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20th Century Fox has released its latest family fun movie, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, on DVD and Blu-ray. Mr. Popper’s Penguins is a movie loosely based on a 1938 book. The movie stars Jim Carrey as Thomas Popper, a divorced father who is a successful entrepreneur/realtor with a stilted and awkward relationship with his kids and ex-wife (Carla Gugino), and definite daddy issues. When a box [...]
Thirty-five years after its initial release, Flatiron Film Company releases Blue Sunshine on DVD. Blue Sunshine was written and directed by Jeff Lieberman, known for his work on Squirm the year before and the TV series ‘Til Death Do Us Part in 2006. Blue Sunshine is an approximately 90 minute long psychedelic trip masquerading as a horror movie. Blue Sunshine is premised on the theory [...]
20th Century Fox has released another 2011 Sundance movie, The Art of Getting By, on Blu-ray. The Art of Getting By stars Freddie Highmore as George, a disillusioned high school senior who lives with the belief that if everyone dies alone, why bother looking for someone along the way. Things change, of course, when he happens to notice Sally (Emma Roberts), another disillusioned, but more [...]
The Last Mountain, the latest DVD released by Docuramafilms, is a roughly hour and a half documentary over the plight of a small town trying to protect the last intact mountain, Coal River Mountain, in the Appalachians of West Virginia from a coal company who have taken up mountain top blasting. The Last Mountain premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and now is being [...]
20th Century Fox is releasing the Sundance Film Festival hit, Another Earth, on Blu-ray. Another Earth is the little movie, filmed on miniscule resources, that blew audiences, including myself, away. Starring William Mapother, whom you may know from Lost, and Brit Marling, who both starred and co-wrote the movie, Another Earth explores the possiblity that a second earth could give you new possibilities and a [...]
TRUE ADOLESCENTS, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in 2009, is now available for the first time on DVD. True Adolescents stars Mark Duplass (The Puffy Chair) as Sam, an aging and hapless musician who is still hanging on to the dream of obtaining a recording contract. At 34 years old, with no job and no home, Sam is forced to face the truths [...]
HBO Documentary films has released on DVD, HOT COFFEE, a documentary that was shown at the Sundance Film Festival and received the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle Film Festival. Hot Coffee revisits the infamous McDonald’s coffee spilling case, the results of the lawsuit, and the ramifications in the legal world and to other victims. Everyone has heard of the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit. I remember [...]
Recently released on Blu-ray is MONTE CARLO, the story of three girls finding the answers to life in an overseas adventure. Selena Gomez stars as Grace, a recent high school graduate and part time waitress, who has saved her hard earned tips for a week long trip to Paris after graduation. Grace thinks she can find the answers to life in the City of Love. [...]
New to DVD is BEAUTIFUL BOY, a movie starring Michael Sheen and Maria Bello, parents who are stunned to discover that their 18 year old son was behind a local college massacre where 17 people including professors, students and himself, were killed. What would you do if your only child committed one of the most horrific crimes? How would you handle the grief, the media, [...]
Almost 10 years after the first X-men film was relased, 20th Century Fox brings us the prequel to that series, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, for our DVD viewing pleasure. The premise behind X-Men: First Class is to tell the beginning of the story. As X-Men fans are aware, the first film starts with Xavier and Magneto as enemies with two very different agendas, and with the [...]
