21 Jump Street (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

21 Jump Street (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] by Sony Pictures Studios

When 21 Jump Street premiered on Fox in 1987, it provided a cool-kid twist on the cop drama system. This new-era reinvention keeps the law enforcement authentics, but alternates earnest drama for raunchy comedy. At Sagan High, Schmidt (newly scrawny Jonah Hill, contemporary off an Oscar nomination for Moneyball) used to be a brainy guy without a game, whereas Jenko (ever-brawny Channing Tatum, funnier than expected) was a popular jock with unhealthy grades. Five 12 monthss later, they reconnect at police academy, the place enemies grow to be chums when they pool their resources, but after their first bust goes unhealthy, the deputy chief (Nick Offerman) ships them off to Jump Street, the place their youthful looks result in an undercover sting operation at Sagan (apparently, no group of workers contributors acknowledge the previous students). Due to a mix-up, Schmidt ends up with the theater youngsters and Jenko with the science nerds. Through a production of Peter Pan, Schmidt meets Molly (Brie Larson), who introduces hellom to her drug vendor boyfriend, Eric (James Franco's deadpan brother, Dave). Now, they only need to monitor down Eric's provider to close the whole operation down. Along the best approach, Schmidt discovers hellos inner performer and Jenko his interior geek, however these new personas threaten the case, producing a few Superbad-style snorts, so it can be too unhealthy the finale devolves into bloodshed extra befitting a John Woo crime caper, although the snappy chemistry between Hill and Tatum papers over one of the holes in the script--along with a foul-mouthed Ice Cube and one reasonably well-known authentic forged member. --Kathleen C.. Read more 21 Jump Street (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Tora! Tora! Tora! [Blu-ray Book]

Tora! Tora! Tora! [Blu-ray Book] by 20th Century Fox

"Sir, there is a large formation of planes coming in from the north, 140 miles, three degrees east." "Yeah? Don't worry about it." This is simply one of the many mishaps chronicled in Tora! Tora! Tora! The epic movie displays the bombing of Pearl Harbor from either aspect within the historic first American-Japanese coproduction: American director Richard Fleischer oversaw the sophisticated manufacturing (the Japanese sequences had been directed by means of Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, after Akira Kurosawa withdrew from the film), wrestling a sprawling story with dozens of personalitys right into a manageable, fairly easy-to-follow movie.. Read more Tora! Tora! Tora! [Blu-ray Book]

The Princess Bride (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging)

The Princess Bride (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging) by MGM

Screenwriter William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride earned its personal loyal target audience on the power of its narrative voice and its gently satirical, hyperbolic spin on swashbuckled journey that gave the impression nearly purely literary. For all its derring-do and vivid over-the-top personas, the book's joy used to be dictated as a lot by the deadpan tone of its narrator and a winking acknowledgement of the clichés being despatched up. Miraculously, director Rob Reiner and Goldman himself managed to visualize this romantic myth whereas protecting that external voice generally intact: the usage of a storytelling framework, avuncular Grandpa (Peter Falk) gradually seduces his skeptical grandson (Fred Savage) into the absurd, irresistible melodrama of the title story.. Read more The Princess Bride (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging)

Barbarella [Blu-ray]

Barbarella [Blu-ray] by Paramount

Jane Fonda's memorable, zero-gravity striptease all the method through the opening credits of this 1968 Roger Vadim movie is the shutst the film comes to a liberated marriage of wit and sex. Based on a French comic strip, the story concerns the journeys of a 41st-century girl, who pretty much gets it on with whomever asks. The sci-fi sets had been pretty interesting on the time, though they give the influence of being relatively anachronistic now. Appreciated nowadays principally as a camp classic, the film is actually extra trying than anything.. Read more Barbarella [Blu-ray]

Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy (Episodes I - III) [Blu-ray]

Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy (Episodes I - III) [Blu-ray] by 20th Century Fox

