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]

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)

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]

Inception

Inception by Warner Home Video

AC-3; Color; Dolby; DVD; Widescreen; Subtitled; NTSC. Science-fiction options often contain time shuttle or extraordinary worlds. In Christopher Nolan's heist thriller Inception, the idea thats converge via the actualm of dreams. With hellos trusty affiliate, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a superb foil), Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio, in a job that recalls Shutter Island) steals ideas for clients from the minds of opponents. Fallen on arduous occasions, he is turn into estranged from hellos family and hopes one ultimate extraction will set factors proper. Along comes Saito (Ken Watanabe, Batman Begins), who hires Cobb to plant an concept within the mind of vitality magnate Fischer (Cillian Murphy, another Batman vet). Less skilled with the art of inception, Cobb ropes in an structure pupil (Ellen Page), a chemist (Dileep Rao), and a forger (Tom Hardy) for help. During their trainings, Page's Ariadne stumbles upon a secret that could jeopardize your entire operation: Cobb is shedding the ability to control hellos subconscious (Marion Cotillard performs a determine from hellos past). Until this point, the scenario can also be confusing, since the motion begins inside a dream earlier than returning to fact. Then, after the crew will get to Fischer, three dream states play out at once, leading to four narratives, together with events in the true world. It all is sensible throughout the principles Nolan establishes, however the impatient may in finding themselves very like Guy Pearce in Memento: completely puzzled. If Inception does not hit the identical heights as The Dark Knight, Nolan's most interesting movie so far, it can be a gravity-defying outstanding to rival Dark City and The Matrix. --Kathleen C.. Read more Inception

Fast Five (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Fast Five (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) by Universal Studios

Format: Blu-ray. More is less is generally the case with blockbuster sequels these days, with budgetary bloat ceaselessly overshadowing the characteristics that made the unique movie click on with target audiences. The Fast and the Furious motion pictures, alternatively, in some means be in a position of spin doughnuts round this idea of diminishing returns, with each installment turning into more ridiculously interesting. Fast Five may be probably the most overblown entry within the series thus far (which is saying relatively a bit), however there's a dunderheaded earnestness to it that is exhausting to withstand. This time around, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker and Co. go for an Ocean's 11 vibe--swapping out the Armani and martinis for Ed Hardy and Muscle Milk--as the group go on the lam in Rio following a botched educate heist. On the lookout for one final big score, they set their sights on bankrupting the native kingpin (an admirably straight-faced Joaquim de Almeida), calling in apparently every character within the mythos for lend a hand. Stuff goes vroom and growth in mass quantities. Perhaps realizing that the system is additionally in danger of achieving its shelf date, returning director Justin Lin here livens factors up by means of delivering in Dwayne Johnson as a federal agent with an apprehensionsome grudge. When he and Diesel in the end throw down, the building-busting destruction recollects the immortal War of the Gargantuas. Viewers within the mood for a bit of good judgment with their explosions may just originally scoff, but by the point the ultimate chase scene rolls round (an outrageously sustained kinetic set piece that might make Wile E. Coyote proud) it can be tough to keep again the grins. Heaven best knows what the subsequent sequel will carry (Send them back to colonial times? A race once extrast Cthulhu in outer space? Pit them against Dick Dastardly and Muttley?), however there may just be each confidence that these people will one approach or the opposite pull it off.. Read more Fast Five (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Drive (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Drive (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Denmark's Nicolas Winding Refn makes an electrifying return to Hollywood filmmaking with this 1980s-style noir, proper down to the synth score and neon-pink credits (he launched hellos American debut, Fear X, in 2003). Ryan Gosling puts his implacable quality to excellent use as an L.A. stunt driver whose world disintegrates when he falls for the wrong girl (Carey Mulligan). Irene is rarely a femme fatale, but her incarcerated husband, Standard (Oscar Isaac), is some other story. When her automotive breaks down, Driver counsels the auto save where he works with Shannon (Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston). The two start spending time together, but then Standard returns from jail. Driver maintains his distance except he uncovers that Standard owes protection cash. If he doesn't pay up, Irene and their son will suffer, so Driver provides to handle the wheel all through a heist, a job with which he has more than just a little expertise, as the riveting opening sequence shows.. Read more Drive (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [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)

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]

To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition [Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy]

To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition [Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy] by Universal Studios

Ranked 34 on the American Film Institute's listing of the 100 Greatest American Films, To Kill a Mockingbird is relatively merely some of the finest family-oriented dramas ever made. A beautiful and deeply affecting adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by way of Harper Lee, the movie holds a timeless high quality that transcends its traditionally dated subject material (racism within the Depression-era South) and remains powerfully resonant in present-day America with its advocacy of tolerance, justice, integrity, and loving, responsible parenthood. It's tempting to name this the most important "message" movie that should be required viewing for childs and adults alike, but this riveting court docket drama is anything however stodgy or pedantic. As Atticus Finch, the small-town Alabama lawyer and widower father of two, Gregory Peck gives one in every of his best efficiencys along with his impassioned safety of a black man (Brock Peters) wrongfully accused of the rape and assault of a younger white lady. While his youngsters, Scout (Mary Badham) and Jem (Philip Alford), study the realities of racial prejudice and irrational hatred, in addition they examine to beat their fear of the unknown as personified by means of their mysterious, mostly unseen neighbor Boo Radley (Robert Duvall, in his good, nearly completely nonverbal monitor debut).. Read more To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition [Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy]

