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]

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]

Puss in Boots (Two-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)

Puss in Boots (Two-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) by DreamWorks

In this fractured fairy story, Jack and Jill have the magic beans and Humpty Dumpty, with assistance from Kitty Softpaws, persuades his previous friend Puss in Boots to help him steal the beans so they can climb the beanstalk to get to the golden eggs. Never thoughts that Humpty Dumpty and Puss in Boots had a falling out years ago, or that Jack and Jill are utterly preoccupied via their squabbling over whether or not or to not have a child--and regardless that Puss in Boots is a wished cat who's sworn off his thieving ways, and Kitty Softpaws is a cat burglar who works on my own. Comedy abounds on this film, no longer only within the twists and switchs of some traditional fairy testimonies long past awry, but with scenes that vary from a litter-box dance combat between crowds of cats to Jack expressing hellos paternal intuitions via strapping on a child service filled with a piglet in a diaper, and, of course, Puss in Boots' crafty use of his well-known sad eyes to get simply what he desires. The animation is top-notch (especially in the mass cat scenes), the music is compelling, and the voice abilities of Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zack Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Amy Sedaris are solid.. Read more Puss in Boots (Two-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)

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)

District 9 [Blu-ray]

District 9 [Blu-ray] by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

A provocative science fiction drama, District 9 boasts an original story that will get slightly lost in blow-'em-up mayhem. Set in Johannesburg, South Africa, District 9 begins as a mock documentary concerning the forthcoming eviction of extraterrestrials from a pathetic shantytown (called District 9). The creatures, it turns out, were on Earth for yrs, having arrived sickly and starving. Initially acquired via people with compassion and care, the aliens are now mired in blighted prerequisites conventional of long-term refugee camps unwanted by means of a antagonistic, host society. With the creatures' care reduced in size out to a for-profit organization, the shantytown has turn into a violent slum. The aliens sift thru huge piles of junk while their minders secretly research weapons expertise that arrived on the visitors' spacecraft. Against this backdrop is a extra private story a few bureaucrat named Wikus (Sharlto Copley) who is unintentionally exposed to a DNA-altering substance. As he commences metamorphosing into some of the creatures, Wikus goes on the run from scientists who want to harvest his evolving, new parts and aliens who see hellom as a chance. When he pairs up with an extraterrestrial secretly planning an get away from Earth, however, what will have to be an enchanting relationship story becomes a collection of firefights and explosions. Nuance is lost to numbing violence, and the extra interesting doable of the film is obscured. Yet, for a whereas District 9 is a formidable film with a novel story to tell. Seamless special impacts on my own are price seeing: the (often brutal) alternates between alien and human are breathtaking.. Read more District 9 [Blu-ray]

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]

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]

Twelve O'Clock High [Blu-ray]

Twelve O'Clock High [Blu-ray] by 20th Century Fox

The battletime recollections of surviving World War II bomber squadrons were still crystal clear when this acclaimed drama used to be launched in 1949--one of the first postwar motion images out of Hollywood to treat the war on emotionally advanced time periods. Framed via a postwar prologue and epilogue and informed as a flashback appreciation of struggletime valor and teamwork, the film famous persons Gregory Peck in one in all his best efficiencys as a callous basic who supposes command of a bomber squadron based in England. At first, the model new commander has little rapport with the 918th Bomber Group, whose loyalties still belong with their earlier commander. As they proceed to fly dangerous missions over Germany, however, the crew and their new leader advance mutual appreciate and admiration, unless the once-alienated commander feels that hellos males are a section of a family--men whose bravery transcends the trials of rigid self-discipline and through-the-book leadership. The film's now-classic climax, during which the basic waits patiently for his squad to come to base--painfully aware that they would presumably not return at all--is one of the a very powerful delicate but emotionally intense scenes of any World War II drama. With Peck within the lead and Dean Jagger doing Oscar-winning work in a a very powerful supporting function, this was once one in each of veteran director Henry King's proudest achievements, and it nonetheless packs a powerful dramatic punch.. Read more Twelve O'Clock High [Blu-ray]

Infinite Stratos Complete Collection [Blu-ray]

Infinite Stratos Complete Collection [Blu-ray] by Section 23

Based on the light novels of Izuru Yumizuru, the comedy-adventure Infinite Stratos (2011) blends two popular anime styles: the mecha adventure and the harem comedy. Fifteen-year-old Ichika Orimura is the one boy who can prompt one of the super-sophisticated mecha swimsuits often called Infinite Stratos--and the only male student at the academy that educates pilots. (Although the Stratos suits characterize a step forward in weaponry, global treaties dictate they simply be used for Olympics-style suits.) Not fairly, Ichika appeal tos the attention of the helloghest pilot cadets who set out to defeat him, then fall for him: Celia Alcott from England; Rinin Fan (China); Charlotte Dunois (France); Laura Bodewig (Germany); and his elementary faculty friend, kendo champion Houki Shinonono. In the very best anime custom, Ichika is still blithely clueless about being the thing of everyone's affection, regardless of assertions of affection and fan carrier jiggle scenes. Director Yasuhito Kikuchi choreographs the aerial duels with agreeable panache, and the designs of the Stratos go properly withs are hanging.. Read more Infinite Stratos Complete Collection [Blu-ray]