Showing posts with label blurayreview. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blurayreview. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Blu-ray Review: 'Dazed and Confused - Yahoo! Movies

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The 1993 film "Dazed and Confused" re-releases as a Blu-ray offering packaged in a single disc. This 102-minute motion picture piece written and directed by Richard Linklater is a coming-of-age feature that looks back at the lives of teens during the 1970s. It stars a cast of then unknowns including Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Milla Jovovich, Adam Goldberg, Jason London, Cole Hauser, and Joey Lauren Adams.

Blu-ray Review: 'The Big Lebowski' - Yahoo! Movies

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The Coen brothers' comedy opus "The Big Lebowski" features a Limited Edition release with a Blu-ray disc, a digital copy, and a sturdy 28-page booklet. The package showcases a brief note of the film's legacy, trivia questions, quotes, still images, character descriptions, review excerpt from Rolling Stone, and an interview with Jeff Dowd, the inspiration for the film's lead character. This seminal piece of cult tells the adventures of Jeff Lebowski, an unemployed slacker and avid bowler better known as "The Dude." This story is loosely based on the Raymond Chandler novel "The Big Sleep."

Blu-ray Review: 'Spy Kids' - Yahoo! Movies

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"Spy Kids," shot and made famous by Robert Rodriguez, an unlikely filmmaking maverick directing his first family movie, releases in a single Blu-ray disc that is filled with many bonus materials. This 2001 motion picture offering goes outside his typical works that include "El Mariachi," "Desperado," "From Dusk Till Dawn," "Sin City," "Grindhouse," and "Machete."

Thursday, September 08, 2011

Blu-Ray Review: 'The Return of the King' in 'The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy Extended Edition' - Yahoo! Movies

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The June 2011 release of "The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy Extended Edition" features a 15-disc set with six 50GB Blu-ray discs and nine DVDs. Given this scope, making a more comprehensive review for each film package in the trilogy is ideal. This review focuses on the third film, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." The first and second films, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," have their separate reviews, along with a dedicated disc-per-disc feature that summarizes the contents of the entire extended edition package.

Blu-ray Review: 'The Two Towers' in 'The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy Extended Edition' - Yahoo! Movies

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The June 2011 release of "The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy Extended Edition" features a 15-disc set with six 50GB Blu-ray discs and nine DVDs. Given this scope, making a more comprehensive review for each film package in the trilogy is ideal. This review focuses on the second film, "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." The first and third films, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," have their separate reviews, along with a dedicated disc-per-disc feature that summarizes the contents of the entire extended edition package.

Blu-Ray Review: 'The Fellowship of the Ring' Package in 'The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy Extended Edition' - Yahoo! Movies

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The June 2011 release of "The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy Extended Edition" features a 15-disc set with six 50GB Blu-ray discs and nine DVDs. Given this scope, making a more comprehensive review for each film package in the trilogy is ideal. This review focuses on the first film, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." The second and third films, "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," have their separate reviews, along with a dedicated disc-per-disc feature that summarizes the contents of the entire extended edition package.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Blu-ray Review: 'Red Riding Hood' - Yahoo! Movies

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"Red Riding Hood" is a loose movie adaptation of the folk tale "Little Red Riding Hood." The re-imagining of this story capitalizes on the vampire and werewolf movies that have become top cash cow releases for a good number of years. Instead of the little girl and wolf characters in the original story, this flick features a teen who falls in love with a werewolf. It even shares the same director as the first "Twilight" movie with Catherine Hardwicke. To further add to the similarities of the two films, Amanda Seyfried who plays the main character Valerie even shares the same on-screen father (Billy Burke) with "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart.

Blu-ray Review: 'Battle: Los Angeles' - Yahoo! Movies

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Packaged in a blue eco-vortex case, the alien invasion movie "Battle: Los Angeles" releases in a two-disc combo pack consisting of a 50GB Blu-ray disc and a DVD. Its story features Aaron Eckhart as Staff Sergeant Michael Nantz, a marine who has been called back to duty just a few hours after resigning. His is part of a mission to evacuate people in Los Angeles from the impending fallout of a meteor storm. The turn of events get worse with the appearance of an alien army rising from the ocean. The stranded civilians attempt to escape the blast radius where the military plans to strike against an impending alien colonization.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Blu-ray Review: 'I Saw the Devil' - Yahoo! Movies

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'I Saw the Devil' (Akmareul Boatda), the Korean film by critically acclaimed director Kim Jee-woon, tells the tale of a psychopath and the guy who seeks revenge against the evil force who killed his fiancee. Releasing in a single 50GB Blu-ray with BD-Live functionality, 'I Saw the Devil' features famous Korean acting talents Choi Min-sik from the Park Chan-wook opus 'Oldboy' and Lee Byung-hyun from 'The Good, the Bad and The Weird,' another masterpiece from Kim Jee-woon.

