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Blu Monday: Beaver Puppets, Killer Cars and Smelly Trolls

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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

BAMBI II: Special Edition Blu-Ray/DVD Combo (2006)

Synopsis: Bambi, one of the silver screen’s most cherished characters, makes his triumphant return. The eagerly awaited next chapter of Bambi’s unforgettable story continues for a whole new generation in a film that’s sure to delight your entire family. Join Bambi as he reunites with his father, the Great Prince, who must now raise the young fawn and teach him the ways of the forest. But in the adventure of a lifetime, the proud parent discovers that there is much that he can learn from his spirited young son. Thumper, Flower, Owl, and your favorite characters return – and you’ll meet some wonderful new friends – as Bambi’s magnificent legacy continues. Illustrated in the breathtaking animation style of the original classic and bursting with new songs, Bambi II is truly a wonder to behold. (highdefdigest.com)

Special Features:

  • Thumper’s Hurry Scurry – an interactive game
  • Disney’s Sketch Pad: Learn to Draw Thumper – a tutorial on how to draw Thumper
  • Bambi II: The Legacy Continues – a featurette about the history behind Bambi II
  • Bambi’s Trivia Tracks – pop-up texts that reveal fun facts about the movie
  • Friend Owl’s Forest Fun Games – three interactive learning games
  • Deleted song – “Sing the Day”

THE BEAVER (2011)

Synopsis: From Summit Entertainment and director Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate) comes the Blu-ray release of the psychological drama The Beaver. Mel Gibson (Braveheart) stars in the film as Walter Black, a clinically depressed business executive who begins speaking through a beaver hand-puppet in order to reconnect with his wife and children. The Beaver co-stars Foster (Taxi Driver), Anton Yelchin (Star Trek), and Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone). (blu-ray.com)

Special Features:

  • Audio commentary with Jodie Foster
  • Deleted scenes
  • Everything Is Going To Be O.K. – featurette on the making of The Beaver

BLITZ (2011)

Synopsis: Tough, uncompromising and totally un-PC London cop Brant (Jason Statham) joins forces with openly gay policeman DC Porter Nash (Paddy Considine) to hunt down an at large serial cop killer (Aiden Gillen). A fast-paced thriller set in contemporary London, BLITZ reflects the challenges faced by a group of police officers working in a modern, multi-cultural society. A raw, gritty tale of moral ambiguity, outsiders and the sacrifices the police make to keep crime off British streets. (highdefdigest.com)

Special Features: Unknown.

THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD (2011)

Synopsis: From the billboards in Times Square to the barren streets of Sâo Paulo, documentarian Morgan Spurlock shines a light on the world of product placement, marketing and advertising through his new film, fully financed by the very product placement the movie explores on screen. Spurlock unmasks the marketing process, bringing audiences directly into the pitch meetings and marketing presentations which inform our everyday entertainment decisions. (highdefdigest.com)

Special Features: Unknown.

A HAUNTING IN SALEM 3D (2011)

Synopsis: When the new sheriff of Salem, Massachusetts discovers that he is the victim of a centuries-old curse, he must protect his family from the vengeful ghosts that torment his home. (theasylum.cc)

Special Features: Making-of featurette.

HENRY’S CRIME (2010)

Synopsis: Sleepwalking his way through life, Henry gets an unexpected wakeup call when he becomes an unwitting participant in a bank heist. Rather than give up the names of the real culprits, he takes the fall and discovers his true calling. Having done the time, Henry reasons he may as well do the crime. Discovering a forgotten tunnel connecting the bank to a nearby theater, he recruits his old cellmate Max to aid in the robbery, all the while playing the lead in the theatre’s current production where he finds himself falling for his leading lady, Julie. (highdefdigest.com)

Special Features: Unknown.

HOLY MATRIMONY (1994)

Synopsis: A young couple, Havana & Peter, rob a county fair of its daily receipts and escape to Canada to hide out in the Hutterite community where Peter was raised. While there, they get married to satisfy the conservative elders in the community. Peter hides their loot in a secret hiding place, but then soon dies in a car wreck. His much younger brother Zeke is called upon to replace his brother and marry Havana. Zeke already hates Havana because he believes she is what changed his brother. She begins looking through everything that was Peter’s, and Zeke rightly deduces that Peter hid something from her. (blu-ray.com)

Special Features: Unknown.

