Paramount / 2010 / 110 Minutes / Rated PG-13
Street Date: June 07, 2011
Overall Grade 
RecommendedGenres: Western, drama, thriller
Starring: Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges
Director: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Plot Synopsis: True Grit is a powerful story of vengeance and valor set in an unforgiving and unpredictable frontier where justice is simple and mercy is rare. Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn (Academy Award® Winner Jeff Bridges), a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Academy Award® Winner Matt Damon) to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution.
Disc Features:
- Mattie's True Grit (HD, 5 min)
- From Bustles to Buckskin — Dressing for the 1880s (HD, 8 min)
- Re-Creating Fort Smith (HD, 11 min)
- The Cast (HD, 5 min)
- Colts, Winchesters & Remingtons: The Guns of a Post-Civil War Western (HD, 5 min)
- Charles Portis — The Greatest Writer You've Never Heard Of . . . (HD, 31 min)
- The Cinematography of True Grit (HD, 3 min)
- Trailer (HD)
Sony / 2011 / 117 Minutes / Rated PG-13
Street Date: June 07, 2011
Genres: Romance, Comedy
Starring: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston
Director: Dennis Dugan
Plot Synopsis: It all comes down to chemistry. And the two main stars of Just Go with It, Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, thankfully, have chemistry to spare. Both actors have plenty of sheer likability and honest ease, as well as sparks in just the right places, which helps propel Just Go with It to its satisfying (if a bit predictable) conclusion. (Hollywood execs: Consider an update of Moonlighting starring these two.) If the premise, loosely based on the Goldie Hawn film Cactus Flower, stretches reality, the capability of the whole cast makes Just Go with It an enjoyable ride. Sandler plays Danny, a surgeon who falls for a much-younger bombshell, Palmer (swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker, a surprisingly natural actress). But when Palmer finds the fake wedding band that commitment-phobe Danny has used for his no-strings-attached previous relationships, the web of fibs begins. Danny asks his assistant, Katherine (Aniston), to pretend to be his soon-to-be-ex-wife, and Aniston plays it to the hilt. But soon Danny's wobbly house of cards includes Katherine's children--and, in the ultimate romantic-comedy trope, a group trip to Hawaii to work things out. The cast really is stellar, including very small supporting roles by Nicole Kidman and singer Dave Matthews, as an insufferable couple disliked intensely by Katherine. (Of course they end up in Hawaii with the gang, too.) Minka Kelly, Kevin Nealon, and Rachel Dratch also make memorable cameos. But it's Sandler and Aniston, along with the snappy direction by Dennis Dugan (Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy), who make Just Go with It one of the more romantic--and funny--romantic comedies in recent memory. Our advice: Sit back, and just go with it.
Disc Features:
Adon: Living Plastic
Along Came a Prop Guy
Decker's Got Gas
Dolph-Not The One From Rocky IV
Kevin Nealon: The Plastic Man
What's A Dugan?
Look Who Else Is In The Movie
The Not So Perfect Couple
Decker's First Role
Laughter is Contagious
Commentary with Adam Sandler, Nick Swarsdon and The Filmmakers
Commentary with Director Dennis Dugan
Sneaky Kiki & Bart the Water Fart
The Perfect Couple: Jen and Adam
Shooting Hawaii
Grand Wailea Promo
Universal / 2010 / 109 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: June 07, 2011
Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Starring: Rhys Wakefield, Allison Cratchley and Christopher Baker
Director: Alister Grierson
Plot Synopsis: If there's an undersea adventure with high-tech equipment, macho posturing, and lots of underwater photography, you know James Cameron must be swimming around the vicinity. Add the fact that Sanctum was released to theaters in 3-D, and it's clinched. Cameron served as executive producer to this crazy tale of a cave-diving expedition forced to improvise when a typhoon inundates their New Guinea location. (The film, shot in Australia, is allegedly based on a true event by co-screenwriter Andrew Wight, but it might be safe to conclude that the original incident was a jumping-off point for the high melodrama on display here.) A globetrotting billionaire (Ioan Gruffudd, of Fantastic Four) is underwriting this exploration of a hidden cave maze, which explains why he gets to bring his girlfriend (Alice Parkinson) along. As a measure of their thrill-seeking habits, we are told they met on an Everest climb. The cave-diving boss is a crusty old pro (Richard Roxburgh), who is rough on his underlings and even rougher on his teenage son (Rhys Wakefield); naturally, the cataclysm that follows will be an occasion for some extreme father-son fence mending. As cornball as these elements are, and as generally toneless as director Alister Grierson's ear is with the dialogue scenes, Sanctum does work up some bona fide thrills: the sheer power of water is unleashed at a few memorable spots, as is the panic of losing an oxygen tank at a crucial moment. It's also pretty brutal, with a steep body count and a few grotesque bits of bodily injury. It ought to be easy to dismiss Sanctum as a silly piece of boy's adventure, but--curse you, Cameron!--one must admit that the thing is awfully effective.
Sony / 2010 / Unrated
Street Date: June 07, 2011
Genres: Drama, TVStarring: Bryan Cranston
Plot Synopsis: Winner of two 2010 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Bryan Cranston and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad: The Complete Third Season returns, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the best show on television." Even though his cancer's in remission, chemistry teacher-turned-meth maker Walter White (Cranston) still can't catch a break. his wife (Anna Gunn) has filed for divorce, his DEA agent brother-in-law (Dean Norris) is out to bust him and a Mexican cartel just wants him dead. But with his family's future still at stake Walt cooks up a deal that will make him a fortune, a scheme with a terrible price. Executive produced by Vince Gilligan and Mark Johnson.
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