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Cruel World [Blu-ray]

Millions witnessed Philip Markham’s (Edward Furlong, Terminator 2: Judgment Day) public humiliation when he got dumped by Catherine, the beautiful star (Jaime Pressly, TV’s My Name Is Earl) of a popular dating show, and now–several years and reality series later–he wants revenge. After taking Catherine captive, he lures nine unsuspecting co-eds to her luxurious mansion in the middle of nowhere, trapping the contestants in his own sick version of reality TV–where the challenges are bizarre, the danger is real and death is just a competition away.

Special Feature(s): Full High Definition 1080p; 16×9 (1.78:1); 25GB Single Layer; English 2.0 Stereo; English 2.0 Stereo Uncompressed; Closed Captioned; Smart Menu Technology: Browse the menu, on screen, without leaving film.

THE GUY WHO WAS REJECTED STARTED HIS OWN REALITY SHOW.A FEW OF THE THINGS HE MADE THM DO WAS MAKE THEM GO INTO THIS COFFIN BOX FULL OF ROTTON WATER AND ROTTON THINGS IN IT.THEN THE DOOR WAS LOCKED.THE ONLY WAY OUT WAS TO FIND THE KEY INSIDE.ANOTHER THING WAS THEY HAD TO JUMP IN THE POOL CARRYING A HEAVY BALL AROUND WITH THEM WHILE THEIR FEET WERE IN SHACKLES.ANOTHER THING THEY HAD TO DO WAS IN ORDER TO EAT-THEY HAD TO CUT OPEN THIS DEAD COW,AND CUT THE PART OUT THAT THEY WANTED TO EAT-BUT NO BLOOD COULD BE SPILLED.NOBODY SAW THIS-BUT THERE WAS A HUMAN HEAD INSIDE THE COW.IT WAS THE HEAD OF THE HUSBAND OF THE WOMAN WHO REJECTED HIM.WHEN PEOPLE WERE ELIMINATED-THEY REALLY WERE KILLED.THIS IS REALLY A GOOD MOVIE.I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT.IT WASN’T SCARY.IT WAS INTERESTING.IT KEPT YOUR CURIOUSITY UP.THERE WAS SOME SUSPENSE.IT WAS EXCITING.NOT TOO GORY.THIS MOVIE’S MUCH BETTER THAN I CAN EXPLAIN.

He Wants You To Feel His Pain – Richard Ross –
Phillip (Edward Furlong) is a little unstable since he was rejected on live T.V. on some dumb dating show. He’s waited years to get his revenge on the girl (Jaime Pressly) who humiliated him and after murdering her he moves into her mansion where he lures nine unsuspecting people to participate in his own twisted reality show. Thinking they are appearing on a “Survivor for College Kids” type show where they can win a cool million, the kids have no idea the danger that lays ahead. Like any actual reality show the kids all fit stereotypes: the Southern guy is a hick farmer, the Southern gal is the most promiscuous, the Gay guy is the cattiest, the Asian is skilled in karate, and the Latina curses out her competitors in Spanish. The stud (sleazed to perfection by Andrew Keegan) actually tells the girls that he’s the guy their mothers warned them about. The challenges include locking themselves in coffin like crates and fumbling around in green goo until they can unlock themselves from the inside. Those who lose are “sent home”. Things go from gross to gory as challenges grow to include carving raw, bloody meat from a hanging cow carcass and then eating it. The movie’s pretty gross but it’s also a lot of fun. There are three really hot girls (Laura Ramsey, Sanoe Lake, and Aimee Garcia) and Keegan is debauched perfection. Furlong is hilarious and Daniel Franzese, who plays Phillip’s slow brother Claude, is wonderfully weird. These two make the movie worth a watch. The film ends on a cliffhanger that sets up the possibility of a sequel but I doubt that’s gonna happen any time soon. Worth a watch whenever it’s on late night cable.

