Good afternoon my friends,
The winter winds has blown in from the north causing blistery chills and the credible edible white stuff. While we are trying to bundle up for the upcoming holidays. Let’s check what on the plate with this week’s….
MOVIES OF THE WEEK
Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in this sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the best there is at extraction: stealing valuable secrets inside the subconscious during the mind’s vulnerable dream state. His skill has made him a coveted player in industrial espionage but also has made him a fugitive and cost him dearly. Now he may get a second chance if he can do the impossible: inception, planting an idea rather than stealing one. If they succeed, Cobb and his team could pull off the perfect crime. But no planning or expertise can prepare them for a dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy only Cobb could have seen coming.
Special Features (Single Disc):
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Four Focus Points:The Inception of Inception: Christopher Nolan shapes his unusual concepts for InceptionThe Japanese Castle: The Dream Is Collapsing: Creating and destroying the castle set
Constructing Paradoxical Architecture: Designing the staircase to nowhere
The Freight Train: Constructing the street-faring freight train
Special Features (Blu-Ray 3-Disc + Digital Copy):
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Extraction Mode: Infiltrate the movie’s imaginative landscape to learn how Christopher Nolan, Leonardo DiCaprio, and the cast and crew designed and achieved the film’s signature moments
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Dreams: Cinema of the Subconscious: Can the dream world be a fully functional parallel reality? Joseph Gordon-Levitt and leading scientists take you to the cutting edge of dream research
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Inception: The Cobol Job: Comic prologue in full animation and motion: see the events that led to the beginning of the movie
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5.1 soundtrack selections from Hans Zimmer’s versatile score
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Conceptual art, promotional art, and trailer/TV spot galleries
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Via BD-Live: Project Somnacin–Confidential Files: Access highly secure files that reveal the inception of the dream-share technology
RESTREPO is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, “Restrepo,” named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment. This is war, full stop. The conclusions are up to you.
Special Features (Single Disc): Interviews with filmmakers and soldiers, outtakes, and more are included
Angelina Jolie stars in Columbia Pictures’ Salt, a contemporary espionage thriller. Before becoming a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt (Jolie) swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. She will prove loyal to these when a defector accuses her of being a Russian sleeper spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture, protect her husband, and stay one step ahead of her colleagues at the CIA.
Special Features (Deluxe Unrated Edition):
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Filmmakers’ Commentary
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Unrated Filmmakers’ Commentary
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Unrated Extended Filmmakers’ Commentary
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The Ultimate Female Action Hero
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Spy Disguise: The Looks of Evelyn Salt
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“The Treatment” Radio Interview with Phillip Noyce
Special Features (Deluxe Unrated Edition Blu-Ray Disc):
- movieIQ
- The Ultimate Female Action Hero
- The Real Agents
- Spy Disguise: The Looks of Evelyn Salt
- The Modern Master of the Political Thriller: Phillip Noyce
- False Identity: Creating A New Reality
- “The Treatment” Radio Interview with Phillip Noyce
- SALT: Declassified
- Filmmakers’ Commentary
- Unrated Filmmakers’ Commentary
- Unrated Extended Filmmakers’ Commentary
- Spy Cam: Picture-in-Picture
It started with a loveable ogre…who befriended a talking donkey…and rescued a beautiful princess in the unforgettable story that broke the mold for all animated films to follow. Now comes Shrek Forever After, the hilarious and fitting finale to thie record-breaking, Oscar®-winning movie phenomenon. Longing for the days when he was a “real ogre,” Shrek signs a deal with Rumpelstiltskin to get his roar back…but turns his world upside down in the process. Donkey suddenly can’t remember his best friend; Fiona is now a tough warrior princess; and Puss in Boots is one fat cat! Together, they have just 24 hours to reverse the contract and restore happily FOREVER after to close the final chapter.
Special Features (Single Disc):
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Deleted Scenes
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Spotlight On Shrek
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Secrets Of Shrek Forever After
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From Swamp To Stage: The Making Of Shrek The Musical
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Trailers: Coming Soon to Theaters, On DVD
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Get Your Game On
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See It Live
Special Features (Combo Pack):
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Donkey’s Christmas Shrektacular
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Donkey’s Caroling Christmas-tacular
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Shrek’s Yule Log
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12 Days of Christmas Pop-up Book
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Donkey’s Decoration Scramble
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Cookin’ With Cookie
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Gingy’s Games & Activities
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Secrets of Shrek Forever After
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Shrek, Rattle & Roll Music & More
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Deleted Scenes
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Filmmakers’ Commentary
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From Swamp to Stage: The Making of Shrek The Musical
Blu-ray exclusive extras
- The Animators’ Corner
- Shrek’s Interactive Journey: IV
- BD-Live Merry Music Festival And more!
We head out to the warmer destinations like the Ponderosa Ranch, VEGAS, NYC, and Bikini Bottom with this week’s
TV SHOWS OF THE WEEK
One of the longest running and most popular of all television westerns, Bonanza was both an action/adventure classic and family drama. For fourteen seasons, audiences enthusiastically tuned in to see the High-Sierra adventures of the Cartwright clan. Nestled amongst the pines above the shores of Lake Tahoe is the Ponderosa ranch, the thousand-acre home of Ben Cartwrignt and his sons, Adam, Hoss and Joe (aka “Little Joe.”) Plots featuring revolving cast of interesting guest players helped to set Bonanza apart from the usual gun-slinging formula Westerns of the day.
Special Features:
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Archival interview with series star Dan Blocker, unseen in almost 50 years
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Audio Commentaries by Special Guest Stars Julie Adams, Ben Cooper, David Macklin and Stella Stevens
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Archival commentary by Creator-Producer David Dortort, including a special tribute to series star Pernell Roberts
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Rare On-Air Promos introduced by series stars
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Original NBC Peacock logo preceding every episode; Bumpers and RCA Spots on selected episodes
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Extensive Photo Galleries, including rare color and black-and-white Episodic and “Behind-the-Scenes” images, and images documenting personal appearances and cast members “at home”
The groundbreaking series honored with more than 50 Primetime Emmy Award nominations since its inception continues with Law & Order: The Eighth Year. Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, Sam Waterston, Carey Lowell and S. Epatha Merkerson return for riveting cases of military corruption, drive-by shootings, a killer infected with the AIDS virus and an issue that hits close to home: abuse of power in the District Attorney’s office. This 5-disc set contains all 24 compelling episodes, including “Tabloid,” co-written by Oscar nominee Alec Baldwin, “Stalker,” winner of a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography, and the crossover episode “Baby It’s You, Part 2” from Homicide: Life on the Street. Featuring guest stars Kate Walsh and Edie Falco, Law & Order: The Eighth Year delivers the intelligent and gripping entertainment that has become synonymous with creator Dick Wolf’s legacy and made the show the longest-running crime series in the history of television.
Special Features:
- Bollywod Bob
- How to Make SpongeBob Squarepants
- “The Clash of Triton” Shorts
- SpongeGod
- Neptune’s Origins
Special Features: Episodic Promos
Check out all our selections wherever DVDs are sold! Until next week, HAPPY MOVIE & TV VUEING!
