HollywoodNews.com stays on top of the latest DVD and Blu-ray releases so you know which films are worth your time and money. This week, we recommend:
‘Precious’
Talk about good timing. Days after Lee Daniels’ raw “Precious” won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Mo’Nique) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Geoffrey Fletcher), the heart wrenching drama arrives [...]

HollywoodNews.com stays on top of the latest DVD and Blu-ray releases so you know which films are worth your time and money. This week, we recommend:
‘Where the Wild Things Are’ (Blu-ray)
Too many books don’t translate to the movie screen. Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” now joins the list. By tackling Sendak’s ode to [...]

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‘2012’
No one is safe from Roland Emmerich’s “2012,” least of all the audience.
The movie serves as Emmerich’s greatest hits, compiling the finest natural disasters money can buy into one cataclysmic [...]

Principal photography on “Death Race 2″ began Feb. 13, in Cape Town, South Africa.
The film will be a prequel to Paul W.S. Anderson’s re-imagining of the Roger Corman cult classic. Luke Goss, Ving Rhames, Sean Bean and Danny Trejo co-star. It will be directed by Roel Reiné (“The Marine 2″), and will chronicle the rise [...]

BY SEAN O’CONNELL
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‘Everybody’s Fine’
The general consensus on “Everybody’s Fine,” Kirk Jones’ heartfelt holiday film about a father traveling great distances to connect with his estranged children, was that it was [...]

BY SEAN O’CONNELL
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‘The Informant!’
Matt Damon certainly deserved an Oscar nomination for his work last year. But if we ran the Academy, we would have recognized the actor for his outstanding [...]

BY SEAN O’CONNELL
HollywoodNews.com stays on top of the latest DVD and Blu-ray releases so you know which films are worth your time and money. This week, we recommend:
‘Good Hair’
Hair – the subject matter of Chris Rock’s latest picture – isn’t very funny, least of all to the people who are shelling out thousands of dollars [...]

BY SEAN O’CONNELL
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‘Goodfellas: 20th Anniversary Edition’
As the nation patiently awaits Martin Scorsese’s latest, “Shutter Island,” Warner polishes off one of the director’s greatest, “Goodfellas,” for an anniversary release.
Scorsese adapts [...]

BY SEAN O’CONNELL
A couple of Best Picture nominees announced their DVD release dates this week.
“An Education,” starring Carey Mulligan as a British ingénue who falls under the spell of an older suitor (Peter Sarsgaard), arrives on DVD and Blu-ray March 30 from Sony Home Entertainment. Lone Scherfig’s insightful coming-of-age story has attracted much attention this [...]

BY SEAN O’CONNELL
HollywoodNews.com stays on top of the latest DVD and Blu-ray releases so you know which films are worth your time and money. This week, we recommend:
‘Amelia’
Once believed to be an Oscar contender, Mira Nair’s biopic of pioneering female pilot Amelia Earhart met critical resistance and failed to get off the ground with audiences. [...]

BY SEAN O’CONNELL
HollywoodNews.com stays on top of the latest DVD and Blu-ray releases so you know which films are worth your time and money. This week, we recommend:
‘New York, I Love You’
Producer Emmanuel Benbihy gets credit for the concept: Choose a major metropolis, then turn loose teams of creative filmmakers and hope to create movie [...]

The Academy Award-winning film “Apollo 13″ will celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the space mission and the 15th Anniversary of the movie by releasing a Blu-ray Hi-Def version for the first time. The film is slated to hit the shelves on April 13 from Universal Home Entertainment. The Ron Howard directed film will feature some [...]

By SEAN O’CONNELL
HollywoodNews.com stays on top of the latest DVD and Blu-ray releases so you know which films are worth your time and money. This week, we recommend: Zombieland
With all due respect to George A. Romero, the zombie genre has been done to (un)death. So last year’s fresh, funny horror-comedy hybrid “Zombieland” – now on [...]

By SEAN O’CONNELL
HollywoodNews.com stays on top of the latest DVD and Blu-ray releases so you know which films are worth your time and money. This week, we recommend:
Whip It
It’s tough to peg why Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut didn’t catch on when it spun through theaters last fall. The comedy on skates packs the same unfiltered [...]

BY SEAN O’CONNELL
Every Tuesday, new DVD and Blu-ray titles are reaching retail shelves and Redbox outlets ready for you to rent. HollywoodNews.com stays on top of the latest releases so you know which films are worth your time and money. This week, we recommend:
This Is It: A passion project delivered to the Michael Jackson fan [...]

By SEAN O’CONNELL
Earlier this week, HollywoodNews.com participated in an exclusive, virtual round table discussion with “Surrogates” director Jonathan Mostow ahead of the film’s DVD release. (It streets Tuesday, Jan. 26, on DVD and Blu-ray.) As the studio previewed the Blu-ray bonus feature, “A More Perfect You: The Science of Surrogates,” Mostow addressed why he deleted [...]

BY SEAN O’CONNELL
Every Tuesday, new DVD and Blu-ray titles are reaching retail shelves and Redbox outlets ready for you to rent. HollywoodNews.com stays on top of the latest releases so you know which films are worth your time and money. This week, we recommend:
The Invention of Lying: An engaging mixture of clever ideas and missed [...]

Rentrak Corporation, today announced the top ten DVD sales and rentals for the prior week based on estimated consumer spending.
According to the company’s Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services, the top ten selling DVDs and the top ten most-rented motion pictures, per data collected for the week ending January 10, 2010 include:
Rentrak Top [...]

By Sean O’Connell
Every Tuesday, new DVD and Blu-ray titles are reaching retail shelves and Redbox outlets ready for you to rent. HollywoodNews.com stays on top of the latest releases so you know which films are worth your time and money. This week, we recommend:
The Hurt Locker: An Oscar frontrunner, as well as one of the [...]

RT on DVD: District 9, Ponyo, Young Victoria
DISTRICT 9:When this movie didn’t move forward, Peter Jackson gave first-time feature director, Neill Blomkamp the nod to adapt his 2005 short film Alive in Joburg and District 9 was born.

An alien spaceship lands in Johannesburg. Cue a multinational, private military corporation to keep the peace and build [...]

Paranormal Activity, the chilling surprise hit that had fans everywhere “demanding it,” comes home on DVD and Blu-ray December 29. To celebrate, Paramount Home Entertainment will host the world premiere of an unrated version of the film for Jessica DiMeo of Rehoboth, Mass., the winner of the Paranormal Activity Red Carpet Home Screening sweepstakes.
Ms. [...]

So, what you ask is one of the funniest movies of the year? Hangover. Originality is hard to come by in Hollywood these days, and Hangover easily fills this void. Everyone has their Vegas stories, but for these guys it’s played out on screen. The Blu-ray disc is loaded with extras that include: PIP (Picture [...]