TYLER PERRY’S WHY DID I GET MARRIED TOO?
Rated PG-13
Tyler Perry, Sharon Leal, Janet Jackson, Malik Yoba, Jill Scott, Richard T. Jones
Updated August 31, 2010
In the sequel to Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married?, there are more marital woes and laughs in the movie Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?, now available on DVD and Blu-Ray™.
The entire cast from the original movie is reunited in the new film. The story is about a group of eight friends who take their annual reunion vacation together. This time the group of friends travels to the Bahamas.
A few things have changed since their last reunion. For one, Sheila (Jill Scott) is now married to someone new, and her ex-husband Mike (Richard T. Jones), as usual and despite being divorced from Sheila, is part of the Bahamas crew, and he is doing everything in his power to destroy his ex-wife’s new marriage.
As was the case in the original, the couples face and come to terms with a number of relationship issues. The film is a comedy/drama from super-successful director Tyler Perry, who as usual, has a role in a movie that contains his name in the title.
Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too? is rated PG-13 for sexual situations, rough language, drug references and some domestic violence.
THE BACK-UP PLAN
Rated PG-13
Jennifer Lopez, Alex O’Loughlin, Michaela Watkins, Noureen DeWulf, Melissa McCarthy, Linda Lavin
Imagine you’re a woman who is tired of waiting for the man of your dreams and you really want to start a family. So, you decide to move your situation along, without a man in your life. You choose to be artificially inseminated to start a family on your own.
And on the very same day, you meet the man of your dreams and fall in love.
That’s the premise for The Back-up Plan, now available on DVD and Blu-Ray™.
Jennifer Lopez stars as Zoe, who decides to take on motherhood alone and as fate would have it, she meets Stan (Alex O’Loughlin). Stan doesn’t know Zoe is pregnant, and Zoe will do just about anything to hide her pregnancy from him until she ropes him in.
The Back-Up Plan is rated PG-13 for some sexual content and references, along with crude a vulgar language. Running time is 1 hour and 38 minutes.
Extras on the DVD and Blu-Ray™ include deleted scenes and a short feature called “Belly Laughs: Making The Back-Up Plan”, which shows behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the movie.
THE LAST SONG
Rated PG
Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, Greg Kinnear, Kelly Preston, Bobby Coleman
Updated August 17, 2010
Music sensation Miley Cyrus had a summer hit on the big screen in the romance-drama The Last Song. The movie is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray™. The movie is based on the best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks.
Cyrus plays a teenager who goes to stay with her estranged father for the summer at a Southern U.S. beach town. She would prefer to stay at home in New York, but she reluctantly agrees to head south for the summer to be with her father.
During her time at the beach, family drama is a regular occurrence and a summer romance blossoms with Liam Hemsworth. But one thing may help to keep her and her father together: music.
The Last Song is directed by Julie Ann Robinson. The movie is rated PG for some violence and sensuality along with some mild rough language.
Extras on the DVD and Blu-Ray™ include commentary from the cast and crew and a behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of the movie.
DATE NIGHT
Rated PG-13
Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Mark Wahlberg, Taraji P. Henson, Jimmi Simpson
In Date Night, Tina Fey and Steve Carell play Claire and Phil Foster, a married couple who live in the suburbs of New Jersey, who are very determined to get some spice back in their romantic lives.
So, the couple begins a weekly “date night” at a local tavern, hopefully to enjoy meaningful conversation…something that is lacking at the dinner table of their suburban home.
Soon however it becomes apparent the couple’s date night out is no different than their boring, uneventful evenings at home. In addition, their date nights do not result in romance back home. Things between the two are as stale as they’ve ever been.
So, it’s time to go to plan B…or is that plan C or D? Instead of going to the local tavern, the couple decides on a night out in the big city at the hottest new restaurant in town. They put themselves on a stand-by reservation list, and after growing tired of waiting for a table, assume the identity of another couple…a couple that just happens to be a pair of thieves on the run from the cops and dangerous thugs.
After the case of mistaken identity, and because of the pairing of two of Hollywood’s biggest comedy stars, you just know…hilarity ensues!
Date Night is rated PG-13 for sexual and crude content, rough language, some violence and a drug reference. The movie is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray™. Extras include deleted scenes, a gag reel, an extended version of the movie, along with alternate scenes and 2 featurettes.
