BONES Season 5 is Unearthed on Blu-ray Oct. 5th!
September 21st, 2010 by Mary Welms
David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel are the perfect, mismatched pair that make an unbeatable crime-solving duo, or at least that’s what the tagline reads. So it must be true. Anyway, get ready to experience the chemistry and drama all over again when BONES Season 5 is unearthed on Blu-ray and DVD October 5th. Wow! The date is almost upon us. Check out the full press release below from Twentieth Century Fox and pre-order your copy today! Continue reading ‘BONES Season 5 is Unearthed on Blu-ray Oct. 5th!’
I am going to say right now that this will be spoiler free, only detailing the basic facts that one can learn from the trailer, which also does nothing to spoil the story. The film is very interesting and engaging. It’s a well made documentary that is essentially a very sad love story. Don’t be fooled into thinking that this is another ‘found footage’ horror movie, because it isn’t. It’s hard to say this isn’t a thriller though, as unconventional of a thriller that it may be, the way this film is made certainly lends itself somewhat into that category, before evolving into something else entirely. 
When I first met Director/Writer Adam Green at Comic-Con this past July I thought, “oh wow, that’s a cool looking Metallica throwback t-shirt he’s wearing.” From afar, it looked like a nostalgic Ride The Lightning album t-shirt (possibly paying homage to “Trapped Under Ice”), but upon closer inspection, the Frozen movie logo was staring me right in the face (see 
For months, people in the office tell me they can’t believe I’ve never seen CBS’s super hit comedy, The Big Bang Theory. “You’re totally cut out for that show,” one co-worker would exclaim. “What?! Watch it already!” as another would command. The fact is, I rarely watch network television. I find a lot of sitcoms poorly written and extremely contrived. Still, the geek-laden aspects of The Big Bang Theory were tempting to my otherwise TV-dormant soul. I mean, the show must have some layer of quality to it, right? 
The Town is a very fun bank heist/cops and robbers movie. The film is Ben Affleck’s second time in the director’s chair, a follow up to the excellent Gone Baby Gone, and this film proves that he is quite capable behind the camera. The film is well made, wonderfully entertaining and backed by a strong cast. Even as it follows some familiar beats of this genre, it manages to be both a crowd- pleaser and confident in its structure. 
Easy A is a high school comedy that tries to be a fun, modern take on The Scarlett Letter. It features Emma Stone in the lead role, basically working to establish her as a leading star. While the film is essentially a chick flick, it seems to have aspirations to push in some satirical elements surrounding the effect of gossip and the set up of high school in general. These elements are successfully met, with the script not paying off to be as witty as it thinks. 
A film depicting the transition that Joaquin Phoenix the actor made into Joaquin Phoenix the bearded and overweight actor. I am not sure what I would have made of this film, had I have seen it a couple of days beforehand, when it was still unsure whether or not Phoenix had truly sworn off acting, but watching it when I did, I have mixed thoughts. On one hand it is kind of compelling to watch what is essentially a large-scale method acting performance taken to its extreme. 
To start things off, Devil a solid genre film. The film is the first of a film series known as “The Night Chronicles.” The films in this series will all be produced by M. Night Shyamalan, based on stories that he has come up with. Fortunately, he is not the screenwriter or director of these films. I don’t want to get into another spiel about the problems with Shyamalan, but suffice it to say that his writing has not been his strong suit in recent years. Fortunately, the crew involved in the making of this film has done a fine job at creating a short, but sweet thriller. 
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is one of those movies that has production stories just as interesting as the movie itself. Before the book was published, actor Kirk Douglas read it and bought the rights to the book and turned into a play that he took to Broadway. Despite good reviews and a great cast, the play closed after six months and Douglas went about trying to make a movie out of it. While traveling Europe, he ran into director Milos Forman and told him that he would send him a copy of the book to see if he would be interested in directing the movie. 
There’s less than 2 weeks to go until Adam Green’s chiller/thriller, Frozen, hits the frozen food aisle of your favorite Blu-ray retailer on September 28th. In celebration of the upcoming release, the good people over at Anchor Bay Entertainment have a few clips they are allowing us to share with our loyal readers taken from the extras found on the Blu-ray and DVD releases. Check out all the “frozen” details below. But most importantly, don’t get left behind with frost bite, 
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Here’s one that is totally before my time, but this November audiences everywhere will be able to enjoy one of the most beloved family musicals of all time as it has never been seen before on Blu-ray. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang gets an all-new remastered Blu-ray treatment available in retail stores everywhere on November 2nd. The musical even gets the 7.1 DTS-HD treatment! Jeepers! That’s pretty spectacular. Anyway, check out the full press release, courtesy of MGM, for so much more on this title. 
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I really can’t think of a better way to start my weekend off than to come home and find a Blu-ray review copy of Spartacus: Blood and Sand The Complete First Season sitting in my mailbox, can you? I must admit that I was quite smitten earlier this year by the Starz original series Spartacus: Blood and Sand and once again this summer at Comic-Con 2010 (see my exclusive coverage 
My family and I are big Disney fans. We go to Disneyland whenever we can, we watch the Disney Channel, and we also enjoy all of the Disney/Pixar movies too. My two year old especially loves all things Disney so we watch a lot of it in our household. He seems fascinated by Tinker Bell and I’m not sure if it’s because she is cute, short, and blond which seems to be his preference or if it’s because she can fly around. Whatever the case, he is a fan of Tinker Bell and I am fond of her as well from my time growing up watching Peter Pan. 
