RA: Renters Anonymous – Sept 8th, 2009
New Releases
Crank 2: High Voltage – 5.9/10 – Trailer
Starring Jason Statham, Amy Smart
Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
Special Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1
Trailer
2-Disc Special Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1
- Commentary with Neveldine and Taylor
- Crank 2: Take 2
- Digital Copy of the Film
Blu-ray Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen 1080p with DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1
- All of the features of the 2-Disc DVD, plus:
- Crank’d Out Bonus View Mode with cast and crew
- Making-of Documentary
- Gag Reel
- Wrap Party Featurette
- Bookmarks & Blu-line Time Slider
- Lionsgate Live
- Digital Copy of the Film
Recommendation: Rent (for some fun random action and humor)
Dance Flick (Blu-ray) – Trailer
Starring Shoshana Bush, Damon Wayans Jr, Chelsea Makela, Brennan Hillard, Affion Crockett, Amy Sedaris, Chris Elliott, David Alan Grier, Essence Atkins
Street dancer Thomas Uncles is from the wrong side of the tracks, but his bond with the beautiful Megan White might help the duo realize their dreams as the enter in the mother of all dance battles.
Blu-ray Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen 1080p with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Dance Dance Dance! with the Wayans Wayans Wayans!
- Dancing Outtakes
- Deleted Scenes
- Trailers
Recommendation: Pass
Re-Releases
Requiem for a Dream (Blu-ray) – 7.8/10
Starring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald
A film paralleling the lives of Sara Goldfarb, a lonely, TV obsessed widow, and her son Harry, his girlfriend Marion, and his drug dealer friend Tyrone. After learning that she will make an appearance on a TV game show, Sara tries to lose weight so that she can fit into her prized red dress, and becomes hooked on diet pills. Meanwhile, Harry and his friends are taking heroin and cocaine. We then witness the disasterous consequences and the downward spiral their lives take as a result of their addictions.
Blu-ray Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen 1080p with DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1
- Director’s Cut
- Commentary with Darren Aronofsky and Matthew Libatique
- The Making of
- Deleted Scenes
- Memories, Dreams and Addictions: Ellen Burstyn Interviews Hubert Selby Jr
- The Anatomy of a Scene
- Trailers
- Cast and Crew Info
- Production Notes
Recommendation: Buy
The Quick and the Dead (Blu-ray) – 5.9/10
Starring Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio
Ellen, an unknown female gunslinger rides into a small, dingy and depressing prairie town with a secret as to her reason for showing up. Shortly after her arrival, a local preacher, Cort, is thrown through the saloon doors while townfolk are signing up for a gun competition. The pot is a huge sum of money and the only rule: that you follow the rules of the man that set up the contest, Herod. Herod is also the owner, leader, and “ruler” of the town. Seems he’s arranged this little gun-show-off so that the preacher (who use to be an outlaw and rode with Herod) will have to fight again. Cort refuses to ever use a gun to kill again and Herod, acknowledging Cort as one of the best, is determined to alter this line of thinking … even if it gets someone killed.
Blu-ray Feeatures:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen 1080p with Dolby TrueHD 5.1
- BD-Live Enabled
Recommendation: Pass
Sphere (Blu-ray) – 5.4/10
Starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L Jackson, Liev Schreiber, Peter Coyote, Queen Latifah
1000 feet below the ocean, navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long. A crack team of scientists are deployed to the site in Deepsea Habitats. What they find boggles the mind as they discover a perfect metal sphere. What is the secret behind the sphere? Will they survive the mysterious ‘manifestations’? Who or what is creating these? They may never live to find out.
Blu-ray Features:
- 2.40:1 Widescreen 1080p with Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1
- Commentary with Dustin Hoffman and Samuel L Jackson
- “Shaping the Sphere” the Art of the Visual Effects Supervisor
- Trailers
Recommendation: Rent (best for a lazy Sunday)
The New World – 7.5/10
Starring Colin Farrell, Q’Orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale
When 17th century explorer John Smith and a few men go up the river to trade with the Indians, he befriends the princess Pocahontas and they fall in love. While in love, Smith must obtain his duties as president of Jamestown fort and challenges to himself what is the better path for himself to take: stay with the fallen apart colony or go up the river and love Pocahontas in the wild. The Indians realize that the English do not mean to leave, so they attack. A few men at the fort decide to capture Pocahontas as a hostage so the Indians will not attack them. Smith is ordered to leave Jamestown by the King, and John Rolfe, a wealthy tobacco planter arrives at the fort. Pocahontas, now living there adapts to the English cultures and falls in love with Rolfe. She falls apart deciding who she is dedicated to, Smith or Rolfe.
Blu-ray Features:
- 2.40:1 Widescreen 1080p with Dolby TrueHD 5.1
- Making of
- Trailers
- Extended Cut of the Film
Recommendation: Pass
Friday (Director’s Cut) – 6.6/10
Starring Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long, Faizon Love, Tommy Lister Jr, Bernie Mac, John Witherspoon
Two homies, Smokey &Craig, smoke up a dope dealer’s weed and try to figure a way to get the $200 they owe the dope dealer by 10:00pm that night. In that time they smoke weed, get jacked, and they get shot at in a drive-by.
Special Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen with Dolby Digital EX 5.1
- Extended Director’s Cut
- “Friday Straight Up”
- Intro by Ice Cube
- Interviews with F. Gary Gary and Patricia Charbonnet
- Additional Scenes
- Music Video: “Keep Their Heads Ringin” by Dr Dre
- Music Video: “Friday” by Ice Cube
Blu-ray Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen 1080p with Dolby TrueHD 7.1 and Dolby Digital EX 5.1
- All of the features of the DVD release
Recommendation: Rent
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Enchanted Musical Edition) – 7.2/10
Starring Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson
During WWII in England, Charlie, Carrie, and Paul Rawlins are sent to live with Eglantine Price, an apprentice witch. Charlie blackmails Miss Price that if he is to keep her practices a secret, she must give him something, so she takes a bedknob from her late father’s bed and places the “famous magic traveling spell” on it, and only Paul can activate it. Their first journey is to a street in London where they meet Emelius Browne, headmaster of Miss Price’s witchcraft training correspondence school. Miss Price tells him of a plan to find the magic words for a spell known as Substitutiary Locomotion, which brings inanimate objects to life. This spell will be her work for the war effort.
Special Features:
- 1.66:1 Widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1
- “The Wizards of Special Effects”
- “A Step in the Right Direction”
- “Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers”
- Daivd Tomlinson “Portabello Road” Recording Session
- Theatrical Trailers
Recommendation: Rent
The Postman (Blu-ray) – 5.6/10
Starring Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate, Olivia Williams, James Russo, Daniel Von Bargen, Tom Petty
In the year 2013 civilization has all but destroyed itself. After a war that decimated the government and most of the population of the United States (possibly the world) people struggle to survive against starvation and rogue groups of armed men. One such group is called the Holnists. This group is bigger than any other and their leader, General Bethlehem, has delusions of ruling the country. A drifter is captured by the group and forced to join. He escapes at the first chance and happens on a mail jeep with a skeleton in it. The skeleton is wearing a postal uniform and the drifter takes it to keep him warm. He also finds a mailbag and starts conning people with old letters. The hope he sees in the people he delivers to changes his plans and he decides that he must help bring the Holnists down.
Blu-ray Features:
- 2.40:1 Widescreen 1080p with Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1
- Special Effects Sequences
- Trailers
Recommendation: Pass
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