This week in DVD and blue jet: Receive It RK the Greek, Töter humans 2 off iron within I, frozen and more

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PARTY DOWN (SEASON 2) Last time I wrote of the brilliance of this series, I begged people to watch and support it. My pleas were in vain, it would appear, as the show was canceled due to its low ratings failing to pick up over the course of its second season. Truthfully, I’m stunned it even made it past its first season, and for that alone I am grateful. Season 2 continues some time after the first left off, and a lot has changed since then. The new character dynamic takes a few episodes to find its footing, but once it does, it results in some of the funniest scenes the show has to offer. (The final moment of this scene in particular makes me bust up laughing every time I think about it.) While it’s sad to see such a biting, cynical satire vanish from the air, the series provided us with two knockout seasons, a perfect note to close the show on, and one of the few honest (read: depressing) portrayals of the costs of trying to lead an unorthodox lifestyle in modern society. It is, for! my money, one of the best comedies to have ever been on television. Before I begged you to watch it; now I’m begging you to buy it. Available on Blu-ray? No. Notable Extras: A gag reel.

DVD PRICE Amazon â€" $21.49

GET HIM TO THE GREEK (DVD available as single-disc and 2-Disc Collector’s Edition) For a film that seems to want to be the cruder, more outlandish and gag-oriented step-cousin to the surprisingly sweet-hearted Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek ends up being surprisingly sweet in its own right. Even amidst all the silly, wild alcohol/drug-induced binges, featuring characters and conflicts that lack the relatability of Forgetting Sarah Marshall’s, the film still manages to hone in on the humanity of these people and provide them relationships worth caring about. The jokes would’ve been funny either way, but they’re made funnier by having a writer/director that actually cares about the characters, and takes advantage of those few key semi-dramatic moments in the film to bring a believability and emotionality to their roles. Add to that a hilariously farcical portrayal of the LA scene, complete with Russell Brand’s Aldous Snow performing credible yet absurdly lyricized tunes, and you get yourself a film that, while perhaps! not as good as Forgetting Sarah Marshall, may actually be funnier. Available on Blu-ray? Yes. Notable Extras: Single-disc DVD â€" Includes unrated & theatrical edition. 2-disc DVD â€" Includes everything on the single-disc DVD, as well as a commentary with director Nicholas Stoller, cast members Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Rose Byrne, Elisabeth Moss and producer Rodney Rothman, 3 documentaries (”Getting To Get Him to The Greek”, “Getting In Tune With The Greek”, “The Making Of “African Child”), 5 Music Videos featuring Aldous Snow, Infant Sorrow and Jackie Q, Deleted, Extended and Alternate Scenes including an Alternate Intro and Ending, Musical Performances from Infant Sorrow’s triumphant 1999 Greek Theater Concert and 2009 Comeback Concert, a gag reel, and a digital copy of the film. Blu-ray â€" Includes everything on the 2-disc DVD, as well as additional extended scenes, Musical performances from The Today Show and VH-1 Storytellers, and a Karaoke feature.

