Blu-ray 27th December Release

Final Destination 5 (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Warner Brothers / 2011 / 92 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: December 27, 2011

Genres: Suspense, thriller

Starring: Emma Bell and David Koechner
Director: Steven Quale

Plot Synopsis: Death is just as omnipresent as ever, and in Final Destination 5 it strikes again. During the bus ride to a corporate retreat, Sam (Nicholas D’Agosto) has a premonition in which he and most of his friends — as well as numerous others — die in a horrific bridge collapse. When his vision ends, events begin to mirror what he had seen, and he frantically ushers as many of his colleagues — including his friend, Peter (Miles Fisher), and girlfriend, Molly (Emma Bell) — away from the disaster before Death can claim them. But these unsuspecting souls were never supposed to survive, and in a terrifying race against time, the ill-fated group tries to discover a way to escape Death’s sinister agenda.

Disc Features:

• 'Final Destination 5:' Circle of Death (HD, 6 min.) - Be sure to watch the movie before this noise-filled special feature because it spoils the twist ending.
• Alternate Death Scenes (HD, 16 min.) - There is no reason why this feature should be 16 minutes long. It doesn't just show two different death scenes, it show everything leading up to them. Instead of showing the last two seconds of the massage parlor death that differs from the theatrical cut, it also shows the identical ten minutes prior to it. Instead of showing just the 30-second change from the laser eye surgery machine, it shows everything that happens into the four minutes leading up to it.
• Visual Effect of Death: Collapsing Bridge (HD, 9 min.) - Instead of breaking down how the strong visual effects were created, this feature merely splits the screen into two and fills one half with the original shot and the other shot with the final plate. They play out harmoniously, showing the before and after. No description or explanation is given.
• Visual Effects of Death: Airplane Crash (HD, 3 min.) 

Apollo 18 (Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy)

Starz/Anchor Bay / 2011 / 88 Minutes / Rated PG-13
Street Date: December 27, 2011

Genres: Sci-fi, thriller

Starring:
Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego

Plot Synopsis: Officially, Apollo 17, launched December 7, 1972, was the last manned mission to the moon. But two years later, in December of 1974, two American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it’s the real reason we’ve never gone back to the moon.

The Borgias: The First Season [Blu-ray]

Paramount / 2011 / 467 Minutes / Unrated
Street Date: December 27, 2011 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Genres: Drama, History
Starring: Jeremy Irons

Plot Synopsis: The Borgias is a complex, unvarnished portrait of one of history’s most intriguing families. Oscar®-winner Jeremy Irons stars as Rodrigo Borgia, the cunning, manipulative patriarch of the Borgia family who ascends to the highest circles of power within Renaissance-era Italy. The series begins as Rodrigo (Irons), becomes Pope Alexander VI, propelling him, his two Machiavellian sons Cesare and Juan, and his scandalously beautiful daughter, Lucrezia, to become the most powerful and influential family of the Italian Renaissance.