Episode II, Attack of the Clones If The Phantom Menace was the setup, then Attack of the Clones is the plot-progressing payoff, and committed Star Wars fans are sure to be enthralled. Ten years after Episode I, Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman), now a senator, face up tos the creation of a Republic Army to combat an evil separatist motion. The brooding Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is resentful of hellos stern Jedi mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), plagued through private loss, and exhibiting his rising "dark side" whereas protecting his new love, Amidala, from would-be murderers. Youthful romance and solemn portent foreshadow the events of the unique Star Wars as Count Dooku (a.k.a. Darth Tyranus, performed via Christopher Lee) forges an alliance with the Dark Lord of the Sith, while lavish set pieces exhibit George Lucas's supreme command of all-digital filmmaking.. Read more Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy (Episodes I - III) [Blu-ray]

Platoon (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Platoon (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) by MGM (Video & DVD)

Platoon put writer-turned-director Oliver Stone on the Hollywood map; it's nonetheless his most acclaimed and efficient film, most probably as a result of it's according to Stone's firsthand expertise as an American soldier in Vietnam. Chris (Charlie Sheen) is an infantryman whose loyalty is examined by using two superior officers: Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe), a former helloppie humanist who actually cares about his men (this was once a couple of yrs sooner than he performed Jesus in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ), and Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), a moody, macho soldier who may have long past over to the dark side. The personalities of the two sergeants correspond to their fight medication of choice--pot for Elias and booze for Barnes. Stone has grow to be identified for hellos sledgehammer visual model, however in this film it seems completely acceptable. His violent and disorienting pictures have a terrifying immediacy, a you-are-there quality that supplys you a sense of how things will have felt to an infantryman in the jungles of Vietnam. Platoon received Oscars for best picture and director.. Read more Platoon (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Anatomy of a Murder (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Anatomy of a Murder (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] by Criterion Collection

Otto Preminger grew to become this 1959 courtroom drama, in accordance with the favored novel, into outstanding adult drama. James Stewart big names as a small-town lawyer who shields a military officer (Ben Gazzara) accused of murdering a bartender who assaulted his wife (Lee Remick). The taut script, massive efficiency by way of Stewart, and then-daring components of the story (words like "panties" are spoken within the context of discussing a sex crime) provide the motion a undeniable immediacy--which you don't in finding very regularly in present day movies about jurisprudence. Nice work by way of Remick and Gazzara, as neatly as George C. Scott, Arthur O'Connell, and real-life choose Joseph N. Welch, who plays the decide on this movie. A superb expertise all around.. Read more Anatomy of a Murder (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Joyful Noise (+UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Joyful Noise (+UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] by Warner Home Video

The larger-than-life personalities of Oscar nominees Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah lend a hand to buoy Joyful Noise, a light-weight comedy-musical about two strong-minded women who conflict over the direction of a small-town church choir. The friction is about in motion by way of a surprisingly callous bit of business, by which Parton is informed through her pastor (Courtney B. Vance) that the church board has planned to deny her the place of church choir director, not too lengthy ago vacated by way of the demise of her husband (Kris Kristofferson), in want of Latifah. Never thoughts that the announcement is made at Kristofferson's funeral carrier, where one might suppose that even a girl with such inordinate spunk as Parton may neatly be in a state of grief; it can be certainly one of never-mind-the-details-let's-get-to-the-singing choice that writer-director Todd Graff (Bandslam) makes right through the picture, which renders much of the film's many dramatic parts a little bit facile. And there are rather a few elements from which to choose, including a romance between Parton's cocky grandson (Jeremy Jordan) and Latifah's daughter (Keke Palmer), Latifah's Asperger's-afflicted son, or any of the really silly issues involving the choir members. Joyful Noise is in a roundabout approach a mess of bathroomsely related parts that viewers are requested to just accept in a particularly haphazard association, but for many, the storyline can be a tolerable bridge between musical numbers, which admittedly are the film's strongest promoting point.. Read more Joyful Noise (+UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

An Affair to Remember [Blu-ray Book]

An Affair to Remember [Blu-ray Book] by 20th Century Fox

Get out your handkerchiefs for this four-star weepie, a 1957 remake of the 1939 Love Affair, directed via Leo McCarey, who additionally made the unique. Grant and Kerr are strangers on an ocean liner, concerned with folks, but who can't face up to every different for a shipboard romance. They make a decision to check whether this is the real factor by way of agreeing to split up, then meet in six months atop the Empire State Building.. Read more An Affair to Remember [Blu-ray Book]

