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Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter & Under the Hood (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] Theyre in the book. And on this disc. From the director of Watchmen and 300 come two tales from the celebrated graphic novel that do not appear in the extraordinary Watchmen Theatrical Feature. Tales of the Black Freighter (featuring the voice of 300s Gerard Butler) brings to strikingly animated life the novels richly layered story-within-a-story, a daring pirate saga whose turbulent events may mirror those in the Watchmens world. Stars from the Watchmen movie team in the amazing live-action/CGI Under the Hood, based on Nite Owls powerful first-hand account of how the hooded adventurers came into existence. Two fan-essential stories. One place to watch the excitement. Watching the Watchmen begins here.
Customer Review: Excellent Features, But Rent, Don’t Buy.
There are all kinds of things that make WATCHMEN a unique graphic novel. One thing is the comic book story within the comic, TALES OF THE BLACK FREIGHTER. Even though the comic within the comic is important to WATCHMEN, it’s not crucial to the story’s plot. However, Zach Snyder really was dedicated to bringing the complete novel to life and had TALES OF THE BLACK FREIGHTER filmed separately as an animated short. The short follows the story from the comic extremely well. Also included on the DVD is the faux television newsmagazine, the Culpepper Minute, which takes a retrospective look at Hollis Mason and his best-selling memoir, “Under the Hood”. Great care was taken to put these features in their proper perspective of the greater world of WATCHMEN.

Tags: 300s, Adventurers, Comic Book Story, Comic Tales, Excitement, Freighter, Gerard Butler, Graphic Novel, Hollis Mason, Memoir, Nite Owls, Owls, Pirate, Proper Perspective, Saga, Theatrical Feature, Theyre, Turbulent Events, Watchmen Movie, World Stars

Unforgiven [Blu-ray] Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood’s 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. “The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western,” said Eastwood at the time of the film’s release. “The moral is the concern with gunplay.” To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission–to find the men who brutalized a prostitute–to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a corrupt sheriff (Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer feel the full impact of violence and its corruption of the soul. Dedicated to Eastwood’s mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel and featuring a colorful role for Richard Harris, it’s arguably Eastwood’s crowning directorial achievement. The digital video disc offers standard and widescreen formats and a remastered soundtrack. –Jeff Shannon
Customer Review: Excellent service , hasta Mexico
I always fan from Clin Eastwood Movies and here in Monterrey, Mexico is hard to find special editions , only under order and is always is the double priced. But this is my first buy from amazon and recomended a lot, the time arrival estimated was by 1 month , and i receive my DVD in only 4 days , amazing ,specially from this seller, SO have the security of you receive your product any place in Mexico or Latin America.
Gracias.
Customer Review: GREAT GIFR
MY SON WANTED THIS FOR THE LONGEST TIME. HE IS SO HAPPY WITH IT. GREAT MOVIE.

Tags: Amazon, Blu Ray Players, Clint Eastwood, Corrupt Sheriff, Digital Video Disc, Directorial Achievement, Discovery Channel, Don Siegel, Gene Hackman, Hog Farmer, Hunter Mission, Jaimz Woolvett, Jeff Shannon, Monterrey Mexico, Morgan Freeman, Motherless Children, Natural History Filmmaking, Remastered Soundtrack, Time Arrival, Widescreen Formats

Planet Earth – The Complete BBC Series [Blu-ray] As of its release in early 2007, Planet Earth is quite simply the greatest nature/wildlife series ever produced. Following the similarly monumental achievement of The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, this astonishing 11-part BBC series is brilliantly narrated by Sir David Attenborough and sensibly organized so that each 50-minute episode covers a specific geographical region and/or wildlife habitat (mountains, caves, deserts, shallow seas, seasonal forests, etc.) until the entire planet has been magnificently represented by the most astonishing sights and sounds you’ll ever experience from the comforts of home. The premiere episode, “From Pole to Pole,” serves as a primer for things to come, placing the entire series in proper context and giving a general overview of what to expect from each individual episode. Without being overtly political, the series maintains a consistent and subtle emphasis on the urgent need for ongoing conservation, best illustrated by the plight of polar bears whose very behavior is changing (to accommodate life-threatening changes in their fast-melting habitat) in the wake of global warming–a phenomenon that this series appropriately presents as scientific fact. With this harsh reality as subtext, the series proceeds to accentuate the positive, delivering a seemingly endless variety of natural wonders, from the spectacular mating displays of New Guinea’s various birds of paradise to a rare encounter with Siberia’s nearly-extinct Amur Leopards, of which only 30 remain in the wild.

