Blu-ray 17th February Release

High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Deluxe Extended Edition + Digital Copy + DVD and BD Live) [Blu-ray]

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment / 2008 / 112 Minutes / Rated G
Street Date: February 17, 2009

Genres: Comedy, Family, Musical

Starring: Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens
Director: Kenny Ortega

Plot Synopsis: High school seniors Troy and Gabriella are facing the prospect of being separated from one another as they head off in different directions to college. Joined by the rest of the Wildcats, they stage an elaborate spring musical reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about their future.

Disc Features:
• Featurettes
• Cast goodbyes
• Bloopers
• Deleted scenes

HD Exclusive Content:
• Cast profiles
• Senior Awards
• Digital copy
• BD-Live interactivity

Body of Lies (+ Digital Copy and BD Live) [Blu-ray]

Warner Home Video / 2008 / 128 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: February 17, 2009

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Starring: Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio
Director: Ridley Scott

Plot Synopsis: Though this thriller is the fourth collaboration between Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe—following on from GLADIATOR, A GOOD YEAR and AMERICAN GANGSTER--it marks the veteran director's first pairing with Leonardo DiCaprio. In this adaptation of a novel by David Ignatius, DiCaprio plays a CIA agent who wants the help of a more experienced agent (Crowe) in his investigation of a Jordanian terrorist.

Changeling [Blu-ray]

Universal Studios Home Entertainment / 2008 / Rated R
Street Date: February 17, 2009

Genres: Drama

Starring: Angelina Jolie
Director: Clint Eastwood

Plot Synopsis: Clint Eastwood’s mastery as a director, established over the past decade and a half with Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima, and others, continues with Changeling, a 2008 offering based on a shocking but all-too-true story about child abduction and police corruption in 1920s Los Angeles. Single mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie, excellent in a role with somewhat limited parameters) finds her 9-year-old son, Walter, missing when she returns home from work one day. She files a report with the Los Angeles Police Department, an outfit that was wildly unpopular at the time (in his regular radio broadcast, a crusading pastor played by John Malkovich decries the force as "violent and corrupt," adding that "our protectors are our brutalizers"). When a child roughly matching Walter’s description turns up in Illinois five months later, the LAPD, intent on salvaging its tattered reputation, is only too eager to claim that he is Collins’ missing child. Little matters that he’s three inches shorter, is circumcised (Walter wasn’t), and fails to pass muster with Walter’s dentist, schoolteacher, and others; the cops, in particular the odious Captain J.J. Jones (Jeffrey Donovan), insist that the mistake is Christine’s, not theirs. What follows is almost too nightmarish to believe--except that it actually happened. Exasperated by Collins’ continued claim that "Walter" is a fraud, they trot out a doctor to reinforce the bogus ID, declare her unfit as a mother, and finally have her committed to a local psychopathic ward. Through it all, Collins, bolstered by the pastor and thousands of outraged Angelenos, refuses to sign a document that would exonerate the police for their egregious error. As for Walter, it’s only when the LAPD’s seemingly only honest detective (Michael Kelly) takes matters into his own hands that the grisly mystery of the child’s fate begins to be solved. That would have been a good place for the film to conclude, too. Unfortunately, it goes on for more than another half hour, with innumerable false endings that add nothing to the story and could just as easily have been summarized with a few sentences before the final credits. That flaw aside (and it’s a major one), Changeling is a powerful film, with a realistic period feel, a wonderfully muted vibe and color palette, and an understated score by Eastwood himself.
Disc Features:
• 2 Featurettes

HD Exclusive Content:
• Picture-in-Picture
• Featurettes
• My Scenes Sharing (BD-Live)

Quarantine (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / 2008 / 89 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: February 17, 2009

Genres: Horror, suspense, thriller

Starring: Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris
Director: John Eric Dowdle

Plot Synopsis: When a news crew decides to trail a brave fire-fighting team, they never suspect that the first call for help they respond to that night may be their last. Now they're trapped in an apartment complex sealed off by the government. With no way of escape, they find themselves surrounded by frightened residents who are infected with a deadly mutant virus. What happens next is only known because of the footage they left behind.

Disc Features:

• Audio Commentary
  

• Locked In: The Making of Quarantine (SD, 10 min.) – An Electronic Press Kit puff-piece boasting about how "reality based" the movie is, as if a zombie outbreak could happen at any moment.
  