The Blind Side

The Blind Side by Warner Home Video

Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) knows little about household. Less about soccer. What the homeless teen is aware of are the streets and initiatives of Memphis. Well-to-do Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) knows little about his world. Yet when she and Michael meet, he's discovered a home. And the Tuohys have found one thing only as life-changing: a loved new son and brother. This real-life story of domestic and of Michael's increase into a blue-chip soccer celebrity may have you cheering with its mix of gridiron action and heartwarming emotion. Share the remarkable ride of the school All-American and first-round NFL draft pick who was once a winner sooner than he ever stepped onto the taking phase in container.. Read more The Blind Side

The Silence of the Lambs [Blu-ray]

The Silence of the Lambs [Blu-ray] by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Based on Thomas Harris's novel, this terrifying film with the aid of Jonathan Demme truly handiest comprises a few if fact be told stunning seconds (one involving an autopsy, the opposite a jail break). The remainder of the film is a splatter-free visible and psychological descent into the hell of madness, redeemed astonishingly through an not going connection between a monster and a haunted young girl. Anthony Hopkins is out of the ordinary because the cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, virtually entombed in a subterranean jail for the criminally insane. At the behest of the FBI, agent-in-training Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) methods Lecter, requesting his perceptions into the identification and strategies of a serial killer named Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine). In exchange, Lecter demands the best to penetrate Starling's most painful memories, creating a strange but palpable intimacy that liberates them each under separate however equally horrific instances. Demme, a moviemaker with a uniquely populist imaginative and prescient (Melvin and Howard, Something Wild), additionally spent his early 12 monthss making pulp for Roger Corman (Caged Heat), and he hasn't forgotten the importance of tone, atmosphere, and the unsettling nature of a crudely efficient close-up. Much of the movie, actually, contains actors staring straight into the camera (usually from Clarice's point of view), making every bridge between one set of eyes to some other appear terribly bad.. Read more The Silence of the Lambs [Blu-ray]

Chuck: The Complete Fifth and Final Season [Blu-ray]

Chuck: The Complete Fifth and Final Season [Blu-ray] by Warner Home Video

Chuck's exciting amalgam of action-adventure, comedy, and romance makes its last stand--much to the dismay of its trustworthy adherents--with this set of thirteen episodes (on three discs, together with bonus material) from its fifth and final season. As veteran viewers will comprehend, this season's Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi) is a a methods cry from the nerdy fellow from the express's previous run. Beautiful fellow undercover agent Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski) is now hellos wife, and while Chuck remains rather uncertain about his talents, his own talents have sharpened significantly. But he not has the supercomputer often nameed the Intersect in hellos brain; for the primary a couple of episodes it's in Morgan Grimes (Joshua Gomez), with Chuck appearing as "handler" as Morgan makes use of and abuses its spectacular energys, until the Intersect eventually turns up inside of a sinister villain later within the season. Chuck and hellos crew of "free agent spies," which also embraces difficult man John Casey (Adam Baldwin), have beenn't precisely a crack workforce to commence with ("We're nonetheless figuring out the kinks," as he places it). Now they've to have the opportunity to forestall the significant "Omen" laptop virus (the season's best storyline), foil many baddies (guest superstars embody Rebecca Romijn, Cheryl Ladd, and Craig Kilborn; Linda Hamilton and Bo Derek additionally put in appearances), and in any other case shop the world with out the Intersect, and a just right lots of their missions come down to workouts in mere survival. None of that is what you'll name cutting edge; it's escapism, pure and simple. But Chuck's refreshingly mild touch additionally allows for some poignant seconds (especially in the finale) and an interesting household vibe. Chuck isn't the primary television exhibit whose devotees reacted to its cancellation by using campaigning furiously to convey it again. As is regularly the case, they have been unsuccessful, but a lineup of fan-friendly bonus options may just help ease the pain. Not simplest do the solid and crew pay tribute to "the world's best fans"; they even predict how the convey may have evolved had it been renewed. There are additionally featurettes about making the ultimate episode (plus audio commentaries for the final two) and Chuck's startnings and development through the years, together with a blooper reel, businesss for the Buy More store that serves as a front for the spies' operation, and more.. Read more Chuck: The Complete Fifth and Final Season [Blu-ray]

Easy A [Blu-ray]

Easy A [Blu-ray] by Sony Pictures

Easy A is a frothy, fizzy, and funny romantic comedy for teens--and adults will like it too. Not on account that Clueless has a high-school heroine been in a position to please both target audiences, and Easy A's Olive (the sparkling Emma Stone) is a stellar younger superstar. But Easy A benefits from a great script via author Bert V. Royal and warranted path by way of TV veteran Will Gluck. Olive is a smart woman happy to stay in the shadows of highschool, unless her good buddy, Brandon (Dan Byrd), who's gay, begs her to fake to have sex with him so the remainder of the school will stop picking on him. She obliges, but soon she chooses up not one but two popularitys--as the lady who sleeps around, and, on the down-low, as the woman who'll faux to sleep with a guy so he won't be branded a virgin. Soon Easy A's complications pile up larger than the entrance of Olive's highschool, and her two story lines, neither of which reflects the actual Olive, tackle lives of their own. There are backlashes and blacklists and repercussions galore. "I at all times thought pretending to lose my virginity would really feel a bit more special," muses Olive. "Judy Blume will have to have prepared me for that." Stone is accompanied through a robust supporting cast: Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson as her bemused folks, Gossip Girl's dreamy Penn Badgley, the freshly unretired Amanda Bynes, Thomas Haden Church, Lisa Kudrow, and Malcolm McDowell. And it is to the cast's and the writer's credit that the audience is saved engaged, and guessing, till the very end. Easy A will have to be awarded precisely that. --A.T.. Read more Easy A [Blu-ray]