DVD Releases

Wow, do I feel old. It’s been 20 years since Sister Act debuted, and just about that long since Whoopi Goldberg was relevant. A sequel and Broadway play later, Sister Act and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit have been re-released in a double Blu-ray package.

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Project X is here – own it on Blu-ray combo pack or digital download 6/19. We’re giving away two free copies of the Blu-ray combo pack. Enter to win today!

Project X follows three seemingly anonymous high school seniors as they attempt to finally make a name for themselves. Their idea is innocent enough: let’s throw a party that no one will forget… but nothing could prepare them for this party. Word spreads quickly as dreams are ruined, records are blemished and legends are born. “Project X” is a warning to parents and police everywhere.

As studios scramble to appeal to the digital download fans while still clinging to the lucrative-but-quickly-fading home video model, we get awkward releases such as the Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Blu-ray combo pack, which comes with a Blu-ray disc (of course), a DVD and something called Ultraviolet (“your movies in the cloud!”).

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Just when you thought you’d seen your last over-the-top U.S. military commercial, Hollywood goes a step further: it makes a two-hour-long promotional video, calls it a movie and charges filmgoers money to watch it. For what it is intended to do – appeal to the uber-patriotic and military families – Act of Valor does its job. For the rest of us, it’s fubar filmmaking.

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Did you ever wonder what happened to the Phantom of the Opera? Me neither, but that didn’t stop Andrew Lloyd Weber, the composer responsible for the blockbuster stage musical "The Phantom of the Opera", from developing a sequel that reunites the music-loving Phantom and his muse Christine. The Blu-ray release of "Love Never Dies", filmed at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre, allows audiences who can’t afford to travel to Australia the chance to see the musical. That’s a good thing, because the play isn’t worth the trip.

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Shrek may have run his course years ago, but his furry Antonio Banderas-sounding friend Puss in Boots gets another life in… Puss in Boots, an animated comedy adventure that is thankfully nothing like Shrek. Funny, witty and original, Puss in Boots is a surprisingly entertaining and fun flick kids, parents and everyone in between will enjoy.

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Stephanie Plum, the starring character in Janet Evanovich’s long-running book series, gets the big screen treatment for the first time in One for the Money, an adaptation of the first book. Based on the critical and financial reception of the film, it will also stand as the last time Stephanie Plum will be seen on the big screen. Despite being far from great, One for the Money does boast a casualness that works more often than not.

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Actually sort of based on a true story, The Vow stars Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams as Leo and Paige, a married couple who face a horrible reality: after getting in a car crash, she can’t remember the last several years of her life, including her husband or their marriage. Let’s just say Leo spends a lot of time sleeping on the couch. And that Paige can never get on his case if he ever forgets an anniversary.

Read FilmJabber’s full The Vow movie review.

Three Seattle teenagers develop super powers and do wonderful things with them, like scaring little girls and playing practical jokes on unsuspecting strangers, in the entertaining but far from great sci-fi action film Chronicle. Oh, and one gets corrupted by his newfound powers and takes it out on the Emerald City and all those who stand in his way.

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The last time I saw Kate Beckinsale in skintight black leather was… in my dreams… but before that, it was in Underworld: Evolution, the second film in the stylized franchise about vampires, werewolves and soft core porn. After merely a cameo appearance in the third, nearly series-slaying Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Beckinsale, having not been in a better movie since, is back as Selene, and everything else is back to the way they were.

Read FilmJabber’s full Underworld Awakening movie review.

Madonna’s W.E. is now available on DVD and Blu-ray, and we’re giving away three DVDs to our readers. The drama tells the story of two fragile but determined women – Wally Winthrop and Wallis Simpson – separated by more than six decades. In 1998, lonely New Yorker Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) is obsessed with what she perceives as the ultimate love story: King Edward’s VIII’s abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorcée Wallis Simpson. But Wally’s research, including several visits to the Sotheby’s auction of the Windsor Estate, reveals that the couple’s life together was not as perfect as she thought. Weaving back and forth in time, "W.E." intertwines Wally’s journey of discovery in New York with the story of Wallis (Andrea Riseborough) and Edward (James D’Arcy), from the glamorous early days of their romance to the slow unraveling of their lives in the decades that followed.

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Ah, babysitter movies. Pillow fights, sexy vixens in underwear and crazy adventures. Or Jonah Hill. And not even post-weight-loss Jonah Hill either. Very disappointing. In the new ridiculously unfunny The Sitter, Hill plays Noah, a college student who does nothing but hang out at his mother’s house. He is talked into babysitting three children for the evening, but what should be a simple night turns into something much more as he sets out to buy drugs for his girlfriend so she’ll have sex with him. The things we do for love. Or sex. Or entertaining an audience.

Read FilmJabber’s full The Sitter movie review.