Captain America Winter Solder is coming to Blu-ray, September 9th in several different variations including 3D, of course these days it’s all about streaming, so it’ll be available on your streaming service of choice – August 19th. Extras seem a bit slim – a couple of featurettes, director’s commentary track and a blooper reel. Sadly […]
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Doctor Who: The Green Death Special Edition – The Doctor Goes Eco-Warrior!
Doctor Who has always been known for spinning interesting, even classic yarns; for somehow managing, despite serious budgetary constraints, to create visual effects that could be creepy, scary and effective – some of the time. What Doctor Who had never done – before The Green Death – was consciously produce a message story. In the […]
Star Trek Into Darkness In Stores Sept. 10–Digital Download Available August 20!
J.J. Abrams’ second Star Trek adventure will be coming to DVD, Blu-ray and On Demand on September 10th, 2013. It will be available on Digital 30 days earlier, on August 20th. The Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack listing shows seven featurettes on the Blu-ray, but none on the DVD. Star Trek Into Darkness finds the crew of […]
Skyfall Holds Up Well on DVD–Pity About the Features!
Skyfall is one of the best Bonds and part of the reason is that not only does Daniel Craig’s Bond continue to reveal new sides to his personality and resources; not only is he given one of the best Bond villains ever in Javier Bardem’s Raoul Silva, but Judi Dench just kills it as M […]
Femme Fatales: Season One of Cinemax’s Noir Anthology Series Comes to Home Video!
Before Cinemax had hits with the action series Strike Back, or the high concept crime series Banshee, it took its first really solid steps into the world of original programming with Femme Fatales – a series that combined sex, violence and twists in a way that deliberately called to mind the noir B-movies of the […]
Justified: The Complete Third Season – Lines Will Be Crossed!
After the magnificent performance by Margo Martindale as Mags Bennett in season two, Justified could be excused if it slipped a bit in season three – but it didn’t. Instead, it took a different tack, shifting from the internal dynamics of the region to the intrusion of an outside force to keep the drama high […]
DVD Review: Total Recall–Less Weirdness; More Butt-Kicking!
It may not be as joyously weird as the Paul Verhoeven take on Philip K. Dick’s immortal short story (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale), but it makes up for that with a protagonist who seems genuinely vulnerable (C’mon! You never really thought Arnold was in real peril, did you?) and more pure intensity.
A-Ca-Awesome Pitch Perfect Gets Big Blu-ray/DVD Release
One of the most surprising summer movies this year, Pitch Perfect took what could have have been a formulaic story filled with stereotypical characters and gave it enough fresh twists – and a whole lot of awesome a cappella music – to make it a lot of slightly twisted fun. On December 18th the film […]
DVD: The Amazing Spider-Man Is Still Amazing On DVD!
One good reason to reboot a movie series – trademark issues aside – is that you have a different take on the characters. Not necessarily better, but different. Such is the case with Columbia Pictures’ The Amazing Spider-Man. Despite not having the impact the film had in IMAX, it works well as a home video […]
Brave Deserves DVD Release With Better Features Package!
With its first ‘princess’ movie, Brave, Pixar recovers from the creative (though not financial) disaster that was Cars 2. The story of Merida, the tomboy teen at the heart of Brave, takes familiar princess tropes and spins them enough to feel fresh and fun. And, as always, the animation is stunning. Unfortunately, Pixar has stiffed […]
DVD: Mad Men: Season Five: Now This Is How You Do It!
While a lot of companies are stripping their DVDs of bonus material, it is refreshing to see that Mad men, one of the handful of TV’s greatest series ever, is being released in full season DVD sets that give us a ton of features at reasonable prices.