CLASH OF THE TITANS
Rated PG-13
Sam Worthington, Gemma Arterton, Mads, Mikkelsen, Alexa Davalos, Jason Flemyng, Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson
In the action movie Clash of the Titans, men, kings and gods face the ultimate struggle against each other, but the problems amongst the gods could end up destroying the world.
The movie is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray™.
Born a god, but raised a man, Zeus’ son Perseus is unable to save his family from Hades, a vengeful god from the underworld.
Even so, Perseus volunteers to lead a danger-filled mission to defeat Hades before he can take away power from Zeus, who wants to unleash hell on earth.
Perseus also seeks to save Princess Andromeda by completing various assignments set forth by Zeus which include capturing Pegasus and killing Medusa.
Clash of the Titans is rated PG-13 for fantasy action violence, scary images and brief sensuality. Running time is 1 hour and 50 minutes. The movie is directed by Louis Leterrier. The Blu-Ray™ features an exclusive alternate ending.
COP OUT
Rated PG-13
Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Seann William Scott, Adam Brody, Kevin Pollack
Here comes another cop buddy movie! This one stars Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan who play two longtime New York City police officers. Cop Out is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray.
In Cop Out, the two men team up to hunt for a very rare, stolen baseball card. You can imagine this must be one expensive baseball card!
However, there’s one major problem in addition to finding the stolen baseball card and bringing the thief to justice: The thief is a ruthless gangster who is obsessed with baseball memorabilia and will stop at nothing to keep it.
Cop Out is a comedy that is rated R for pervasive rough language, sexual references and violence.
Running time is 1 hour and 50 minutes.
DVD extras includes behind the scenes footage and bloopers.
THE BOUNTY HUNTER
Rated PG-13
Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler, Jeff Garlin, Jason Sudeikis, Christine Baranski, Ritchie Coster
It’s the battle of the sexes and the battle of the exes in the movie The Bounty Hunter, now available on DVD and Blu-Ray™.
Jennifer Aniston plays Nicole, a bail-jumping reporter who is on the run. Her ex-husband Milo (Gerard Butler) is a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter who is hired to track her down.
Milo thinks this will be a piece of cake, and that he can’t believe his luck in getting hired to bounty hunt for his ex-wife.
But with Nicole, as Milo found out during their marriage, things are never easy. Milo obviously catches up to Nicole, but that’s when the shenanigans begin.
Eventually both of them are on the run for their lives.
The Bounty Hunter is rated PG-13 for sexual content, suggestive comments, rough language and some violence. Running time is 1 hour and 46 minutes.
Rated R
John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Crispin Glover
Think of it as The Hangover meets Back to the Future with a hot tub and a lot of raunchiness thrown in.
Hot Tub Time Machine, which does boast one of the strangest movie titles in quite some time, is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray™.
The movie is about a group of buddies who have become bored with their lives. There’s the guy whose girlfriend just dumped him. The party animal that nobody wants to party with. The guy with a controlling wife. And the video game junkie.
The group decides to head to a ski resort for some skiing and après ski fun. And fun they indeed find. A little too much fun perhaps?
The group of friends spends an entire night drinking heavily in the ski resort hot tub. They wake up the next morning to find themselves in 1986. Hilarity ensues.
Hot Tub Time Machine is rated R for sexual content, rough language, nudity and drug use. Running time is 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Rated R
Matt Damon, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Antoni Corone, Nicoye Banks
Movie star Matt Damon is going rogue! At least he is in the movie Green Zone, now available on DVD and Blu-Ray™.
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, rouge Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert.
Going from one dangerous situation to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon a very sneaky cover-up that changes the direction of their mission.
Green Zone is rated R violence and rough language.
Rated R
Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow
One of the winter’s biggest hits at the box office has scared its way onto DVD and Blu-Ray™.
In Shutter Island, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a U.S. Marshal who teams up with another Marshall (Mark Ruffalo) to solve a mystery on an island off Boston, Massachusetts. The two travel to the island to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane.
While on the island, the two men encounter a whole host of scary events, including deceitful residents, a hurricane and a deadly riot involving inmates. Eventually, they become trapped on this very spooky island.
