The Paperboy is out now on DVD and Blu-ray and you are going to want to own this movie. If you are like me, you want to see this film because you heard how Nicole Kidman pees on Zac Efron in it. Well you get that scene and so much more in this intriguing movie.
In the late ’60s a corrupt sheriff was killed in Miami and Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack), an innocent man was convicted of his crime. His pen pal and now fiancee, Charlotte (Kidman) has taken his story to the Miami Times lead reporter Ward Jensen (Matthew McConaughey) and she is hoping he can get Hillary set free. Ward’s younger brother Jake (Zac Efron) is the Paperboy and he is also helping out with the report. During the long hot summer, unconventional Charlotte and innocent Jake will get very close and it will eventually be their undoing and everyone elses around them.
The Paperboy looks at racism, sexism and homosexuality in the late ’60s in a way that makes you appreciate how we are today. Director Lee Daniels perfectly captured the era with this movie.
The Blu-ray includes these special features: Free Digital Copy of the Film, Featurette, Director Interview, Cast and Crew Interview, Behind the Scenes. With these features we find out which actor was not Daniels’ first choice for the role they got, what drew the actors to do this movie and what it was like to make it. These features help you understand the movie even more when you find out where everyone was coming from when they made it.
Sylvia Potter (Lindsey Shaw) is looking for love in Love Me and she is going to find it when Lucas Green (Jamie Johnston) transfers to her high school. Only problem is his ex-girlfriend, Melissa went missing and everyone thinks he is the one who did it including all of her friends. Will she listen to them or will she stay with the man that she loves?
As the movie goes we get more information about what happened to Melissa and it looks more and more like he is the one who made her disappear. Did he? You will have to tune into suspenseful young love story to find out. So buy the Blu-ray or DVD for Love Me that is out now.
And you will want to check out the two featurettes, Behind the Scenes and Stories from the Set, that come with it. You will see the young cast have fun in between takes and find out what they think of each other and their characters.
It is the day after Halloween, so now it is time to start getting ready for Christmas. And what is one of the best ways to do that? Watching a movie that will get you into the Holiday Spirit. Well today on Video On Demand you can rent the future holiday classic All I Want is Christmas and after you watch it you will wish that tomorrow is December 25th not that it is almost 2 months away!
Ira Finkelstein (Elijah Nelson) lives in Malibu with his parents and all he wants for Christmas is to have a white one. Only problems are, is that it doesn’t snow in California and he is Jewish.
It is a few days before X-Mas and Ira’s parents said they will take him away on family trip to where it snows. But then Ira’s mom (Angela DiMarco) gets a holiday party planning job for a celebrity and his dad (David DeLuise) convinces the star to be in his movie and they have to shoot immediately. That means their Chanukah trip is off and Ira is now going to go to spend the time with his grandparents, who haven’t seen him in years, in Florida instead. That is so not what he wants to do.
Well after his parents drop him off at the airport he meets Mikey (Justin Howell), a boy who is going to visit his cousins in Christmastown, Wa and like Ira he hasn’t seen them in years. Mikey wants to go somewhere that is warm, so Ira comes up with a plan that they switch places. So now Mikey is going to Florida and Ira is off to Washington.
Will the two boys get want they truly want Christmas? Will their plan work or will they get caught? Will they have a nice Christmas? You will have to watch this movie that is sweeter than Sugar Plums and Chanukah Gilt!
Seriously All I Want is Christmas is such an enjoyable film that you will want to watch it over and over again. I can’t remember the last time I saw movie as feel good as this one and isn’t that what this season is all about?
The Barrens is out now in a Blu-ray combo pack and this movie will make you never want to camp again. It is movies like this one that is why I have never gone camping and I never will.
Richard Vineyard (Stephen Moyer) takes his family to New Jersey Pine Barrens for a camping trip and they will never be the same. Vineyard went there as a kid and he is convinced that he was chased by the Jersey Devil back then. Now decades later he thinks he the urban legend that has been haunting the area for over 400 years is back and after him. This hallucination will get him and his wife (Mia Kirshner), his daughter (Allie MacDonald) and their son (Peter DaCunha) lost in the woods fighting for their lives. But is his family’s life being threatened by the unknown Jersey Devil or the man they know better than anyone. You will have to watch this terrifying movie to find out.
Even though this movie scared the sh!t out of me, I couldn’t stop watching and wanting to know how the suspenseful flick ended.
And on that note the Blu-ray combo pack includes an alternate ending that I am happy the producers were able to get removed from the final product. They explain that in the commentary included with that scene and you can hear their other thoughts in the audio commentary during the movie.
Chained is one of the most terrifying movies you will ever see and yet you won’t be able to turn the Blu-ray, that is out now, off.
Nine year old Tim and his mom get in a cab and there lives will be changed forever. The driver (Vincent D’Onofrio) will take them back to his house and he will kill Tim’s mom. He lets Tim live, but he chains him to a bed and tells the boy he must clean his house and can only eat what the driver leaves over. Since he is just a kid, he has no choice but do what Bob (the driver) says.
Bob is serial killer and he keeps bringing women back to the house so he can kill them. Tim (Eamon Farren) witnesses this over and over again for years and years. The little boy is now a teen and he still chained to the bed. Bob decides that it is time for his human pet to be just like him, so he brings back a girl for Tim to kill. That will ignite something in Tim, and change him. Will he become a killer just like Bob or is this the wake up call he needs to break free? You will have to watch this horrifying movie to find out. That and to see a shocking ending you will never see coming.
The Blu-ray that gives compelling and harrowing performances from D’Onofrio and Farren includes the below special features:
Mary’s Murder – Alternate Unrated Version
Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Jennifer Lynch and Actor Vincent D’Onofrio
Trailer