• Dressing the Infected: Robert Hall's Make-up Design (SD, 8 min.)
  

• Anatomy of a Stunt (SD, 3 min.) – A brief examination of how a fall from the balcony was staged.

The Midnight Meat Train [Blu-ray]

Lionsgate Home Entertainment / 2008 / 100 Minutes / Unrated
Street Date: February 17, 2009

Genres: Horror

Starring: Roger Bart, Leslie Bibb, Bradley Cooper
Director: Ryûhei Kitamura

Disc Features:
• 3 Featurettes: "Anatomy of a Murder- the Making of The Midnight Meat Train," "World of Clive Barker," "Mahogany's Bag"

The Passion of the Christ [Blu-ray]

Fox Home Entertainment / 2005 / Rated R
Street Date: February 17, 2009

Genres: Drama, Religious

Starring: Jim Caviezel
Director: Mel Gibson

Plot Synopsis:Mel Gibson's bloody re-creation of the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus is one of the cruellest movies in the history of the cinema. Gibson and the screenwriter Benedict Fitzgerald selected and enhanced incidents from the four Gospels and collated them into a single, surpassingly violent narrative in which the incomparable glories of Jesus' temperament-the joyousness, the brilliance, the heart-stopping eloquence-are all but effaced by the spectacle of his physical destruction. The lashing and flaying, often in slow-motion, go on forever, and Gibson displays a curious technical fascination with the details of crucifixion-huge nails being hammered into hands and feet, with James Caviezel's Jesus howling at each blow. Here and there, the movie has a kind of grim power, and Caleb Deschanel's even gray lighting at the Crucifixion is stunning, but this is a sickening, unilluminating, and ignorant show. The filmmakers have also changed in small ways a number of things from the Gospels and ignored what historians know of ancient Judea, all with the result of making the Jewish leaders more, and the Roman leaders less, responsible for the death of Jesus. It's a deeply angry film, and one wonders how believers can react to it with anything but guilt, fear, or loathing.

Disc Features:
• Audio commentary by Mel Gibson, cinematographer Caleb Deschanel and editor John Wright
• Production commentary by producer Stephen McEveety, VFX supervisor Ted Rae and VFX designer Keith Vanderlaan
• Theological commentary by Mel Gibson, Father William J. Fulco, Gerry Matatics and Father John Bartunek
• Select scenes audio commentary by composer John Debney
• Featurette: "Passion Recut"
• Footnotes

Good Will Hunting (1998) [Blu-ray]

Sony Pictures / 1998 / 126 Minutes / PG-13
Street Date: February 17, 2009







Genres: Drama

Starring: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams
Director: Gus Van Sant

Plot Synopsis: A True Motion Picture Phenomenon, This Triumphant Story Was Nominated For 9 Academy Awards(R) -- Winning Oscars For Robin Williams (Best Supporting Actor) And Hot Newcomers Matt Damon And Ben Affleck (Best Original Screenplay). The Most Brilliant Mind At America's Top University Isn't A Student ... He's The Kid Who Cleans The Floors! Will Hunting (Damon) Is A Headstrong, Working-Class Genius Who's Failing The Lessons Of Life. After One Too Many Run-Ins With The Law, Will's Last Chance Is A Psychology Professor (Williams), Who Might Be The Only Man Who Can Reach Him! With Acclaimed Performances From Academy Award(R)-Nominee Minnie Driver (Grosse Pointe Blank) And Ben Affleck (Armageddon) -- You'll Find Good Will Hunting A Powerful And Unforgettable Movie Experience!

Gandhi (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]

Sony Pictures / 1982 / 191 Minutes / PG-13
Street Date: February 17, 2009

Genres: Biography, Drama

Starring: Ben Kingsley
Director: Sir Richard Attenborough's

Plot Synopsis: Sir Richard Attenborough's 1982 multiple-Oscar winner (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley) is an engrossing, reverential look at the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi, who introduced the doctrine of nonviolent resistance to the colonized people of India and who ultimately gained the nation its independence. Kingsley is magnificent as Gandhi as he changes over the course of the three-hour film from an insignificant lawyer to an international leader and symbol. Strong on history (the historic division between India and Pakistan, still a huge problem today, can be seen in its formative stages here) as well as character and ideas, this is a fine film.

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