That’s just a hint of the marvels on display. Accompanied by majestic orchestral scores by George Fenton, every episode is packed with images so beautiful or so forcefully impressive (and so perfectly photographed by the BBC’s tenacious high-definition camera crews) that you’ll be rendered speechless by the splendor of it all. You’ll see a seal struggling to out-maneuver a Great White Shark; swimming macaques in the Ganges delta; massive flocks of snow geese numbering in the hundreds of thousands; an awesome night-vision sequence of lions attacking an elephant; the Colugo (or “flying lemur”–not really a lemur!) of the Philippines; a hunting alliance of fish and snakes on Indonesia’s magnificent coral reef; the bioluminescent “vampire squid” of the deep oceans… these are just a few of countless highlights, masterfully filmed from every conceivable angle, with frequent use of super-slow-motion and amazing motion-controlled time-lapse cinematography, and narrated by Attenborough with his trademark combination of observational wit and informative authority. The result is a hugely entertaining series that doesn’t flinch from the predatory realities of nature (death is a constant presence, without being off-putting), and each episode ends with 10-minute “Planet Earth Diaries” (exclusive to this DVD set) that cover a specific aspect of production, like “Diving with Pirahnas” or “Into the Abyss” (the latter showing the rigors of filming the planet’s most spectacular caves, including the last filming ever officially permitted in the “Chandelier Ballroom,” a crystal-encrusted cavern found over a mile deep in New Mexico’s treacherous Lechuguilla, the deepest cave in the continental United States.)

With so many of Earth’s natural wonders on display, it’s only fitting that the final DVD in this five-disc set is devoted to Planet Earth: The Future, a separate three-part series in which a global array of experts is assembled to discuss issues of conservation, protection of delicate ecosystems, and the socio-economic benefits of understanding nature as a commodity that returns trillions of dollars in value at no cost to Earth’s human population. At a time when the multiple threats of global warming should be obvious to all, let’s give Sir David the last word, from the closing of Planet Earth’s final episode: “We can now destroy or we can cherish–the choice is ours.” –Jeff Shannon

More Planet Earth

The BBC High-Definition Natural History Collection, featuring Planet Earth

Planet Earth on DVD

More BBC DVDs

Stills from Planet Earth (click for larger image)

Customer Review: Fantastic!
The Planet Earth DVD’s are unbelievable! There are few things we sit and watch entirely, but we don’t want to miss any of these DVD’s. We can’t even imagine the patience of the film crews. We really enjoy the ‘diaries’ following each sections, that tell how some parts were filmed. We’d recommend these to anyone – especially if you enjoy nature and want to learn more about this wonderful earth of ours!
Customer Review: Amazing!
The high definition cameras brings out the full potential of my blu-ray player. Great footage and very informative.

Tags: Amur Leopards, Bbc Series, Birds Of Paradise, Blue Planet Seas Of Life, Endless Variety, George Fenton, Great White Shark, Monumental Achievement, Orchestral Scores, Planet Earth, Polar Bears, Pole To Pole, Premiere Episode, Proper Context, Rare Encounter, Seasonal Forests, Shallow Seas, Sir David Attenborough, Subtle Emphasis, Wildlife Series

South Pacific [Blu-ray]

For its Blu-ray release, South Pacific underwent a complete photochemical restoration of its original 65mm negative, and underwent an 8k high definition scan of the brand new interpositive.  For the first time in high definition, you can enjoy Leon Shamroy’s widescreen photography of the Hawaiian locations and be dazzled by director Joshua Logan’s famous filtered sequences.  The original soundtrack will, for the first time ever, be presented in uncompressed, Lossless DTS audio.

