Blu-ray 16th February Releases

Law Abiding Citizen [Blu-ray]

Starz/Anchor Bay / 2009 / 118 Minutes / Unrated
Street Date: February 16, 2010

Genres: Legal thriller, drama

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butlerr
Director: F.Gary Gray

Plot Synopsis: Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system, or key players in the trial will die. Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor prevented. Only Nick can stop the killing and finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead.

Disc Features:
Disc One:

• "The Justice of 'Law Abiding Citizen'" (HD, 6 min)
  
• "Law in Black and White - Behind the Scenes" (HD, 15 min)
• "Preliminary Arguments - The Visual Effects Progression" (HD, 7 min) -
  
• Trailers (HD)
  

Disc Two

• Theatrical Cut of 'Law Abiding Citizen' (HD, 109 min)
• Audio Commentary
  

Coco Before Chanel [Blu-ray]

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / 2009 / 110 Minutes / Unrated
Street Date: February 16, 2010

Genres: Drama

Starring: Audrey Tautou, Marie Gillain
Director: Anne Fontaine

Plot Synopsis: Before she became Coco, the world-famous fashion designer, Gabrielle Chanel (Audrey Tautou in a fiercely determined performance) struggled to make ends meet. After her mother's death, her father deposited her and her sister, Adrienne (Marie Gillain), at an orphanage, where they learned to sew (and where Chanel developed a taste for monochromatic ensembles). They went on to become cabaret singers, but when Adrienne runs off with a wealthy suitor, the newly christened Coco must go it alone until she meets gentleman farmer Étienne Balsan (Benoît Poelvoorde). She lives comfortably at his chateau, but he refuses to take her out in public, so she puts her skills as a seamstress to good use and designs outfits for his lady friends, like Emilienne (Emmanuelle Devos), an actress. Chanel's situation improves further when British investor Arthur "Boy" Capel (Alessandro Nivola with an impeccable French accent) enters the scene. Her working-class origins present less of a problem with Capel, though the couple will have other issues with which to contend. In the meantime, he gives her the money to open her own Parisian studio, and the film ends with the tweed suit-clad Chanel of the popular imagination. Until that time, writer-director Anne Fontaine (The Girl from Monaco) presents a very different character, a woman who wasn't worldly or sophisticated, but who saw no reason why fashion--or "style," as she called it--should be complicated or uncomfortable. In transforming herself, Coco Chanel transformed an entire industry and, arguably, an entire gender.

Disc Features:
COMMENTARY with Writer/Director Anne Fontaine
Historical Reconstruction (SD, 46 min.)
Coco Before Chanel: The Meeting (SD, 18 min.)
Walking the Red Carpet: From Los Angeles to New York
Theatrical Trailer

Halo Legends [Blu-ray]

Warner Home Video / 2010 / 119 Minutes / Not Rated
Street Date: February 16, 2010

Genres: Animation, action, sci-fi

Starring: Andy McAvin, Emily Neves
Director: Daisuke Nishio, Frank O'Connor

Plot Synopsis: This 8 episode anthology of 10-15 minute length each, explores the origin and historical events of the HALO universe, and various characters inhabiting the world. Like Animatrix and Batman Gotham Knight, each of the 8 episodes will be created by a separate prominent Japanese anime producer.

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