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Get The Gringo and a Shot of Mel Gibson on Blu-ray This Summer!

Car chases, bloody bodies and a hard-core prison… all in a day’s work.  Mel Gibson’s vacation plans take a turn for the worse in the raw, explosive and action-packed Get The Gringo, arriving on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download July 17 courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Icon Productions.  I don’t know about all you Mel Gibson haters out there, but I’m looking forward to checking this one out.  But in the meantime, check out the rest of the press release below and pre-order your Blu-ray now! Continue reading ‘Get The Gringo and a Shot of Mel Gibson on Blu-ray This Summer!’

Spartacus: Vegeance – The Complete Second Season Invades Blu-ray

Just when I received news that Season 3 will be the last for Starz show, I got the following from Anchor Bay today on Season 2.  So let’s rock it!  It’s back, and bigger than ever, when Anchor Bay Entertainment releases the acclaimed Starz Original series Spartacus: Vegeance – The Complete Second Season on a steroids induced, muscular three-disc Blu-ray™ and DVD set September 11th.  From executive producers Rob Tapert, Sam Raimi, Joshua Donen and Steven S. DeKnight are all 10 memorable episodes, plus herculean amount of bonus features including ‘Making of’ featurette, behind-the-scenes, on-set footage with Liam McIntyre, bloopers and more!  Plus…the Blu-ray contains audio commentaries and 9 extended episodes!  Check out the rest of the press release below and pre-order now! Continue reading ‘Spartacus: Vegeance – The Complete Second Season Invades Blu-ray’

The Carol Burnett Show: The Ultimate Collection Is Available for Pre-order!

The DVD collectors set that fans of classic TV have been waiting for is finally coming out as Time Life will now start taking pre-orders for The Carol Burnett Show: The Ultimate Collection on DVD!! The 22-DVD set contains 50 episodes from the award-winning and influential TV series, featuring the funniest and most beloved characters and sketches. Fans and collectors can pre-order the DVD release of The Carol Burnett Show: The Ultimate Collection today! The DVD is available for preorder on WWW.CAROLONDVD.COM. Continue reading ‘The Carol Burnett Show: The Ultimate Collection Is Available for Pre-order!’

The River: The Complete First Season (DVD Review)

From Executive Producer Steven Spielberg, and the director of  Paranormal Activity Oren Peli, a truly harrowing and hair-raising series comes to DVD. “The River: The Complete First Season” tells the tale of famed wildlife explorer and TV personality Dr. Emmet Cole who went looking for magic deep in the uncharted Amazon and never returned.  Now, six months after he vanished, a brave crew of family, old friends and new acquaintances embark on a mysterious and deadly journey to find him in the deepest and darkest depths of South America. The DVD is filled with exclusive bonus features, including deleted scenes that draw audiences further into this heart-pounding adventure. Continue reading ‘The River: The Complete First Season (DVD Review)’

‘Snow White’ Goes Dark

Given the visual wonderment seen throughout this darker take on the Snow White fairy tale, it is too bad there is not more to praise in other regards.  Snow White and the Huntsman is a fairly empty film that has plenty to show off on the outside, given the high budget and imaginations at work to create rich fantasy worlds, but practically nothing inside when it comes to showing off the characters involved or a story that makes more sense.  This would be less bothersome if the film was at least fun, but it has very little joy to share, instead keeping things quite grim throughout.  Despite good looking visuals and a good looking cast (in more ways than one), Snow White is more or less a bad apple. Continue reading ‘‘Snow White’ Goes Dark’

‘Piranha’ Doubles The Ds And Lowers The Intelligence

Well I did not think I would be writing a review that would come to the defense of Piranha 3D, but its god-awful sequel Piranha 3DD certainly necessitates some attempt to separate the two.  While one may scoff at the 2010 horror-remake, that film at least knew how to deliver on almost every level that it tried to.  Piranha 3DD fails spectacularly at being anything that resembles horror, comedy, sexy, or basic, intentional entertainment.  The film is only a step or two up from those terrible excuses for parody films (Meet the Spartans, Disaster Movie, etc.) and really requires the aid of some friends who want to equally try and make some good out of a film that is so bad.  Still, try as we did, nothing good came from what we saw, as Piranha 3DD only delivered one ‘D’, which stands for dumb. Continue reading ‘‘Piranha’ Doubles The Ds And Lowers The Intelligence’

