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PR Santa Claus Conquers the Martians on Blu-ray & DVD Oct 30

Tells the story of the depressed children of Mars (including one played by an 8-year-old Pia Zadora), who can only be brought out of their funk through the jolly cheer of Old St. Nick. So the Martian leaders travel to Earth and kidnap two local kids and Kris Kringle himself. Brought back to the Red Planet, they are forcibly installed in a factory to make toys. But you can't manufacture happiness, with Santa having to teach his alien overseers the true meaning of Christmas.

Kino Lorber

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Posted by: News Editor - October 20, 2012, 10:42 am - PR
Keywords: comedy

PR Magic City: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray & DVD Oct 2

Dangerous and decadent, 'Magic City' begins in 1959, in Miami's Miramar Playa Hotel where hotelier Ike Evans (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is conjuring up ways to finance his dream. Ike's wife Vera (Olga Kurylenko), a former showgirl, and his three children think he is an honorable man, but he just can't break his pact with the most notorious criminal in town. So Ike's life is a facade: his home and his business must be kept separate - but does he have the sleight of hand to pull it off?

Anchor Bay Entertainment

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Posted by: News Editor - October 1, 2012, 7:19 am - PR
Keywords: television, drama

PR Barbarella on Blu-ray Jul 3 (clips)

Who can perform a zero-gravity striptease, seduce an angel and still have time to save the universe? Sexy, sultry, space adventurer BARBARELLA, that's who! Check out a pair of clips from this terrifically titillating sci-fi romp...

Paramount Home Entertainment

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Posted by: News Editor - June 30, 2012, 10:00 am - PR
Keywords: sci-fi

PR Barbarella on Blu-ray Jul 3

Terrifically titillating sci-fi romp BARBARELLA continues to entertain with its outrageous, out-of-this-world story and brazen sexuality. Jane Fonda stars as the titular heroine who lands on the planet Lythion in the year 40,000. Faced with robots, monsters and evil of varying stripes, she must vanquish her enemies, all while attempting--and failing--to keep her skin-tight spacesuit on. Along the way she receives assistance from a variety of handsome men, each of whom receives her uninhibited appreciation. Directed by Roger Vadim

Paramount Home Entertainment

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Posted by: News Editor - May 3, 2012, 7:43 am - PR
Keywords: sci-fi

DVD Review HUGO (BLU-RAY+DVD)

Martin Scorsese's love letter to the magic of cinema - wrapped in the thin guise of being a "family film" - has arrived in a 2-disc Blu-Ray/DVD combo from Paramount. Though a bit light in the supplement department the BD audio/video transfers are reference-quality.

Highly recommended.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - March 24, 2012, 7:42 am - DVD Review
Keywords: hugo cabret, martin scorsese

DVD Review ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (Criterion Blu-ray)

This classic take on H.G. Wells's book, The Island of Dr. Moreau should make it easy to forget the more recent Val Kilmer/Marlon Brando adaptation of the same story, and then some.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - November 21, 2011, 8:18 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: mad doctor, genetic experiments, remote island

PR George Frederic Hande's Julius Caesar on DVD Feb 22

Featuring the great mezzo-soprano Janet Baker in one the roles she made her own. She leads a cast of some of Britain's finest interpreters of baroque opera in a performance of the highest musical excellence. Charles Mackerras conducts with set design by John Pascoe and costume design by Michael Stennett. The English National Opera staging was specially adapted for this finely-realized studio recording.

Kultur International

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Posted by: News Editor - February 1, 2011, 7:34 pm - PR
Keywords: music

DVD Review BATMAN

Twenty years later, Tim Burton's Batman is still a worthy adventure for the Caped Crusader and Warner's Blu-ray release does it right.

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Posted by: Matt Serafini - May 24, 2009, 9:04 am - DVD Review
Keywords: the joker, michael keaton, tim burton, gotham city, dark knight, jack nicholson

DVD Review 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

2001: A Space Odyssey is embedded in my personal consciousness just as much as it is embedded in our popular culture. I have read the Making of... book, listened to soundtrack recordings and found out much about space and science fiction in following the spread of its influence. Every sci-fi film after 2001 must take it into account as a standard; however, that standard is difficult to put a finger on. Highly respected science fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke, co-authored the script based on his award-winning short story, The Sentinel, and among other standards set by the film is the potently literate nature of the screenplay. The musical score redefined the way music is used in the medium and brought the unique nature of modern "classical" music is understood in mass media.

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Posted by: Jesse Shanks - January 31, 2009, 9:41 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: stanley kubrick, hal, sci-fi