HOSTAGE (2005)

Synopsis: Devastated by an unspeakable tragedy while on the job as a hostage negotiator for the LAPD, Jeff Tally resigns and accepts a low-profile job as the chief of police in the sleepy town of Bristo Camino in Ventura County. On a slow Monday morning Talley’s job becomes anything but quiet and sets him on a course that could change not only his professional but personal life forever. When three delinquent teenagers follow a family home, intending to steal their car, they get more than they bargained for. The trio finds themselves trapped in a multi-million dollar compound on the outskirts of town with no way of escape. Panicked, they take the family hostage, placing Talley in a situation he never wanted to face again. (blu-ray.com)

Special Features:

  • Taking Hostage Behind the Scenes
  • Deleted Scenes and Extended Scenes with Commentary
  • Audio Commentary by Director Florent Emilio Siri

LAST DANCE (1996)

Synopsis: Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background for her case, the two begin to form a deep friendship, while all the while the date for her execution draws nearer. (highdefdigest.com)

Special Features: Unknown.

LITTLE BIG SOLDIER (2010)

Synopsis: An old soldier kidnaps a young general of an enemy state and takes him on a long journey to collect the reward. (highdefdigest.com)

Special Features:

  • Making of featurette
  • Behind the scenes featurette
  • Jackie Chan Music Video
  • Trailers

POETRY (2010)

Synopsis:

Mija (veteran actress Yun Jung-hee) is a beautiful woman in her sixties who moves gracefully through life, contemplating a trivial daily routine that is ill-suited to her refined persona. With elegance and a dash of eccentricity, Mija takes care of her ungrateful grandson Wook (Lee David) and makes a living by cleaning house for an elderly man who, though paralyzed by a stroke, still responds to her charm with bouts of drug-induced arousal. On a whim, Mija enrolls in a poetry class at the local cultural centre and begins a personal quest to find the perfect words to describe her feelings. However, she’s plagued by the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, and struggles with new vocabulary and the challenges of the creative process. When her world is turned upside down by the discovery of a monstrous crime, it is Mija’s unique and touching poetry that allows her to defy the weight of shame and distance herself from a painful proximity to violence. (kino.com)

Special Features: Unknown.

ROAD TO NOWHERE (2010)

Synopsis: There s a murky tenuous balance between reality and fiction; particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune and suicide. A passionate filmmaker, creating a film based upon a true crime, casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. He finds himself unsuspectingly drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue, obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex are uncovered. (highdefdigest.com)

Special Features: Unknown.

ROUNDERS (1998)

Synopsis: Mike is a law student who has once been burned playing poker, and has turned his back on gambling in order to settle in with his girlfriend Jo, and his studies. When his former partner in crime Worm is released from prison, though, he is tempted back to the card tables and realises how much he enjoys the thrill of gambling. Jo leaves him, and he goes on a poker spree with Worm, in an attempt to recoup a debt that Worm has carried over from before prison. The men to whom Worm owes the money get heavy, and Mike is forced into a showdown with Teddy KGB, the hood to whom he lost his life savings a year before. (blu-ray.com)

Special Features:

  • Inside Professional Poker featurette
  • Audio commentary with professional poker players Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth, Chris Moneymaker, and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson
  • Audio commentary with director John Dahl, writers David Levien & Brian Koppelman, and actor Edward Norton
  • Champion Poker Tips
  • Behind-the-Scenes Special

SECRET SUNSHINE: The Criterion Collection (2007)

Synopsis: A master of intensely emotional human dramas, director Lee Chang-dong is a luminary of contemporary Korean cinema, and his place on the international stage was cemented by this stirring and unpredictable work examining grief and deliverance. An effortless mix of lightness and uncompromising darkness, Secret Sunshine (Miryang) stars Cannes best actress winner Jeon Do-yeon as a widowed piano teacher who moves with her young son from Seoul to her late husband’s provincial hometown for a fresh start. Quietly expressive, supple filmmaking and sublime, subtle performances distinguish this remarkable portrayal of the search for grace amid tragedy. (criterion.com)

