Showing posts with label fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fantasy. Show all posts

Thursday, 20 September 2012

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]

Wednesday, 29 August 2012

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)

Monday, 13 August 2012

Immortals [Blu-ray]



Immortals [Blu-ray] by Universal

Immortals explodes off the monitor with action-packed fights, mythological adventure and an all-star solid. In this epic story of vengeance and future, power-mad King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) threatens to spoil all of humanity on his maniacal quest to acquire the ultimate word weapon – the legendary Epirus Bow that presents the power to unleash conflict on both Heaven and Earth. But Theseus (Henry Cavill), a heroic younger villager chosen by the gods, rises as a lot as stop Hyperion's brutal rampage. With supernatural lend a hand from the pretty oracle Phaedra (Freida Pinto), Theseus embodys his future and leads a fierce band of warriors in a determined fight for the future of mankind.. Read more Immortals [Blu-ray]

Thursday, 2 August 2012

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [Blu-ray]



The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [Blu-ray] by 20th Century Fox

The third movie in line with C.S. Lewis's delusion books, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader opens three yrs after the Pevensie youngsters return from scuffling with to revive peace to Narnia in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy (Georgie Henley) are still staying with Eustace (Will Poulter), while Peter and Susan have gotten older and moved on to highschool and America, respectively. Still as surly and unbelieving as ever, Eustace continues to mock his cousins for hellos or her Narnian fantasies. But when water commences spilling into their room from a portray putting on the wall, all three younger people are swept onto the decks of the sailing ship referred to as the Dawn Treader, which is afloat in the waters of Narnia. This time, there aren't any struggles to be fought in Narnia. But it quickly becomes evident that the trio is destined to assist King Caspian (Ben Barnes) remedy the thriller of the disappearance of the seven lords of Telmar, and prevent the ongoing sacrifices of huge groups of Narnian individuals to the evil inexperienced mist. So starts a quest thru uncharted waters a wonderful implys to require each of the youngsters to withstand temptations like magnificence and energy, and to conquer the darkness within themselves with the intention to defeat the danger to Narnia's people. The struggle guarantees to yield sudden heroes, and via their journey, Edmund, Lucy, Eustace, and even King Caspian and Reepicheep (voiced via Simon Pegg) each and every grow and mature. Eventually, Aslan (voiced via Liam Neeson) will ask each journeyr to make crucial possibility in order to without end influence hellos or her future. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader features plenty of high journey, sword-fighting action, and personal peril, and whereas it fails to fully capitalize on the personalitys' motivations or to earn viewers' full emotional funding, it's still a great addition to the Narnia film sequence.. Read more The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [Blu-ray]

Monday, 16 July 2012

Contact [Blu-ray]



Contact [Blu-ray] by Warner Home Video

Condition: New. The opening and shutting seconds of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly sees in films these days--each is an expression of the heroine's existencelong quest (both non secular and scientific) to discover the that means of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial existence. The film begins by way of hovering a approachs out into space, then returns dizzyingly to earth until all the stars in the heavens condense into the flicker in one little girl's eye. It finishs with that same girl as an grownup (Jodie Foster)--her search having taken her to positions past her imagination--turning her gaze inward and seeing the universe in a handful of sand. Contact hints the journey between these two visible epiphanies. Based on Carl Sagan's novel, Contact is primarily considerate and provocative for a big-budget Hollywood science fiction image, with elements that keep in mind the whole lot from 2001 to The Right Stuff. Foster's solid performance (and some actually improbable alien hardware) preserve viewers interested, even when the story skips and implyders, or when the halo around the golden locks of rising-star-of-a-different-kind Matthew McConaughey (as the pure-Hollywood-hokum love interest) reaches Milky Way-level wattage. Ambitious, ambiguous, pretentious, unpredictable--Contact is the entirese factors and more. Much of it remains open to speculation and interpretation, but no matter conclusions one ultimately attracts, Contact deserves reputation as a uncommon piece of big-budget studio filmmaking on a non-public scale.. Read more Contact [Blu-ray]

Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Tron: Legacy (Four-Disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy)



Tron: Legacy (Four-Disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy) by Walt Disney Pictures