Oscar winner Ben Kingsley plays Dr. Cawley, who is the hospital’s chief physician, is the reluctant host of the two marshals. Kingsley seems to know more about the hospital’s secrets than he’s letting on.
Martin Scorsese is the director of the film.
Shutter Island is rated R for disturbing violence, some nudity and rough language. Running time is 2 hours and 18 minutes.
Rated R
John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Richard Durden
John Travolta plays a cocky, trigger happy special agent in the action movie From Paris With Love. The movie is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray™.
Travolta, sporting a bald head, is a U.S. soldier-turned special agent named Charlie Wax, who is sent to Paris to stop a rumored terrorist attack about to go down.
Charlie teams up with young James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a low-ranking intelligence operative, who has no idea what he is getting himself into. James soon realizes he is in way over his head.
Despite Charlie’s near-crazy antics, James knows he must depend on Charlie, not only for advice, but to stay alive.
From Paris With Love is rated R for bloody violence throughout the movie, drug use and some sexuality. Running time is 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Extras on the Blu-Ray™ include a picture-in-picture commentary from director Pierre Morel and behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the movie.
Rated PG-13
Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, Henry Thomas, D.J. Cotrona II
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were the motivation for many men and women to either enlist or re-enlist in the military.
The new movie Dear John, which is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray™, is just such a story.
Channing Tatum plays a soldier who on a leave falls in love with a local college girl (Amanda Seyfried). But after his tour of duty is up, the terrorist attacks of September 11th happen. Instead of returning home to be with her, he re-enlists in the military.
The time away from each other and having a long distance romance begins to take a toll on the young lovers. Will they be able to save their relationship?
Dear John is rated PG-13 for some sensuality and violence. Running time is 1 hour and 42 minutes.
DVD extras include deleted scenes, an alternate ending, along with conversations with the film’s stars.
Rated PG-13
Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman, Marguerite Wheatley, Tony Kgoroge
Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman team up for the movie Invictus, now available on DVD and Blu-ray™.
Invictus is the true story of how South Africa’s Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) enlists the help and joins forces with the captain of the South African rugby team (Matt Damon) to help unite their troubled country.
Mandela, who is struggling for acceptance amongst non-blacks during apartheid, believes he can bring his country’s troubled people together through the universal language of sport.
Mandela rallies the team and it pays off, as the team makes a jaw-dropping magical run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match. When it comes to sport, you just gotta join together to love a winner no matter what your background, no matter the color of your skin.
Eventually, the challenge for Mandela is to see how he can help South Africa hold onto its collective admiration for its rugby team and get along better in everyday life.
Invictus is directed by Clint Eastwood. Extras on the DVD and Blu-Ray™ include footage of a meeting between Nelson Mandela and Morgan Freeman. The movie is rated PG-13 for brief strong language.
Rated R
Mel Gibson, William Monahan, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston
In the thriller Edge of Darkness, Mel Gibson plays Thomas Craven, a homicide detective for the Boston Police Department. When his 24-year old daughter is murdered on the steps of his house, he thinks the killer or killers were actually after him, that it was a case of his daughter being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Turns out he was wrong, as he soon learns that his daughter indeed was the target.
Craven embarks on a solo mission to find out why she was murdered.
He learns that his daughter had a secret life, and his investigation leads into a world of corporate cover-ups, government collusion and murder.
Craven also learns a lot about himself, in a journey of emotional discovery and redemption.
Edge of Darkness is rated R for bloody violence and rough language. Running time is 1 hour and 56 minutes. The movie is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray™.
Rated PG-13
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldan, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez
From director James Cameron (Alien, Titanic), Avatar takes you to a spectacular world beyond imagination. Stunning visuals, colors and creatures make up this mind-blowing planet.
When the movie played in theaters, you could choose to see it in 3-D or 2-D. The jury is out on how it will be received in non-3-D form, on smaller screens in living rooms around America.
The story involves a reluctant hero who embarks on an epic adventure, in which he fights to save the alien world he has become a part of. His name is Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a former marine now confined to a wheelchair. But, Jake is able to travel in this alien world through his avatar, a remotely-controlled biological body that is able to withstand the planet’s deadly elements that no human could.
Avatar was conceived by Cameron 15 years ago and has been in production for 4 years. It features the very latest in special effects technology. Even though Avatar was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, and despite the worldwide phenomenon it became, it failed to win for Best Picture. As of late-April 2010, Avatar had grossed just shy of $3 billion.
