Pineapple Express (Unrated + BD Live) [Blu-ray]
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / 2008 / 111 Minutes / Unrated
Street Date: January 06, 2009
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime
Starring: Rosie Perez, James Franco, Seth Rogen
Director: David Gordon Green
Plot Synopsis: A new comedy from the creative genius of Judd Apatow (40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Talladega Nights) follows a pair of druggie losers as they reach the top of the hit-list when one witnesses a mob murder and drags his buddy into a crazy flight from mobsters bent on silencing both of them permanently. The film stars new sensation Seth Rogen (Knocked Up, Superbad, 40 Year Old Virgin) and James Franco (Spider-Man 1-3) and it co-stars Rosie Perez (Do The Right Thing) and Gary Cole (The Brady Bunch Movie). Movie is directed by David Gordon Green.
Disc Features:
• Theatrical and Extended Film Versions
• Audio Commentary with Filmmakers and Cast, including Director David Gordon Green, Seth Rogen, Judd Apatow, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Ed Begley Jr., and Rosie Perez
• Deleted, Extended and Alternate Scenes
• Featurettes: "The Making-of Pineapple Express," "The Action of Pineapple Express,"
• Reels: "Line-O-Rama," "Direct-O-Rama"
• Additional Vignettes: "Item 9 Experiments," "Saul's Apartment," "Raw Footage," "Begley's Best," "Red and Jessica's Guide to Marriage," "Injury Report," "Stuntmaster Ken," "Rehearsal Footage," "First Table Read," "Comic-Con Panel"
• Red-band theatrical trailer
HD Exclusive Content:
• Interactive Game: "Ride The Express"
Bangkok Dangerous [Blu-ray]
Lionsgate Home Entertainment / 2008 / 100 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: January 06, 2009
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Charlie Young
Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
Plot Synopsis: As a hired assassin, Joe (Cage) is the best in the business but the years of stone-cold murder have taken their toll. Joe's plan to make this current assignment in Bangkok his last takes a wild turn when he violates one of the most important rules of the game. Now the hunter is the hunted in this hard-driving, action-packed thriller.
Babylon A.D. [Blu-ray]
Fox Home Entertainment / 2008 / 90 Minutes / Rated PG-13
Street Date: January 06, 2009
Genres: Action, Science Fiction
Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Plot Synopsis: In the darkly futuristic world of Babylon A.D., the rules are simple: kill or be killed. Hard-hitting action superstar Vin Diesel (The Fast and the Furious, The Chronicles of Riddick), stars as Toorop, a ruthless mercenary hired to smuggle a mysterious young woman from the post-apocalyptic confines of Eastern Europe to the glittering megalopolis of New York City. Hunted at every turn, Toorop spirits his charge across a nightmarish wasteland only to uncover a shocking secret that will bring the entire world to its knees. Eye-popping action and mind-blowing science fiction clash head-on in this hard-edged thriller, where the only rule is survival.
Disc Features:
• Featurettes: "Babylon Babies," "Arctic Escape," "Fit For The Screen," "Flight of the Hummers"
• Short Film: "Genesis of Aurora"
• Still gallery
HD Exclusive Content:
• Interactive "Scene Evolution" (Bonus View)
Righteous Kill [Blu-ray]
Anchor Bay Entertainment / 2008 / 101 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: January 06, 2009
Genres: Action, Crime
Starring: Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino
Disc Features:
• Audio Commentary
• Featurette
• Behind the scenes footage
• Digital Copy
Dexter: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]
Paramount Home Entertainment / 2007 / 576 Minutes / Unrated
Street Date: January 06, 2009
Genres: Drama, Television, Thriller
Plot Synopsis: Dexter is a crime drama about Dexter Morgan, a man who leads a double life as an incredibly likeable forensics expert for the Miami Police Department and as an emotionless vigilante serial killer. Taught by his foster father to harness his lust for blood and killing, Dexter lives by his own strict moral code - he only kills murderers who can't otherwise be brought to justice. Dexter is a killer who grapples with fitting into society while, at the same time, he struggles with his inability to feel emotion. The irony of Dexter's life is that he works closely as a blood splatter analyst with the very people who hunt his kind - the homicide departments.
Disaster Movie [Blu-ray]
Lionsgate Home Entertainment / 2008 / Rated PG-13
Street Date: January 06, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Matt Lanter, Nicole Parker, Carmen Electra
Directors: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Plot Synopsis: Over the course of one evening, an unsuspecting group of twenty-somethings find themselves bombarded by a series of natural disasters and catastrophic events
Disc Features:
• Audio Commentary
• Featurettes
• Sing-Along Feature
The Wackness [Blu-ray]
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / 2008 / 99 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: January 06, 2009
Genres: Dance, Music, Urban
Starring: Josh Peck
Director: Jonathan Levine
Plot Synopsis: New York, summer 1994, the greatest year in hip-hop, a troubled teenage drug dealer trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist intent on living his life to the fullest. The two form an unlikely friendship, but things get complicated when the kid falls for the doctor's daughter.
Disc Features:
• Audio Commentary with Director Jonathan Levine and Actor Josh Peck
• Featurette: "Keeping it Real: A Day in the Life of Writer/Director Jonathan Levine," "Time in a Bottle: Behind the Scenes of The Wackness," "The Luke Shapiro Show Episode 1"
• Deleted Scenes
The Last Emperor [Blu-ray]
Criterion Collection / 1987 / 165 Minutes
Street Date: January 06, 2009
Genres: Drama, Historical
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Plot Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor won nine Academy Awards®, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated - quite a feat for a challenging, multilayered epic directed by an Italian and starring an international cast. Yet the power and scope of the film was, and remains, undeniable - the life of emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval, within and outside of the walls of the Forbidden City. Recreating Qing-dynasty China with astonishing detail and unparalleled craftsmanship by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti, The Last Emperor is also an intimate character study of one man reconciling personal responsibility and political legacy.
Disc Features:
• Audio commentary by director Bernardo Bertolucci, producer Jeremy Thomas, screenwriter Mark Peploe, and composer-actor Ryuichi Sakamoto
• The Italian Traveler: Bernardo Bertolucci, a 53-minute film by Fernand Mozskowicz, tracing the director's geographic influences, from Parma to China
• Video images taken by Bertolucci in China
• The Chinese Adventure of Bernardo Bertolucci, a 52-minute documentary that revisits the film's creation
• A 47-minute documentary featuring Storaro, editor Gabriella Cristiana, costume designer James Acheson, and art director Gianni Silvestri
• A 66-minute documentary exploring Bertolucci's creative process and the making of The Last Emperor
• A 30-minute interview with Bertolucci from 1989
• A new interview with composer David Byrne
• A new interview with Ian Buruma examining the historical period of the film
• Theatrical trailer
• Booklet featuring an essay by critic David Thomson
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