The best horror movie ever – Rafael –
great actors , we got terminator kid in it, 10 things i hate about you jock , Jamile pressly !!!
it rocks

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Hancock (Unrated Special Edition) [Blu-ray]

Academy Award® nominee Will Smith (Best Actor, The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006) stars in this action-packed comedy as Hancock, a sarcastic, hard-living and misunderstood superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public. When Hancock grudgingly agrees to an extreme makeover from idealistic publicist Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman, Juno), his life and reputation rise from the ashes and all seems right again–until he meets a woman (2003 Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron, Best Actress, Monster) with similar powers to his and the key to his secret past.

Have seen Will Smith since his first commercials for “The Fresh Prince…” and was immediately struck by the talent. He has done a lot of great work, and, with all of the genre has had his bad ones. This movie, however, was such a simple minded, disconnected mess, that the only thing worth watching was the HD and if someone other then Mr. Smith had been the driver in the “plot” the whole thing would have been an inglorious spoof of really bad movies. Let’s hope he’ll do something soon that showcases the talent and not just his boxoffice draw.

a good watch – Johnnie Woodie –
If you like Will Smith like I do, well that just about says it. Great Movie

Hancock – Arnita D. Brown – USA
Hancock was gripping, heartfelt, and totally unexpected. It has the perfect amount of action, comedy & suprises. Will Smith doesn’t disappoint. I highly recommend seeing this movie.

Digital Copy – E. Merrill – White Oak, PA United States
Don’t bother trying to download the digital copy.

Offer expired.

No date shown on insert as Sony says.

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Pinocchio (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition + Standard DVD+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]

Celebrate the 70th anniversary of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio! The legendary masterpiece that inspired millions to believe in their dreams has reawakened with an all-new, state-of-the-art digital restoration that shines brilliantly on 2-disc DVD. Now, for the first time ever, the richly detailed animation, unforgettable award-winning music When You Wish Upon A Star and heartwarming adventure-filled story comes to life like never before. Plus, all-new dazzling bonus features transport you into Pinocchio’s fantastic world! Join Geppetto’s beloved puppet with Jiminy Cricket as his guide on a thrilling quest that tests Pinocchio’s bravery, loyalty and honesty, virtues he must learn to become a real boy. The one and only Pinocchio will live on forever in the heart of anyone who has wished upon a star.

Bonus Features include the Pinocchio Knows Trivia Challenge, an all-new Making Of Pinocchio, the Sweat Box, Walt Disney’s Artistic Review Process, Disney View, Expand Your Viewing Experience Beyond The Original Aspect Ratio Of The Film, Cine-Explore, Disney BD-Live: Connect, Explore And Interact, all-new When You Wish Upon A Star; Music Video Performed By Meaghan Jette Martin, Pinocchio’s Puzzles Game, 18 Puzzles In A Multi-Tiered Game, Pinocchio’s Matter Of Facts Discover More About Pinocchio’s World With Pop-Up Trivia, Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes, Alternate Ending
DAVE KEHR, NEW YORK TIMES
“The new “Pinocchio” looks magnificent, with a richness of color and a tight definition that evoke the theatrical experience.”

CHRIS NASHAWATY, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“You won’t find a sweeter story or a tidier morality tale about the virtues of being ”brave, truthful, and unselfish.” Grown-ups will eat up the commentaries and featurettes about Disney’s band of merry-prankster animators, and kids can spend hours with the disc’s interactive puzzles and Pop-Up Video-style factoids. You really couldn’t ask for more.”

KENNETH BROWN, BLU-RAY.COM
“Simply put, the 3-disc Blu-ray edition of Pinocchio should already have a comfortable home on every true filmfan’s shelves. Buy it without any further delay.”

HARRY KNOWLES, AINTITCOOL.COM
“An absolute must for animation lovers!”

I recently bought Pinocchio on Blue Ray, and was blown away by the colors and the quality! I was skeptical that it could look much better than before, but the Blue Ray did make a huge difference. I’d recommend this to anyone who wants to add a high quality classic to their collection. It’s worth the extra money.

Cheap Way Out – James H. Fraghia – FLORIDA, USA
Disney took the cheap way out by releasing this movie in 4×3 full screen format instead of one of the widescreen formats that Blu Ray disks are normally released in. This is the only Blu Ray disc I have seen in 4 x 3 format. I returned the Blu Ray disc because I refuse to pay Disney’s premium price for a non widescreen Blu Ray of Pinoccio. I hope Disney re releases it in widescreen because it is an excellent movie.