Blu-Ray Review: 'The Crow: City of Angels'

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Releasing in a 25GB single Blu-ray disc, the 1996 movie 'The Crow: City of Angels' is a follow-up piece to the 2004 film 'The Crow' made famous by director Alex Proyas and its original star, the late Brandon Lee. This sequel with Vincent Perez stepping in for the lead role depicts the story of a victim of a brutal attack of an evil drug cartel as he gets brought back to life by a mysterious crow. Ashe Corven (Perez) seeks revenge by killing his murderers one by one through the help of his psychic muse Sarah. However, his lethal enemy Judah knows about his one weakness and this becomes the man's ace to bring him down.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Blu-ray Review: 'Born To Raise Hell' - Yahoo! Movies

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Released in a single 25GB Blu-ray disc, the straight-to-video action flick "Born to Raise Hell" features a comeback movie for veteran action star Steven Seagal. As expected, this film is filled with a lot shooting, swearing, and Seagal as the hero who never fails to beat any bad guy lingering around.

'Country Strong' Blu-ray Review - Yahoo! Movies

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"Country Strong" releases in a single 50GB Blu-ray disc with some bonus materials to back up its 117-minute motion picture offer. It explores a "behind the music" dramatization of the life of the fictional character Kelly Canter (Gwyneth Paltrow), an alcoholic country music superstar who drunkenly falls onstage during a performance and subsequently suffers from miscarriage. She meets a hospital employee who also turns out to be a talented small-time, not so limelight loving country singer Beau Hutton (Garrett Hedlund). As the story progresses, Beau, as Kelly's rehab sponsor, along with another country starlet Chiles Stanton (Leighton Meester), gets convinced of opening for her country tour.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Blu-ray Review: 'The Green Hornet' - Yahoo! Movies

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The movie rendition of the legendary TV series "The Green Hornet" releases in a single 50GB Blu-ray disc fully packed with awesome special features. 3D movie enthusiasts can also check out the three-disc combo pack with the movie's 3D and 2D versions in separate Blu-ray discs and its DVD copy.

Blu-ray Review: 'Gulliver's Travels' - Yahoo! Movies

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"Gulliver's Travels" offers another re-imagining of Jonathan Swift's classic literary piece of the same title. This time, it features a bathroom comedy flick helmed by first-time live-action movie director Rob Letterman and starred by Jack Black, Amanda Peet, Emily Blunt, Chris O'Dowd, Jason Segel, and Billy Connolly. This 85-minute big-budget spectacle boasts a whopping budget of more than $100 million -- with a huge chunk of it going to the movie's special effects.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

'The King's Speech' Blu-ray Review - Yahoo! Movies

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The Oscar-winning drama "The King's Speech" releases in a single 50GB Blu-ray disc complete with a set of bonus features and audio commentary from Academy Award-winning director Tom Hooper. Offering a simple but valuable package to relive what makes this film great, it tells the story of the man who struggled to become King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. The film allows the viewers to immerse themselves in a pre-programmed journey into the life story of George, also known as Bertie (Colin Firth), who seeks help from an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) to find his voice and boldly lead his country through the war.

'The Incredibles' Blu-ray Review - Yahoo! Movies

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'Rabbit Hole' Blu-ray Review - Yahoo! Movies

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'Mortal Kombat' Blu-ray Review - Yahoo! Movies

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Inspired by the famous video game of the same title, "Mortal Kombat" is a martial arts film set to a techno beat and aptly created for fanboys and fangirls. Now a classic video game movie, it releases in high-definition format through a single 25GB Blu-ray disc, along with a downloadable digital copy. Directed by Paul Anderson, this 101-minute movie is not with technical and creative flaws, but ultimately, it brings fans into the awesome world of superhuman characters who deliver rounds of cool stunts. Ultimately, this 1995 video-to-screen motion picture piece is a guilty pleasure to watch.

'Mortal Kombat: Annihilation' Blu-ray Review - Yahoo! Movies

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"Mortal Kombat: Annihilation," the sequel to the first "Mortal Kombat" movie, releases in a single 25GB Blu-ray disc with a digital copy download option. During its theatrical release, this 1997 movie took the souls of fans and gamers towards fatality. As a follow-up to the decently produced "Mortal Kombat," it makes the original look more like a flawless homage to the legendary video game that significantly changed the landscape of gaming during its release.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Blu-ray Review: 'The Switch' - Yahoo! Movies

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The offbeat romantic comedy "The Switch" is based on Jeffrey Eugenides' short story, "Baster," which explores the aftermath of a drunken evening and how it results in the bearing of a child of two best friends via artificial insemination. Starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman, and helmed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, the Blu-ray release of this light-hearted romantic comedy features a single 50 GB disc with subtitles in English, Spanish, and French.