Blu-ray Highlights: Week of April 28th, 2013 – You Have Poor Social Skills
As we close out the month of April, eight of this year’s nine Best Picture Academy Award nominees are now available on Blu-ray. (The only film still missing is Michael Haneke’s ‘Amour’.) This week also...
View ArticleNow Playing: Stark Relief
Since ‘Iron Man 2‘ proved to be less than stellar back in 2010, this third adventure for the Marvel hero returns with a much-needed boost of attitude and character. ‘Iron Man 3′, which can be also...
View ArticleWeekend Movies: Summertime, and the Livin’ Is Easy
With hundreds of millions of dollars already in the bank after playing for one week in international markets, the biggest movie of the year is finally here. I think I could go this whole post without...
View ArticleNow Playing: ‘Gatsby’, Actually Pretty Great
Director Baz Luhrmann has created a grand opus filled with shiny costumes, modern music, magical camera tricks and classical early Hollywood filmmaking to once again bring to life F. Scott Fitzgerald’s...
View ArticleWeekend Movies: Let’s Party Like It’s the Roaring ’20s
If anything, this will be an interesting weekend at the box office. Baz Luhrmann’s flashy adaptation of an American literary classic and a Tyler Perry-produced comedy may not worry about competing...
View ArticleYou Like Head Cheese? Win ‘Texas Chainsaw 3D’ on Blu-ray!
This week’s contest is for the horror fanatics out there. You want some gory chainsaw massacrin’ action in eye-popping 3D? Well, we just happen to have a copy of ‘Texas Chainsaw 3D‘ waiting to be...
View ArticleNow Playing: Trekkin’ the Night Away
I must admit that when I walked into the crowded theater to watch J.J. Abrams’ second journey into the ‘Star Trek’ universe, I was a bit apprehensive. The studio didn’t hold any press screenings before...
View Article‘Texas Chainsaw’ Contest Results
Turnout for our ‘Texas Chainsaw’ contest was a little light last week. Did the prize not grab your interest, or did I just do a poor job of finding a funny photo for you to caption? (Admittedly, the...
View ArticleWeekend Movies: An Epic Failure of Creativity
Is anyone else burned out from the never-ending streak of sequels and remakes? Some are good. Most are not. Sadly, this Memorial Day weekend is filled with rehashes, including three sequels and one...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of June 9th, 2013 – Pay No Attention to That Man...
In this week’s new Blu-rays, Disney cashes in on one of the most beloved family films of all time with a gaudy 3D prequel, fairy tales get reimagined in ways no one ever wanted, and The Rock delivers...
View ArticleFull Metal Jackets: Cobraaaaaa!!!
Listen up, grunts. New orders have just come down from the PITT. Our mission is to obtain a SteelBook collectible Blu-ray edition of our new movie, ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’, before Cobra forces scoop...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: Kneel Before Zod
Superman returned to the big screen this Father’s Day Weekend, sparking a 51% box office boost from last year and setting a new June record. After the disappointment of ‘Superman Returns‘, the debut of...
View ArticlePoll: What Did You Think of ‘Pacific Rim’?
Although Guillermo del Toro’s robots-vs.-monsters slugfest ‘Pacific Rim’ may not have been able to win the box office battle this weekend, something tells me that the demographics of our site’s...
View ArticleYo Joe! Win ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ on Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D!
I feel like the lack of a contest broke our momentum last week. Let’s try to get things back on track today with a giveaway for the action-packed ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’, starring Dwayne “The Rock”...
View ArticleNow Playing: No Smurfing Way
How can you not like Smurfs, whose sole reason for existence is to live a peaceful life full of fun, dancing, singing and love? Not to mention that they live in cool mushroom houses in the forest and...
View Article‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Contest Results
ATTEN-HUT!! Listen up, grunts. It’s time to announce the winners of last week’s ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ contest. You want to know who won, don’t you? After all, knowing is half the battle. Before we...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of August 18th, 2013 – BLECCCHHHH!!!
Hey, kids, you wanna hear a scary story? Somebody out there keeps making ‘Scary Movie’ movies, and they just keep getting worse and worse. AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! New Releases That a ‘Scary Movie 5‘ exists...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of August 25th, 2013 – There Is No Confusion Like...
The dog days of August are almost over. Hopefully, we’ll see some more interesting Blu-ray releases come down the pike next month. In the meantime, Michael Bay makes a trashy movie about scummy...
View ArticleFull Metal Jackets: Faster Than a Speeding Bullet
This one’s a gimme. I don’t imagine that it will surprise too many metal case collectors to hear that the summer blockbuster ‘Man of Steel’ will be made available on Blu-ray in SteelBook packaging....
View ArticleNow Playing: Wrong ‘Direction’
It was only a matter of time before someone made a concert film about One Direction, but I never could have guessed it would be Morgan Spurlock, the guy who gave us the Oscar-nominated documentary...
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