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Alternate Disc-Tractions: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on Blu-ray, DVD review
While the length and pacing may tire younger, modern viewers now used to more frenetic films, there is little reason to not get this on Blu-ray. It looks amazing, is packed with extra features and still a fun film at its core. It’s silly, sweet and worth watching again. Especially as an adult. Find out why…
Alternate Disc-Tractions: Toy Story 3 Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Download review
The most emotional and visually stunning of the three Toy Story films, this is also the the best of the bunch. So is it worthy bringing home? Well, of course it is. Find out why…
Alternate Disc-Tractions: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Download review
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a creative amalgam of pretty much everything cool. It takes a quirky manga story, features scads of video game style fight scenes and special effects and, with a dash of eclectic European movie sensibilities (I’d say French films but would not want to offend the director), creating a funky fun film about young love.
After seeing the movie and watching several hours of the extra features, I’m now a Scott Pilgrim fan (and you will be, too, assuming you are not already, of course)…
Alternate Disc-Tractions: Psycho 50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray
Alfred Hitchcock’s most properly titled psychological slasher film, Psycho (1960), is now available on Blu-ray with a new, digitally remastered audio track, just in time for Halloween.
Alternate Disc-Tractions: Beauty and the Beast Diamond Edition on Blu-ray, DVD
Disney brings one of its more modern classic fairytale animated features to high-def Blu-ray to the delight of fans everywhere. Digitally remastered and bundled as a three-disc set, this is pretty much the last version you’ll need to get. Until 3D holographic home theater systems become a reality.
Alternate Disc-Tractions: Prince of Persia The Sands of Time Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Download review
Based on the Prince of Persia video game series, the Prince of Persia The Sands of Time focuses on acrobatic Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal), the adopted “Prince” who is part of an invasion on a holy city when he happens to acquire a magical dagger, the Dagger of Time. It is a sacred object that can rewind time and is, o course, protected by sexy princess Tamania (Gemma Arterton) who spends much of the movie using trickery and sexual guile to otherwise reclaim the dagger.
The film certainly has respectable scope and vision and some decent acting yet sometimes becomes a bit awkward in terms of dialog and disjointed plot elements…
Alternate Disk-Tractions: Flash Gordon Blu-ray review
Flash Gordon is my favorite movie of all time. Easily. There’s no other movie that even comes close. But that doesn’t mean I feel it’s the best movie of all time. Obviously, it’s no Ben Hur or Citizen Kane…I think. I’ve never seen them. Who has the time to bother with that nonsense when you can just watch the football fight scene again?
Video Games Live performance to air July 2010 on PBS
Video Games Live, the concert series that features orchestras performing video game scores for a live audience, will be on television for the first time ever. Starting July 31, 2010, and continuing throughout August, PBS will air a 90-minute special that will include performances from a host of famous game franchises.
Alternate Disc-Tractions: The Lord of the Rings animated movie Blu-ray review
This dark and strange animated telling of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings by director Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat, American Pop, Wizards, Cool World) has been released to coincide with Blu-ray release of Peter Jackson ‘s live-action Lord of the Rings trilogy.
It’s a bit creepy, has a unique visual style and, being the first official LOTR film, certainly helped to set the tone for future adaptations. You definitelyneed to watch this (with an open mind)…
Alternate Disc-Tractions: The Lord of the Rings motion picture trilogy Blu-ray review
This may be one of the few sets that you pretty much need to own on Blu-ray. No other format does it justice. The scope of the scenes, the intensity of the imagery and the depth of the effects are made for high def.
Then again, this set *only* contains the Theatrical Editions…