Special Features:

  • New digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Lee Chang-dong and cinematographer Cho Yong-kyu (with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
  • New video interview with Lee
  • On the Set of “Secret Sunshine,” a behind-the-scenes video piece featuring interviews with actors Jeon Do-yeon and Song Kang-ho
  • U.S. theatrical trailer
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Dennis Lim

SUPER HYBRID (2011)

Synopsis: Late one night, a mysterious car is brought into the Chicago police impound garage after a deadly traffic accident. The on-call mechanics soon discover the car has a mind of its own. With hundreds of horsepower and two tons of reinforced steel at its command, it’s a seemingly unstoppable killing machine capable of outrunning — and outwitting — humans. (IMDb.com)

Special Features: Under the Hood of ‘Super Hybrid’

SWINGERS (1996)

Synopsis: An ensemble comedy about five guys, all in their twenties, all coping with the mysteries of life and women, and is set in the back streets and sometimes hidden clubs of Hollywood. It’s a story told in the language of the “cocktail nation,” a growing twentysomething retro-Swing dance movement that’s taken Hollywood by storm and is beginning to sweep the nation. Mike is down in the dumps because he left his girlfriend behind in New York when he came to Hollywood to seek his acting fortune. Instead, he’s found loneliness and the blues. Now, after six months of dealing with Mike, his buddy Trent and the other swingers have had enough. It’s time to bring Mike back to life. (blu-ray.com)

Special Features:

  • Filmmakers’ Audio Commentary
  • Audio Commentary with Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn
  • “Making It in Hollywood” Original Documentary
  • The Cutting Room Floor
  • “Swingblade” Short Film

SYMPATHY FOR DELICIOUS (2010)

Synopsis: A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing. Feeling cursed with the power to heal, DJ Delicious contends with all of the glory and attention that comes with his newfound gift. (highdefdigest.com)

Special Features:

  • Behind-the-Story Featurette with Mark Ruffalo and Christopher Thornton
  • Deleted scenes
  • Audio Commentary with Orlando Bloom and Mark Ruffalo
  • Photo Gallery

TOM & JERRY AND THE WIZARD OF OZ (2011)

Synopsis: They’re off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz! Tom and Jerry soar over the rainbow and travel down the yellow brick road in this all-new animated retelling of the classic tale. You’ll see your favorite characters: Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Lion, the Wicked Witch of the West, the Wizard, the Munchkins and more. You’ll hear many of your favorite songs, including Over the Rainbow. And you’ll laugh at the antics of your favorite cat and mouse as they get twisted up in a twister, go paw-to-paw against flying monkeys and storm the Wicked Witch’s castle in a heroic attempt to get Dorothy and Toto (and themselves) safely back to Kansas. After all, there’s no place like home. (blu-ray.com)

Special Features: Unknown.

TROLL HUNTER (2010)

Synopsis: THE TROLL HUNTER is the story of a group of Norwegian film students that set out to capture real-life trolls on camera after learning their existence has been covered up for years by a government conspiracy. A thrilling and wildly entertaining film, THE TROLL HUNTER delivers truly fantastic images of giant trolls wreaking havoc on the countryside, with darkly funny adherence to the original Norwegian folklore. (highdefdigest.com)

Special Features:

  • Making-of Featurette
  • Deleted Scenes
  • HDNet Special
  • International Trailer

WIN WIN (2011)

Synopsis: Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty, who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy’s mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything. (blu-ray.com)

Special Features:

  • Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni discuss Win Win
  • David Thompson at Sundance 2011
  • In Conversation with Tom McCarthy and Paul Giamatti at Sundance 2011
  • Family
  • Deleted scenes
  • Music video

X-CROSS (2007)

Synopsis: Recovering from a failed love affair Shiyori heads to the country, in the company of best friend and bad girl Aiko. Having taken a long soak in the hot spring they retire to their respective cabins. They soon discover that the tranquil village is the home of a cult with a fetish for cutting off female legs. Trying to escape they are split up and keep in touch via their mobile phones. Multiple points of view and time frames keeps the viewer on their toes trying to discern the grisly fate of these “lost” girls. (highdefdigest.com)

Special Features: Unknown.