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IRON MAN 2 (DVD available as single-disc and 2-Disc Edition, Blu-ray available as single-disc and 3-Disc Edition) You know that saying about missing the forest for the trees? Well, with Iron Man 2, that may be for the better. Judging the film on a scene-to-scene basis, it’s plenty entertaining, kept engaging by way of amusing character interactions and some fun (albeit limited) action set pieces. As a whole, however, it’s a convoluted, disjointed mess that fails on nearly every level. There’s so much attention to all these ancillary detailsâ€"the awkward setting up of characters and subplots for future Marvel properties being the primary offenderâ€"that the film loses sight of its own storyline, and each of the film’s many subplots suffer as a result. Sam Rockwell is a lot of fun as a smarmy, fake-tanned Justin Hammer, but his relationship and rivalry with Tony Stark is treated like a non-issue, rendering the conflict meaningless. Likewise, Mickey Rourke has some nice moments as Whiplash, but feels tacked on for the sake of having a villain with a cool costume &#! 038; gadgets to show off in the trailers. Then there’s the plotline involving Stark being poisoned by the arc reactor in his chest, the resolution of whichâ€"featuring an elemental discovery by Stark that exempts him from any growth whatsoeverâ€"is nothing short of asinine. The stand-out failure of the film though, is the Stark and Rhodey relationship. Gone is the natural camaraderie between Robert Downey, Jr. and Terrence Howard that so many took for granted. In its place: a stoic, impersonal Don Cheadle acting out abruptly and thoughtlessly for poorly established reasons, mostly in a bald-faced attempt to get him in the War Machine suit. In all of these subplots, the emotional motivations and character arcs are forced at best and absent at worst, leaving the film hollow and forgettable. If this is a sign of how we can expect Marvel to treat the remainder of the prerequisite Avengers films (i.e., rushed and sloppy), then I’m not sure what point there is in gett! ing excited about them. Available on Blu-ray? Yes. Notable Extras: Single-disc DVD â€" Commentary by Jon Favreau. 2-disc DVD â€" Includes everything on the single-disc DVD, as well as Deleted Scenes and an Alternate Opening, Featurettes (Creating Stark Expo, Practical Meets Digital), and a Digital Copy. Single-disc Blu-ray â€" Includes everything on the single-disc DVD, as well as S.H.I.E.L.D. Data Vault and Previsualization and Animatics. 3-disc Blu-ray â€" Includes everything on the 2-disc DVD and single-disc Blu-ray, as well as Ultimate Iron Man: The Making of Iron Man 2 (4-part documentary), Illustrated Origins: Nick Fury, Black Widow, War Machine, Working with DJ AM, Concept Art Gallery, and a copy of the DVD.

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*Does not include 2-Disc Edition, which costs $21.97 at Fry’s, $24.99 at Best Buy and Amazon, and $29.99 at Target.

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THE KILLER INSIDE ME Elegantly visualized and utterly compelling throughout, The Killer Inside Me is a movie that I wanted to love, but was dismayingly left without a reason to do so by the film’s end. I kept waiting for some sort of discernable complexity to arise from underneath the surface of this emotionless, murderous figure, around whom the whole film is based, but director Michael Winterbottom instead spends his time on lengthy sequences of women being savagely beaten. Despite Casey Affleck’s cold, mumbling performance feeling deliberate in intent, his character is so disconnected from the viewer that Winterbottom’s attempts at crafting a psychological character study quickly prove to be misguided. Still, the noir mood alone justifies the rental. Available on Blu-ray? Yes. Notable Extras: DVD & Blu-ray â€" 3 featurettes (”Making of with Casey Affleck”, “Making of with Jessica Alba”, “Making of with Kate Hudson”).

DVD PRICE Amazon â€" $13.99

BLU-RAY PRICE Amazon â€" $19.99

FROZEN It’s easy to laugh off the premise of Frozen, which finds three friends trapped on a ski lift with no way to get down, but with it, writer/director Adam Green presents an eerily effective man-vs.-nature horror-thriller that, like all movies of this sort (Open Water, 127 Hours), urges the question: What would you do? The problem with asking that question to an audience is they usually have an answer that you won’t find depicted on screen, and while Frozen does a serviceable job of covering most of its bases, there’s at least one obvious optionâ€"climbing down using your clothes as a ropeâ€"that is never even discussed. Assuming you can get over that oversight in logic, the film introduces some other elements to the mix that, while ridiculous from a realism standpoint, help to keep the film cinematically interesting. It also features solid performances from its three young leads, and attempts at characterizations that don’t ring falseâ€"two things that ! are pretty rare for this genre. The film has its problems, but it’s an admirable effort, and probably better than it should be. Available on Blu-ray? Yes. Notable Extras: DVD â€" Commentary with writer/director Adam Green and actors Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers and Emma Bell, featurettes (Catching Frostbite: The Origins of Frozen, Three Below Zero, Shooting Through It, Beating the Mountain: Surviving Frozen), and Deleted scenes. Blu-ray â€" Includes everything on the DVD, as well as a second commentary with writer/director Adam Green, cinematographer Will Barratt and editor Ed Marx.

