The Double (Blu-ray Review)
When a United States Senator is brutally murdered, the evidence points to a Soviet assassin code- named Cassius, who was long-thought to be dead. Two men who know Cassius best are thrown together to catch him. Paul Shepherdson (Richard Gere, An Officer and a Gentleman) is a retired CIA operative who spent his career tracking Cassius around the globe. Ben Geary (Topher Grace, Spider-Man 3) is a hotshot young FBI Agent and family man who has studied the killer’s every move. Ben thinks he knows Cassius, but Paul knows he is dead wrong. Now, time is running out to stop this merciless killing machine before he finds his next target. Martin Sheen (The Departed), Stephen Moyer (True Blood), Odette Yustman (Cloverfield) and Stana Katic (Castle) costar in this tense thriller from the co-writers of Wanted and 3:10 to Yuma that will keep you guessing until the very last shot. Continue reading ‘The Double (Blu-ray Review)’
If Michael Bay directed Safe House, a fast-paced, spies-on-the-run thriller, it could have been this generations The Rock. With novice director Daniel Espinosa at the helm, it comes across as a Jason Bourne meets Training Day mish-mash that falls apart in the end and will wash from your memory soon after seeing it. A better name for it would be The Chalk. 
Ti West follows up his breakthrough hit with a haunted-house thriller that has unnerved viewers worldwide. The House of the Devil Director mixes old-school frights with modern panache in a gripping fright flick called The Innkeepers. Get ready! The flick is coming to scare you on Blu-ray and DVD this April 24th. Check out the trailer and the full press release below. FWIW, The Innkeepers is also available to watch right now on iTunes, 
Yes you read the headline right. Moments ago the following press release fell into my inbox and I couldn’t wait to get the confirmed word out to all our readers that are going to salivate over this HUGE news. Arnold Schwarzenegger will star opposite Sylvester Stallone in the action/thriller THE TOMB, which will be directed by Swedish filmmaker Mikael Håfström. Check out the below press release for everything else you need to know! 
Everyone’s favorite chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore, and their female companions, The Chipettes, have the time of their lives during a family vacation they’ll never forget in Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, debuting on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download on March 27 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. The Chipmunks, Chipettes and their caretaker Dave Seville (Jason Lee; “My Name is Earl”) embark on a trip of a lifetime aboard the Carnival Dream cruise ship. Seeking fun and excitement, the Chipmunks turn the luxury cruise liner into their own personal playground. But the ultimate vacation quickly becomes a disaster when the Chipmunks, Dave and Carnival cruise pelican mascot, who turns out to be the chipmunks’ old manager, Ian Hawke (David Cross; Megamind), accidentally fall overboard and find themselves ‘chipwrecked’ on a remote island. Stuck in an unfamiliar territory, the six furry castaways are separated from Dave and must figure out a way to survive on their own for the first time in their lives. 
We are back with yet another Blu-ray giveaway contest. This time around it’s courtesy of our good friends over at Anchor Bay Entertainment. When my favorite PR person there asked if we were interested in giving away some Blu-ray product to a few lucky U.S. readers, I didn’t have to think twice about it before delivering a resounding HELL YES! Thanks to her I have not one, but two copies of the African zombie horror title, The Dead, to give away here. Are you ready to find out how to enter? Of course you are! Read on for the full details and while you are at it, check out the film’s synopsis and trailer below. 
I honestly have never heard of this film, but LOL…I would be all over a Carnage Blu-ray (as it relates to the Spider-Man universe). Okay. The time to be serious has officially begun…NOW! Alright, so digging into my inbox today I came across this latest press release from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. It says the following and I loosely quote. “Nominated for Two Golden Globe Awards, Carnage stars Academy Award winners Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and Academy Award Nominee John C. Reilly. It’s Roman Polansi’s adaptation of the Tony Award-Winning play and it’s available on Blu-ray and DVD March 20th.” Want to know more? Good! You’re in the right place. Check out the full press release below and 
So what’s better than a Friday evening after a long week of work? Well, I’ll tell ya. How about if I were to tell that my good buddy Tim Sullivan just dropped me a line to announce that his Chillerama segment, I Was A Teenage Werebear, is set to become a real stage musical? Would you believe me? And on top of that, BuySoundtrax Records will be releasing his anthology segment as a film soundtrack. Are you still with me? Well, I sh!t you not, this and so much more is all true! I couldn’t be happier for my friend. The guy’s a real class act and he deserves nothing but the best in life. And finally, the following debuted a few days ago on AICN, but we have it here now. I’m thrilled to host/embed the official music video for Chillerama, Psycho Charger’s main title song of the same name, here on Why So Blu. Check out the full press release below for more information on the soundtrack and stage musical and of course, hit play on the video below. But most importantly…enjoy! 
Why So Blu is committed to taking you where no other Blu-ray review website has ever gone before. We’re taking you MOBILE! That’s right! Fellow iOS developer Alexander Magdics (MacEnvy) and myself have recently combined forces to produce the world’s first Blu-ray disc review mobile app where you can read all about the latest in Blu-ray, movies, comics, gaming and more on the go, wherever you go. Now…using the ever-popular Apple iPhone or iPod Touch line of devices, our readers can stay in the know, on–the-go! Check out the rest of the press release below! 
Before learning anything specific about Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin, I was under the unfortunate impression that Kevin was another “evil kid” movie. One based on a critically-acclaimed novel, sure, but still: yet another “evil kid” movie. Oh, boy. How exciting. And so, I expected the typical “evil kid” plot: upper-middle-class parents have a child that’s supposed to completely reinvigorate a stale marriage, child turns out to be weird, strange things start happening, a neighbor’s dog (or, hell, why not: a neighbor) ends up dead, and somehow it turns out the little kid is “possessed” or “the Devil” or “the Devil’s child” or “the Devil’s son’s tutor” or something equally stupid. Besides the “killer car” and the “killer kitchen-appliance” sub-genres of horror, this might be the most overused and least entertaining plot device ever employed, repeated so many times and with so many tiny variations that it’s long since lost what little punch it might have ever had. 
George Lucas reinvented the world of science fiction in 1977 with Star Wars Episode IV, spending around $40 million of present-day currency to produce the lucratively profitable space epic. He was 33 when Greedo didn’t shoot first and still a god among geeks. At 30 years and with $30 million, director Neil Blomkamp gave us the instant classic, District 9, a sci-fi mockumentary set in Johannesburg, South Africa — a more terrestrial and hostile version of Tattooine. In this politically conscious alien adventure, humankind plays the evil Empire. After watching Chronicle (opening Feb. 5), essentially a sublime hybrid of both, it appears a padawan director named Josh Trank has reached cinematic Nerdvana much younger (he turns 27
