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AVATAR Blu-ray Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: May 3rd, 2010 at 2:59 pm

Avatar is the most successful film of all time. So it should be no surprise that people went crazy for it. Like really crazy, like becoming suicidal over Pandora not existing crazy. The story of how Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) went to Pandora as a crippled marine, and became a Na’vi (a twelve-foot tall blue catlike creature), then a leader and warrior got to the core of some people, possibly because of how director James Cameron approached his 3-D world. Unfortunately, the home viewing experience has yet to be able to replicate that, and they didn’t bother with a red-blue 3-D home version (supposedly 3-D TV will be on the marketplace by the end of the year), nor did they offer a special edition version. Essentially the current release is a stop-gap until the special extended edition hits theaters, and then a bells and whistles version is likely. My review of the Avatar Blu-ray comes after the jump.

6 Movie Clips from THE ORPHAN – Starring Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: July 19th, 2009 at 8:01 am

Opening this Friday is Warner Bros. new thriller “Orphan”. The film was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (“House of Wax”) and it stars Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder and Jimmy Bennett. If you aren’t familiar with the film, it’s about an evil orphan that comes to live with Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard’s family….

So to help promote the film, we’ve been provided with six clips and they’re after the jump – along with the full synopsis. Take a look. Also, in the next day or so expect interviews with Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard, director Jaume Collet-Serra, and producers Joel Silver and Susan Downey.

THE SHIELD: Season Seven – The Final Act DVD Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: June 27th, 2009 at 7:11 pm

If The Shield made any mistakes in its seven season run, it’s that as it headed into the final stretch (really Seasons five, six and seven, which fits as five and six were really one season split apart), is that it put Vic Mackie (Michael Chiklis) and Shane Vandrell (Walton Goggins) front and center, and the supporting cast from the Barn – the show’s station for the Los Angeles cops who made up most of the cast – were put into the margins. Sure “Dutch” Wagenbach (Jay Karnes) gets to break a case or two, and Claudette Wimms (CCH Pounder) gets some moments, but they are the lucky ones compared to Michael Jace’s officer Julien, or Catherine Dent’s Danni Sofer. There wasn’t much to do, and they were sacrificed for momentum. Who did benefit? David Rees Snell, as his Detective Ronnie Gardocki went from a feature player who maybe got a line or two, to one of the show’s aces in the hole.

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