Apr 05 2010

Clash of the Titans (Blu-ray Book) (1981)

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Clash of the Titans (Blu-ray Book)

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You have a classic tale full of drama, passion, and adventure. A tale of universal archetypes that speak to everyone. A tale that has remained unfailingly popular for thousands of years. Why not spice it up with a wacky mechanical owl? Such was the thinking behind Clash of the Titans. Maggie Smith, Laurence Olivier, and Harry Hamlin (one of these things is not like the others…) star in a toga-ripper about a valiant hero, capricious immortals, and lots and lots of giant stop-action monsters. Perseus (Hamlin) is the favored son of the god Zeus (Olivier), but he has unwittingly ticked off the sea goddess Thetis (Smith). Just to make things worse, Perseus falls in love with the lovely Princess Andromeda, who used to be engaged to Thetis’s son. Soon Perseus is off on one quest after another, with Zeus helping, Thetis hindering, and lots of innocent bystanders getting stabbed, drowned, and squished. Of course, the whole thing is just an excuse to show as much of (more…)

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Mar 22 2010

Avatar (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) [Blu-ray] (2009)

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Avatar (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) [Blu-ray]

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After 12 years of thinking about it (and waiting for movie technology to catch up with his visions), James Cameron followed up his unsinkable Titanic with Avatar, a sci-fi epic meant to trump all previous sci-fi epics. Set in the future on a distant planet, Avatar spins a simple little parable about greedy colonizers (that would be mankind) messing up the lush tribal world of Pandora. A paraplegic Marine named Jake (Sam Worthington) acts through a 9-foot-tall avatar that allows him to roam the planet and pass as one of the Na’vi, the blue-skinned, large-eyed native people who would very much like to live their peaceful lives without the interference of the visitors. Although he’s supposed to be gathering intel for the badass general (Stephen Lang) who’d like to lay waste to the planet and its inhabitants, Jake naturally begins to take a liking to the Na’vi, especially the feisty Neytiri (ZoĆ« Saldana, whose entire performance, recorded by Cameron’s complicate (more…)

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Mar 15 2010

Living Landscapes: Earthscapes – Flowers & Gardens [Blu-ray] (2009)

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Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Flowers & Gardens [Blu-ray]

Studio: Allegro Media Group Release Date: 05/12/2009 Run time: 60 minutes

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