Title: Sexy Evil Genius Directed by: Shawn Piller Starring: Seth Green, Michelle Trachtenberg, Katee Sackhoff, Harold Perrineau, William Baldwin and Anthony Michael Hall Running time: 91 minutes, Rated R, Available on Blu-ray Special Features: Award winning documentary “Jujitsu-ing Reality”; Commentary with Director Shawn Piller, Seth Green and Harold Periineau A group of strangers are invited to a bar by a mutual ex-lover named Nikki (Katee Sackhoff) whom has recently been released from a mental institution after murdering an abusive ex boyfriend.  They all tell their increasingly sad and strange tales of their relationships and breakups with Nikki.  Zachary (Seth Green) is Nikki’s first boyfriend and first love, Miranda (Michelle Trachtenberg)  [ Read More ]

‘The Host,’ the action-adventure romance film adaptation of The New York Times number one bestselling novel of the same name from ‘The Twilight Saga’ author Stephenie Meyer, is set to be released on home entertainment this summer. The movie will be released by Universal Studios Home Entertainment on Digital on June 25, while the Blu-ray Combo Pack with DVD and Digital, including UltraViolet, will hit stores on July 9. The Blu-ray and DVD include the following features: deleted scenes; ‘BRINGING THE HOST TO LIFE,’ a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film, featuring interviews with Meyer and stars Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons and Jake Abel; and ‘SEEKER PSA,’ Feature  [ Read More ]

Title: Frankie Go Boom Directed by: Jordan Roberts Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Chris O’Dowd, Chris Noth, Lizzy Caplan, Whitney Cummings, Nora Dunn, Sam Anderson and Ron Perlman Running time: 89 min, Not Rated, Available on DVD Special Features: Behind the Scenes, Deleted & Alterate Scenes with Director introduction, Pig in the Pool, Trailer Frank has constantly been humiliated by his selfish, insensitive brother Bruce their entire lives, and Bruce has managed to get each embarrassing incident caught on video and shown to the public. Frank has chosen to distance himself from his family for the sake of his feelings and to finish a novel out in Death Valley until he gets  [ Read More ]

Anchor Bay Films has announced that Myriad Pictures’ “A Common Man,” starring Ben Kingsley, will be out on DVD and Blu-ray May 21. The film, written and directed by Chandrum Rutnam based on the story by Neeraj Pandy, tells the story of an ordinary person who people would never suspect to be a terrorist: “…Oscar®-winner Ben Kingsley (GANDHI, the upcoming IRON MAN 3) stars as a seemingly average citizen who plants five powerful bombs in different locations around a major international city and threatens to detonate them unless his sole unconditional demand is met: The simultaneous release of four of the most deadly international terrorists from government prisons. In an  [ Read More ]

Dark comedy “The Details,” starring Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert and Kerry Washington, is now out on DVD and Blu-ray. The film, called “[a]n offbeat, original, pitch dark comedy for adults” by Stephen Holden for The New York Times, will be available $29.99 for Blu-ray and $24.98 for the DVD. The Blu-ray and DVD special features include an alternate beginning and an alternate ending. The film focuses on a battle with gang of raccoons that leads to a story full of human absurdity: “When a family of hungry raccoons invade the bliss of Dr. Jeffery Lang’s fantastic new backyard (Tobey Maguire), he becomes obsessed with  [ Read More ]

The family comedy “Family Weekend” is now out on DVD! The film, directed by Benjamin Epps, stars Kristin Chenoweth, Olesya Rulin, Matthew Modine, Joey King, Chloe Bridges, Eddie Hassell, Robbie Tucker and Shirley Jones. “FAMILY WEEKEND follows 16-year-old Emily Smith-Dungy (Olesya Rulin) an incredibly motivated, overachiever, who has grown increasingly frustrated with her parents’ lack of support and guidance. Her mom, Samantha (Kristin Chenoweth), is a career-focused, no-nonsense high powered business executive. Her dad, Duncan (Matthew Modine), is a happy go-lucky artist who can’t be bothered to earn a paycheck. When they missed their daughter’s big jump-roping competition, Emily hits her breaking point and takes it upon herself to restore  [ Read More ]

Title: Family Weekend Directed by: Benjamin Epps Starring: Kristin Chenoweth, Olesya Rulin, Matthew Modine, Joey King, Chloe Bridges and Shirley Jones Running time: 106 minutes, Rated R, Available on Blu-ray Special Features: Featurette: A Conversation with the Filmmakers; Thor Smith-Dungy’s “Chicken Dance” Video; Deleted Scene: Jackson & Kat Fireside; Deleted Scene: Rick Dances the “Camel”; Extra: Lucinda Gets into Character Emily Smith-Dungy (Olesya Rulin) is an aspiring jump rope champion who has just been disappointed for the umpteenth time by her family by not attending and seeing her win at a recent jump rope competition. Her mom Samantha (Kristin Chenoweth) is the workaholic breadwinner and having an affair with her  [ Read More ]

