Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (Blu-ray/DVD Combo) by Funimation Prod

The broadcast series Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009) seemed to deliver the journeys of Edward and Alphonse Elric to a dramatic and definitive conclusion. But the personalitys stay so standard that extra tales about them had been inevitable. The first Fullmetal Alchemist function, The Conqueror of Shambala (2005), which happened after the primary animated collection ended, transported Edward to Weimar-era Munich. The experiences in The Sacred Star of Milos (2011) happen throughout Hiromu Arakawa's authentic continuity however at a brand new location in the acquainted Fullmetal universe: the border between Amestris and its western neighbor, Creta.. Read more Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Machine Gun Preacher [Blu-ray]

Machine Gun Preacher [Blu-ray] by Relativity Media

Machine Gun Preacher takes a fictionalized take a look at the lifetime of Sam Childers, a down-and-out ex-con who found God and an obsessed new calling: to save the orphaned youngsters of southern Sudan. Gerard Butler performs Childers, whom we first meet as a brutish addict, and the actor's intestinesy efficiency has everything to do with making us follow him through the film's winding, globe-spanning turns. Whether delivering an overheated sermon (you get the speculation Childers has replaced one addiction with another) or toting firearms in the route of the unhealthy back highways of Africa, Butler items a forceful creation, person who reminds us that Childers is far from a standard sympathetic hero.. Read more Machine Gun Preacher [Blu-ray]

Days of Heaven (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Days of Heaven (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] by Criterion

Richard Gere works in a Chicago steel mill on the turn of the century, however should flee the town after by accident killing a person. Heading for the wheat fields of Texas, he packs up hellos girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and hellos younger sister (Linda Manz). Instead of a better lifestyles, they head straight into tragedy when a rich farmer (Sam Shepard) falls for Adams. Believing hellom to be demise and expecting to inherit a fortune, she has the same opinion to marry him. Their plans exchange when Shepard fails to die and Gere takes topics into his own hands. Aesthetically flawless, this movie a couple of romantic love triangle is diminished by using the small scope of video. Originally shown in 70mm, it's an crowd pleasing period piece that received its cinematographer, Néstor Almendros, a 1978 Oscar. Texture and color are the unbilled personalitys on this tragic tale, and are only as essential because the players. The story, unluckily, fades somewhat when in comparability with the glory of the visuals.. Read more Days of Heaven (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Sekirei 2: Pure Engagement Complete Season (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Sekirei 2: Pure Engagement Complete Season (Blu-ray/DVD Combo) by Funimation

(1. Silent Omen, 2. The Wind Blows, 3. The Wind's Answer, four. The Final Feather, 5. The Sekirei of Flame, 6. Words of Binding, 7. A Faraway Tale, 8. Kusa's Play, 9. A Multitude of Bonds, 10. Far-Reaching Sky, eleven. Preparing for the Festival, 12. Tower of Confusion, thirteen. Bonds of Truth, 14. OVA "Two Gossip Topics") The 2d season of Sekirei (2008), Pure Engagement (2010) combines two in style anime styles, the harem comedy and the jiggle journey. Mild-mannered, goodhearted Minato is a ronin: regardless of his intelligence, he's failed the examination to get into the college of hellos choice--twice. He's additionally an "Ashikabi," a human who shares supernatural bonds with the Sekirei, aliens who take the form of human females with extra special powers (not the least of which is maintaining their pneumatic figures inside their scanty costumes). All the Sekirei are pitted against each different in a deadly recreation orchestrated by using the evil president of the all-powerful MBI Corporation, but the six who live with Minato in Maison Izumo spend the primary several episodes squabbling over who's hellos favorite. Episode seven gifts numerous historical past knowledge from season one, however by using that point, viewers could have given up on the tangled but fragmentary plot. The filmmakers attempt to carry the stakes in the later episodes, however the personalitys are so shallow and foolish that the strives to deliver critical emotions come across as bathos. Sekirei: Pure Engagement plays like Love, Hina restaged by using Victoria's Secret. It's an inane succession of jiggle photographs and struggles designed to excite hormonal adolescent boys. The OVA "Two Gossip Topics" acts as a sort of bridge between the seasons, and features even more nudity and boob jokes.. Read more Sekirei 2: Pure Engagement Complete Season (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian [Blu-ray]

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian [Blu-ray] by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

