Akira [Blu-ray]
Honneamise / 1988 / 124 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: February 24, 2009
Genres: Anime
Starring:Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Mitsuo Iwata
Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Plot Synopsis: Artist-writer Katsuhiro Ôtomo began telling the story of Akira as a comic book series in 1982 but took a break from 1986 to 1988 to write, direct, supervise, and design this animated film version. Set in 2019, the film richly imagines the new metropolis of Neo-Tokyo, which is designed from huge buildings down to the smallest details of passing vehicles or police uniforms. Two disaffected orphan teenagers--slight, resentful Tetsuo and confident, breezy Kaneda--run with a biker gang, but trouble grows when Tetsuo start to resent the way Kaneda always has to rescue him. Meanwhile, a group of scientists, military men, and politicians wonder what to do with a collection of withered children who possess enormous psychic powers, especially the mysterious, rarely seen Akira, whose awakening might well have caused the end of the old world. Tetsuo is visited by the children, who trigger the growth of psychic and physical powers that might make him a superman or a supermonster. As befits a distillation of 1,318 pages of the story so far, Akira is overstuffed with character, incident, and detail. However, it piles up astonishing set pieces: the chases and shootouts (amazingly kinetic, amazingly bloody) benefit from minute cartoon detail that extends to the surprised or shocked faces of the tiniest extra; the Tetsuo monster alternately looks like a billion-gallon scrotal sac or a Tex Avery mutation of the monster from The Quatermass Experiment; and the finale--which combines flashbacks to more innocent days with a destruction of Neo City and the creation of a new universe--is one of the most mind-bending in all sci-fi cinema.
Disc Features:
• Storyboard Collection
• Theatrical Trailers
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder [Blu-ray]
Fox Home Entertainment / 2008 / Unrated
Street Date: February 24, 2009
Genres: Animated, Comedy
Starring: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Di Maggio
Director: Peter Avanzino
Sex Drive [Blu-ray]
Summit Entertainment / 2008 / 
Street Date: February 24, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Josh Zuckerman, Clark Duke, Amanda Crew, and James Marsden
Director: Sean Anders
Plot Synopsis: Summit Sex Drive (Unrated) (Blu-ray) (Widescreen) Ian has a decision: stay home and stay a virgin or drive 800 miles to lose it with an online hottie. Decision made. Now Ian and his horn-dog buddy Lance are off on a sex safari...with "BFF" baggage Felicia in tow. Their epic quest features a stolen GTO, kinky trailer park sex, a prison fight, topless Abstinence Xtreme dancers, a smart-ass Amish super-mechanic (Seth Green), a gun-wielding Mexican donutand Ian's "d-bag" brother (James Marsden) in hot pursuit.
Hounddog [Blu-ray]
Hannover House / 2008 / Rated R
Street Date: February 24, 2009
Genres: Drama
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Robin Wright Penn
Director: Deborah Kempmeier
Plot Synopsis: A provocative Southern tale set in rural Alabama in the late 1950s, HOUNDDOG is the story of a spirited young girl LEWELLEN (Dakota Fanning) and her struggle to rise above the repression that surrounds her. Lewellen lives with her stern religious zealot grandmother, GRAMMIE (Piper Laurie), but spends most of her time down the hill with her much-adored DADDY (David Morse) in his falling down shack. Daddy is wild and rough and brings home a beautiful but troubled woman (Robin Wright Penn) who has a mysterious history with him and comes and goes when his drink and abuse becomes too much for her. But while she's around, Lewellens longing heart reaches for her love. Lewellen is deeply talented and finds comfort and safety, as well as a place to put her hurt and rage, in the music of Elvis Presley. When Elvis Presley comes to town for a concert, Lewellen is desperate to go but has no money for a ticket. Buddy, trying to get her a ticket, arranges for her to do her Elvis impersonation for a local teenager in exchange for tickets to the concert. During the impersonation, the teenager attacks Lewellen and steals her innocence. The attack leaves Lewellen feeling alone and hopeless. It is only the caretaker CHARLES (Afemo Omilanmi) who can see the spirit in Lewellen and save her soul. He teaches her to use The Blues, to turn her tragedy into a gift. Lewellen ultimately finds her true voice, giving her the strength and courage to walk away from from her past and into her future.
What Just Happened? [Blu-ray]
Magnolia Home Entertainment / 2008 / Rated R
Street Date: February 24, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Robert DeNiro, Bruce Willis, Sean Penn
Director: Barry Levinson
Plot Synopsis: Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.
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