Avatar is rated PG-13 for intense battle sequences and warfare, along with sensuality, language and some smoking. Running time is 2 hours and 30 minutes.
Rated PG-13
Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan
Versatile actor Robert Downey Jr. brings Sherlock Holmes, one of the world’s most famous detectives of all time, to DVD and Blu-Ray™ in a way Holmes has never been portrayed before.
In this dynamic, in-your-face portrayal, a whole new take on the legendary detective is delivered to movies audiences by Downey Jr. He reveals Holmes has fighting skills as impressive as his intellect.
Sherlock Holmes was successful at the box office and now looks to be a big winner at DVD stores and on pay per view. Rumor has it, it's the beginning of a new Sherlock Holmes franchise.
Playing Holmes’ trusted sidekick is Jude Law as Watson. Rachel McAdams stars as Irene Adler, the only woman ever to have bested Holmes, and who has maintained a stormy relationship with the detective.
Sherlock Holmes is rated PG-13 for some violence, disturbing images and a scene of suggestive material. Running time is 2 hours and 14 minutes.
Rated PG-13
Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron, Lily Collins, Kathy Bates, Ray McKinnon
Sandra Bullock won the an Oscar for Best Actress in The Blind Side, and now that the movie is available on DVD and Blu-Ray™, audiences that missed the film in theaters, can now bring it home to witness her memorable performance.
In The Blind Side, which is based on a true story, Quinton Aaron plays Michael Oher, a homeless African-American young man with a troubled former family life. Michael is taken in by the Touhys (Tim McGraw and Sandra Bullock); a well-to-do white family who help Michael live up to his potential and become a star football player.
During his time living with the family, the family also discovers a lot of very important things they didn’t realize about themselves.
Together, the family and Michael face a whole new set of challenges while Michael sky-rockets to success as an offensive left tackle.
The Blind Side is rated PG-13 for one scene involving brief violence, drug and sexual references. Running time is 2 hours.
Rated PG
Voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wallace Wolodarsky
Based on a popular Roald Dahl children’s book, the animated movie Fantastic Mr. Fox has crept onto DVD and Blu-Ray™.
Hollywood A-listers George Clooney and Meryl Streep lend their voices to the story of a wily fox, who uses his cunning fox traits to outsmart three farmers to kidnap their chickens. The farmers resort to extreme tactics to protect their chickens.
Mr. and Mrs. Fox (Clooney and Streep) had been living a peaceful life in the wilderness with their son (Jason Schwartzman).
However, soon Mr. Fox’s suppressed animal instincts kick in and he becomes a chicken thief. That decision not only threatens his family, but the entire animal community too.
Directed by Wes Anderson, Fantastic Mr. Fox is rated PG for some mild action, smoking and slang humor. Running time is 1 hour and 28 minutes.
The movie received a number of glowing reviews during its run in theatres.
Rated PG-13
Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey
After seeing the title of the movie The Men Who Stare at Goats, a person is just not quite sure what they’re going to get.
Well, here’s what you’re going to get, as the movie is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray™.
Ewan McGregor plays Bob Wilton, a struggling reporter who becomes intrigued after meeting Lyn Cassady (George Clooney). Cassady claims to be a part of a psychic military unit who has been sent back onto the battlefield in Iraq.
Cassady claims his unit can walk through walls and kill goats by simply staring at them intensely.
With a claim like that and the fact that his own career as a journalist is going nowhere, Wilton decides to embark on a dangerous top-secret mission across Iraq to find the brigade’s founder Bill Django (Jeff Bridges). After all, staring at goats and killing them is something not everybody can do and this could be the scoop story that rejuvenates his career.
The Men Who Stare at Goats is rated R for rough language, some drug content and brief nudity. Running time is 1 hour and 33 minutes.
Rated PG-13
John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt
2012, an epic, sci-fi thriller disaster movie with a budget of $200 million and box office receipts that took in even more, is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray.
The film revolves around the ancient Mayan calendar, which forecasts a global doomsday event coinciding with the end of the calendar’s current cycle. In other words, on December 12, 2012, the world is going to come to an end in an explosive, shocking way.
