Extreme Action 3-Pack (Live Free or Die Hard / Ronin / The Siege) [Blu-ray]

Extreme Action 3-Pack (Live Free or Die Hard / Ronin / The Siege) [Blu-ray] Review

Specs:		Audio: English: 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio, 5.1 Dolby Surround / Spanish: Dolby Surround, 5.1 Dolby Surround / French: 5.1 Dolby Surround, 5.1 Dolby Digital Language: Dubbed & Subtitled: English, French & Spanish Theatrical Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 2.35:1
Episodes-Bonus Features:		Disc 1: Live Free Or Die Hard Blu-ray Disc 2: Ronin Blu-ray Disc 3: The Siege Blu-ray

The Notebook [Blu-ray]

The Notebook [Blu-ray] Review

The Notebook [Blu-ray] Feature

• Condition: New
• Format: Blu-ray
• Color; Dolby; Subtitled; Widescreen

When you consider that old-fashioned tearjerkers are an endangered species in Hollywood, a movie like The Notebook can be embraced without apology. Yes, it's syrupy sweet and clogged with clichés, and one can only marvel at the irony of Nick Cassavetes directing a weeper that his late father John--whose own films were devoid of saccharine sentiment--would have sneered at. Still, this touchingly impassioned and great-looking adaptation of the popular Nicholas Sparks novel has much to recommend, including appealing young costars (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) and appealing old costars (James Garner and Gena Rowlands, the director's mother) playing the same loving couple in (respectively) early 1940s and present-day North Carolina. He was poor, she was rich, and you can guess the rest; decades later, he's unabashedly devoted, and she's drifting into the memory-loss of senile dementia. How their love endured is the story preserved in the titular notebook that he reads to her in their twilight years. The movie's open to ridicule, but as a delicate tearjerker it works just fine.Message in a Bottle and A Walk to Remember were also based on Sparks novels, suggesting a triple-feature that hopeless romantics will cherish. --Jeff Shannon In a nursing home, an elderly man reads to an elderly woman, telling her a story about young lovers who are separated by the girl’s disapproving parents, then get an unexpected second chance to find happiness. As he reads, the story weaves a spell, taking reader and listener into a romantic realm that transcends time and place. Based on Nicholas Sparks’ bestseller and starring Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner and Gena Rowlands, The Notebook lifts viewers out of the ordinary with beauty, tenderness and an unshakeable belief that love can create miracles. SPECIAL FEATURES • 2 Commentaries: Director Nick Cassavetes and Novelist Nicholas Sparks • Deleted Scenes • 4 Featurettes: • All in the Family: Nick Cassavetes • Nicholas Sparks: A Simple Story, Well Told • Southern Exposure: Locating The Notebook • Casting Rachel and Ryan • Rachel McAdams Screen Test • Theatrical Trailer

Spears & Munsil High-Definition Benchmark Blu-ray Disc Edition [Blu-ray]

Spears & Munsil High-Definition Benchmark Blu-ray Disc Edition [Blu-ray] Review

Spears & Munsil High-Definition Benchmark Blu-ray Disc Edition [Blu-ray] Feature

• Calibration patterns for all major display controls
• Evaluation patterns for measuring display and player quality
• Clips to test deinterlacing performance
• Samples of different video and audio codecs
• All patterns created at 1080p in native color space using custom software

Stacey Spears and Don Munsil, who created the highly-regarded DVD Player BenchmarkTM and Progressive Scan Shootout at Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity®, have applied all their technical wizardry to this Blu-ray test and evaluation disc. "The static test patterns represent the current state-of-the-art. They are more accurate than the test patterns found on previous discs. There are a lot of subtle details that go into making them as mathematically accurate as possible, especially since you are dealing with lossy encoding. We have built propriety tools to generate the synthetic patterns. We use a custom encoder that will preserve as much detail as possible. Even the simple color bars have unique traits that make them cleaner. - Stacey Spears, author of the disc" [Picture Quality Calibration and Evaluation Tool for Displays, Blu-ray Players and Video Processors] (IMPORTANT NOTICE: This disc is a high-definition disc and is compatible only with Blu-ray players. It will not play on a standard DVD player.)

Home Alone (Family Fun Edition) [Blu-ray]

Home Alone (Family Fun Edition) [Blu-ray] Review

Features include:

•MPAA Rating: PG
•Format: Blu-Ray
•Runtime: 103 minutes

Disney WOW: World of Wonder [Blu-ray]

Disney WOW: World of Wonder [Blu-ray] Review

The Disney WOW World of Wonder Disc is a definitive "how to" guide for in-home High Definition (HD) optimization of home entertainment systems featuring the help of classic Disney character GOOFY and including HD demonstration clips from popular Disney titles including Toy Story, Up, Bolt and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. The easy to follow on-screen guide is designed to help consumers get the best quality experience from their home theater systems by providing everyone from beginners and enthusiasts to experts and custom installers alike with valuable high quality calibration tools.

