Topic: What'ya got 2007-2013?

[Danae Cassandra]

Arrived in the mail today.



The Orphanage (Blu-Ray) 2007

Terrific piece of film.

Must agree!  That was a great film.

[Piffi]

Oh, nice! Maby thats the one i have to check today.

[addicted2dvd]

I enjoyed it as well. Though I did have a bit of a hard time with the subtitles. That is nothing against the film itself of course. I am just too slow of a reader. 

[addicted2dvd]

Arrived today...


Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 Motion Comic
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Blonde, bouncy Buffy (Kristy Swanson) is your typical high school cheerleader — her goal is to "marry Christian Slater and die" and nothing gets in her way when it's time to shop. But all that changes when a strange man (Donald Sutherland) informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill vampires.

With the help of a romantic rebel (Luke Perry), Buffy is soon spending school nights protecting L.A. from Lothos, the Vampire King (Rutger Hauer), his sidekick, Lefty (Paul Reubens), and their determined gang of bloodsuckers. It's everything you'd expect from a teen queen in the valley.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 Motion Comic
Proving once and for all that you can't keep a good Slayer down, Joss Whedon's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight" picks up where the smash hit TV show left off! Based on the Dark Horse comic book series, these eye-popping motion comic adventures breathe new life into the Buffyverse for long-time fans and new "watchers" alike.

The Hellmouth may have been destroyed, but the world still needs saving and Buffy Summers is back at her butt-kicking, demon-slaying best to battle the supernatural forces of evil. But the U.S. government thinks Buffy and her legions of followers have grown too powerful and are now terrorist threats. Meanwhile, a seemingly unstoppable group of Japanese vampires hatch a nefarious plot, while the biggest, baddest Big Bad of them all, Twilight, is on a mission to destroy every slayer on Earth.

Episodes:
1. The Long Way Home, Part 1
2. The Long Way Home, Part 2
3. The Long Way Home, Part 3
4. The Long Way Home, Part 4
5. The Chain
6. No Future for You, Part 1
7. No Future for You, Part 2
8. No Future for You, Part 3
9. No Future for You, Part 4
10. Anywhere But Here
11. A Beautiful Sunset
12. Wolves at the Gate, Part 1
13. Wolves at the Gate, Part 2
14. Wolves at the Gate, Part 3
15. Wolves at the Gate, Part 4
16. Time of Your Life, Part 1
17. Time of Your Life, Part 2
18. Time of Your Life, Part 3
19. Time of Your Life, Part 4

[DSig]