Tags: Batman Anthology, Batman Forever, Batman Michael Keaton, Batman Returns, Brazzi, Color Filters, Danny Devito, Dark Knight, Disk 1, Gaynor, Hawaiian Locations, Jack Nicholson, Joshua Logan, Kim Basinger, Lossless, Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Original Soundtrack, Pacific Blu, Theatrical Version

Vicky Cristina Barcelona [Blu-ray] It must be true that getting out of town can do a fellow a lot of good, because Vicky Cristina Barcelona is the best movie Woody Allen has made in years. Okay, you’re right, 2006’s Match Point already claimed that honor and, as Allen’s first film made in England, established the virtues of getting away from overfamiliar territory (namely Manhattan). But the Woodman’s first film made in Spain matches the ice-cold Match Point for crisp authority, and yields a good deal more sheer pleasure besides. Rebecca Hall (Vicky) and Scarlett Johansson (Cristina) play two young Americans, best friends, spending a summer in Catalonia. Vicky is going for a master’s in “Catalan identity” (though her Spanish is shaky); Cristina is going along for, oh, just about anything. That soon includes celebrated abstract artist Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), who’s anything but abstract in his forthright proposition that the two join him in his private plane, his travels, and his bed. That he has an insane ex-wife, Maria Elena (Penélope Cruz), who may or may not have tried to kill him is not really an issue until the wife reappears and … well, consider the possibilities.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona isn’t exactly a comedy, at least not in the manner of Allen’s “early, funny ones,” but it’s informed by a rueful wit that finds its fullest expression in reflective voiceover commentary. Spoken by Christopher Evan Welch, but surely on behalf of the 73-year-old auteur, this element of the film is neither (as some have charged) patronizing nor uncinematic; rather, it’s integral to the movie’s participation in a venerable European literary tradition, the sentimental education. Instead of Bergman or Fellini, this time Allen is invoking the François Truffaut of Jules and Jim and Eric Rohmer in his many meditations on the game of love. The entire cast is terrific (both Hall and Johansson get to play “the Woody part” at different points), with Bardem and Cruz especially delightful as exemplars of Old Worldliness. Cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe honors every drop of Catalonian sunlight and glint of Gaudí architecture. –Richard T. Jameson

Tags: Abstract Artist, Eric Rohmer, Espe, European Literary Tradition, Fellini, Francois Truffaut, Javier Bardem, Jules And Jim, Maria Elena, Match Point, PenéLope Cruz, Play Two, Private Plane, Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Sentimental Education, Sheer Pleasure, Wife Maria, Woodman, Woody Allen

Zack and Miri Make a Porno [Blu-ray] Fans of writer/director Kevin Smith (auteur of Dogma and Chasing Amy) should run to see Zack and Miri Make a Porno–the adored filmmaker has clearly made this with his hardcore following in mind. Zack (Seth Rogen, Knocked Up) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks, Slither) are longtime friends and housemates who, after their power and water get shut off, turn to pornography to pay their bills. After assembling a cheerful and perhaps dimwitted cast and crew, the hapless pair launch into their cynical yet heartwarming scheme with enthusiasm, only to discover–spoiler alert!–that they have feelings for each other. Smith clearly wanted to make a sex comedy with heart, something in the vein of The 40 Year Old Virgin. Unfortunately, Zack and Miri Make a Porno combines the mawkish, formulaic sentimentality of Jersey Girl with the belabored, formulaic sex gags of Clerks II. For a movie that clearly hearkens back to Smith’s own experiences making the beloved and archetypally cheap-and-dirty Clerks, Zack and Miri Make a Porno is sadly generic and predictable. But Smith’s fanbase will appreciate that the movie has snarky jokes about science fiction, a good dose of bare breasts (and two actual porn stars, Traci Lords and Katie Morgan), and the schlubby guy/hot chick dynamic that drives a thousand sitcoms. –Bret Fetzer
Customer Review: disappointing.
OK, so RAUNCH and lack of morals… OK we all know that.