DVD PRICE Amazon â€" $19.99

BLU-RAY PRICE Amazon â€" $24.99

Other noteworthy DVD (and Blu-ray) releases this week… Babies [DVD / Blu-ray] â€" Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky [DVD / Blu-ray] â€" Good [DVD / Blu-ray] â€" Superman/Batman: Apocalypse [Single-disc DVD / 2-disc DVD / Blu-ray] â€" Perrier’s Bounty â€" Legend of the Seeker (Season 2) â€" The Cleveland Show (Season 1) â€" The Thin Red Line (Criterion Collection) [DVD / Blu-ray] â€" Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Criterion Collection) [DVD / Blu-ray]

Noteworthy Blu-ray-specific releases this week… King Kong (1933)

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Exclusive: Superman figurine included with Superman/Batman: Apocalypse.

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$4.99 â€" Back to the Future, The Big Lebowski: 10 Year Anniversary, Inglourious Basterds, To Kill a Mockingbird, 9, It’s Complicated, The Land Before Time

• Ep. 117 - Catfish (GUEST: Katey Rich from CinemaBlend)
• Iron Man 2’s Deleted Alernate Opening
• Jon Favreau Confirms Black Panther, Thor and Captain America Easter Eggs in Iron Man 2
• Veronica Mars/Party Down Creator Rob Thomas Heads to NBC with ‘Temps’
• Rumors: Christoph Waltz for Spider-Man Villain; Did Marvel Push Jon Favreau Away From The Avengers?
• The /Filmcast Ep. 106 - Knight and Day

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The whole whole off the Sagas off Star Wars for 3D fortifies free into the year 2012

Well, George Lucas has been talking about 3-D converting and re-releasing the entire Star Wars saga for quite a number of years. Now comes word that he's finally going ahead with it. Here we go AGAIN!Sources indicate that George Lucas is set to re-release the entire "Star Wars" franchise in new 3D conversions beginning in 2012. Though the 3D versions have been rumored for some time, Lucas was purportedly waiting until there were enough 3D screens available to make the release a sizable enough event.Fox, which released all six of the original "Star Wars" films, would also release the 3D versions.Part 1, "The Phantom Menace," would be first out of star-dock in the early months of 2012. After that, each of the films would be released in order at the same time each consecutive year, depending on how well the first re-release does.Each conversion takes at least a year to complete, with Lucas p! ersonally overseeing the process to make sure each one is as perfected as possible. Lucas has said that the "Avatar" experience convinced him that "Star Wars" was ready for the state-of-the-art 3D treatment.So lemme get this straight? After announcing at Star Wars Celebration V last month that the entire saga would be coming to home video on Blu-Ray in 2011, (with an expensive price tag no doubt) the bearded one expects us to pay yet again to see the films in 3D the following year? “He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil."Apparently Lucas was “convinced” by “the Avatar experience”. For some reason, Lucas thinks the Star Wars saga are “event” films like they were thirty years ago. Thirty years ago, the power to watch movies in a home theater wasn't available, there was no internet and a tri! p to the cinema was a helluva lot cheaper. Times have changed ! and even though there are plenty of blockbusters at the box-office today, there will never again be event films like the original Star Wars. Even though Avatar made over a billion dollars, it's success took place over a brief period and adjusted for inflation, it did not have the same numbers like Lucas did decades ago.Once again George Lucas has proven how far he's fallen towards the Dark Side and is clearly out of touch with his fans. I'm sure those die-hard obsessed fans with absolutely no lives will give Lucas their life savings just to watch these new versions, but there has to be at least a handful of them who share my reluctance. Didn't he recently say that the movie business as we know it would be dead in a few short years? Is Lucas even aware of the current state of our economy and how expensive it has become just to se! e a movie, let alone a 3D movie? Does he actually believe audiences will shell out millions and stay committed for a yearly basis to see 3D conversions of old movies they can already watch at home? When he first brought this up around the release of Revenge of the Sith, I wondered if he would actually release one episode a year in 3D or over the course of several months. Looks like he's going with the former. I don't care if Lucas is personally supervising the conversion process, the Star Wars movies are done. Finished. Lucas is milking his franchise so hard, in every medium that he's starting to make me hate Star Wars, a series I grew up with, loved and worshipped. The films were never intended to be seen in 3D and by the time he releases the re-vamped 3D version of the sixth episode, Return of the Jedi in 2017, seven years from now, 3D will be a thing of the past. We'll all either be watching holographic movies or jacked into them virutally ala The Matrix. Get a grip Ge! orge you've lost it.Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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After seeing Iron Man 2, I was struck with the unfortunate realization that the odds of an Avengers movie being a serious disappointment were far greater than it being an actually good movie. It was hard enough for Marvel to balance Tony Stark as the central character in his own sequel; how could they possibly fare with up to 8 central characters?