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More exciting than The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian continues the movie franchise based on C.S. Lewis' basic fable e-books. The film decides up the place the first left off... kind of. It's been a year since the Pevensie children--Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Lucy (Georgie Henley)--returned to England from Narnia, and they've almost about resigned themselves to dwelling their strange lives. But identical to that, they're as soon as once more transported to a fantastical land, however one with a long-abandoned citadel. It turns out that they are in Narnia once more--and they themselves resided in that citadel, however lots of of 12 monthss ago in Narnia time. They've been summoned again to assist Prince Caspian (Stardust's Ben Barnes, resembling a young, cultured Keanu Reeves), the rightful inheritor to the throne who's turn into the target of his power-hungry uncle, King Mraz (Sergio Castellitto). And he's now not the only one threatened: Mraz's people, the Telmarines, have pushed all of the Narnians--the talking animals, the centaurs and other beasts, the walking trees--to the brink of extinction. Despite some alpha-male bickering, Peter and Caspian agree to battle Mraz alongsideside the remaining Narnians, together with the dwarf Trumpkin (Peter Dinklage) and the swashbuckling mouse Reepicheep (voiced by Eddie Izzard). (Also appearing is Warwick Davis, who used to be in Willow and the 1989 BBC Prince Caspian.) But of course they most of all miss the noble lion, Aslan, who would have never let this happen to Narnia if he hadn't disappeared. Prince Caspian is epic, evoking recollections of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings motion pictures. (Some of the battle parts could seem too familiar, but they had been in Lewis's e book.) And it's applicable for children (Reepicheep can have come out of a Shrek movie), although the tone is darkish and there may just be a lot of dying, albeit bloodless. After two successful movies, Disney and Walden Media's franchise has proved a success sufficient that among the characters are scheduled to come again in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.. Read more Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian [Blu-ray]

A Night to Remember (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

A Night to Remember (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] by Criterion Collection

Two 12 monthss after twentieth Century Fox released its melodramatic catastrophe movie Titanic in 1953, Walter Lord's meticulously researched e book A Night to Remember surprised its publishers by changing into a beautiful best possibleseller. Lord had an intuition that readers craved the reality of the Titanic catastrophe and no lengthyer the romantically mythologized translations (like Fox's movie, starring Barbara Stanwyck), which relied on fictional personalitys to "enhance" the world's worst maritime disaster. Lord's e book proved that the truth was far more compelling than fiction, outlining the various "if simplests" (if handiest the iceberg had been noticed a couple of minutes prior, etc.) that lent somber irony to the loss of 1,500 Titanic passengers.. Read more A Night to Remember (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

The Descendants (Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy)

The Descendants (Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy) by Fox Searchlight

Only Oscar-winning writer-director Alexander Payne (Sideways) would suppose to cast the famously good-looking George Clooney as a raveled dad in his outstanding adaptation of Kaui Hart Hemmings's tragicomic novel. Clooney dials down the glamour to play Matt King, a Hawaii real-estate lawyer with a professionalpensity for unflattering shirts and ill-fitting trousers. When Matt's wife, Elizabeth, leads to a coma after a water-skiing accident, Matt should research to balance the parenting of his resentful daughters, Scottie (Amara Miller) and Alexandra (Shailene Woodley, The Secret Life of the American Teenager), with the sale of a pristine plot of Kauai land that stands to make the King cousins, together with scruffy Hugh (Beau Bridges), a fortune. As Elizabeth's condition aggravates, Matt contacts pals and household, like her fiercely protective father (Robert Forster), in order that they'll have the possibility to say goodbye. In the professionalcess, he to finds out she was once having an affair with realtor Brian Speer (Matthew Lillard, successfully solid against type), so he and the ladies, together with Alex's hellolariously mellow friend, Sid (Nick Krause), go on an island-hopping commute, ostensibly so as to add Brian to the combo, however Matt truly desires to search out out what his wife noticed in the guy. His ride from naiveté to knowledge conveys out Clooney's soulful facet, making a believably unsuitable, deeply sympathetic figure. If Payne leans too heavily on the slack-key soundtrack, his love for his personalitys, together with Judy Greer as Matt's feminine counterpart, ends in hellos most emotionally pleasurable movie so far. --Kathleen C.. Read more The Descendants (Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy)

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] by Warner Home Video

The good information is, Dr. Watson does get married. The bad news is, Sherlock Holmes throws his bride off a moving train. Actually, there is even worse news than that--but all will be explained in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, the sequel to Guy Ritchie's 2009 hit. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law return to their functions as Holmes and Watson, as the duo take on the world's finest legal thoughts, Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris), a person whose newest scheme has world implications. Sherlockians preferring their consulting detective to stay in a traditional mode had easiest seem the incorrect way, for the sequel proceeds Ritchie's vision of Holmes as a hard-punching action hero hurtling thru a barrage of different impacts sequences. If which you can go with that, A Game of Shadows in fact strengthens on the first film: the story makes slightly extra feel (or presumably the complete thing transfers so easily you do not discover the illogic), Harris is a delicious villain, and new forged members Noomi Rapace (from the Swedish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series) and Stephen Fry (playing Sherlock's brother Mycroft, who names hellos sibling "Sherlie") add attraction. It's all frivolous and superficial, however the film's playful angle and breathless ahead motion are skillfully managed--and the ultimate word adds simply the appropriate punctuation.. Read more Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Sherlock: Season One [Blu-ray]