Snow White and the Huntsman (Movie Review)

In the epic action-adventure Snow White and the Huntsman, Kristen Stewart (Twilight) plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Oscar winner Charlize Theron) out to destroy her.  But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth, Thor) dispatched to kill her.  Sam Claflin (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) joins the cast as the prince long enchanted by Snow White’s beauty and power.  The breathtaking new vision of the legendary tale is from Joe Roth, the producer of Alice in Wonderland, producer Sam Mercer (The Sixth Sense) and acclaimed commercial director and state-of-the-art visualist Rupert Sanders.  The second Snow White movie of the year releases on Friday June 1st.  The first, Mirror Mirror, was the lighter side of the story, with Snow White and The Huntsman certainly representing the dark side. Continue reading ‘Snow White and the Huntsman (Movie Review)’

Finding Nemo Returns to Theaters in 3D and to Blu-ray in 2D and 3D this December!

In this stunning underwater adventure teeming with memorable comedic characters and heartfelt emotion, “Finding Nemo” follows the momentous journey of an overprotective clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) and his young son Nemo (voiced by Alexander Gould). When the two are unexpectedly separated in the Great Barrier Reef, Nemo is carried far from his ocean home and deposited in a fish tank in a dentist’s office. Buoyed by the companionship of Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres), a friendly-but-forgetful blue tang fish, Marlin embarks on a dangerous trek and finds himself the unlikely hero of an epic effort to rescue his son––who hatches a few daring plans of his own to return safely home.  Finding Nemo swims into living rooms for the first time ever in high-definition Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D and Digital platforms on December 4, 2012. Continue reading ‘Finding Nemo Returns to Theaters in 3D and to Blu-ray in 2D and 3D this December!’

The Three Stooges Come to Blu-ray this July 17!

The Farrelly Bros. (There’s Something About Mary, Dumb & Dumber) bring back a beloved classic comedy act with THE THREE STOOGES, a contemporary take on America’s favorite trio of boneheads coming to Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download July 17 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.  Sean Hayes (“Will & Grace”), Chris Diamantopoulos (“24”) and Will Sasso (“MADTV”) portray the troika of knuckleheads in three hysterical misadventures. Continue reading ‘The Three Stooges Come to Blu-ray this July 17!’

The Forever Marilyn Blu-ray Collection Arrives This July!

Celebrate the life, the legend and the beauty of Marilyn Monroe.  The iconic blonde bombshell shines in high definition in the Forever Marilyn Blu-ray Collection.  With classics like The Misfits and Some Like It Hot as well as new-to-Blu-ray titles How to Marry A Millionaire, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Seven Year Itch, There’s No Business Like Show Business and River of No Return this unique set of films, those that made Marilyn a star, is a collector’s dream.  Marking the 50th anniversary of the passing of this Hollywood legend, the seven disc collection will be available as a Blu-ray set and individual titles beginning July 20th Internationally (Germany) and on July 31st in North America from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.  Starting today (June 1st), Marilyn fans around the world can pre-order the Collection with online retailers. Continue reading ‘The Forever Marilyn Blu-ray Collection Arrives This July!’

Pre-order Prometheus on Blu-ray Now and Receive a Free Movie Ticket!

Attention.  Listen to me!  Be one of the first!  Be brave.  Be bold.  And most importantly, be beautiful!  Be the first to order and experience this summer’s biggest action adventure event, Prometheus, from Ridley Scott, which stars Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron.  For a limited time, be one of the first 5,000 customers to pre-order on Blu-ray and receive a ticket to see it in theaters starting next Friday, June 8th.  How can you pass up that deal?  Hit up the pre-order link below.

