Friday, 22 June 2012

Tombstone [Blu-ray]



Tombstone [Blu-ray] by Walt Disney Video

Blu-ray. This Western has develop into a modest cult favourite since its liberate in 1993, when the movie used to be met with combined evaluations however the performances of Kurt Russell (as Wyatt Earp) and especially Val Kilmer, for hellos memorably eccentric efficiency as the death gunslinger Doc Holliday, garnered excessive reward. The film opens with Wyatt Earp looking to put hellos violent prior in the again of hellom, dwelling happily in Tombstone together with his brothers and the lady (Dana Delany) who places hellos soul comfy. But a murderous gang known as the Cowboys has burst on the scene, and Earp cannot keep his gun belt off any longer. The plot sounds activities, and in many meanss it is, but Western buffs will not mind somewhat because of a advantageous cast and a few well-handled motion on the a phase of Rambo director George P. Cosmatos, who has yet to make a better film than this.. Read more Tombstone [Blu-ray]

Thursday, 21 June 2012

La Jetée / Sans Soleil (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]



La Jetée / Sans Soleil (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] by Criterion Collection

One of the most influential, radical science-fiction movies ever made and a mind-bending free-form commuteogue: La Jetee and Sans Soleil couldn’t appear more different—but they’re the dual pillars of an unparalleled and uncompromising profession in cinema. A filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, Chris Marker (A Grin Without a Cat) has been challenging moviegoers, thinkers, and himself for years together with his investigations of time, reminiscence, and the fast development of lifestyles on this planet. These two films—a tale of time commute informed in still pictures and a trip to Africa and Japan—remain his best-loved and most generally viewed.. Read more La Jetée / Sans Soleil (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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)

Monday, 18 June 2012

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 list of the a hundred Greatest American Films, To Kill a Mockingbird is reasonably simply one of the finest family-oriented dramas ever made. A beautiful and deeply affecting adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel via Harper Lee, the movie preserves a timeless quality that transcends its traditionally dated subject matter (racism within the Depression-era South) and is still powerfully resonant in present-day America with its advocacy of tolerance, justice, integrity, and loving, accountable parenthood. It's tempting to name this the most important "message" film that should be required viewing for kids and grownups alike, but this riveting courtroom drama is anything else however stodgy or pedantic. As Atticus Finch, the small-town Alabama legal professional and widower father of two, Gregory Peck provides certainly one of hellos most interesting efficiencys along with hellos impassioned safety of a black man (Brock Peters) wrongfully accused of the rape and assault of a younger white lady. While his kids, Scout (Mary Badham) and Jem (Philip Alford), analyze the realities of racial prejudice and irrational hatred, additionally they examine to overcome their fear of the unknown as personified by using their mysterious, mostly unseen neighbor Boo Radley (Robert Duvall, in his sensible, virtually totally nonverbal screen debut). What emerges from this evocative, exquisitely filmed drama is a pure distillation of the themes of Harper Lee's enduring novel, a exhibit for one of the most best American acting ever assembled in one film, and a uncommon quality of humanitarian artistry (including Horton Foote's superb displayplay and Elmer Bernstein's distinguished score) that seems all however misplaced in the chaotic morass of modern cinema.. Read more To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition [Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy]

Sunday, 17 June 2012

Hulk [Blu-ray]



Hulk [Blu-ray] by Universal Studios

When the Hulk will get offended, his film will get just right, so you would like he'd get indignant extra frequently. Accepting this problem after the triumphant Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, director Ang Lee has created an ambitious movie, based on the Marvel comic created with the aid of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, that be successfuls as a cautionary tale about mad science and traumatized kids dealing with legacies of ache. That's the Hulk's problem: After unintentional publicity to gamma radiation, scientist Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) flips into the large, green, and indestructible Hulk when provoked, and repressed childhood memories gas his fury. Hobbled via the obligatory "origin story" (to acquaint neophytes with the character's Jekyll-and-Hyde-ish fate), there is room for little else in a slow movie that combats to reconcile Lee's stylistic aptitude (evident in hellos visual interpretation of comedian-book technique) with the razzle-dazzle of a megabudget franchise. What's just right is excellent (Jennifer Connelly basically echoes her function from A Beautiful Mind, and Nick Nolte is righteously tormented as Banner's father), however the film's schizoid intentions stay generally unclear.. Read more Hulk [Blu-ray]

Saturday, 16 June 2012

Forbidden Planet [Blu-ray]



Forbidden Planet [Blu-ray] by Warner Home Video

FORBIDDEN PLANET BLU-RAY (BLU-RAY DISC). On the DVDs On disc 1 of the colorfully designed 2-disc fiftieth Anniversary Edition of Forbidden Planet (also to be had in a collector's box), the movie is introduced with a new digital switch from restored image and audio parts, with soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1, offering substantial improvement over the film's previous DVD release. A number of deleted scenes had been taken from a light and scratchy 16-millimeter "work print" that had originally been seen by using composers Louis and Bebe Barron as they were developing the film's distinctive digital score; they include full or partial scenes lower from the ultimate film-- largely for good purpose, however collectors (and individuals who first saw this rare subject matter on the authentic Criterion Collection laserdisc) will welcome their inclusion right here. The "lost pictures" is crude unique-effects check pictures, primarily of hobby to sci-fi historians and aficionados. Given the fact that the unique "Robby the Robot" value over $100,000 to construct in 1955, it can be simple to see why MGM wanted to get their money's worth: An excerpt from the Fifties TV sequence "MGM Parade" displays Forbidden Planet famous person Walter Pigeon appearing briefly with Robby, and the well-liked robotic will get much more consideration as a visitor big name in "The Robot Client," an episode of the Thin Man TV series (starring Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk) that at the celebrityt aired on Feb. 28, 1958. Disc 1 additionally includes a gallery of seven science-fiction film trailers courting from 1953 (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms) to 1960's The Time Machine. Disc 2 begins with 1957's The Invisible Boy, a still-enjoyable B-movie that served as Robby's post-Forbidden Planet show off. Here, filmdom's favourite automaton performs sidekick to a younger boy (Richard Eyer) who flips invisible when he gets caught up in a super-computer's scheme of world domination. Also included are three documentaries, ranging from excellent to excellent: In addition to reuniting the surviving solid members of the '56 basic (including Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, Richard Anderson, Warren Stevens, and Earl Holliman), "Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet" is an appreciative tribute to Forbidden Planet with some of Hollywood's premiere sci-fi lovers including special effects masters Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett, SF movie professional Bill Warren, and differents. "Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon" is a featurette in regards to the robotic's design, creation and pop-cultural history, featuring unique "Robby" designer Robert Kinoshita, Bill Malone (current proprietor of the original Robby), and Fred "The Robot Man" Barton, a lifelong robotic fanatic who now promotes fully licensed, full-scale replicas of Robby for sci-fi enthusiasts with deep pockets. Closing out disc 2 is "Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the Nineteen Fifties and Us," a 2005 documentary from Turner Classic Movies, written and directed with the help of Time journal critic Richard Schickel.. Read more Forbidden Planet [Blu-ray]