This upcoming 2011 Thanksgiving holiday weekend, we have a few things going on around the house, much like I suspect you do. If you’re going to be taking it easy and just hanging out around your home, whether it’s quietly stashed away, or with loved ones, your TV is going to be staring at you… calling your name, saying ‘watch me,’ I have all kinds of TV series marathons or movie marathons going on.
I see The Walking Dead, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Battlestar Galactica, NCIS, & a Firefly* marathon… (*If you get Science Channel)
So if you pick up that remote and fire it off at your TV, here are a few things coming up for the Thanksgiving weekend… a TV marathon or two, so to speak.
And folks… to anyone coming by, whether you’re popping in once or a repeat offender (visitor) checking out this post, I want to say from the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who comes by and visits my tiny little corner of the web.
Happy Thanksgiving and bless all of you and yours…
Now, back to my regularly scheduled snark and stuff…
This week, there are more than 125 new DVD & Blu-ray releases coming out this Tuesday, November 22, 2011. With Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Tyler Perry, Jason Momoa, Matt Smith and others leading the fray of new DVD’s.
Check out my list of New Releases below and check out my search window link if you’re looking for product details!:
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New Movies on DVD:
Super 8 Starring Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Joel Courtney and Ryan Lee
A Madea Christmas: The Play Starring Tyler Perry and Tony Grant
Conan the Barbarian Starring Jason Momoa and Ron Perlman
Sarah’s Key Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Niels Arestrup, Melusine Mayance
Love Begins Starring Abigail Mavity and Nancy Mckeon
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Movies New to Blu-ray:
Three Amigos [Blu-ray] Starring Martin Short, Steve Martin
This is a guest-postmovie review from Jennifer, who, after hitting up the movie theater with her kids, was gracious enough to send me her perspective on Dolphin Tale! (Yes, I accept decently written items from site visitors, if so inclined!)
Dolphin Tale cast includes Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble, Kris Kristofferson, Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Morgan Freeman. It was directed by actor/director Charles Martin Smith (Stone of Destiny, The Snow Walker). (And Winter is played by Winter!)
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Jen’s Movie Review
Dolphin Tale is based on the true story of Winter, a dolphin who was rescued off a beach in Clearwater, Florida, whose tail had to be removed after it had been caught in a crab trap.
New movies coming out this Friday, Sept 23rd, to your local movie theater include Brad Pitt as baseball manager; Jason Statham doing action as only he can, as an elite special forces kind of character. There’s also a new Chris Evans movie in the collection of new movies coming out.
A once look-over, there are some fun popcorn movie options… but I think Taylor Lautner‘s film will probably reign supreme over the new films only because of his fan base from the Twilight movies. (They are a force to be reckoned with.) As to whether they can topple Disney’s The Lion King from it’s new, re-released throne is something to ponder though.
Check out this Friday’s upcoming movies and their movie trailers:
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• Moneyball
From Columbia Pictures, Moneyball is about Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s and how he took the road less traveled to put together a baseball club based on computer-generated analysis.
It’s directed by Bennett Miller (Capote) and stars Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright and Christ Pratt.
Moneyball Trailer:
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• Killer Elite
From Open Road Films, Killer Elite follows a retired Elite Special Air Service man whose mentor is kidnapped. To save his mentor, he must go in and kill three assassins.
It’s directed by first-time major film director Gary McKendry and stars Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Dominic Purcell, Aden Young and Yvonne Strahovski (from NBC’s Chuck).
Finally some exciting movie news! Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight Rises movie teaser is finally online. This being the final chapter in Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy of Batman!
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The Dark Knight Rises is coming to a movie theater near you on July of 2012, so we still have a long ways to go. It will star half the cast from Inception… (it seems), and will star Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Juno Temple, Josh Pence, Daniel Sunjata, Nestor Carbonell, Matthew Modine & many more.
A huge piece of spoiler news broke today via the website Hit Fix. It’s been spreading like wildfire (webfire?) as to who was spotted filming a scene on the set of Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight Rises.
In this third Nolan Batman film, the collected cast includes
RED is called an action comedy and stars Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban & Morgan Freeman.
RED (Retried & Extremely Dangerous) is written by Jon & Erich Hoeber (Whiteout) and directed by Robert Schwentke (The Time Traverler’s Wife).
The movie starts out watching Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) going through his daily, boring routine. You can feel the doldrums dripping from his routine, but it is what he does. And how boring it must be, seeing as how he’s a retired black-ops agent. Retired? Sorry, no one retires from black-ops, just goes dark and off-mission.
But his life is so boring that he tears up his retirement checks and calls the company to be able to talk to a certain operator… Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker). They’ve developed a sort of relationship from all their phone conversations.