John Cusack plays Jackson Curtis, a divorced father who is a limo driver and occasional freelance writer. His ex-wife Kate (Amanda Peet) lives with their children.
Just before the predicted doomsday, reports start coming in of mass suicides in the Mayan jungles. The IHC (Institute for Human Continuity), which is a secret organization, comes to realize that the Mayan calendar is indeed correct, and begins constructing vast arks under the Himalayan mountains designed to withstand most natural disasters.
Back in the U.S., Jackson and his kids are on a trip to Yellowstone National Park, when he realizes deep cracks have been forming in fault lines in California. It becomes painfully obvious that the coming doomsday is indeed coming, much faster than previously thought. Now, the race is on to save the planet and the humans and species that inhabit it.
2012 is rated PG-13 for intense disaster sequences and some rough language. Running time is 2 hours and 38 minutes.
Rated R
Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey, Thomas F. Wilson
It is not all that often that a movie based on a true story is a comedy. But that’s what you get with The Informant!, a new film that is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Based on the story of one of the most famous whistleblowers in U.S. history, Matt Damon plays Mark Witacre, a rising star in the agriculture industry, who exposes his company’s wide-ranging price-fixing practices.
So the FBI asks Witacre to carry a hidden tape recorder to gather evidence of his company’s shady practices. Witacre accepts, the problem is, he goes a bit too far, as he envisions himself as some sort of secret agent.
When the FBI realizes Witacre has not been totally forthcoming with them on his own less-than-stellar conduct, and is more than likely a tad bit mentally unstable, they become frustrated on what to believe and what not to. This threatens to bring down the entire secret operation.
The Informant!, directed by Steven Soderbergh, is rated R for rough language. Running time is 1 hour and 48 minutes.
Rated PG-13
Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love, Kristin Davis, Kali Hawk, Malin Ackerman
In Couples Retreat, four Midwestern couples who are friends take a vacation to a lush tropical island resort, in what three of the couples think is party time on the beach. You know, a vacation with friends featuring the kind of fun stuff people do at a tropical resort: bask on the beach, luxuriate in the spa, jet ski, eat, drink and be merry.
However there is one teeny tiny problem. The purpose of one of the couples’ visit to the resort is to participate in what the resort turns out to be all about: couples therapy.
Whether they like it or not, the other 3 couples learn that it is mandatory to participate in the therapy. So their group-rate vacation has suddenly turned into something completely different compared to what they thought it would be.
What ensues is a comedic look at the issues married couples face every day, and some may discover that their own relationship they thought was solid, may be a tad bit on shaky ground.
Couples Retreat is rated PG-13 for sexual content and language. Running time is 1 hour and 47 minutes.
The movie is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Rated PG-13
Rachael McAdams, Eric Bana, Ron Livingston, Jane McLean, Arliss Howard
Imagine being in love with a man that is a time traveler. Even though he is the love of your life, you just never know when he’s going to be gone to a different time. Poof, just like that!
That’s the plot of romance/drama The Time Traveler’s Wife.
Claire (Rachel McAdams) loves Henry (Eric Bana), but a rare genetic anomaly causes him to live his life in shifting timelines, jumping back and forth in his lifetime without any control over it.
That would make it difficult for any relationship to survive, but Claire is determined to spend her life with the man she truly loves.
The Time Traveler’s Wife is rated PG-13 for brief disturbing images, some nudity and sexuality.
Running time is 1 hour and 48 minutes. The movie is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Rated R
Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin
It’s zombie mayhem in the new movie Zombieland.
The story revolves around cowardly Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), who hardly ever leaves his house for fear of being attacked by zombies. Woody Harrelson plays zombie slayer Tallahassee, who has no fear of the zombies and is doing his best to survive the zombie apocalypse. The two join up to go on a search for the last Twinkie on earth. Yes, they’re on a Twinkie search. I think we can tell this movie ain’t rocket science, but it did receive good reviews when it was out in theaters.
The movie is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Along the way, they come across two girls (Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin), who play Wichita and Little Rock. (Not quite sure why everybody shares a name with American cities, but hey, that’s the deal here.) Wichita and Little Rock have also been able to avoid the zany zombies by coming up with very unconventional ways of dealing the slimy creatures.
Eventually, all four non-zombies team up to go zombie hunting. The problem is, the more the four of them spend time together, the more they realize that perhaps they would all be better off on their own.