Leave it to writer/director Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) to put my mind at ease, and gracefully lull me back to anticipation. Whether it’s describing script alterations he made on Captain America: The First Avenger, discussing the casting of Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner (in place of Edward Norton), or detailing the creative process of making The Avengers, he always seems to know just the thing to say to remind me that Marvel hired the right guy for the job. And I’ve never been more convinced of that until right now, for reasons the headline of this article should already make clear.

The interview hails from SFX, kicking off with Whedon proving that he gets why the character of Tony Stark worked so well in Iron Man, and how he plans to make the action set pieces in The Avengers actually matter.

I’m feeling that everything that I have done before has prepared me for this, besides the fact that I’ve been reading The Avengers since I was 11. There are definitely stipulations and restrictions, but Kevin Feige is very active as a producer and worked with me a lot on the story, but they are absolutely honouring the fact that this is my film. What I kind of think ultimately defines Marvel Studios was the first thing they did and that was cast Robert Downey Jr. They said, ‘What if we got great actors and let them have some time to be the people they’re supposed to be instead of going through the paces of hitting this mark and that mark?’ They don’t always ?get it right, but nobody does. But if ?you look at who they already had, and who they allowed me to add to the cast, they are thinking about the integrity of the characters. Obviously we have to get from point A to point B, and fans really want to see this â€" and ideas for set-pieces which I said are grea! t. Now I’m going to make them matter and they are completely on board with the idea.

Scripting is still underway on The Avengers, and Whedon says it’s “been a bear”.

I’m still [outlining the script] because it’s finding out how to introduce people to all of these people in this world. ‘By the way, there’s a thunder god. You guys are cool, right? This guy is big and green and this character wears an American flag. It’s all good, right? It’s totally real world.’ Finding the tone and plots that are coherent is what I go to bed thinking about and wake up thinking about, but it’s doable.

What I will struggle with, in the outline and throughout, is that I would like to put these actors in a room and just make Glengarry Glen Ross. We’re talking about really exciting people and at the same time I have to keep the momentum of the thing going. I can’t let it turn into a lull fest. Knowing that I have enough time to do both of those things â€" that by the end of the movie you will feel ‘in’ with these guys â€" is the trick. It’s not an easy one but one that Marvel absolutely honours. They don’t hire Mark Ruffalo [the new Hulk] to say one iconic line and strike a pose. They hire him because he has so much humanity in him. He’s the antithesis of the iconic actor. He’s so human. He was my first choice to play the part, and the fact he is playing the part is nuts! They went to great lengths to make that happen and they understood exactly why he was right for the part.

Oh, Whedon. Way to address my exact fears, and then shut them down completely. Having acid-tongued, rapid-fire dialogue in the vein of Glengarry Glen Ross is exactly what this team of bickering superheroes needs, and I’m more than confident Joss Whedon is capable of delivering. His contributions to films haven’t always been stellarâ€"as one of his few contributions to X-Men provesâ€"but when left to his own devices, his writing can be a thing of beauty.

Robert Downey Jr. engaging in banter like that of the clip below? Imagine the possibilities.

[via Ain't It Cool]

The Avengers hits theaters May 4, 2012.

• Joss Whedon Describes His Script Work on Captain America: The First Avenger
• Joss Whedon on The Avengers: “All I Can Do Is Make It Good Enough For Somebody To See It Twice”
• Joss Whedon Says Black Widow “Will Not Be The Only Female Character” in The Avengers
• Superhero Bits: X-Men First Class Shoots in Three Weeks; The Avengers to be Shot in 3D; Edgar Wright Calls Ant-Man a “High-Tech Spy Heist Film”; Karl Urban Confirmed as Judge Dredd
• The Avengers: The Real Movie Gets a Start Date While a Fan-Made Trailer Teases the ’50s Version that Never Was
• Comic-Con: JJ Abrams and Joss Whedon [Part 2] (With Full Video)

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This week in DVD and blue jet: Receive It RK the Greek, Töter humans 2 off iron within I, frozen and more

This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s.