The Vow (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

The Vow (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] by Screen Gems

Can real love in level of fact conquer all? That is the query hovering over the if truth be told touching, affecting drama The Vow. Based on a proper story (which itself would possibly have made a super documentary), The Vow is a showcase for the luxurious performing expertise of Rachel McAdams and a leap forward function for Channing Tatum, under the deft path of Michael Sucsy (the feature version of Grey Gardens). The story is deceptively simple: Happy young married couple Paige (McAdams) and Leo (Tatum) are, neatly, happy. Then a automobile accident puts Paige right into a life-threatening coma, and upon awakening, she to finds she has lost the earlier five 12 monthss of memories--including of being married to, or ever in love with, her loved Leo. With lesser actors or with a extra heavy-handed director, The Vow would possibly have been predictable, melodramatic, or flat--and yet, the talents of the two big names, and the crisp, light-handed course, make The Vow an enjoyable, deeply affecting love story.. Read more The Vow (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Dexter: The Sixth Season [Blu-ray]

Dexter: The Sixth Season [Blu-ray] by Showtime Entertainment

A likeable Miami police forensics expert moonlights as a serial killer of criminals who he considers have escaped justice.. Read more Dexter: The Sixth Season [Blu-ray]

Underworld Trilogy (Underworld / Underworld: Evolution / Underworld: Rise of the Lycans) (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Underworld Trilogy (Underworld / Underworld: Evolution / Underworld: Rise of the Lycans) (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Underworld Blade meets The Crow and The Matrix in Underworld, a hybrid thriller that rewrites the rulebook on werewolves and vampires. It's a "cuisinart" movie (blend numerous familiar ideas and hope something interesting happens) in which immortal vampire "death suppliers" wage an historic conflict once morest "Lycans" (werewolves), who've obtained centuries of revenge--and some relatively ambitious genetic tests--on their lycanthropic agenda. Given his preoccupation with gloomy architecture (mostly filmed in Budapest, Hungary), frenetic mayhem and receivedhic costuming, it's no surprise that first-time director Len Wiseman won experience in TV businesss and the artwork departments of Godzilla, Men in Black, and Independence Day. His work is all surface, no substance, filled with spinoff, grand-scale motion as conflicted vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale, who later turned into engaged to Wiseman) battles to rescue an ill-fated human (Scott Speedman) from Lycan transformation. It's great taking a look all the manner, and a guaranteed deal with for horror buffs, who will eagerly dissect its many energys and weaknesses. --Jeff Shannon Underworld: Evolution Better action, somewhat of intercourse, and gorier R-rated violence make Underworld: Evolution a fairly pleasing sequel to 2003's surprise hit Underworld. Looking stunning as ever in her black leather battle tools, Kate Beckinsale is every acquiredh guy's fable as Selene, the vampire "death seller" who's now preventing to stop the discharge of the unique "Lycan" werewolf, William (Brian Steele) from the prison that's held hellom for lots of of 12 monthss. As we study from the film's action-packed prologue, William and hellos brother Marcus (Tony Curran) started the bloodline of vampires and werewolves, and after witnessing centuries of strugglefare between them, their immortal father Corvinus (Derek Jacobi) now are looking fors Selene and the human vampire/lycan hybrid Michael (Scott Speedman) to position an finish to the battle perpetuated by way of Victor (Bill Nighy), the vampire conflictrior whose betrayal of Selene turns Underworld: Evolution into an epic tale of familial revenge. This bold try at Shakespearean horror is compromised by a script (by Danny McBride and returning director Len Wiseman, Beckinsale's real-life husband) that's extra confusing than it must be, with too many personas and now not sufficient storytelling detail to flesh them all out. Aspiring to greatness and falling smartly in want of that purpose, Underworld: Evolution prevails as an alternative as a full-throttle action/horror thriller, with enough swordplay, gunplay, and CGI monsters to justify the continuation of the Underworld franchise. If you're an established fan, this may also be a must-see movie; if now not, smartly.... Read more Underworld Trilogy (Underworld / Underworld: Evolution / Underworld: Rise of the Lycans) (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]