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Sin City Premium Edition Steelbook [Blu-ray]
How Are the Bonus Features? Robert Rodriguez has always loved DVDs, so the bonus features are extensive. On the first disc, there is somehow room for the theatrical cut of the film with its DTS track (the extended versions have only Dolby 5.1), two commentary tracks, an alternate audio track with a live audience in Austin, Texas, an interactive map of characters and locations, and 47 minutes of featurettes covering Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino, cars, costumes, props, and special effects. The first commentary is Rodriguez and Miller discussing the concepts and the cast. The second commentary is mostly by Rodriguez, but Tarantino drops in briefly for the scene he directed (with Clive Owen and Benicio Del Toro in the car), as does an enthusiastic Bruce Willis for his segment. The Tarantino scene gets a lot of attention on the second disc as well, in a 14-minute take in which he can be heard coaching the actors. Also on the disc are Rodriguez's usual "flic school (among the topics is how scenes were created by merging footage of actors who never actually met), footage of Bruce Willis's band performing in Austin at the time of the shooting, and another Rodriguez cooking school (this time it's breakfast tacos). But the most interesting feature is the "green screen version" of the film: the entire film as it was shot in front of the green screen, sped up to play in only 12 minutes. You can see the actors (in color!) interacting only with the props and each other. Last, there's a DVD-sized complete comic book of The Hard Goodbye. What's New in the Extended Version? "The Customer Is Always Right" (the opening sequence with Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton) has no new footage, but now goes straight into the one-minute epilogue with Hartnett and Alexis Bledel that closed the theatrical cut. "The Hard Goodbye" (with Mickey Rourke as "Marv" ) has two new sequences totaling about two minutes: Marv encounters his mother and finds his gun, and talks to Weevil in the club. In "The Big Fat Kill" (with Clive Owen and Benicio Del Toro), some short dialogue is restored, along with another wicked slice by Miho (Devon Aoki)—about a minute total. "That Yellow Bastard" (with Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba) has about 3.5 new minutes: there are more visitors to Hartigan's hospital bed, including his wife and a nurse; Carla Gugino's Lucille character comes to assist Hartigan when he wants to get out of jail (probably the best addition); and Mr. Shlubb and Mr. Klump have some more lines. —David Horiuchi Kill Bill Volume 2 Steelbook [Blu-ray]
Kill Bill Volume 1 Steelbook [Blu-ray]
Léon: The Professional (Theatrical and Extended Edition) [Blu-ray]
Face/Off [Blu-ray]
Trainspotting [Blu-ray]
The Boondock Saints [Blu-ray]
The Last Kiss [Blu-ray]
Rating: R Release Date: 14-APR-2009 Media Type: Blu-Ray Heat [Blu-ray]
Burn After Reading [Blu-ray]
No Country for Old Men [Blu-ray]
DESCRIPTION: Violence and mayhem erupt after a man stumbles upon a bloody crime scene, a stash of heroine and $2 million in cash in Miramax Films No Country For Old Men. Acclaimed filmmakers The Coen Brothers deliver their most viscerally compelling and ambitious film yet in this gripping crime saga in which money is as irresistible as bad choices are inevitable, and where every decision has potentially catastrophic consequences. Adapted from the novel by Pulitzer prize-winning author, Cormac McCarthy and starring an acclaimed cast led by Academy Award® winner Tommy Lee Jones, this mesmerizing game of cat and mouse will have you on the edge of your seat until the nail biting end. Snatch [Blu-ray]
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels [Blu-ray]
Pulp Fiction (Import) [Blu-ray]
The Devil Wears Prada [Blu-ray]
Inglourious Basterds [Blu-ray]
The Fast And The Furious Limited Edition Complete Box Set [Blu-ray] [2001]
Inglourious Basterds Limited Edition [Blu-ray] [2009]
Now, this isn't one more big-screen comic book. As the masterly opening sequence reaffirms, Tarantino is a true filmmaker, with a deep respect for the integrity of screen space and the tension that can accumulate in contemplating two men seated at a table having a polite conversation. IB reunites QT with cinematographer Robert Richardson (who shot Kill Bill), and the colors and textures they serve up can be riveting, from the eerie red-hot glow of a tabletop in Adolf Hitler's den, to the creamy swirl of a Parisian pastry in which Landa parks his cigarette. The action has been divided, Pulp Fiction-like, into five chapters, each featuring at least one spellbinding set-piece. It's testimony to the integrity we mentioned that Tarantino can lock in the ferocious suspense of a scene for minutes on end, then explode the situation almost faster than the eye and ear can register, and then take the rest of the sequence to a new, wholly unanticipated level within seconds. Again, be warned: This is not your "Greatest Generation," Saving Private Ryan WWII. The sadism of Raine and his boys can be as unsavory as the Nazi variety; Tarantino's latest cinematic protégé, Eli (director of Hostel) Roth, is aptly cast as a self-styled "golem" fond of pulping Nazis with a baseball bat. But get past that, and the sometimes disconcerting shifts to another location and another set of characters, and the movie should gather you up like a growing floodtide. Tarantino told the Cannes Film Festival audience that he wanted to show "Adolf Hitler defeated by cinema." Cinema wins. —Richard T. Jameson Fight Club (10th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Steel Book) [Blu-ray]
American Gangster [Blu-ray] [2007]
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碧欣因欠租数月以致无家可归,其心爱的狗狗伊莎贝拉亦被无良业主赶走,下落不明。身为父亲的马振成希望能弥补以往的责任,其后碧欣坚决要与马振成同住,令一向放浪的马振成生活顿起变化。 为求自保,马振成企图以身犯险令自己得以脱罪,他的好友杜Sir(黄秋生饰)亦屡劝无效。张碧欣欢欣鼓舞地准备与父亲落草,对着同校男生也难掩得意之色。然而渐渐地马振成从张碧欣身上,体会到什么是责任。 Office Space (Special Edition with Flair!) [Blu-ray]
Unfaithful [Blu-ray]
Independence Day [Blu-ray]
Basic Instinct [Blu-ray]
Sin City (Two-Disc Theatrical & Recut, Extended, and Unrated Versions) [Blu-ray]
Little Miss Sunshine [Blu-ray]
The Shawshank Redemption (Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray]
The Rock [Blu-ray]
Man On Fire [Blu-ray]
Black Hawk Down [Blu-ray]
Chungking Express [Blu-ray]
Die Hard Collection (Die Hard1-4) [Blu-ray]
I Am Legend [Blu-ray] [2007]
The film's first half almost suggests that I Am Legend could be one of the finest movies of 2007. Director Francis Lawrence's extraordinary, computer-generated images of a decaying New York City reveal weeds growing through the cracks of familiar streets that are also overrun by deer and prowled by lions. It's impossible not to be fascinated by such a realistically altered cityscape, reverting to a natural environment, through which Smith moves with a weirdly enviable freedom, offset by his wariness over whatever is lurking in the dark of bank vaults and parking garages. Lawrence and screenwriters Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman wisely build suspense by withholding images of the monsters until a peak scene of horror well into the story. It must be said, however, that the computer-enhanced creatures don't look half as interesting as they might have had the filmmakers adhered more to Matheson's vampire-nightmare vision. I Am Legend is ultimately noteworthy for Smith's remarkable performance as a man so lonely he talks to mannequins in the shops he frequents. The film's latter half goes too far in portraying Smith's Neville as a pitiable man with a messianic mission, but this lapse into pathos does nothing to take away from the visual and dramatic accomplishments of its first hour. —Tom Keogh |
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