Tags: Bare Breasts, Chasing Amy, Clerks Ii, Director Kevin Smith, Elizabeth Banks, Fanbase, Hot Chick, Housemates, Jason Mewes, Jersey Girl, Justin Long, Katie Morgan, Kevin Smith, Longtime Friends, Porn Stars, Raunch, Sentimentality, Seth Rogen, Sex Comedy, Two Stars

Weeds – Season Three [Blu-ray] Weeds: Season Three continues the dark line of comedy that emerged in the previous season for this Showtime series. The story picks up exactly where it left off, with Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) faced with a half-dozen guns pointing at her in her own kitchen, while an Armenian gang and Nancy’s buyer, U-Turn (Page Kennedy), both demand she turn over her entire stash of marijuana (worth several hundred thousand dollars). Problem is, the pot is in the trunk of on-again, off-again friend Celia (Elizabeth Perkins), whose car has been stolen by Nancy’s oldest son, Silas (Hunter Parrish). Silas wants in on mom’s business, but his timing couldn’t be worse as Celia and a police officer show up to reclaim the car while Nancy is still at gunpoint. The fallout from all this is that Nancy ends up working for U-Turn to repay her debt to him, a dangerous relationship that sends Nancy down a rabbit hole of underworld threats and violence. Meanwhile, Celia gets booted out of her home by her husband and becomes estranged from her young daughter, Isabelle (Allie Grant), who insists she’s a lesbian. Celia rebounds a bit when a corrupt developer (Matthew Modine) gives her a house in exchange for her support on city council for one of his schemes. That goes wrong, too, when Celia allows Nancy, Doug (Kevin Nealon), and Conrad (Romany Malco), all of whom go into business after U-Turn stops being a problem, to put their endangered trove of marijuana plants in her house. Nancy’s other son, Shane (Alexander Gould), claims he can see and talk to the ghost of Nancy’s late husband, and Nancy’s brother-in-law Andy (Justin Kirk) goes AWOL from the U.S. Army after his comrade is deliberately killed in an experimental missile test. As always, it’s one thing after another on Weeds, and the blend of humor and suspense is uniquely compelling. Parker and the rest of the cast pull off some pretty surreal situations with great credibility. The show’s lead star, particularly, can carry moments of blended terror and comedy: one of the season’s most memorable moments finds Nancy forced to put on a sexy dance for a group of drug dealers in order to pick up a package U-Turn requires. The scene is humiliating, frightening, sexy, and comical all at once. Few actresses could have pulled it off, but Parker does. –Tom Keogh
Customer Review: Previously . . . on Weeds
In our last episode (of the 2nd season), Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) and her confreres were surrounded by gun-wielding competitors, a cliffhanger finale that demanded curious fans tune in for the solution. Weeds – Season Three [Blu-ray] picks up right smack in the middle of the nail-biting scenario, which was solved in a very believable way while setting the wheels in motion for events that follow. Along the way, there are a few more developments from other predicaments. Nancy seems on the verge of losing it at times, yet always survives with bedraggled grace and concessions to various foils here and there. The third season never got quite as dark as the previous season, and Nancy has grown more confident from all the scrapes she’s endured. She deals with things more directly, and lays it down more often on her own terms. On the less appealing side, sometimes the eccentricities of some of the other characters became a substitute for truly inventive writing, and seemed almost like a condescension to an audience the writers suspect might not notice the difference. But for the most part, it’s still a series with a lot of hooks that kept me looking forward to whatever came next. We watched the entire season in two days.

Tags: Alexander Gould, Allie Grant, Dangerous Relationship, Elizabeth Perkins, Gunpoint, Hunter Parrish, Justin Kirk, Kevin Nealon, Marijuana Plants, Mary Louise Parker, Matthew Modine, Missile Test, Nancy Botwin, Page Kennedy, Rabbit Hole, Romany Malco, Shane Alexander, Showtime Series, Son Shane, U Turn

Punisher: War Zone (2-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray] Punisher: War Zone cannot be adequately described as “over the top”–it’s a relentless catalogue of brutal mayhem punctuated, here and there, with outrageous sentimentality. Frank Castle, a.k.a. The Punisher (Ray Stevenson, Rome) has dedicated his life to killing the kind of gangsters who murdered his family. But when he unknowingly kills an undercover FBI agent, Castle falls into a crisis of conscience and decides to lay down his guns. Unfortunately, one of the last gangsters he thought he’d killed survived, albeit horribly disfigured, and seeks revenge on the wife and daughter of that slain FBI agent–so Castle has to go one last spree of vigilante justice! But this plot summary will not prepare you for the jolting violence of Punisher: War Zone; rarely do more than a few minutes go by without startling physical savagery, particularly to people’s heads, which get blown apart with numbing frequency. This violence somehow goes hand in hand with dizzyingly saccharine moments when a young girl gazes at Castle with trusting eyes, knowing in her heart that he’s the only one who can protect her. The dialogue goes beyond cliche into tough guy baroque. Stevenson underplays Castle to good effect, because everyone else in the movie–including Dominic West (The Wire), Doug Hutchison (The Green Mile), and Wayne Knight (Seinfeld)–chews the scenery like it’s slathered with gravy. Some viewers will find this movie revolting; others will worship it like a golden calf. You probably know where you stand. –Bret Fetzer

