RA: Renter’s Anonymous – Sept 22nd, 2009
New Releases
Observe and Report – 5.9/10 – Trailer
Starring Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Michael Pena, Collette Wolfe, Ray Liotta
Bi-polar mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper’s paradise into his personal peep show. But when Barnhardt can’t bring the culprit to justice, a surly police detective, is recruited to close the case.
Special Features:
- 2.40:1 Widescreen and 1.33:1 Fullscreen with Dolby Digital 5.1
- Unfortunately no other special features
Blu-ray Features:
2.40:1 Widescreen 1080p with Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1- PiP Commentary with Cast and Crew
- “Basically Training”
- “Forest Ridge Mall: Security Recruitment Video”
- “Seth Rogen and Anna Faris: Unscripted”
- Additional Scenes
- Gag Reel
- BD Live Enabled
- Digital Copy of the Film
Recommendation: Rent (it’s a good dark comedy)
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past – 5.8/10 – Trailer
Staring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Emma Stone, Noureen DeWulf, Breckin Meyer, Lacey Chabert, Michael Douglas
The story concerns a womanizing bachelor and high profile photographer (Matthew McConaughey) with a disdain for marriage. As his little brother is about to walk down the aisle, Connor (McConaughey) attends just as an old childhood flame (Jennifer Garner) enters his life to attend the wedding, Connor finds himself in the most unusual of circumstances. He’s visited by his late uncle (Michael Douglas), who was Connor’s role model for womanizing back in the day, to warn his nephew of three visits from the past, present and future in the form of his ex-girlfriends. It’s Connor’s plight that he’ll learn a thing or two about love and the possibility of second chances.
Special Features:
- 2.40:1 Widescreen and 1.33:1 Fullscreen with Dolby Digital 5.1
- That’s it.
Blu-ray Features:
- 2.40:1 Widescreen 1080p with Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1
- Behind the Story Featurettes
- Additional Scenes
- BD-Live Bonus Content “A Sea of Women”
- Digital Copy of the Film
Recommendation: Pass
Battle for Terra
Starring Evan Rachel Wood, Brian Cox, James Garner, Chris Evans, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, David Cross, Justin Long, Dennis Quaid, Luke Wilson
A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.
Special Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1
- Commentary with Aristomenis Tsirbas
Featurette: The Making of- “Terra – The Original Short Film”
- Deleted Scenes
- Original Storyboards
- Trailer
Blu-ray Features:
- 1.85:1 Widescreen 1080p with PCM Uncompressed 5.1
- All of the features of the DVD release
Recommendation: Rent (for animation fans)
Re-Releases
Shaun of the Dead (Blu-ray) – 7.5/10
Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran
Shaun doesn’t have a very good day, so he decides to turn his life around by getting his ex to take him back, but he times it for right in the middle of what may be a zombie apocalypse… But for him, it’s an opportunity to show everyone he knows how useful he is by saving them all. All he has to do is survive… And get his ex back.
Blu-ray Features:
- 2.35:1 Widescreen 1080p with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Missing Bits: Outtakes and Deleted Scenes
- Raw Meat: Casting Tapes, Simon Pegg’s Video Diary, Edgar & Simon’s Flip Chart, Special Effects Comparison and Make-Up Tests
- TV Bits: Interview with Coldplay
- Commentary with Cast (including zombies)
- “Story Gaps”
- Zombie Gallery
- BD-Live Enabled
- My Scenes
- U-Control
- Zombie-O-Meter: Trivia Track
- Trailers
Recommendation: Buy
Hot Fuzz (Blu-ray) – 7.4/10
Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Dalton, Paddy Considine, Edward Woodward, Billie Whitelaw
Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman, who countlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found decapitated. It is address to as an accident, but Angel isn’t going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent “acidents”.
Blu-ray Features:
- 2.35:1 Widescreen 1080p with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Deleted Scenes and Outtakes
- The Evidence Room: Making of, Video Blogs, Featurettes, Plot Holes, Special Effects: Before and After, Galleries, Dead Right
- The Fuzzball Rally – Uncut
- The Man Who Would Be Fuzz
- Multiple Commentary Tracks with Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Kevin Eldon, Olivia Colman, Quentin Tarantino, Kenneth Cranham, Timothy Dalton, Paul Freeman, Edward Woodward, Andy Leafe and Nick Eckland
- Hot Funk – “clean” dialogue
- Danny’s Notebook: The Other Side
- Trailers
- Easter Egg Video Clip
- D-Box Motion Control
- Fuzz-O-Meter: Trivia Track
- BD-Live
- My Scenes
- U-Control
- Storyboard
Recommendation: Buy
Star Trek (The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection)
Available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Generations
- First Contact
- Insurrection
- Nemesis
- Evolutions
Extras
The Evolution of the Enterprise- Villians of Star Trek
- I Love the Star Trek Movies
- Farewell to Star Trek: The Enterprise
- Klingon Encounter
- Borg Invasion 4D
- Charting the Final Frontier
Recommendation: Buy (for Trekkies)
Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection
Available on DVD and Blu-ray
- A Grand Day Out
- The Wrong Trousers
- A Close Shave
- A Matter of Loaf and Death!
Recommendation: Buy
The Unrated Blogger’s Cut
I was sort of looking forward to picking up Observe and Report on DVD, but with the extreme lack of special features, it better be a very cheap new release to warrant a purchase. Unfortunately, it looks like a similar occurrence is happening to all new releases, the DVDs are getting the bare bones and if you want anything resembling a special feature, you must convert to Blu-ray. And since pretty much everything else worth purchasing is a Blu-ray release, I will probably be going without purchase this week.
Coming Soon:
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