Pinocchio (Two Disc 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition) – Karen L. Lettieri –
I bought this wonderful Pinocchio two disc 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition CD. I really enjoyed watched it and the price and shipping were really great. Thank you.

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88 Minutes (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]

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Dr. Jack is a shrewed womanizing Forensic Psychologist and professor working with the FBI in Seattle. A tortured past makes him great at what he does. Jack’s past is returning to pull him on another roller-coaster as a killer that he helped to put on death row approaches the last minutes of his life. “88 Minutes” is a very good thriller. It kept you guessing from the very start of the movie until the very end.

Tick Tock, is it over yet? – S. Sandoval – San Francisco, CA USA
As bad as it gets. I love Pacino but even he couldn’t bring this garbage to life. Leelee Sobieski was the bad one? Wasn’t she in the TV show “A Horse for Danny” back in the 90’s? Hopefully Pacino made a lot of money because this sure didn’t help what’s left of his stellar career. Just a dumb movie.

88 Minutes of Stephen Moyer would have been good – Erin O’Riordan – Midwest USA
Jack Gramm (Al Pacino) has 88 Minutes to live in this 2008 film. Why? It’s complicated. Gramm is a forensic psychologist whose expert testimony has helped convict Jon Forster, a vicious serial killer. Even as Forster sits on death row, though, the murders continue. It’s possible Gramm’s forensic re-creation of the crime was wrong, and that Forster is the wrong man. It’s also possible, as Gramm believes, that there is copycat killer on the loose.

I’m not a huge Al Pacino fan, but I did like him in this. He’s working with a largely female cast, and he portrays none of the cocky arrogance around his female co-stars in some of his other films. (Satan in Devil’s Advocate, I’m looking at you.) He comes across as sensitive and likable.

What I really like about this movie, though, is the small role played by English actor Stephen Moyer. He’s best known for playing Southern vampire Bill Compton on True Blood, and for his engagement to co-star Anna Paquin. In 88 Minutes, he’s Guy LaForge, a leather-clad, motorcycle-riding English rocker with a nasty temper. Sure, he doesn’t do much but look sexy and brooding, but that’s what he was put on earth to do. He’s Stephen Moyer. If you enjoyed Restraint, you’ll probably like this one, too.

Seriously???? – Nicolas – Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
This must be one of the first times ever that reading customer reviews helped me to avoid a movie!
BAD GUY : You will die in 88 minutes!!
YA!! but the bad guy is trying to kill him every 2 fking minutes!!! Why he said “in 88 minutes”???
You get informed that your fax machine was broken, no problem! 5 minutes later tell your secretary to fax some documents to some dude! Dont forget to remember you dont have fax machine..damn!! he forgot!

The list go on..if you add you have the over-reacted Pacino, doing the same performance stuff he did in around 30 movies…..well…really, just watch this to laugh because of how dumb the scenes and plot are!

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Elizabeth: The Golden Age [Blu-ray]

In 1998’s Elizabeth, Shekhar Kapur added a layer of suds to his history lesson; the director follows the same audience-pleasing recipe in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Since the first film, Blanchett scored an Oscar for her note-perfect rendition of Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator, and she plays the preternaturally bemused monarch in a similar fashion. By 1585, Elizabeth I is an experienced ruler about to face two of her biggest challenges: betrayal by her Catholic cousin, Mary Stuart (Control’s Samantha Morton), and invasion by the Spanish Armada. It isn’t so much that the Protestant Elizabeth wishes to rid England of “papists,” but that she wants her country to remain free from foreign domination. Closer to her home, she enjoys a sisterly relationship with lady-in-waiting Bess (rising Aussie star Abbie Cornish). That changes when Sir Walter Raleigh (a dashing Clive Owen) hits the scene. In order to continue exploring the New World, he seeks the queen’s sponsorship. She is charmed, but Raleigh only has eyes for Bess. As in the previous picture, Elizabeth enjoys better luck at affairs of state than affairs of the heart, but the conclusion is more beatific than before (and Kapur intends a third installment if Blanchett is willing). Elizabeth: The Golden Age is a rush of royal intrigue, bloody torture, fantastic headpieces, and irresistibly ripe dialogue, like “I have a hurricane in me that will strip Spain bare if you dare to try me!” To Kapur, victory for the Virgin Queen was a viable alternative to sex. –Kathleen C. Fennessy