Sherlock: Season One [Blu-ray] by BBC Warner

In the wake of Guy Ritchie's reimagining, the BBC puts its own stamp on Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuth--and units him in a London stuffed with cellphones and pcs. In the pilot, director Paul McGuigan (a eager visible stylist) introduces Sherlock Holmes (Atonement's Benedict Cumberbatch) as a "high-functioning sociopath" and Dr. John Watson (The Office's Martin Freeman) as a military veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder. Through a mutual buddy, the 2 develop into flatmates at 221B Baker Street (Una Stubbs plays their landlady). Holmes, who seek the suggestions ofs with Scotland Yard inspector Lestrade (Rupert Graves) on his trickier circumstances, drafts Watson to assist hellom.. Read more Sherlock: Season One [Blu-ray]

The Muppets (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

The Muppets (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) by Walt Disney Studios

Movies trying to retrieve cherished nuggets of widespread culture often stumble, either with the help of interesting completely to the die-hard minutia enthusiasts or clunking up the batter with unnecessary additions to the base material. (Enough with the human love triangles, get to the large robots fighting.) Thankfully, this revival of Jim Henson's loved characters will get the method delightfully right, offering a googly-eyed nostalgia travel for grownups whereas additionally preserving the unique's sense of shiny (and mildly subversive) marvel. All which is lacking is a cameo from Shields and Yarnell, in level of fact. Kicking off with a boffo musical quantity, the story observes Walter (voice of Peter Linz), a small-town boy with a uniquely personal affection for the long-retired Muppets. (OK, he's fabricated from felt.) Teaming up along with his brother (Jason Segel, who additionally co-scripted) and the local schoolteacher (Amy Adams), they attempt to get Kermit, Fozzie, and the crowd again collectively so as to shop their studio from an evil oil baron (Chris Cooper, going all in). Director James Bobin (Flight of the Conchords) does a fabulous job of updating and honoring hellos subject topic, weaving sly references to days gone by (the contents of Kermit's rolodex are a selected delight) into the combination of tunes, famous person cameos, and barn-broad puns that gave the unique convey its bubbly kick. (Fans of Animal and the Chickens will not go dwelling disillusioned.) Even the moments that do no longer slightly work land with a cornball brio that really feels thoroughly of a piece with Henson's universe. The result is a real family movie that additionally carrys on the blissful, basic grins days after viewing. No subject what Statler and/or Waldorf would possibly say, the convey goes on.. Read more The Muppets (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Independence Day [Blu-ray]

Independence Day [Blu-ray] by 20th Century Fox

In Independence Day, a scientist performed by using Jeff Goldblum as soon as if actuality be told had a fistfight with a person (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late within the film, in my opinion flies a jet fighter to ship a payload of missiles once extrast an attack by extraterrestrials. Independence Day is the kind of film so giddy with its personal outrageousness that one does not even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed with the help of Roland Emmerich, Independence Day is a pastiche of conferences from flying-saucer films from the Nineteen Forties and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and ordinary accidents that create convenient shortcuts within the story. (Such as the manner in which the lady friend of one of the vital movie's heroes--played with the support of Will Smith--just occurs to run throughout the president's injured wife, who're then each rescued by using Smith's personality who one method or the other runs throughout them in alien-ravaged Los Angeles County.) The movie is simply sheer enjoyable, helped via a solid that knows how you can stability the retro requirements of the genre with a more contemporary feel.. Read more Independence Day [Blu-ray]

Ouran High School Host Club: Complete Series (Classic) [Blu-ray]

Ouran High School Host Club: Complete Series (Classic) [Blu-ray] by Funimation Prod

