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Sound of Music Limited Edition Collector’s Set [Blu-ray]

When Julie Andrews sang “The hills are alive with the sound of music” from an Austrian mountaintop in 1965, the most beloved movie musical was born. To be sure, the adaptation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s Broadway hit has never been as universally acclaimed as, say, Singin’ in the Rain. Critics argue that the songs are saccharine (even the songwriters regretted the line “To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray”) and that the characters and plot lack the complexity that could make them more interesting. It’s not hard to know whom to root for when your choice is between cute kids and Nazis.

It doesn’t matter. Audiences fell in love with the struggling novice Maria (Andrews), the dashing Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer), and, yes, the cute kids, all based on a real-life World War II Austrian family. Such songs as “My Favorite Things,” “Do Re Mi,” “Climb Every Mountain,” and the title tune became part of the 20th century Zeitgeist. In addition, The Sound of Music officially became a cult hit when audiences in London began giving it the Rocky Horror Picture Show treatment, attending showings dressed as their favorite characters and delivering choreographed comments and gestures along with the movie. –David Horiuchi

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition) [Blu-ray]

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Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: PG
Release Date: 13-NOV-2007
Media Type: Blu-RayAnybody who has written him off because of his string of stinkers–or anybody who’s too young to remember The Goodbye Girl–may be shocked at the accomplishment and nuance of Richard Dreyfuss’s performance in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Here, he plays a man possessed; contacted by aliens, he (along with other members of the “chosen”) is drawn toward the site of the incipient landing: Devil’s Tower, in rural Wyoming. As in many Spielberg films, there are no personalized enemies; the struggle is between those who have been called and a scientific establishment that seeks to protect them by keeping them away from the arriving spacecraft. The ship, and the special effects in general, are every bit as jaw-dropping on the small screen as they were in the theater (well, almost). Released in 1977 as a cerebral alternative to the swashbuckling science fiction epics then in vogue, Close Encounters now seems almost wholesome in its representation of alien contact and interested less in philosophizing about extraterrestrials than it is in examining the nature of the inner “call.” Ultimately a motion picture about the obsession of the driven artist or determined visionary, Close Encounters comes complete with the stock Spielberg wives and girlfriends who seek to tether the dreamy, possessed protagonists to the more mundane concerns of the everyday. So a spectacular, seminal motion picture indeed, but one with gender politics that are all too terrestrial. –Miles Bethany

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Ultimate Edition)

Welcome to the First Harry Potter Ultimate Edition!

Spellbinding 4-Disc Set Includes New Feature-Length Documentary: Creating the World of Harry Potter Part 1: The Magic Begins

For the First Time Ever … Uncover the intimate details of the search to cast Harry Potter and his friends • See Daniel, Rupert and Emma’s never-before-seen audition tapes • Be there with stars and filmmakers walking onto the set of the exciting first day of shooting • Learn about Chris Columbus’ critical, step-by-step decisions behind the creation of Harry Potter’s world on screen • Look back on an amazing decade’s worth of movies with Daniel, Rupert and Emma in new and vintage interviews never seen before. Plus: Exclusive Introduction by Daniel Radcliffe

Collectibles include: 48-Page Photo Book with never-before-seen images from Years 1-7 and 2 Ultimate Edition Character Cards (Card No. 1: Harry Potter, Card No. 2: Minerva McGonogall)

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Predator (Ultimate Hunter Edition) [Blu-ray]

Rambo meets Alien in this terrific science-fiction thriller from 1987, directed by John McTiernan just a year before Die Hard made him Hollywood’s most sought-after director of action-packed blockbusters. Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite squad of U.S. Army commandos to a remote region of South American jungle, where they’ve been assigned to search for South American officials who’ve been kidnapped by terrorists. Instead they find a bunch of skinned corpses hanging from the trees and realize that they’re now facing a mysterious and much deadlier threat. As the squad is picked off one by one, Arnold finds himself pitted against a hideous alien creature that’s heavily armed and wearing a spacesuit enabling the creature to render itself invisible. The title says it all in describing the relentless, escalating action that follows, maintained by McTiernan with an abundance of visual flair. The film’s special effects are still impressive, and stunning locations in the Mexican jungles create a combined atmosphere of verdant beauty and imminent danger. The plot doesn’t hold up to much scrutiny, but the movie’s so exciting and tightly paced that its weaknesses seem irrelevant. –Jeff Shannon

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Terminator 2 (Six-Disc Limited Edition Set + Endoskull Bust) [Blu-ray]

Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 19-MAY-2009
Media Type: Blu-Ray Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as The Terminator in this explosive action-adventure spectacle. Now he’s one of the good guys, sent back in time to protect John Connor, the boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the future. Linda Hamilton reprises her role as Sarah Connor, John’s mother, a quintessential survivor who has been institutionalized for her warning of the nuclear holocaust she knows is inevitable. Together, the threesome must find a way to stop the ultimate enemy – the T-1000, the most lethal Terminator ever created. Co- written, produced and directed by James Cameron (The Terminator, Aliens, Titanic), this visual tour de force is also a touching human story of survival.