Recommended Age: 6 years and up.Tron: The Original Classics embodys: Blu-ray

Tron: Legacy Blu-ray 3D No No Yes Yes Yes Tron: The Original Classic No No No Yes Yes Digital Copy No No Yes Yes Yes Collectable Lithograph No No No No Yes Bonus Content First look at Tron: Uprising, the Disney XD animated series; Visualizing Tron: Watch how the filmmakers brought the surprising world within the Grid to life; Installing the cast: Stars discuss their Tron experience Same as Tron: Legacy DVD Same as Tron: Legacy (Two-Disc Combo) Same as Tron: Legacy DVD Tron: The Original Classics embodys: Blu-ray Tron: Legacy embodys: Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Copy Versions of Tron: Legacy on Blu-ray and DVD The Next Day: Flynn Lives Revealed: What happens in an instant following the tip of the movie?; Launching the Legacy: Beyond the superb visuals is a wealthy story filled with a complete world's history and mythology; Disc Roars: Watch director Joseph Kosinski use the raucous crowd at Comic-Con to file precise ADR for the disc recreation stadium crowd; Music video: “Derezzed” written, produced, and carried out with the help of Daft Punk Same as Tron: Legacy DVD Limited adaptation identification disc packaging Tron: The Original Classic Bonus Content None None None Exclusive photo Tronology; The Tron phenomenon; The making of Tron; Deleted scenes: with introductions by means of Bruce Boxleitner; Audio commentary:Steven Lisberger, Donald Kushner, Harrison Ellenshaw and Richard Taylor; Production gallery; Storyboards: showcasing early work on Light Cycles; Storyboard-To-Film comparisons Exclusive photo Tronology; The Tron phenomenon; The making of Tron; Deleted scenes: with introductions by means of Bruce Boxleitner; Audio commentary:Steven Lisberger, Donald Kushner, Harrison Ellenshaw and Richard Taylor; Production gallery; Storyboards: showcasing early work on Light Cycles; Storyboard-To-Film comparabilitys Same as Tron: Legacy (Two-Disc Combo) Same as Tron: Legacy DVD Same as Tron: Legacy (Two-Disc Combo) Tron: Legacy DVD Tron: Legacy (Two-Disc Combo) Tron: Legacy (Four-Disc Combo) Tron: Legacy / Tron The Original Classic (Five-Disc Combo) Tron: Legacy / Tron: The Original Classic (Five-Disc Combo in Identity Disc Collectible Packaging) Release Date April 5, 2011 April 5, 2011 April 5, 2011 April 5, 2011 April 5, 2011 Format/Disc # DVD Blu-ray, DVD Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Copy Tron: Legacy embraces: Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Copy The luminescent strains and shimmering surfaces of Tron: Legacy will tantalize any individual who's lusted after the newest smartphone.. Read more Tron: Legacy (Four-Disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy)

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Thor (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)



Thor (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) by Paramount Pictures

Of all the other folks in lengthy underwear to be tapped for superhero motion images, Thor would seem to be the most difficult to correctly pull off. (Hypothetical Hollywood conversation: "A man in a tricked-out, simply merchandisable metallic suit? Great! An Asgardian God of Thunder who says stuff like thee and thou? Um, is Moon Knight available?") Thankfully, the resulting film does its supply subject matter reasonably proud, by the use of a dedicated forged and an strategy that does not shy away from the over-the-top superheroics. When you're dealing with a flying man wielding a huge hammer, gritty realism will additionally be overrated, in reality. Blending parts from the celebrated comic arcs by way of Walter Simonson and J. Michael Straczynski, the story observes the topstrong Thunder God (Chris Hemsworth) as he is banished to Earth and stripped of his powers by way of his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins) after inadvertently starting a battle with a planet of ticked-off Frost Giants. As his traitorous brother Loki (the outstanding Tom Hiddleston) schemes in the wings, Thor should redeem himself and keep the universe, with the assist of a beautiful scientist (Natalie Portman).. Read more Thor (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)

Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Three-Disc Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo + BD Live w/ Blu-ray packaging)



Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Three-Disc Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo + BD Live w/ Blu-ray packaging) by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Condition: New.Multiple Formats.Format: Blu-ray.Stills from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Click for better image)

  One of the brightest nuggets from Disney's golden age, this 1937 film is nearly dizzying in its meticulous development of an enchanted world, with rankings of main and minor characters (including fauna and fowl), each with a distinct id. When you watch Snow White's tricky, sleek movements of fingers, hands, and head multi function shot, it's not the technical brilliance of Disney's artists that leaps out at you, however the very spirit of her enticing, girl-woman persona. When the wicked queen's poisoned apple flips from killer green to rose crimson, the effect of understanding something so stunning can also be so bad is admittedly elemental, so pure it powers one to give up to the horror of it. Based on the Grimm fairy story, Snow White is probably the perfect domestic movie ever to deal, in mythic terms, with the psychological basis for rising up.. Read more Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Three-Disc Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo + BD Live w/ Blu-ray packaging)

Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Tron: Legacy (Four-Disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy)



Tron: Legacy (Four-Disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy) by Walt Disney Pictures