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This movie may not be everyone’s cup of tea, as it’s dense on politics at times, and gruesome at others. However, for those reviewers who claim this film demonstrates religious bigotry, I beg to differ. Written and visual portraits from this time period reveal that the Spanish did indeed behave and dress the way they appeared in the film. Dour, black-wearing, bearded, somber, and convinced that Elizabeth was an Infidel who deserved to be destroyed. In addition, Philip II’s infirmities and strange physique were portrayed as they truly were at the time; the House of Hapsburg and its various branches was becoming so inbred in early modern Europe that many of its members were physically deformed. This is no different than discussing how that the House of Tudor, for whatever physical/genetic reasons, clearly had reduced fertility during Henry VIII’s time and afterward — and saying so is hardly anti-Protestant prejudice. These are historical facts, and histories of the time period make them abundantly clear.

The movie does not try to absolve Elizabeth from all religious prejudice; indeed, it does show her ministers’ gruesome vengeance — with confessions extracted from torture — against Catholics suspected of plotting her demise. However, it is important to keep in mind that context of the times, and that the religious wars were brutal across Europe. Compared to the Spanish Inquisition, Elizabethan England was far less violent.

Her reign was also less violent than her father Henry VIII’s by far — he whose rule saw widespread oppression and terrorism against Catholics and Protestants alike, depending on how the religious/political winds were blowing across Europe at any given moment, and given the views and actions of Henry’s enemies/allies/wives/lovers of any given moment.

Frankly, I find it hard to believe that even the most devout of Catholics of today would still claim that it would have been better for autocratic Spain, which had practically NO democratic tradition, and in which the Inquisition against Protestants, Jews, Muslims, accused heretics, etc. etc. was in full swing, to have conquered England in 1588…. The movie is also very useful in demonstrating how Elizabeth’s victories and her enduring rule were in large part a result of her turning herself into a quasi-religious icon for her realm — something the first film in the series makes even more clear — and the price she had to pay for that decision. Subtle people will detect the subtleties in the film, and appreciate them. People with a major religious axe to grind, however, probably will not.

Rubbish! – Charlie A – Wichita, KS United States
This dreadful movie takes extraordinary artistic license with the facts of history to be polite. The Spanish Ambassador looked more like an Arab than a real Spaniard and the portrayal of King Philip was akin to an evil and ugly scheming Klingon captain of Star Trek fame. In actuality, Elizabeth I was not all she was cracked up to by the propagandistic British historical establishment. That mad woman embroiled England in a war(1585-1604) against Spain that actually bankrupted it and forced her successor, King James I, to sue for peace with Spain and sign a peace treaty that was largely on Spanish terms.

Elizabeth – The Golden Age (Widescreen Edition) – Arnita D. Brown – USA
Two faiths, two empires, two rulers, colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue, Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary, Walsingham, using as a pawn Elizabeth’s cousin Mary Stuart, who’s under house arrest in the North. The trap springs, and the armada sets sail, to rendezvous with French ground forces and to attack. During these months, the Virgin Queen falls in love with Walter Raleigh, keeping him close to court and away from the sea and America. Director Kapur interestingly puts dramatic and chilling appeal and emphasis on Elizabeth’s Golden Age to reveal her personality and struggles to keep her throne and save her country from falling into the hands of conspirators and invaders. Blanchett is magnificent in her strange, enigmatic and multi-dimensional character, constantly faced with the challenges of her foes plotting and counter-plotting to take her down at her Court, in her government, and, from foreign lands. This movie does entertain, sending me on a delightfully exciting spell-bound journey to separate legend and myths from historical facts. This movie makes English history fun to browse all over again.

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Add comment  Tagged:  Bluray, Elizabeth, Golden March 5, 2010