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WE ARE SPARTACUS! – A Salute to Kirk Douglas

There was a standing room only crowd for a special salute to Kirk Douglas, who first brought Spartacus to life in 1960, and was joined by Liam McIntyre, of the STARZ hit original series Spartacus: Vengeance and its creator and producer Steven S. DeKnight, for a once in a lifetime moment at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Goldenson Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 31st.  The special evening also celebrated the launch of Douglas’s 10th book, “I Am Spartacus! Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist” and season three of Spartacus, premiering in 2013.  McIntyre presented Douglas with a sword from the TV series, which is currently filming in New Zealand, that was customized saying “For Kirk, the original hero. Stand together or fall divided.” Continue reading ‘WE ARE SPARTACUS! – A Salute to Kirk Douglas’

‘Grim Leaper’ Jumps at Dark Comedy

Image Comics is a proverbial hotbed for under-the-radar titles that, despite their lack of initial popularity, prove to be at least decent reads if not better.  Last week saw another such release in the form of the first issue of Grim Leaper.

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‘Titanic’ debuts on 2D and 3D Blu-ray on September 10th (UPDATED)

The two billion-dollar box office phenomenon and winner of 11 Academy Awards®, TITANIC, makes its highly anticipated debut on Blu-ray 2D and 3D on September 14, 2012 from Paramount Home Media Distribution and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.  Available in high definition for the first time ever, James Cameron’s timeless and unforgettable tour de force will be presented in stunning 2D and 3D, providing a cinematic in-home experience of TITANIC like never before.  Marking 101 years ago today that the RMS Titanic was launched into the Belfast Lough, film fans worldwide can now pre-order the epic love story on Blu-ray 2D or Blu-ray 3D™ with participating online retailers.  Continue reading ‘‘Titanic’ debuts on 2D and 3D Blu-ray on September 10th (UPDATED)’

‘Hatfields & McCoys’ on Blu-ray July 31st

The highly anticipated HATFIELDS & McCOYS arrives on Blu-ray™ and DVD July 31st from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE). Two-time Academy Award® winner Kevin Costner (Best Picture and Best Director, 1991, Dances With Wolves) stars as Anse ‘Devil’ Hatfield, and four-time Golden Globe® nominee Bill Paxton (TV’s “Big Love,” TV’s “A Bright Shining Lie”), stars as Randall McCoy in the epic, true tale of close friends turned enemies. The infamous back country feud that became an American legend begins with Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy, close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, when they return to their neighboring homes – Hatfield in West Virginia, McCoy just across the Tug River border in Kentucky – to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments that soon explode into all-out warfare between the families. As hostilities grow, friends, neighbors and outside forces join the fight, bringing the two states to the brink of another Civil War.  Continue reading ‘‘Hatfields & McCoys’ on Blu-ray July 31st’

Batman Annual #1 (Review)

Just when you thought DC’s launch of the New 52 was long done and over, readers get treated to an extension of that with this week’s release of Batman Annual #1. The title comes to us amidst the very solid ‘Night of the Owls’ story arc currently taking place throughout many DC titles while also featuring one very ‘chilling’ origin.

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The Dark Knight Rises – TV SPOT #4 – I’m Retired

This one was just too good not to share here.  I have been fighting the urge to post any TV trailers from the most anticipated film ever, The Dark Knight Rises, but this one surfaced yesterday beneath my nose and I just got around to seeing this gem today.  And I’m smitten with a Joker-like smile from ear-to-ear.  It’s a nice little montage that kind of plays around with the notion that Batman is retired.  Yeah right!  How can he possibly resist all these toys Fox shows him in this 30-second trailer, which by the way also showcases some pretty bad a$$ quick action cuts.  I hate to wish my life away, but screw Comic-Con, July 20th can’t come fast enough!  Bring it! Continue reading ‘The Dark Knight Rises – TV SPOT #4 – I’m Retired’

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Finally Arrives on Blu-ray This October!

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg’s magical adventure, celebrates its 30th Anniversary with its first-ever release on Blu-ray this October.Featuring an all-new, digitally remastered picture that delivers six times the resolution of DVD, as well as all-new 7.1 surround sound, the E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Combo Pack includes the 1982 theatrical movie, an all-new interview with director Steven Spielberg, and “The E.T. Journals” featuring never-before-seen footage from the set of the film. The Blu-ray Combo Pack also includes UltraViolet, a DVD and a Digital Copy of the film, offering fans a chance to relive the mystery, laughter and wonder of the iconic movie anytime, anywhere on the platform of their choice. Continue reading ‘E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Finally Arrives on Blu-ray This October!’