The luminescent lines and shimmering surfaces of Tron: Legacy will tantalize any person who's lusted after the newest smartphone. The long-ago disappearance of hellos laptop-genius father has left Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund, Four Brothers) with existential ennui and some enormous cash. When he uncovers his father's secret workshop, he gets sucked into a laptopized realm dominated with the support of a megalomaniac pc program named Clu--who simply occurs to be his father's digital doppelganger. To to find his real father (Jeff Bridges, reprising his role from the unique Tron, with a bit of of hellos role from The Big Lebowski thrown in for kicks), Sam has to struggle in gladiatorial games, force in digital demolition derbies, and be stripped and dressed through slinky pneumatic babes. For all the techno-babble and quasi-philosophy the personas spout, this is a movie with out an concept in its brilliant head. It can be pointless to explain the various sillinesses as a end result of Tron: Legacy isn't in reality seeking to be smart; it is looking to seem to be cool. It be successfuls. Olivia Wilde (House) looks like the good action determine ever (if the complete film might be nothing but the shot of her lounging on a futuristic couch, it might be a masterpiece of avant-garde gizmo-fetishism). The facemasks are cool, the glowing skintight outfits are cool, the light-cycles are truly, actually cool--and let's be honest, it's all concerning the light-cycles. That's what the audience for Tron desires, and that is the reason what Tron: Legacy ships.. Read more Tron: Legacy (Four-Disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy)

Friday, 15 June 2012

The Neverending Story [Blu-ray]



The Neverending Story [Blu-ray] by Warner Home Video

Condition: New.Format: Blu-ray.Color; Dolby; DTS Surround Sound; Subtitled; Widescreen. Wolfgang Petersen (In the Line of Fire) made his first English-language film with this 1984 fantasy about a boy (Barret Oliver) visualizing the tales of a ebook he's studying. The imagined story involves some other boy, a warrior (Noah Hathaway), and his efforts to store heaps of the empire of Fantasia from a nemesis known as the Nothing. Whether or no longer the situation sticks within the memory, what does linger are the unique impacts, which are now not reasonably like the rest. Plenty of excellent fairy-tale personas and noteworthy scenes, and the film even encourages children to learn.. Read more The Neverending Story [Blu-ray]

Sunday, 10 June 2012

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time [Blu-ray]



Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time [Blu-ray] by Walt Disney Pictures

Condition: New.Format: Blu-ray.AC-3; Dolby; DTS Surround Sound; Dubbed; Subtitled; Widescreen. Jake Gyllenhaal's doe eyes and bulging biceps will make some coronary hearts flutter in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Dastan (Gyllenhaal), adopted prince of the Persian empire, must flee into the wasteland when accused of murdering hellos royal father--but a glass-handled dagger he found as loot from a captured metropolis turns out to carry powerful time-manipulating magic. Not most effective is he pursued through his vengeful brothers, his scheming uncle (Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast), and a peculiar cabal of murderers, but a princess/priestess named Tamina (Gemma Arterton, Quantum of Solace) wants the dagger back and can kill Dastan if she has to. Prince of Persia desires to be a rollicking journey alongside the lines of Pirates of the Caribbean. Unfortunately, it's hampered by clumsy communicate and hard-to-follow action sequences, with choppy editing that damages the waft of the parkour-inspired stunts. But the manufacturing design is extravagant and every time Alfred Molina (Spiderman 2) appears as a grasping sheik the film will get a pleasant jolt of energy. Gyllenhaal does not have so much to work with--Dastan is a somewhat regularly occurring hero--and whoever designed hellos hair must have been fired on the first day, however hellos lazy allure comes via and incorporates hellom in the route of the movie.. Read more Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time [Blu-ray]

Friday, 8 June 2012

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [Blu-ray]



The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [Blu-ray] by New Line Home Video

AC-3; Dolby; DTS Surround Sound; Dubbed; Subtitled; Widescreen.Format: Blu-ray.Condition: New. As the triumphant start of a trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring go aways you begging for extra. By necessity, Peter Jackson's bold epic compresses J.R.R. Tolkien's traditional The Lord of the Rings, but this tough adaptation take care ofs reverent allegiance to Tolkien's creation, immediately qualifying as probably the most greatest delusion motion pictures ever made. At 178 minutes, it can be long enough to establish the myriad inhabitants of Middle-earth, the legendary Rings of Power, and the guyship of hobbits, elves, dwarves, and humans--led by way of the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and the courageous hobbit Frodo (Elijah Wood)--who should fight terrifying forces of evil on their perilous experience to damage the One Ring within the land of Mordor. Superbly paced, the movie is both epic and intimate, offering astounding different effects and production design whereas emphasizing the emotional depth of Frodo's journey. Ending on an excellent notice of heroic loyalty and rich anticipation, this wondrous fable continues in The Two Towers (2002).. Read more The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [Blu-ray]