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Product DescriptionSTREET-FIGHTER LEGEND OF CHUN-LI (BLU-RAY/DC/R/UR/Amazon. ComThe story of the origins of popular game characters from Capcom Street Fighter video is detailed in The Legend of Chun-Li, a live-action martial arts Thriller from director Andrzej Bartkowiak Doom. Smallville Kristin Kreuk gives an animated tour in the title role, a concert pianist turned crime fighter the world cracks from the head while in pursuit of criminals who have kidnapped his father. Neal McDonough and Michael Clarke Duncan Glower effective than the buffalo, the mastermind behind the kidnapping abject, and his sidekick, Balrog, respectively. offbeat film cast that includes Chris Klein and Moon Bloodgood as Detective, Black Eyed Peas Taboo as the claw-wielding Vega, and Hong Kong star Cheng Pei Pei, Josie Ho and Edmund Chen in supporting roles, is the most inspired film, which too often relies on a well worn and action kung fu movie clichés to fill time between fight sequences, targets film audience – fans of the game – may find it less engaging than younger, less demanding moviegoers with a yen for the full flavor of punch-ups. – Paul Gaita Stills from Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li (Click for larger image)

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Product DescriptionGenre: Action / AdventureRating: RRelease Date: 2-Dec-2008Media Type: Blu-RayAmazon. comas impresario behind gravity-defying Russian blockbuster Night Watch, it is inevitable that Hollywood would come calling for Timur Bekmambetov. With a studio budget and an international cast, including two Oscar winners, Timur cooks up Hong Kong style action film bursting with fast cars and big guns. Our unlikely hero is mild-mannered Chicago accountant Wesley Gibson (Atonement James McAvoy), whose father died when he was a tot. Wesley never learned to fight for himself and his girlfriend, his boss and best buddy all take advantage until the seductive Fox (Angelina Jolie) saves him from a sniper named Cross (The Pianist, Thomas Kretschmann). Afterwards, she carries away to a mansion on the edge of town to meet other members of the Fraternity, where leader Sloan (Morgan Freeman) informs that the Cross-Wesley, a rogue agent, executed his father . Sloan believes that Wesley has the goods to leave, so he undergoes brutal training regime of the Brotherhood (Marc Warren and Common dish some abuse). When he’s ready, Sloan sends him to perform his duty, but things become complicated when Wesley discovers someone is not telling the truth, the head of our former milquetoast to require a complex revenge. For those who have followed career to date McAvoy, Wanted will surely come as a surprise. By adapting comic series by Mark Millar, Timur offers buckets of blood and a bit of depth, but fans of the Matrix and Mr. and Mrs. Smith will want to give it a look. – Kathleen C. Fennessy Stills from Wanted (Click for larger image) Click to learn more about the BD-Live Experience

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Product DescriptionAcademy Award ® nominee Will Smith (Best Actor, The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006) stars in this action-packed comedy as Hancock, sarcastic, hard living and misunderstood superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public. When Hancock grudgingly agrees to an extreme makeover from idealistic publicist Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman, Juno), his life and reputation rise from the ashes and all seems right again – until he meets a woman (2003 Academy Award ® winner Charlize Theron, Best Actress, Monster) with similar powers to his and the key to his secret past. Amazon. comHancock shooting the movie superhero standard inside-out: The main character (Will Smith) can fly, has superstrength, and is invulnerable, but it is also a sloppy, alcoholic jerk who causes millions of dollars in damage whenever he bothers to fight crime. When he saves the life of a PR agent named Ray (Jason Bateman, Arrested Development), Ray decides to improve Hancock’s image – starting by having Hancock surrender to the authorities and go to jail for his behavior anarchic. The idea is that once he is in prison, the crime rate will increase, and people will start realizing Hancock might be useful after all. This is only the first act of Hancock – from there the film takes several turns of mind that should not be revealed. Hancock is not a great movie (among other things, director Peter Berg abuse closeups with a portable device to a degree that may cause motion sickness), but it is extremely entertaining. The script, which is much better than most films of super-hero, has a propulsive plot, good dialogue, some compassion for his characters, and even an actual idea or two. The spectacular action at least gestures towards obeying the laws of physics, which actually makes the special effects more vivid. The three leads (Smith, Bateman and Charlize Theron as Ray’s wife, Mary) deftly balance mixture of film comedy, action and drama. Overall, a touch of subversion chip on a genre that too often takes itself too seriously. – Bret Fetzer Stills from Hancock (click for larger image)

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Product DescriptionPLANET HULK (BLU RAY) (WS / ENG / ENG SUB / SPAN / SPAN SUAmazon. Coma whole new world of hurt! He was a monster, uncontrollable, too dangerous to ignore. So most powerful hero Earth exiled to outer space. But now the crash INCREDIBLE HULK-SAKAAR lands on the distant planet ruled by the tyrannical king sun. sold into slavery, Hulk becomes more powerful gladiators on the planet, but his new masters get more than they bargained for when he forges a bond of brotherhood with his fellow fighters: Crafty insectoid Miek, Korg rock ruthless man, ex-pirest shadow Hiroim, and the noble-born rebel Ello. Unlike Earth, the people Sakaar desperate to believe a monster is exactly what they need. But the Hulk be the one to save their world … or destroy it?