PARTY DOWN (SEASON 2) Last time I wrote of the brilliance of this series, I begged people to watch and support it. My pleas were in vain, it would appear, as the show was canceled due to its low ratings failing to pick up over the course of its second season. Truthfully, I’m stunned it even made it past its first season, and for that alone I am grateful. Season 2 continues some time after the first left off, and a lot has changed since then. The new character dynamic takes a few episodes to find its footing, but once it does, it results in some of the funniest scenes the show has to offer. (The final moment of this scene in particular makes me bust up laughing every time I think about it.) While it’s sad to see such a biting, cynical satire vanish from the air, the series provided us with two knockout seasons, a perfect note to close the show on, and one of the few honest (read: depressing) portrayals of the costs of trying to lead an unorthodox lifestyle in modern society. It is, for! my money, one of the best comedies to have ever been on television. Before I begged you to watch it; now I’m begging you to buy it. Available on Blu-ray? No. Notable Extras: A gag reel.

DVD PRICE Amazon â€" $21.49

GET HIM TO THE GREEK (DVD available as single-disc and 2-Disc Collector’s Edition) For a film that seems to want to be the cruder, more outlandish and gag-oriented step-cousin to the surprisingly sweet-hearted Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek ends up being surprisingly sweet in its own right. Even amidst all the silly, wild alcohol/drug-induced binges, featuring characters and conflicts that lack the relatability of Forgetting Sarah Marshall’s, the film still manages to hone in on the humanity of these people and provide them relationships worth caring about. The jokes would’ve been funny either way, but they’re made funnier by having a writer/director that actually cares about the characters, and takes advantage of those few key semi-dramatic moments in the film to bring a believability and emotionality to their roles. Add to that a hilariously farcical portrayal of the LA scene, complete with Russell Brand’s Aldous Snow performing credible yet absurdly lyricized tunes, and you get yourself a film that, while perhaps! not as good as Forgetting Sarah Marshall, may actually be funnier. Available on Blu-ray? Yes. Notable Extras: Single-disc DVD â€" Includes unrated & theatrical edition. 2-disc DVD â€" Includes everything on the single-disc DVD, as well as a commentary with director Nicholas Stoller, cast members Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Rose Byrne, Elisabeth Moss and producer Rodney Rothman, 3 documentaries (”Getting To Get Him to The Greek”, “Getting In Tune With The Greek”, “The Making Of “African Child”), 5 Music Videos featuring Aldous Snow, Infant Sorrow and Jackie Q, Deleted, Extended and Alternate Scenes including an Alternate Intro and Ending, Musical Performances from Infant Sorrow’s triumphant 1999 Greek Theater Concert and 2009 Comeback Concert, a gag reel, and a digital copy of the film. Blu-ray â€" Includes everything on the 2-disc DVD, as well as additional extended scenes, Musical performances from The Today Show and VH-1 Storytellers, and a Karaoke feature.

BEST DVD PRICE* Target Best Buy Fry’s $17.99 $17.99 N/A Amazon â€" $17.99

*Does not include 2-Disc Edition, which costs $22.99 at Target and Amazon.

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EXCLUSIVE DEAL: What? Get Him to the Greek and Forgetting Sarah Marshall Blu-ray 2-Pack ($29.99). Where? Best Buy.

