make a deep incision today and break open the bread with joyous word from Warner Bros. that Gravity now has a Blu-ray release date! Drum roll please…it is…(more drums)…February 25th! Check out the full press release below and pre-order your Blu-ray copy today! Continue reading ‘Take A Space Ride With ‘Gravity’ & Own On Blu-ray 2/25!’
January 17th, 2014 by Aaron Neuwirth
I was seeing a lot of lists regarding people’s most anticipated films of the year and I figured I would post one too. Many directors, writers, and actors that I admire have films hitting theaters this year, so it was nice to dig into the upcoming release schedule of this year and really figure out what I am looking forward to. The problem then became how to rank these films. Given that I just struggled to put together a top ten list for 2013, I figured I would take a different approach with this list. The following is a list of films I am looking forward to, separated out by month, with mentions of a few other films as well. One must also keep in mind that I am going mostly by mainstream films with established release dates (that could potentially change). With all of that out of the way, here we go:
Continue reading ‘Aaron’s Most Anticipated Films of 2014 By Month’
January 16th, 2014 by Brandon Peters
Shout! Factory brings home the IFC series Bullet In The Face. The show is another from the creator of Sledge Hammer!, Alan Spencer. It had a 6 episode run on the network, airing all the episodes between 2 nights. The show was shot in Canada and features Eric Roberts and Eddie Izzard is special guest star role capacity. It features a lot of outlandish comedy focusing on violence with a bit of a neo-noir tone. While the show was short lived, it picked up notoriety from its DVD releases in other countries and now has a cult fanbase similar to the creators other works. Its hitting shelves soon, so lets take a look at it. Continue reading ‘Bullet In The Face – The Complete Series (DVD Review)’
January 16th, 2014 by Aaron Neuwirth
Does the world need another Jack Ryan? The character, created by writer Tom Clancy, has never quite taken off, despite their now being five films that feature him. The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, and Clear and Present Danger are solid spy thrillers/procedurals, but are not 90s films that many seem to single out all that often. This sentiment was challenged in 2002 with The Sum of All Fears, the first reboot of the Jack Ryan character. Despite receiving decent-to-positive reviews then, The Bourne Identity arrived around the same time, made around the same amount of money, but basically buried Ryan’s analyst ways, as audiences favored the kinetic spy action. Now we have another take on the character in a new film that flirts with what audiences like in the Bourne films, but still tries to be a Clancy-style spy thriller. The results are unfortunately very average.
Continue reading ‘‘Jack Ryan’: Plain Recruit (Movie Review)’
January 16th, 2014 by Aaron Neuwirth
There is not much work to be done when reviewing a film like Ride Along. It is a comedy, so I cannot exactly say whether someone will laugh or not, as it is all subjective. The film is a buddy cop movie, which follows a long list of mismatched pairings designed to work, based on chemistry and the potential comedy that comes with it. Lastly, the film heavily relies on how much they enjoy a specific performer. Basically, Ride Along is a completely inoffensive comedy that puts the spotlight on Kevin Hart. Ice Cube is around to provide straight man support, but if you like Hart, this film may be mildly entertaining. There is not much more to it than that, but hey, I can still dig into this film anyway and see if anything else important comes to light.
Continue reading ‘Buckle Up With Cube, ‘Ride Along’ With Hart, Laugh Maybe (Movie Review)’
January 16th, 2014 by Gerard Iribe
After an ill-fated weekend of gambling in Las Vegas, four friends on the run from a loan shark find themselves stranded in the Nevada desert. But debt troubles may be the least of their worries when the group discovers that something unearthly may be stalking them. Director Jason R. Miller s UNIDENTIFIED cleverly mixes sci-fi suspense with comedy to create a truly unique take on an otherworldly encounter. Continue reading ‘‘Unidentified’ on DVD and Digital Download February 11th’