Laughs meet scares in the Marlon Wayans-led spoof comedy, “A Haunted House.” The film, now on DVD, Blu-ray and Ultraviolet, will obviously entertain, but it can also probably give you a hint as to when you might have to get an exorcist for your own home. Read this cool feature below to see exactly when your home might need some extra attention. ——————————- Are You Afraid of the Dark? (When You Should Actually Call an Exorcist) In the film A Haunted House, Malcolm (Marlon Wayans) is excited about moving into a new house with his girlfriend Kisha (Essence Atkins). What looks like a dream home and start of a great  [ Read More ]

Title: CLONED: The Recreator Chronicles Directed by: Gregory Orr Starring: Stella Maeve, Alexander Nifong, Jamal Mallory-McCree, John de Lancie, Laura Moss Running time: 90 minutes, Rated PG-13, Available on VOD & DVD 04/23 Three teenage friends travel to an island on a lake for a camping trip until a freak electrical storm hits. They take refuge in a posh cabin and are trapped in the basement when the owners show up the next morning where they find several bodies wrapped in plastic. The owners catch the intruders and force them to bury the bodies who appear to be exact replicas of the older couple who own the house. Before they  [ Read More ]

Title: Thale Directed by: Aleksander Nordaas Starring: Silje Reinåmo, Erlend Nervold, Jon Sigve Skard Running time: 76 minutes, Not Rated Special Features: Trailer, English & Norwegian language tracks Leo and Elvis are employed at a crime scene cleaning company and are called out to a house in the forest where they encounter several horrors of gory brutality until they discover a seemingly feral woman alive in a milky bathtub located in a decrepit basement. Elvis finds recordings from a man who had abducted the woman he calls “Thale,” whom had conducted abusive experiments on the woman since she was a child. While Elvis and Leo wait for the police, Thale  [ Read More ]

Title: Love Free or Die Directed by: Macky Alston Starring: Bishop Gene Robinson Running time: 82 Minutes, Not Rated Special Features: Featurette and Trailer A documentary about Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop who is the only bishop not invited to the once in a decade held global Lambeth Anglican Conference. A film crew follows Robinson as he struggles to bring to light that homosexuality does not interfere with the right to preach and worship and the LGBT communities should be welcomed to practice the religion as anyone else.  He is constantly yelled at and told he is a sinner, and even people who think they are soldiers for  [ Read More ]

There’s a number of online streaming services out there, but YEAH! strives to enhance the experience by pairing full films with interactive features. This additional content appears just below the film in a way that keeps it from interfering with the movie, but also makes this bonus material readily accessible. Every YEAH! film comes with 400 – 500 different pieces of extra content like exclusive interviews, little-known facts, quizzes, polls, and more. And the YEAH! curators managed to snag the films you’d want to have such an experience with – those films you’ve seen time and time again, but just can’t get enough of. The platform launched this month at  [ Read More ]

Title: Storage 24 Directed by: Johannes Roberts Starring: Noel Clarke, Colin O’Donoghue, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Laura Haddock Running time: 87 minutes, Rated R Special Features: Deleted Scenes, Photo Reel, Behind the Scenes Featuretes (4), Video Blogs, Day in the Life of Noel Clarke & Colin O’Donoghue, Cast Commentaries, Writer & Director Commentary, Teaser and Promos, Trailer A military plane crashes in London and several containers are blown all over the city, one of which ends up in a public storage facility where some people are utilizing at the time. The city goes on lockdown and the group of people are trapped in the storage building trying to escape a murderous alien  [ Read More ]

Title: The Frankenstein Theory Directed by: Andrew Weiner Starring: Kris Lemche, Brian Henderson, Heather Stephens, Joe Egender, Timothy V. Murphy Running time: 87 minutes, Not Rated Special Features: None A “found footage” film about a group of filmmakers who travel to the Northwest Territories of Canada in search of a monster that inhabits the forest that may have been the basis for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The whole premise is just dumb. Let’s all go into the middle of nowhere where it’s freezing cold, miles from civilization and cell phone reception and try to film a murderous monster…a monster that supposedly existed 200 years ago, yet is still orangutan strong and  [ Read More ]

Title: Shadow People Title: Matthew Arnold Starring: Dallas Roberts, Alison Eastwood, Anne Dudek Running time: 89 minutes, Rated PG-13, Available on DVD Special Features: Featurette “Shadow People: More to the Story” Charlie Crowe, a graveyard shift radio talk show host takes a call from a teenage boy who claims to be hunted by “shadow people” and threatens suicide. After being accused of making an elaborate hoax to boost ratings, Crowe discovers that a professor at a local college conducted sleep experiments that caused several people to die from ‘Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome’ after reporting visions of these “shadow people.” This movie is portrayed as a dramatization of real events  [ Read More ]