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DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand (VOD) and Streaming spotlights & news.

Slumdog Millionaire coming to DVD and Blu-ray later this month

Slumdog Millionaire, this year’s critical darling about a young boy from the slums of Mumbai who discovers love and fortune, arrives on Blu-ray Disc With Digital Copy and DVD March 31, 2009, from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Garnering top honors at the 2009 Academy Awards including Best Picture – Christian Colson, Best Director – ….

The French Connection II Blu-ray review

I don’t think a crime film will ever be released, that’s grittier and better-made than William Friedkin’s original The French Connection – even John Frankenheimer’s very worthy 1975 follow-up, French Connection II. The first film was based on actual people and events, however French Connection II was entirely fictitious, and didn’t bring back any of ….

Win one of two copies of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic To Catch a Thief on Centennial Collection DVD

On March 24, 2009, Paramount Home Entertainment will release another DVD from the Centennial Collection – Alfred Hitchcock’s classic cat and mouse thriller To Catch A Thief. The 2-disc sets include all-new bonus features and a beautifully designed eight page photo memorabilia booklet. Get ready for Oscar winners Grace Kelly and Cary Grant, in the ….

Win a copy of the classic Pinocchio on Special Edition Blu-ray

On March 10th, 2009 Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will release the timeless classic Pinocchio: 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition on Blu-ray and DVD. Featuring the Academy Award winning original song When You Wish upon a Star, join Gepetto’s beloved puppet—with Jiminy Cricket as his guide—on a thrilling quest that tests Pinocchio’s bravery, loyalty and honesty, ….

The French Connection Blu-ray review

New York City detectives “Popeye” Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) attempt to break a mysterious narcotics smuggling ring and ultimately uncover The French Connection – the gritty classic New York crime story is a blueprint for how contemporary action movies are done right. Based on a true story, this action-filled thriller won ….

The Batman Anthology available for the first time in Blu-ray

The Batman Anthology will be available for the first time ever on Blu-ray HD on March, 10, 2009. Batman (1989) Jack Nicholson is The Joker, who emerged from a horrible accident as a maniacal criminal. Michael Keaton is the Caped Crusader, who emerged from a childhood trauma to become a masked crimefighter. Kim Basinger is ….

Win one of two copies of the classic thriller Primal Fear featuring Ed Norton’s Oscar-nominated debut performance

On Tuesday March 10, 2009, Paramount Home Entertainment will release Primal Fear: The Hard Evidence Edition on DVD and Blu-ray. This classic legal thriller is filled with amazing talent including Edward Norton (Fight Club, The Incredible Hulk), Richard Gere (Chicago), Laura Linney (The Savages) and many more. The deluxe release is packed with special features ….

Chocolate DVD review

Ong Bak and and Tom yum goong director Prachya Pinkaew, successfully adds another notch to his action genre belt to the with the kinetic film Chocolate, this time with a female protagonist played by the director’s new protégé, Jija Yanin Vismistananda, a charming newcomer who spent five years training for the role. Fans will not ….

Holly DVD review

Shot on location in Cambodia, including many scenes in actual brothels in the notorious red light district of Phnom Penh, Holly succeeds in its efforts to stir sufficient emotion to make the viewer ask questions about the inhuman, and sometime brutal world of sex-trafficking. The issue has become a hot topic in the past few ….

The Boondock Saints Blu-ray review

The Boondock Saints follows religious Irish brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus – played by Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus – who grab Boston by the balls as vigilantes out to eliminate evildoers. It all starts after they kill a Russian mobster in self-defense, and decide that they have found their calling from God – ….

Pretty Woman Blu-ray review

Buena Vista Home Entertainment released the romance comedy classic Pretty Woman on Blu-ray disc for the first time on February 10, 2009. The feel-good modern spin on the Cinderella tale stars Academy Award winner Julia Roberts as Vivian – a spirited, streetwise prostitute, who has a chance meeting with a a dapper, no-nonsense socialite billionaire ….

Blindness DVD review

Miramax Films released the scary and provocative what-if thriller Blindness on DVD last week. It is a story where characters remain nameless, and is eerily set in an unidentified stark metropolis where angry commuters start their moribund day engaged in multiple acts of road rage along gridlocked and congested streets. A young man (Yusuke Iseya) ….