This week we have over 250 new DVD & Blu-ray releases hitting the shelves on November 16th, 2010. As Christmas approaches, distributors have been saving some of their better titles for now. The titles range from highly anticipated, holiday movies, elemental bending kids to new packaging of highly marketed movies… for the umpteenth time!
Titles include Avatar (again) in a new extended format, A Christmas Carol from Disney, The Last Airbender, Christmas season Celtic Thunder & Michael Jackson. TV titles include Glee, Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone & Wycliffe. Other new DVD & Blu-ray releases are IMAX releases, Cats & Dogs, The Polar Express & many more titles that if you’re of the mind, you can peruse the larger list at the bottom of this article.
The big release that seems to be a best-seller on Amazon is the newest version/release of the three-disc Collector’s Edition of Avatar. (Below this press release description is my usual list of titles, broken into their usual categories here on Brusimm.
AVATAR Extended Collection’s Edition: 3-Disc Collector’s Edition Blu-ray
Disc One
· Original Theatrical Version
· Special Edition Re-Release
· Collector’s Extended Cut
· – - -16 more minutes and exclusive alternate opening
Family Audio Track (All Objectionable Language Removed)
· Original Theatrical Release
· Special Edition Re-release
Disc Two
· “Capturing Avatar“ An in-depth feature length documentary with James Cameron, Jon Landau and cast and crew
· Deleted Scenes – including over 45 minutes of new never-before-seen deleted scenes
· Production Materials
Disc Three
· Open “Pandora’s Box” and go deeper into the filmmaker process
· Interactive Scene Deconstruction: Explore the various stages of production through 3 different viewing modes
· Production Shorts: 17 featurettes covering performance capture, scoring the film, 3D fusion camera, stunts and much more
· Avatar Archives including original scriptment, 300 page screenplay and the extensive Pandorapedia
· BD-live Portal with additional bonus materials
AVATAR Collector’s Edition: 3-Disc Special Edition DVD
Disc One
· Original Theatrical Version
· Special Edition Re-release
· Collector’s Extended Cut
o 16 more minutes and exclusive alternate opening
Disc Two
· Original Theatrical Version
· Special Edition Re-release
· Collector’s Extended Cut
Disc Three
· “Capturing Avatar“ An in-depth feature length documentary with James Cameron, Jon Landau and cast and crew
· Deleted Scenes – including over 45 minutes of new never-before-seen deleted scenes
Aside from that, below are the usual title lists where I’ve pulled out the more popular sellers in the different categories and below that, a more comprehensive listing of many more titles…
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Three Disc: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy)
Clash of the Titans (Three Disc: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy)
Disney’s A Christmas Carol Starring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, and Steve Valentine
The Complete Metropolis Starring Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Frohlich
The Kids Are All Right Starring Julianne Moore and Annette Bening
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The Last Airbender Starring Dev Patel and Noah Ringer
Special Features
– Origins of the Avatar
– Deleted Scenes
1. “Talk to the Dead”
2. “Water Teaches Us Emotion”
3. “Water Tribe Battle”
4. “Field Ablaze”
– Gag Reel
The Night of the Hunter (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish
The Shawshank Redemption [Blu-ray] Starring Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, Bob Gunton, and Clancy Brown
I’ve been looking around the web trying to decide about headed out to see Red starring Bruce Willis. Almost everyone to a tee has given Red a tentative thumbs up. For an action/comedy movie, it has it’s high points but the middle plot seems to kill the flow and the pace of the humor.
As an action flick, it might have a wee bit too much action but still, a comedic action flick with Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich & Helen Mirren. Never mind the quick cameos by Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss and Ernest Borgnine.
If you go in looking for a fun action flick, I presume it will be just what you expect.
The opening movies for this Friday, October 15th, 2010 include the Bruce Willis movie Red, then of course a 3D version of Jackass and a limited opening for the Matt Damon movie Hereafter. It already opened at the New York Film Festival, will be showing on Oct 14th at the Chicago International Film Festival and will have a limited opening this Friday before a full release on the following Friday, Oct 22nd. Of course, don’t forget Hillary Swank’s Conviction!
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Red, Starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and others, Red is about a former black-ops agent, Frank Moses, makes a last ditch effort to reassemble his old team when his idyllic life is threatened by a high-tech assassin. It’s directed by Robert Schwentke (The Time Traveler’s Wife [< awesome movie]) and written by Jon Hoeber (Whiteout).
Sounds like nothing but fun! Check out the trailer… that’s nothing but fun!
This upcoming 2011 Thanksgiving holiday weekend, we have a few things going on around the house, much like I suspect you do. If you’re going to be taking it easy and just hanging out around your home, whether it’s quietly stashed away, or with loved ones, your TV is going to be staring at you… calling your name, saying ‘watch me,’ I have all kinds of TV series marathons or movie marathons going on.