A Christmas Story [Blu-ray]

A Christmas Story [Blu-ray] Review

A Christmas Story [Blu-ray] Feature

• Condition: New
• Format: Blu-ray
• Color

CHRISTMAS STORY - Blu-Ray Movie

Sherlock Holmes [Blu-ray]

Sherlock Holmes [Blu-ray] Review

Sherlock Holmes [Blu-ray] Feature

• SHERLOCK HOLMES BLU-RAY (BLU-RAY DISC)

Guy Ritchie (Snatch, RocknRolla) attempts to reinvent one of the world's most iconic literary figures as an action hero in this brawny, visually arresting period adventure. Robert Downey Jr. is an intriguing choice for the Great Detective, and if he occasionally murmurs his lines a pitch or two out of hearing range, his trademark bristling energy and off-kilter humor do much to sell Ritchie's notion of Holmes. Jude Law is equally well-equipped as a more active Dr. Watson--he's closer to Robert Duvall's vigorous portrayal in The Seven Per-Cent Solution than to Nigel Bruce--and together, they make for an engaging team. Too bad the plot they're thrust into is such a mess--a bustling and disorganized flurry of martial arts, black magic, and overwhelming set pieces centered around Mark Strong's Crowley-esque cult leader (no Professor Moriarty, he), who returns from the grave to exact revenge. Downey and Law's amped-up Holmes and Watson are built for the challenge of riding this roller coaster with the audience; however, Rachel McAdams as Holmes's love interest, Irene Adler (here a markedly different character than the one in Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Scandal in Bohemia"), and Kelly Reilly as Mary Morstan, the future Mrs. Watson, are cast to the wind in the wake of Ritchie's hurricane pace. One can imagine this not sitting well with ardent Sherlockians; all others may find this Sherlock Holmes marvelous if calorie-free popcorn entertainment, with the CGI rendering of Victorian-era London particularly appealing eye candy. --Paul Gaita The hangman did his job, Dr. Watson declared the condemned man dead...yet Lord Blackwood has emerged from the tomb to assert his deadly will over 1890 London. Is he in league with the forces of hell itself? Is the whole Empire in peril? It's a mystery macabre--and only Sherlock Holmes can master it.

Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law put memorable imprints on Holmes and Watson in this bold new reimagining that makes the legendary sleuth a daring man of action as well as a peerless man of intellect. Baffling clues, astonishing Holmesian deductions, nimble repartee, catch-your-breath scenes of one slam thing after another--director Guy Ritchie helms the excitement reintroducing the great detective to the world. Meet the new Sherlock Holmes!

Constantine [Blu-ray]

Constantine [Blu-ray] Review

Constantine [Blu-ray] Feature

• Based on the DC Comics/Vertigo Hellblazer graphic novels and written by Kevin Brodbin and Frank Cappello, Constantine tells the story of John Constantine (Keanu Reeves), a man who has literally been to hell and back. When he teams up with skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson (Rachel Weisz) to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons

In the grand scheme of theological thrillers, Constantine aspires for the greatness of The Exorcist but ranks more closely with The Order. Based on the popular Hellblazer comic book series, and directed with nary a shred of intelligence by music video veteran Francis Lawrence, it's basically The Matrix with swarming demons instead of swarming machines. Keanu Reeves slightly modifies his Matrix persona as John Constantine, who roams the dark-spots of Los Angeles looking for good-evil, angel-devil half-breeds to ensure that "the balance" between God and Satan is properly maintained. An ancient artifact and the detective twin of a woman who committed evil-induced suicide (Rachel Weisz) factor into the plot, which is taken so seriously that you'll want to stand up and cheer when Tilda Swinton swoops down as the cross-dressing angel Gabriel and turns this silliness into the camp-fest it really is. The digital effects are way cool (dig those hellspawn with the tops of their heads lopped off!), so if you don't mind a juvenile lesson in pseudo-Catholic salvation, Constantine is just the movie for you! --Jeff Shannon Bluray Disc

Rambo: Two Pack (First Blood II / Rambo III) [Blu-ray]

Rambo: Two Pack (First Blood II / Rambo III) [Blu-ray] Review

Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 11/23/2010

In the of Line Fire / The Devil's Own (Two-Pack) [Blu-ray]

In the of Line Fire / The Devil's Own (Two-Pack) [Blu-ray] Review

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 10/05/2010