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Month: December 2010

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Blu-ray Review: The Town

 
Like a former high school football hero hoping to recapture his past glory by once again visiting his old school, Ben Affleck returns to his old neighborhood in South Boston. Except his old friends in The Town specialize in Bank Heists.  Now you can own The Town on Blu-ray!
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DVD Review: Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales

Christmas time is here, and with every holiday season comes the Peanuts Christmas specials. Every year, like clockwork, A Charlie Brown Christmas is aired on TV, or played in millions of households across the US, and even the world. The perennial classic has become synonymous with Christmas, and the country stops to sit down with family to watch it. In 1992, a new Christmas special is shown. It’s Christmas Time Again, Charlie Brown.In this special, we get to watch as the gang gears up for Christmas… and watch as Charlie Brown has to find a way to afford a present for his girlfriend, Peggy Jean. Starting in 2003, I Want A Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown premiered following Rerun and his quest for a dog for Christmas. But in 2002, a different kind of special for Peanuts came out. It was a series of vignettes dealing with what goes on for the gang during Christmas time.

Now you can own Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales on DVD!

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DVD Review: Inception

Imagine entering a lucid dream in which the rules of physical reality can be bent and broken, where a person’s subconscious is open for exploration, where their deepest secrets reside. Now imagine that you can use a vaguely-defined technology to infiltrate and extract those valuable secrets and sell them to the highest bidder. You’ve just looked into the world of Inception, The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster for 2010. Now you can own Inception on DVD!

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Blu-ray Review: Despicable Me

“IT’S SO FLUFFY!”

Gru is the greatest super Villain. Gru is evil. Gru is not your average neighbor. And Gru is definitely not the dad type; until now. This is the story of how three little orphaned girls, Margo, Edith and Agnes, found (in the most unlikely person), something they were searching for all their lives. Now you can own Despicable Me on Blu-ray!

Despicable Me finds Gru at a changing point of his life. Once the greatest villain on Earth, he finds himself taking a backseat to a new villain, Vector. To top it all off, his life gets turned upside down with the addition of these three little girls, thanks to one of his plans backfiring on him. However, in the process of trying to get his life back to what it once was, Gru finds that he can enjoy what his life has become.

Blu-ray Review: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

All the best babes dig mages.

What may have been inspired many years ago by a viewing of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” short in Disney’s classic Fantasia, has been fleshed out into a full feature film by the magic of Disney.

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DVD Review: Batman Beyond: The Complete Series

There will always be a need for Batman.

Do you ever wonder what the future will be like? Now you can stop wondering, because the story of the Dark Knight of the future is here: Batman Beyond: The Complete Series is now available on DVD! Batman Beyond tells the tale of Terry McGinnis and an elderly Bruce Wayne as the two take on criminals in this futuristic world of tomorrow! Taking place in the future of the DC Animated Universe, this series does a fantastic job at creating a new and dangerous world of villains for Terry to face, as well as acknowledging the vast history of the comics and prior DC Animated cartoons.

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Blu-ray Review: James Cameron’s Avatar 3-Disc Extended Collector’s Edition


I was born for this!

 

James Cameron doesn’t know how to do anything small and his previous successes as well as the new wrecking ball of cash that is Avatar have proven that.  Avatar was the highest grossing film of all time and as of this date, Avatar on Blu-ray is the highest selling Blu-ray of all time. While not 3D, 20th Century Fox brings us a sweet looking movie in this collection. The story of Jake Sully isn’t an original one, but I guarantee you’ll not find a better looking one.  

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Blu-ray Review: Metalocalypse: Season III: The Dead Man

Death, destruction, mayhem, and music. Those are the things most associated with the band Dethklok. Dethklok is the subject of an ancient Mesopotamian prophecy about the apocalypse, which has worried the government enough to create an organization, called The Tribunal, to prevent the oncoming apocalypse.  Dethklok is good at two things: playing Death Metal, and destroying everything. Only the metal is intentional, as playing music is the only real skill they have. Dethklok is basically a bunch of overgrown children. They can’t even run their own lives with success. This is why Charles Foster Ofdensen is hired; to manage the business end of things and keep their daily lives in order. Behind the scenes he seems to be manipulating events towards the apocalypse. Whether this is the case or not is yet to be seen….Welcome to Metalocalypse: Season III, which is now available on Blu-ray!