Customer Review: Ray Stevenson IS Frank Castle… NO QUESTION!
To all of you naysayers complaining about this film adaptation. None of you have any idea what you are talking about because you obviously have no idea who the Punisher is. You may think you do, but you do not. With that being said…

Tags: Chews The Scenery, Crisis Of Conscience, Dominic West, Doug Hutchison, Film Adaptation, Frank Castle, Gangsters, Golden Calf, Green Mile, Naysayers, Plot Summary, Ray Stevenson Rome, Savagery, Seinfeld, Sentimentality, Tough Guy, Trusting Eyes, Undercover Fbi Agent, War Zone, Wayne Knight

Rambo 1-3 Boxset [Blu-ray] Customer Review: Great set
Bought this blue ray set for $18. Revenge, one man defeating armies, machine guns, big knives, things blowing up. All in high def picture and sound. What’s not to love.
Customer Review: Great value for 3 films in HD
This is a great value for 3 highdef films. They look and sound great on bluray, and a fan of the series should pick this up in a second.

Tags: Alien Robot, Blu Ray Movies, Blue Ray, Bluray, Cheap Blu Ray Movies, Counterpoint, High Def, Highdef, Home Video Release, Human Heart, John Cusack, Knives, Machine Guns, Michael Bay, Rambo 1, Rambo 3, Sam Witwicky, Shia Labeouf, Transformers, Warner Home Video

The 400 Blows [Blu-ray] The knowing yet innocent face of Jean-Pierre Leaud, the 14-year-old star of The 400 Blows, is the heartbreaking core of Francois Truffaut’s most intimate film. As Antoine Doinel, Leaud begins his career as director Truffaut’s alter-ego, a young boy neglected by his mother and stepfather who, to cover his absence at school, tells a lie that leads him to run away from home and end up in reform school. There’s nothing remarkable or surprising about the plot; the power of this film comes from how completely it draws you into Antoine’s life. Antoine is a vivid, natural presence, one of the most compelling collaborations between a writer/director and an actor. The movie seems to capture him as he lives. Antoine endures his parent’s indifference, humiliations at school, deprivation and juvenile delinquency–yet the movie never feels pitying or condescending, as if it were trying to rub your nose in Antoine’s suffering. On the contrary: His resilience is what grabs you, his refusal to be broken down as he struggles towards a more adult understanding of the world. Truffaut and Leaud made many excellent films together (Day for Night, Two English Girls), including further chapters in Antoine’s life (Bed and Board, Stolen Kisses), but none were quite as simple, rich, and devastatingly potent as The 400 Blows. (The title, incidentally, refers not to abuse or anything sexual, but is a French idiom for a wild and unruly youth or “raising hell.”) –Bret Fetzer
Customer Review: A film that will literally blow you away…
In all my movie watching and movie reviewing I tend to praise a lot of work. As you glance over my past reviews (if you so chose to ever do so) you will see a lot of `five-star’ or `Grade A’ reviews, yet in all honesty there are rarely times when I am so enamored by a film I am moved to claim it a masterpiece. Sure, I may say that a film is a genre masterpiece (I think I made that claim when speaking of `The Dark Knight’) but for a film to transcend genre and become a clear and present masterpiece of film it has to have that extra something that is rarely found in films; that extra connective tissue that links its importance, its soul to our soul and thus becomes a part of us.

Tags: 400 Blows, Alter Ego, Antoine Doinel, Collaborations, Dark Knight, Francois Truffaut, Grabs, Honesty, Indifference, Innocent Face, Jean Pierre Leaud, Juvenile Delinquency, Kisses, Masterpiece, Natural Presence, Old Star, Raising Hell, Resilience, Two English Girls, Writer Director