IRON MAN 2 (DVD available as single-disc and 2-Disc Edition, Blu-ray available as single-disc and 3-Disc Edition) You know that saying about missing the forest for the trees? Well, with Iron Man 2, that may be for the better. Judging the film on a scene-to-scene basis, it’s plenty entertaining, kept engaging by way of amusing character interactions and some fun (albeit limited) action set pieces. As a whole, however, it’s a convoluted, disjointed mess that fails on nearly every level. There’s so much attention to all these ancillary detailsâ€"the awkward setting up of characters and subplots for future Marvel properties being the primary offenderâ€"that the film loses sight of its own storyline, and each of the film’s many subplots suffer as a result. Sam Rockwell is a lot of fun as a smarmy, fake-tanned Justin Hammer, but his relationship and rivalry with Tony Stark is treated like a non-issue, rendering the conflict meaningless. Likewise, Mickey Rourke has some nice moments as Whiplash, but feels tacked on for the sake of having a villain with a cool costume &#! 038; gadgets to show off in the trailers. Then there’s the plotline involving Stark being poisoned by the arc reactor in his chest, the resolution of whichâ€"featuring an elemental discovery by Stark that exempts him from any growth whatsoeverâ€"is nothing short of asinine. The stand-out failure of the film though, is the Stark and Rhodey relationship. Gone is the natural camaraderie between Robert Downey, Jr. and Terrence Howard that so many took for granted. In its place: a stoic, impersonal Don Cheadle acting out abruptly and thoughtlessly for poorly established reasons, mostly in a bald-faced attempt to get him in the War Machine suit. In all of these subplots, the emotional motivations and character arcs are forced at best and absent at worst, leaving the film hollow and forgettable. If this is a sign of how we can expect Marvel to treat the remainder of the prerequisite Avengers films (i.e., rushed and sloppy), then I’m not sure what point there is in gett! ing excited about them. Available on Blu-ray? Yes. Notable Extras: Single-disc DVD â€" Commentary by Jon Favreau. 2-disc DVD â€" Includes everything on the single-disc DVD, as well as Deleted Scenes and an Alternate Opening, Featurettes (Creating Stark Expo, Practical Meets Digital), and a Digital Copy. Single-disc Blu-ray â€" Includes everything on the single-disc DVD, as well as S.H.I.E.L.D. Data Vault and Previsualization and Animatics. 3-disc Blu-ray â€" Includes everything on the 2-disc DVD and single-disc Blu-ray, as well as Ultimate Iron Man: The Making of Iron Man 2 (4-part documentary), Illustrated Origins: Nick Fury, Black Widow, War Machine, Working with DJ AM, Concept Art Gallery, and a copy of the DVD.

BEST DVD PRICE* Target Best Buy Fry’s $17.99 $19.99 N/A Amazon â€" $16.99

*Does not include 2-Disc Edition, which costs $22.99 at Best Buy and Amazon.

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*Does not include 2-Disc Edition, which costs $21.97 at Fry’s, $24.99 at Best Buy and Amazon, and $29.99 at Target.

EXCLUSIVE DEAL: What? 3-disc Blu-ray with collectible metal case ($36.99). Where? Target.

THE KILLER INSIDE ME Elegantly visualized and utterly compelling throughout, The Killer Inside Me is a movie that I wanted to love, but was dismayingly left without a reason to do so by the film’s end. I kept waiting for some sort of discernable complexity to arise from underneath the surface of this emotionless, murderous figure, around whom the whole film is based, but director Michael Winterbottom instead spends his time on lengthy sequences of women being savagely beaten. Despite Casey Affleck’s cold, mumbling performance feeling deliberate in intent, his character is so disconnected from the viewer that Winterbottom’s attempts at crafting a psychological character study quickly prove to be misguided. Still, the noir mood alone justifies the rental. Available on Blu-ray? Yes. Notable Extras: DVD & Blu-ray â€" 3 featurettes (”Making of with Casey Affleck”, “Making of with Jessica Alba”, “Making of with Kate Hudson”).

DVD PRICE Amazon â€" $13.99

BLU-RAY PRICE Amazon â€" $19.99

FROZEN It’s easy to laugh off the premise of Frozen, which finds three friends trapped on a ski lift with no way to get down, but with it, writer/director Adam Green presents an eerily effective man-vs.-nature horror-thriller that, like all movies of this sort (Open Water, 127 Hours), urges the question: What would you do? The problem with asking that question to an audience is they usually have an answer that you won’t find depicted on screen, and while Frozen does a serviceable job of covering most of its bases, there’s at least one obvious optionâ€"climbing down using your clothes as a ropeâ€"that is never even discussed. Assuming you can get over that oversight in logic, the film introduces some other elements to the mix that, while ridiculous from a realism standpoint, help to keep the film cinematically interesting. It also features solid performances from its three young leads, and attempts at characterizations that don’t ring falseâ€"two things that ! are pretty rare for this genre. The film has its problems, but it’s an admirable effort, and probably better than it should be. Available on Blu-ray? Yes. Notable Extras: DVD â€" Commentary with writer/director Adam Green and actors Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers and Emma Bell, featurettes (Catching Frostbite: The Origins of Frozen, Three Below Zero, Shooting Through It, Beating the Mountain: Surviving Frozen), and Deleted scenes. Blu-ray â€" Includes everything on the DVD, as well as a second commentary with writer/director Adam Green, cinematographer Will Barratt and editor Ed Marx.

