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]

My Cousin Vinny [Blu-ray]

My Cousin Vinny [Blu-ray] by 20th Century Fox

When two Italian-American boys from New York are falsely accused of homicide in a small Alabama city, they name for a lawyer--but the only attorney they be aware of is their cousin Vinny (Joe Pesci), who made six attempts sooner than he handed his bar exam. My Cousin Vinny is a basic fish-out-of-water comedy; the flimsy plot about clearing the two boys and fixing the homicide is just a hook to strengthen a quantity of culture-clash humor. Thanks to the robust forged of persona actors like Fred Gwynne, Austin Pendleton, and Lane Smith, it's pretty funny--even old-hat funny storys about Brooklyn versus Southern accents come to existence. Pesci has played a couple of too many schticky personas, however this time it truly works. There's simply sufficient humanity in his cartoon to make Vinny likable and unique. When the movie was launched, there was once controversy about whether Marisa Tomei, enjoying Vinny's big-haired and black-leather-wearing fiancée, deserved to win the best toughening actress Oscar (she beat out Judy Davis, Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, and Vanessa Redgrave); however seeing her performance on its own, it's a comedian book marvel and valuable of honor.. Read more My Cousin Vinny [Blu-ray]

Front Line [DVD/Blu-ray Combo]

Front Line [DVD/Blu-ray Combo] by Well Go USA

Excellent...Strong Assured 'Band of Brothers' type. --Entertainment WeeklySouth Korea's submission for the Academy Awards BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM, deservingly received a passel of honors.. Read more Front Line [DVD/Blu-ray Combo]

The Book of Eli [Blu-ray]

The Book of Eli [Blu-ray] by Warner Home Video

BOOK OF ELI, THE BLU-RAY (BLU-RAY DISC). With unflappable cool and shocking gentleness, Denzel Washington strides a bleak and barren world in The Book of Eli. Eli is headed west, however on the means, he passes devastation and squalor, and now and again he must mete out some devastation of his own with a pointy blade. But when he arrives in what passes for a city in this dust-and-ash future, the power-hungry proprietor of the city's bar, Carnegie (Gary Oldman, having a seem a million years old), covets his one necessary possession. (Spoiler alert, sort of: it turn intos obvious lovely quickly that it's a King James Bible.) Conflict turn ups! Though the plot is discreet and the "mystery" of the e book does not remaining lengthy, The Book of Eli is carried along effortlessly by using its big name. Washington has at all times had a compelling mixture of authority and tenderness, and it can be this latter high quality that makes this contribution to the testosterone-and-violence-drenched post-apocalyptic subgenre rapidly human. The script, whereas now not particularly original, has effective communicate and is sensible sufficient no longer to supply an evidence for an extreme amount of. The aiding actors--including Mila Kunis (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Jennifer Beals (who hasn't aged a day due to the fact Flashdance), and Ray Stevenson (Rome)--are all in a position and straightforward on the eyes. The movie's bleached-out, sepia-tone seem is now not new both, nevertheless it swimsuits the topic matter. Anyone who needs to be offended by way of the film's spiritual conclusion could be wiser to benefit from the subversive insinuation that faith can enslave as much as store. All in all, a reliable action movie with some enjoyably bizarre elements.. Read more The Book of Eli [Blu-ray]

Under African Skies (Graceland 25th Anniversary Film) (BluRay) [Blu-ray]

Under African Skies (Graceland 25th Anniversary Film) (BluRay) [Blu-ray] by Sony Legacy

In 1986, Graceland offered 14 million copies worldwide and garnered each the Album and Song of the Year Grammy in 1987. Simon and the members of Ladysmith Black Mambazo performed on Saturday Night Live and seemed on the cover of Rolling Stone. It generated three hit singles and it stored Paul Simon and the Graceland tour on the street for 5 years. Its song used to be heard throughout the globe. Today, its tune and its recognition nonetheless reach generations of track enthusiasts but so many are blind to how pivotal that one album was once during the 1980s, how it helped start the idea of World Music and revived the profession of one in all America s most important songwriters. How it influenced the political progress of South Africa a rustic divided by way of institutionalized racism, causing after which transcending years of controversy. How in truth the album came to be in the first position.Under African Skies (Directed by Joe Berlinger, award-winning director) captures Paul Simon's return to South Africa in 2011 to discover the improbable trip of hellos historic Graceland album, including the political backlash he bought for allegedly breaking the UN cultural boycott of South Africa designed to finish the Apartheid regime.. Read more Under African Skies (Graceland 25th Anniversary Film) (BluRay) [Blu-ray]

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]

Falling Skies: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]

Falling Skies: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray] by TNT

There was no shortage of films and TV shows about aliens invading Earth earlier than Falling Skies got here along; in fact, Steven Spielberg, govt producer of TNT's sci-fi/drama convey (which debuts on DVD with the ten first-season episodes, plus some brief bonus featurettes, on three discs), was once involved in a excellent lots of them. But this one takes a unique tack: when the pilot episode begins, the invasion has already happened… and we misplaced, big time. Sure, now not depicting the nasty aliens' arrival and decimation of the arena as we knew it saved somebody a pile of different effects money--but it also makes for an interesting convey dynamic. When we trap as much as Tom Mason (Noah Wyle), a historical past professor and some of the surprising leaders of the human insurgency, and the manager soldier, hard-ass Captain Weaver (Will Patton), they may be already deep into making an attempt to figure out how to protect the few remaining people and how you can struggle back against a vastly sophisticated alien force of spider-like, Alien-faced "skitters" and giant, stomping robot "mechs." Then there could be this: the alien leaders are particularly enthusiastic about teenagers, whom they grab and enslave via fusing dwelling, spine-like "harnesses" to the kids' agains. Tom is aware of that probably the most captured teens is his son, and he devotes so much of hellos vitality to rescuing the boy. But what neither he nor anybody else can determine is strictly what the aliens' agenda could be, and it's no longer until the tenth and remaining episode (a cliffhanger, of course), when the "2nd Mass" (i.e., Tom and Weaver's Boston-based militia) are able to launch an all-out attack on the invaders, that we at last get some clarity. Falling Skies has plenty going for it: excellent appearing, some exciting story ideas, nice (if limited) effects. What it does not have is much action (a battle scene between Tom and a skitter is an exception), or the roughly ramped-up rigidity one are expectings from a undertaking with Spielberg's name attached. Episodes are usually talky and moderately dull; earnest conversation about the method forward for humanity and the significance of sticking collectively within the face of impending catastrophe is all smartly and just right, however a number of further dollops of pleasure (something Spielberg supplied in hellos 2005 model of War of the Worlds) would have helped. Here's hoping for largeger and better in season two.. Read more Falling Skies: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]