Ouran High School is an individual academy, catering to the super-rich, the super-cute, and the superficial. To amuse themselves--and earn just a few further yen--the richest, most attractive boys in the college have arrange a number club, where they dispense tea and allure the ladies. Haruhi Fujioka, a scholarship scholar who's this sort of schlump no person even notices she's a woman, stumbles into the membership and damages an vintage vase. To repay the wonderful value of the vase, the contributors demand she gown as a boy and sign up for the club. Although she's an outsider and a "commoner," Haruhi quickly turn intos everyone's favourite. Club president Tamaki (who symbolizes the "blond prince" sort) falls for her; Mitsukuni (the "Lolita boy") adores her, as do identical twins Hikaru and Kaoru ("forbidden brotherly love"). Despite their good seems to be, social prominence, and wealth, the boys have led lonely lives, which they recount in the later episodes. Hikaru and Kaoru by no means paid any attention to any individual else except Tamaki recruited them. Mitsukuni needed to apply his household tradition and changed into a martial arts champion. The Host Club has given them the one thing they lacked: a way of belonging. Similarly, Haruhi finds a level of acceptance she's never ahead of experienced. The heat of those consciousnesss would not forestall the Hosts from squabbling and playing pranks, but it surely gives the sequence a balance that maintains it from feeling too foolish. The success of Ouran High School Host Club (2006) counsels that a reverse harem comedy can also be just as a lot fun as the usual nerdy-guy-in-a-houseful-of-beauties model.. Read more Ouran High School Host Club: Complete Series (Classic) [Blu-ray]

The Music Man [Blu-ray]

The Music Man [Blu-ray] by Warner Home Video

The Music Man used to be one of the crucial closing nice movie musicals from any studio, and it proved to be that rarest of events: a Broadway convey that was once measurably stronger with the aid of its transition to the monitor. Robert Preston made hellos musical debut--both live and on film--as "Professor" Harold Hill, the upbeat charlatan who promises to teach a small-town boys band by way of the "think device." But it can be the phase Preston was born to play and the one for which he's going to at all times be best possible remembered. Composer Meredith Willson based totally The Music Man on hellos personal small-town Midwestern boyhood, circa 1912, a quasi-mythical place where the old-maid librarian seems and sings like Shirley Jones. The boy hellomself is an lovable Ron Howard, lisp-singing "Gary, Indiana." Willson's whole ranking, that contains a mix of what at the moment are standards, any suchs "Goodnight My Someone" and "Till There Was You" and convey-specific quantitys ("Trouble," "76 Trombones"), is never less than infectious. This incredible different model can additionally be as shiny and sunny as any 4th of July in Iowa might ever hope to be.. Read more The Music Man [Blu-ray]

Saturday Night Fever [Blu-ray]

Saturday Night Fever [Blu-ray] by Paramount

  Saturday Night Fever is a sort of motion images that comes along and seems to change the cultural temperature in a flash. After the movie's unlock in 1977, disco dominated the dance grounds, and a blow-dried member of a TV-sitcom ensemble changed into the most up to date superstar in the U.S. For all that, the story is conventional: a 19-year-old Italian American from Brooklyn, Tony Manero (John Travolta), works in a humble paint store and are livings together with hellos domestic. After darkish, he becomes the polyester-clad stallion of the native nightclub; Tony's brother, a priest, studys that once Tony hellots the dance ground, the group phases like the Red Sea ahead of Moses. Director John Badham seizes the electrical connection between track and dance, and likewise the desperation that lies under Tony's ambitions to break out of his restricted world.. Read more Saturday Night Fever [Blu-ray]

Coriolanus [Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo]

Coriolanus [Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo] by The Weinstein Company

Actor-director Ralph Fiennes won't appreciate the comparability, however his modern-dress model of Coriolanus sometimes performs like William Shakespeare by means of Fight Club. In this case, Volscian chief Aufidius (Gerald Butler, properly understated) plays the Tyler Durden position in that hellos personality doubles as a dwelling moral sense. Fiennes's bullet-headed, combat-scarred General Caius Martius may be prepared to place his life on the line for his individuals, however he has no actual interest in actually being attentive to their concerns, a building that wait fors the Occupy movement. As Rome's food provide dwindles and rioting begins, Martius suspends civil liberties, and heads off to battle once extrast a man he both despises and admires (and Fiennes doesn't shy faraway from intimations of same-sex attraction). In the script through Gladiator's John Logan, computerized weaponry changes swords, contributing to an especially visceral Shakespearean adaptation (Hurt Locker cinematographer Barry Ackroyd's handheld digital camera work toughens the rough-hewn quality). At dwelling, Martius's wary wife (Jessica Chastain) and proud mom (Vanessa Redgrave) worry for hellos life, while hellos most ardent supporter, Senator Menenius (Brian Cox, excellent), defends him once extrast hellos detractors, like Tribune Sicinius (James Nesbitt). Though a hit on the strugglefield, the political neophyte--now referred to as Coriolanus--soon to finds hellomself an exile, sooner or later aligning with Aufidius, however what looks as if a turncoat transfer shows more complicated. If Martius starts out as a Fiennes villain within the vein of Amon Goeth, he steadily turn out to bes from a monster into a person. Too dangerous politics favors the easier types. --Kathleen C.. Read more Coriolanus [Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo]