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How To Train Your Dragon—Dreamworks Animation (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 20, 2010
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 2.5/5
Hiccup is a young Viking who defies tradition when he befriends one of his deadliest foes - a ferocious dragon he calls Toothless. Together, the unlikely heroes must fight against all odds to save both their worlds.
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High Tension (Switchblade Romance)—Lionsgate (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 20, 2010
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3/5
"High Tension" is an intense game of murder and survival, which will rattle viewers to their core. Maria and Alexia are classmates and best friends. Hoping to prepare for their college exams in peace and quiet, they decide to spend a weekend in the country at Alexia's parents secluded farmhouse. But in the dead of night, a stranger knocks on the front door. And with the first swing of his knife, the girls' idyllic weekend turns into an endless night of horror.
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Back to the Future Trilogy—Universal (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 20, 2010
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 4/5
"Back To The Future": When teenager Marty McFly is blasted to 1955 in the DeLorean time machine created by the eccentric Doc Brown, he finds himself mixed up in a time-shattering chain reaction that could vaporize his future - and leave him trapped in the past. "Back To The Future Part II": Picking up precisely where they left off, Marty and Doc launch themselves to the year 2015 to fine-tune the future and inadvertently disrupt the space/time continuum. Now, their only chance to fix the present is by going back to 1955 all over again before it is too late. "Back To The Future Part III": Stranded in 1955 after a freak accident, Marty McFly discovers he must travel back to 1885 to rescue Doc Brown before he becomes smitten with school teacher Clara Clayton. Now, it's up to Marty to keep Doc out of trouble, get the DeLorean running, and put the past, present and future on track so they can all get back to where - and when - they belong.
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William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 20, 2010
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
In this dazzling adaptation of Shakespeare's classic love story, Leonardo DiCaprio stars opposite Claire Danes. They light up the screen as the original star-crossed lovers against a thumping soundtrack and a boldly imagined modern-day setting.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 20, 2010
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 4.5/5
Fasten your garter belt and come up to the lab and see what's on the slab! It's "The Rocky Horror Picture Show Special Edition", a screamingly funny, sinfully twisted salute to sci-fi, horror, B-movies and rock music, all rolled into one deliciously decadent morsel. And now there's even more to make you shiver with antici...pation: two additional musical numbers, "Once In A While" and "Superheroes", never seen theatrically or available on video! The madcap, musical mayhem begins when rain-soaked Brad and Janet take refuge in the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite mad scientist from outer space who is about to unveil his greatest creation - and have a bit of fun with his reluctant guests!
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Predators—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 20, 2010
Video: 5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Adrien Brody stars as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've been brought together on an alien planet... as prey. With the notable exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers - mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members - human "predators" that are now being systematically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien "Predators".
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Moulin Rouge—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 20, 2010
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Set in a Paris nightclub that caters to society's decadent elite, the exhilarating "Moulin Rouge" follows the story of the ill-fated love affair between a stunning courtesan and a struggling young writer.
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Winter’s Bone—Lionsgate (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 20, 2010
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 2.5/5
Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth. Based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell.
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Psycho: 50th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Oct 18, 2010
A wayward traveler (Janet Leigh) comes upon the Bates Motel and makes the fatal decision of stopping for the evening and partaking in a shower. In one of the most memorable scenes in Hollywood history, she's sliced and diced by a mysterious psychopath (Anthony Perkins).

The Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, lulls his audience into a state of comfort throughout the first act of the film only to shock them with the famous shower scene and then slowly unwind the mystery over the last hour. I'm generally not a fan of horror films, but I've seen Psycho countless times over the years and Norman Bates still sends a chill down my spine. One thing's for sure, Hitchcock certainly knew how to keep an audience on the edge of their seat.

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The Exorcist (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Oct 16, 2010
A young and innocent girl, Regan (Linda Blair), undergoes a chilling metamorphosis as Satan invades her body. Her frantic mother (Ellen Burstyn) does her best to help, but the doctors and psychiatrists are perplexed by the child's physical and mental changes. Looking for any type of answer, she turns to a local church where poor Father Damien Karras (Jason Miller), who has his own doubts about his faith, calls on the services of Father Merrin (Max von Sydow) to perform an exorcism to expel Satan from the child.

I had reservations watching because I'm not a fan of scary movies and this is one of the scariest I've seen in my life. Blair does an outstanding job playing the possessed child and director William Friedkin definitely deserved his Oscar nomination.

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Jonah Hex (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Oct 14, 2010
A bounty hunter of last resort, Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is a battle-hardened gunslinger who can track down anything but is a man destined to be alone. When the U.S. military approaches him with an offer he can't refuse, he soon begins to track down and stop the sinister terrorist Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich).

While the story is loosely based on the DC Comics series, some of the changes made for the movie are too farfetched (conversing with the dead) and it's not very entertaining. Granted, there are plenty of explosions although the story lacks any depth and will insult your intelligence. Furthermore, the addition of Megan Fox as the love interest proves once again that the beautiful young woman can't act her way out of a paper bag, but she looks stunning in 1080p.

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Splice (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Oct 13, 2010
Clive (Adrian Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) specialize in splicing DNA from different animals to create new hybrids. In an attempt to revolutionize science and medicine, they're looking for a bigger challenge and want to use human DNA, but when their funding gets pulled, they secretly take the experiment underground.

Other than the unwelcome horror elements, Splice kept me mildly entertained with its thought provoking premise. One thing's for sure, don't screw around with Mother Nature unless you're willing to deal with the consequences of raising a most unusual being as your own.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Oct 12, 2010
Two hard-luck drifters (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) team up with an experienced gold prospector (Walter Huston) and venture into the Mexican wilderness in search of gold. As their pile starts to grow so does their greed and paranoia, especially for Dobbs (Bogart), who thinks everyone's out to steal his stash.

With his breakout performance in The Maltese Falcon, Bogart became one of Hollywood's good guys, which makes his performance here even more impressive. At the time, audiences were shocked and disturbed that Bogart would be cast as the bad guy, but it was Walter Huston's Oscar-winning role as the grizzled prospector that stole the show.

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Splice—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 12, 2010
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2/5
Superstar genetic engineers Clive and Elsa specialize in splicing DNA from different animals to create incredible new hybrids. Now they want to use human DNA in a hybrid that could revolutionize science and medicine. But when the pharmaceutical company that funds their research forbids it, they secretly take their experiment underground - risking their careers to push the boundaries of science and serve their own curiosity and ambition. The result is Dren, who exceeds their wildest dreams - and threatens to become their worst nightmare.
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Psycho—Universal Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 12, 2010
Video: 3/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
One of the most shocking films of all-time, Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho", is now available on Blu-ray! Join the Master of Suspense on a chilling journey as an unsuspecting victim (Janet Leigh) visits the Bates Motel and falls prey to one of cinemas most notorious psychopaths - Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins). Featuring one of the most iconic scenes in film history, the infamous "Shower Scene", Psycho has become a cultural phenomenon.
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