Zombieland is rated R for horror, gore, violence and rough language.
Rated PG
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson was being videotaped in the final days of his life at rehearsals for what was supposed to be 50 sold out concerts at London’s O2 Arena in July of 2009.
Of course, the mega-pop star tragically died at the age of 50 just a few weeks before he was to take the stage. His death created a worldwide media frenzy and outpouring of grief by his millions of fans.
Now comes Michael Jackson’s This Is It, now available on DVD and Blu Ray. It is a documentary compiled from over 80 hours of behind-the-scenes video footage of Jackson’s rehearsals for the lavish concerts.
Fans from all over the world flocked to movie theaters to experience rare, intimate moments with the King of Pop, and now they can do the same at home.
Also included in the film are interviews with close friends and collaborators of the late pop star.
Michael Jackson’s This Is It is rated PG for some suggestive choreography and scary images. Running time is 1 hour and 51 minutes.
Rated R
Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Norman Reedus, Cung Le
Here’s a scenario most of us would never want to be in: You wake up from a deep sleep and find yourself in the middle of deep space. Yikes!
In addition, you and your buddy have no idea who you are, or who the other is, and you both have no idea where you’re going.
Sounds like a nightmare. Well, that’s what scary movies are made of and it also is the plotline of Pandorum, now available on DVD and Blu-Ray.
The situation takes an even worse turn when the two men discover mysterious warriors aboard the space ship they’re on, and the warriors have no plans of letting them (Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster) off the space ship alive.
Pandorum is rated R for gore, excessive violence and rough language. Running time is 1 hour and 48 minutes.
Rated PG
Voices of Bill Hader, Neil Patrick Harris, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg
In what must be one of the more original movie titles to come along in a long time is actually based on the very popular children’s book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
In this animated film, now on DVD and Blu-Ray, the story revolves around inventor Flint Lockwood (voice of Bill Hader), who along with weathergirl Sam Sparks (voice of Anna Faris), try to come up with a way to alleviate world hunger. But things don’t go quite as they envisioned.
Their plan goes awry when instead of rain falling from the sky; food begins raining down in abundance. Sure they want to knock out world hunger, but this is too much of a good thing.
Enter a bully named Brent (Adam Samberg), who loves tormenting Flint like he did back in the day when they were kids.
Brent teams up with the mayor (Bruce Campbell) who plot together to use Flint’s new invention for their own personal gain.
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs is rated PG for some brief mild language. Running time is 1 hour and 21 minutes.
Rated R
Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha
“What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” That’s the advertising slogan sin city has been using for years to promote tourism. That’s all well and good, unless a copious amount of alcohol is a part of the deal. In that case, many visitors to Las Vegas are unable to remember what happened in Vegas.
That’s the premise in the raunchy buddy movie The Hangover, now available on DVD and Blu-Ray. Not only can the movie’s characters not remember what happened during their drunken bachelor party in Las Vegas, but they awaken to find a number of things and situations that have gone terribly wrong, none of which they have a clue how it happened.
Finding a tiger in their hotel bathroom the next day…you see what I mean.
Oh alcohol. Drinking too much of it tends to erase important facts like how a tiger got into a hotel bathroom.
The Hangover is rated R for pervasive language, sexual content including nudity, and some drug material. Running time is 1 hour and 29 minutes.
The DVD and Blu-Ray sets include commentary from the film’s stars, a gag reel and more pictures from the missing camera.
Rated R
Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, B.J. Novak, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Mike Myers, Samm Levine
In Inglourious Basterds, Shoshanna Dreyfuss, played by Mélanie Laurent, is a young Jewish woman who witnesses her family being massacred in German-occupied France during World War II. She escapes and flees to Paris, and eventually, hiding her Judaism, opens a movie theater.
Meanwhile, in another part of Europe, Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. This group is known to its enemies as “The Basterds”. Raine’s squad joins German actress Bridget Con Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich.
Eventually, Shoshanna is wooed by a Nazi war hero to premiere a propaganda film about his exploits at her movie theater. Shoshanna sees this as an opportunity to get a different kind of revenge.
Inglourious Basterds is directed by Quentin Tarantino and is rated R for graphic violence, rough language and brief sexuality. Running time is 2 hours and 32 minutes. The film is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray.