DVD Pick of the Week: Blind Side

March 23rd, 2010

Sandra Bulluck has been in the news lately for all the wrong reason — bad bad Jesse James, but before the bad news broke, she was all the rage at the Oscars for her performance in The Blind Side. The Blind Side DVD is this week’s pick of the week, featuring the true story of a boy that grow up from abandonment to a success as an NFL football player.

The Blind Side Blu-ray is also available for those that wish to watch it in High Definition.

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Blu-ray Added on 2010-02-05

February 5th, 2010
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Brothers Five Blu-ray

$13.20USD (Added: 2010-02-05, Released: 2010-04-06)
WELL GO USA

Fist of Fury director Lo Wei keeps the action flowing and the body blows flying in this epic tale of revenge and brotherly love featuring Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon swordsman Cheng Pei-pei. The same killers who murdered Yen Lai's father have overrun the Teng Lung Manor, and now Lai's only hope for revenge is to reunite her five brothers. But her siblings have all been separated since childhood, and brining them back together promises to be nearly as formidable a task as defeating the nefari

Cocoon 25th Anniversary Blu-ray

$18.28USD (Added: 2010-02-05, Released: 2010-04-06)
20TH CENTURY FOX

Cocoon is a warm-hearted science-fiction fable that avoids becoming overly corny thanks to the performances of its mostly senior cast. Wilford Brimley, Don Ameche, and Hume Cronyn are three old-timers who sneak out of their retirement home a few days a week to swim in the large pool on an abandoned estate next door. When the threesome begins to feel curiously younger, they discover strange pods on the floor of the pool. These pods are alien cocoons, which are being pulled from the ocean by a te

Delightful Forest Blu-ray

$13.20USD (Added: 2010-02-05, Released: 2010-04-06)
WELL GO USA

Inspired by the legend of Wu Sung, Delightful Forest follows the fictional Water Margin character as he serves time in a Meng province prison for the murder of his sister-in-law and her lover, and forges a close bond with a sympathetic prison guard Shih En, whose restaurant has been taken over by a ruthless criminal with powerful connections. When Shih En (Tien Ching) helps to ensure that he is spared the baton punishment inflicted on all of the new prisoners, Wu Sung (Ti Lung) vows to help

Heroic Ones Blu-ray

$13.20USD (Added: 2010-02-05, Released: 2010-04-06)
WELL GO USA

Chang Cheh takes the director's chair for this martial arts adventure produced by the Shaw Brothers and set during the final years of the Tang Dynasty. The Chinese Emperor has requested that barbarian chieftain Li Ke-yung (Ku Feng) recapture the capitol city, which has recently fallen under the rule of a powerful rebel leader. In order to accomplish this formidable task, Ke-yung calls on his thirteen sons, each of whom are powerful fighters. Li Shih-szu (Ti Lung) and Li Tsun-hsiao ({$Davi

Ninja Assassin 2 Discs Includes Digital Copy Blu-ray/DVD

$32.28USD (Added: 2010-02-05, Released: 2010-03-16)
WARNER HOME VIDEO

V for Vendetta director James McTeigue re-teams with that film's producers Larry and Andy Wachowski for this action-packed tale of a skilled assassin who was trained by a mythical secret society, and patiently awaits the day he will avenge the death of his best friend. Swept off the streets as a young boy, Raizo (Korean pop star Rain) is transformed into an unstoppable killing machine by a secret society known as the Ozunu Clan. The Ozunu Clan is so proficient at keeping their existenc

Up in the Air Blu-ray

$35.93USD (Added: 2010-02-05, Released: 2010-03-09)
PARAMOUNT

Juno's Jason Reitman heads into corporate America territory once again with this adaptation of Walter Kirn's novel Up in the Air for Montecito Pictures. The plot surrounds a human resource administrator (George Clooney) whose life up in the friendly skies becomes his only world as he works to reach his one-millionth frequent flyer mile. Jason Bateman and Vera Farmiga co-star in the Paramount Pictures production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide

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Blu-ray Added on 2010-02-04

February 4th, 2010
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Minority Report 2 Discs Blu-ray

$23.25USD (Added: 2010-02-04, Released: 2010-04-20)
DREAMWORKS VIDEO

Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. Anderton works for "Precrime," a special unit of the police department that arrests murderers before they have committed the actual crime. Precrime bases its work on the visions of three psychics or "precogs" whose prophecies of future

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Blu-ray Added on 2010-02-02

February 2nd, 2010
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Broken Embraces Blu-ray

$28.03USD (Added: 2010-02-02, Released: 2010-03-16)
SONY PICTURES

A follow-up to Spanish enfant terrible Pedro Almodóvar's 2006 arthouse sensation Volver, Los Abrazos Rotos finds the filmmaker re-teaming with actress Penélope Cruz and working on a canvas much broader than those of his previous outings, in terms of genres covered, narrative scope, and duration. Lluís Homar stars as the former Mateo Blanco, a screenwriter and ex-director who changed his name to Harry Caine after losing his sight in an automobile accident. A past scandal suddenly

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Blu-ray Added on 2010-02-01

February 1st, 2010
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2004): COMPLETE SERIES

$206.67USD (Added: 2010-02-01, Released: 2010-04-06)
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS



District 13: Ultimatum

$23.62USD (Added: 2010-02-01, Released: 2010-04-27)
MAGNOLIA

The loud, intense, and explosive action saga Banlieue 13: Ultimatum is a sequel to the 2004 European blockbuster Banlieue 13. This second installment was directed by Patrick Alessandrin but initially gestated from the vision of writer-producer Luc Besson, also responsible for scripting and producing the first go-round. Ultimatum unfurls three years after the original, in the slightly dystopian realm of suburban Paris, circa 2013. Ultra-violence now riddles that sphere -- to such a degree

DISTRICT B-13 & DISTRICT 13: ULTIMATUM (2PC)

$30.99USD (Added: 2010-02-01, Released: 2010-04-27)
MAGNOLIA



My Life to Live

$30.96USD (Added: 2010-02-01, Released: 2010-04-20)
CRITERION

Vivre Sa Vie presents 12 episodes in the life of a young woman who turns to prostitution to pay her rent. Each episode features a theatrical scene preceded by a title that lists the characters in the episode, its location, and a brief summary of the action. As he would throughout his career, director Jean-Luc Godard uses prostitution as a metaphor for both economic life in general and the position of the filmmaker under capitalism. Vivre Sa Vie stars Anna Karina, who was married to Godard at

Ride With the Devil

$30.96USD (Added: 2010-02-01, Released: 2010-04-27)
CRITERION

A complex tale of uneasy alliances along the Kansas/Missouri border during the Civil War, Ride with the Devil concerns Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich), a proud son of the South ready to fight for the Confederate cause after his father is killed by Union troops. Chiles's best friend, Jake Roedel (Tobey Maguire), joins the Bushwhackers, a group of renegade Southerners aligned with the Confederate Army, even though his family supports the Union cause. The two young men, used to the slow pace and grac

Summer Hours

$30.96USD (Added: 2010-02-01, Released: 2010-04-20)
CRITERION

Three siblings must come to terms with their mother's mortality as they decide what to do with her valuable belongings in this warm family drama from filmmaker Olivier Assayas. Hélène Berthier (Edith Scob) is about to turn 75, and her children are gathering at her home in the country for a party. Adrienne (Juliette Binoche) has flown in from New York City, where she lives with her boyfriend, James (Kyle Eastwood). Jérémie (Jérémie Renier) has taken a rare break from his globe-

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