	The Langoliers Something bizarre has happened aboard flight #29...a nightmare so chilling, so frightening, so unrelenting it could only come from the mind of Stephen King. Now the master storyteller of our time gives terror a new name in THE LANGOLIERS. A jet leaves on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston. But early in the flight, ten passengers awaken to a startling realization: All of the other passengers have vanished – and the ground below is only...ground. But once they manage to land the plane, the situation doesn't improve. No one is there...the air is still...the clocks have stopped...and a dread, evil presence bent on their destruction is headed straight for them. Based on the novella from the best-selling anthology Four Past Midnight, Patricia Wettig (City Slickers II), Bronson Pincho (Beverly Hills Cop), Dean Stockwell (The Player) and David Morse (The Getaway) stare into the jaws of oblivion in this nightmare from the mind of Stephen King.
	Manhattan Nominated for two Academy Awards® in 1979*, and considered "one of Allen’s most enduring accomplishments" (Boxoffice), Manhattan is a wry, touching and finely rendered portrait of modern relationships set against the backdrop of urban alienation. Sumptuously photographed in black and white (Allen’s first film in that format), and accompanied by a magnificent Gershwin score, Woody Allen’s aesthetic triumph is a "prismatic portrait of a time and a place that may be studied decades hence." (Time Magazine) 42-year-old Manhattan native Isaac Davis (Allen) has a job he hates, a 17-year-old girlfriend, Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), he doesn’t love, and a lesbian ex-wife, Jill (Meryl Streep), who’s writing a tell-all book about their marriage...and whom he’d like to strangle. But when he meets his best friend’s sexy, intellectual mistress, Mary (Diane Keaton), Isaac falls head over heels in lust! Leaving Tracy, bedding Mary, and quitting his job are just the beginning of Isaac’s quest for romance and fulfillment in a city where sex is as intimate as a handshake – and the gateway to true love...is a revolving door. *Supporting Actress (Hemingway); Screenplay
	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick's black comedy classic about an “accidental” nuclear attack received four Oscar® nominations* (including Best Picture, 1964).  Convinced the Commies want to pollute America's “precious bodily fluids,” a crazed general (Sterling Hayden) orders a nuclear air strike on the U.S.S.R.  As his aide, Captain Mandrake (Peter Sellers), scrambles to unlock a recall code to prevent the bombing, the U.S. President (Sellers again) calls a drunken Soviet Premier on the hotline claiming the proposed attack is all a silly mistake, while the President's advisor (an ex-Nazi scientist) Dr. Strangelove (Sellers once more) verifies the existence of a dreaded Doomsday Machine - a retaliatory device designed by the Soviets to end the human race once and for all! *Best Director (Stanley Kubrick), Best Actor (Peter Sellers) Best Screenplay Adaptation (Stanley Kubrick and Peter George & Terry Southern).
	She Wore A Yellow Ribbon A masterpiece of mood and heroics, this second film in director John Ford's renowned calvary trilogy ('Fort Apache' and 'Rio Grande' are the others) features one of John Wayne's most moving performances as a calvary officer in his final week of service on the frontier. Under makeup aging him some 20 years, he inhabits the role of a wily veteran who knows the sting of war and vows to make his last misson one of peace. The ritual of outpost life, the sweep of battle, the advance of the patrol beneath  ominous skies: 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon', an Academy Award® winner for its color cinematography, paints a memorable portrait of the honor, duty and courage in the finest tradition of the calvary. And of Ford filmmaking.
	The Lovely Bones From Academy Award® winning* director Peter Jackson comes the extraordinary story about one girl’s life, and everything that came after. When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. But now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on. Filled with thrilling suspense, hope and the redeeming power of love, it’s “One of the best films of the year. Incredibly powerful.” – Harry Knowles, AIN'T IT COOL NEWS *Winner: Best Directing, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; 2003
	The Ladykillers Academy Award®-winning Tom Hanks* turns in a hilariously original performance in The Ladykillers, the laugh-out-loud comedy that explodes with outrageous wit and slapstick humor from the Coen Brothers (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Fargo). Underneath Professor G.H. Dorr's (Hanks) silver-tongued southern gentleman persona is a devious criminal who's assembled a motley gang of thieves to commit the heist of the century by tunneling through his churchgoing landlady's root cellar to a casino's vault of riches. But these cons are far from pros. As their scheme begins blowing up in their faces, their landlady smells a rat. And when she threatens to call the police, they figure they'll just bump her off. After all, how hard can that be? Wickedly funny from start to finish, it would be a crime to miss The Ladykillers. *Best Actor, Forrest Gump, 1994; Philadelphia, 1993.

[Najemikon]

David, have you've seen the original Ladykillers? I adore Coen brothers films, but that one, although it has its moments, is of no comparison to the Ealing version.

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

David, have you've seen the original Ladykillers? I adore Coen brothers films, but that one, although it has its moments, is of no comparison to the Ealing version.

And Tom Hanks (even though a great actor) is a complete mis-cast in the role of Alec Guinness.

[DSig]

David, have you've seen the original Ladykillers? I adore Coen brothers films, but that one, although it has its moments, is of no comparison to the Ealing version.

Oh Yeah .. and I completely agree.  The original is really the best.  But there are some bits in this that I like .. and i like the cast.

[samuelrichardscott]

[kahless]

Arrived this week...


...from Amazon.it:



Spartacus: Gods Of The Arena: The Complete Second Season [blu ray]

...from Amazon.co.uk:



Dexter - Season 1 [Blu-ray][Region Free]



Dexter - Season 2 [Blu-ray][Region Free]



Dexter - Season 3 [Blu-ray][Region Free]

[DSig]

samuelrichardscott .. You have a couple really good ones there .. "The Burbs" with Tom Hanks .. very oddly funny, and of course "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", "Funny Face" and "Gran Torino".  I like most of the others but these really stand out for me.

I see you have "City of Ember".  Have you seen this before?  If so what did you think of it.  It is on my list got get and was just wondering.

[samuelrichardscott]

samuelrichardscott .. You have a couple really good ones there .. "The Burbs" with Tom Hanks .. very oddly funny, and of course "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", "Funny Face" and "Gran Torino".  I like most of the others but these really stand out for me.

I see you have "City of Ember".  Have you seen this before?  If so what did you think of it.  It is on my list got get and was just wondering.

I've never seen The Burbs but have seen the other's you mentioned stand out in the past. In fact, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a double dip. Not seen City of Ember but spotted it in a charity shop in Inverness last week and grabbed it for £2. Thought I would check it out. When I do watch it, I'll let you know what I thought!

btw, I would highly recommend Once Were Warriors. I already own this release but grabbed it to give to a friend I thought would enjoy it to find he owns it. I'll just file it away should a copy decide to stop working...

[samuelrichardscott]

[dfmorgan]

This pair arrrived today:-

The Terminator

Snow White & The Huntsman

[DJ Doena]

The Terminator

Finally! Terminator on Blu-ray