DVD PRICE Amazon â€" $19.99

BLU-RAY PRICE Amazon â€" $24.99

Other noteworthy DVD (and Blu-ray) releases this week… Babies [DVD / Blu-ray] â€" Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky [DVD / Blu-ray] â€" Good [DVD / Blu-ray] â€" Superman/Batman: Apocalypse [Single-disc DVD / 2-disc DVD / Blu-ray] â€" Perrier’s Bounty â€" Legend of the Seeker (Season 2) â€" The Cleveland Show (Season 1) â€" The Thin Red Line (Criterion Collection) [DVD / Blu-ray] â€" Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Criterion Collection) [DVD / Blu-ray]

Noteworthy Blu-ray-specific releases this week… King Kong (1933)

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Exclusive: Superman figurine included with Superman/Batman: Apocalypse.

$17.99 â€" Blu-ray sale: Sherlock Holmes, Where the Wild Things Are, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2 for $20: $19.99 â€" Blu-ray sale: The Incredible Hulk, Casino, Waterworld $14.99 â€" Blu-ray sale: Dracula, Resident Evil, The Waterboy, Scary Movie $9.99 â€" Blu-ray sale: Major League

$18.99 â€" Blu-ray or DVD sale: Mad Men (Season 1 â€" 3)

$4.99 â€" Back to the Future, The Big Lebowski: 10 Year Anniversary, Inglourious Basterds, To Kill a Mockingbird, 9, It’s Complicated, The Land Before Time

• Ep. 117 - Catfish (GUEST: Katey Rich from CinemaBlend)
• Iron Man 2’s Deleted Alernate Opening
• Jon Favreau Confirms Black Panther, Thor and Captain America Easter Eggs in Iron Man 2
• Veronica Mars/Party Down Creator Rob Thomas Heads to NBC with ‘Temps’
• Rumors: Christoph Waltz for Spider-Man Villain; Did Marvel Push Jon Favreau Away From The Avengers?
• The /Filmcast Ep. 106 - Knight and Day

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Closing time for Transformers 3 in Detroit as production finished its final scenes in the city today. The clean-up has begun as the caravan is moving to Florida and the Space Center area for a week of filming from September 29th to October 5th. In the mean time J1000 has provided his final set report with gallery that includes meeting Josh Duhamel, news the set jet prop might be a Decepticon (more fuel for the Shockwave theory) and a continued reminder that the Transformers 3 crew continues to treat fans with nothing but respect and kindness that is appreciated. A huge thanks to J1000 for the last few weeks of images and video for bringing the Detroit shoot to the rest of us.Well, the smoke is settling in Detroit. Filmi! ng wrapped here this morning, with some final scenes shot around the various sets. They are breaking down the sets, and going into clean-up mode, and getting ready to head to Florida tomorrow. I met a really cool girl that works with the locations department over the weekend, who invited us down to check out one of the sets. Just before we ran into here, we got to get some pics of/with some NEST soldiers, then with Josh Duhamel himself! A few minutes later, a crew member saw us and gave my son an ILM/TF3 Crew hat, and another gave him a yellow TF3 sticker like the ones they handed out in Chicago. When we met up with the girl I mentioned, she took us back on the set where the jet was filmed against the skyscraper section and bluescreen, and described some of what we would see in the movie regarding it. She said it would take place 18 floors up, when Sam would jump onto the ship, and the bluescreen would be replaced with Chicago skyline. Another crew member said "Did you guys! see the Decepticon ship?".. soooo sounds like it may be Decep! ticon af ter all (unless he was mistaken). She described what a lot of the props were for, and pointed out a lot of prominent members of the production that were nearby, such as Simon (Assistant Director), the director of 3D recording, the lead sound editor, etc. Just before we left, Shia walked by about 10 feet away in costume; they were getting ready to wrap up, so we left at that point, with a bunch of awesome memories, pics, videos, and souvenirs. Everybody we met involved with the movie was extremely friendly, very cool, and very gracious with their time, and I thank them all for that! Well, that's it from Detroit everybody; can't wait to see what Florida brings!J1000
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