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DescriptionInspired the best-selling graphic novel by Darwyn Cooke and produced by multiple Emmy Award ® Animation legend Bruce Timm The New Frontier is the epic story of the founding of the Justice League. Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are all here of course, and so are Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter and Flash – whose incredible origins will be told for the first time. Strangers at first, these very different heroes must overcome fear and suspicion to forge an alliance against a monster so formidable, even the mighty Superman can not stop. If they fail, the entire planet will be “cleansed” of humanity.

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Product DescriptionMUMMY-Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (BLU RAY) (2DISCS/Amazon. ComThe third film in The Mummy series freshens the franchise up by setting the action in China. Here, the discovery of the tomb to prepare a former Emperor proves a feather in the cap of Alex O’Connell (Luke Ford), a young archaeologist and son of Rick O’Connell (Brendan Fraser) and his wife Evelyn (Maria Bello, taking over the role from Rachel Weisz). Unfortunately a curse that turned the emperor (Jet Li) and his army of terracotta warriors buried for centuries is lifted, and the old guy prepares for world domination by seeking immortality at Shangri La. the O ‘Connell barely stay a step ahead of him (climbing through the Himalaya mountains with apparent ease), but the action inevitably leads to a confrontation between two armies of mummies in a Chinese desert. The Mummy : Tomb of the Dragon Emperor has a lot to offer: a supporting cast that includes the elegant Michelle Yeoh, Russell Wong, Liam Cunningham, the unexpected appearance of several Yeti and a climactic battle sequence that is terrifying is bizarre but convincing. On the downside, the charm so desperately sought in romantic relationships, as well as curves drawn by John Hannah (as Evelyn’s brother Rascal), is not only absent but often annoying. Rarely witty asides in the heart the battle been more unwelcome in a movie executive. Rob Cohen is largely crisp if sometimes curious (a fight between Fraser and Jet Li keeps varying in speed for some reason), but his vision of Shangri La, in the Hollywood tradition, is certainly attractive. – Tom Keoghbr > Stills of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Click for larger image) Click to learn more about the BD-Live Experience

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• 2 HOURS OF EXCLUSIVE EXTRA CONTENT – Prepare for Blu-ray glory and immerse yourself in the 300 experience as never before possible.THE COMPLETE 300: A COMPREHENSIVE IMMERSION – This NEW interactive picture-in-picture experience provides 3 unique perspectives to explore while you watch the film: * CREATING A LEGEND: Frank Miller and Zack Snyder Interpret a Classic Tale – Holding true to Frank Mill

Description2 HOURS OF EXTRA EXCLUSIVE CONTENT – Prepare the glory for the Blu-ray and dive into the experience of 300 like never before. Amazon. comLike Sin City before it, 300 brings Frank Miller and Lynn Varley’s graphic novel vividly to life. Gerard Butler (Beowulf and Grendel, The Phantom of the Opera) radiates pure power and charisma as Leonidas, the Greek king of Sparta who leads 300 of his compatriots (including David Wenham of The Lord of the Rings, Michael Fassbender, and Andrew Pleavin) in a battle against the overwhelming force of Persian invaders. Their only hope is to neutralize the numerical advantage by confronting the Persians, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), at the narrow pass of Thermopylae. More engaging than Troy, the epic warm and somewhat similar to ancient Greece, 300 is also comparable to Sin City in that the actors were shot on green screen, then added to digitally created backgrounds. The effort pays off in a very stylish look and immense battle scenes large. However, it is not as literally faithful to the source material Miller’s Sin City was. The plot is the same, and many images of the book are represented almost perfectly. But some extra material has been added, including new villains (who would be considered “bosses” if this were a video game, and it often feels like one) and a political subplot involving new characters and a significantly expanded role for the queen of Sparta (Lena Headey). While this subplot by director Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead) and his fellow co-authors do not break the violence, most fans would probably dismiss it as filler if it did not include the sexy Headey. Other viewers, of course, will be turned off by the waves of spurting blood, flying body parts, and surging testosterone. (The six-pack abs are also relentless, and the film has more or less nudity – more female, less male – than the graphic novel.) However, as a representation of Miller’s work and as an old film of action with the theme of a modern edge, 300 delivers. – David Horiuchi

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