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DISCussion: New on DVD and Blu-ray (11.19.2013)

From the minds of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg is the highly entertainment The Cornetto Trilogy and now it is out on DVD and Blu-ray, featuring over six hours of special features. First Release - The World's End (DVD and Blu-ray) - The Cornetto Trilogy (DVD and Blu-ray) - Planes (DVD and Blu-ray) - 2 Guns (DVD and Blu-ray) - We're the Millers (DVD and Blu-ray) - Paranoia (DVD and Blu-ray) Re-Release - Tokyo Story (1953) (Blu-ray/DVD) - Bells of St Mary's (1945) (DVD and Blu-ray) The Cornetto Trilogy (DVD and Blu-ray) *Recommendation of the Week* Shaun of the Dead (2004) Directed by Edgar Wright Written by Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran, Penelope Wilton, Bill Nighy Hot Fuzz (2007) Directed by Edgar Wright Written by Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Dalton The World's End (2013) Directed by Edgar Wright Written by Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg had a great partnership when they made the comedy show Spaced and they were able to transfer with great success, making one of the great comedy trilogies. Now The Cornetto Trilogy is coming out on to DVD and Blu-ray, featuring three great movies, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End which lovingly parodies the zombie, buddy action and alien invasion genres. Shaun of the Dead (2004) Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 91% (excellent) Metacritic Rating: 76/100 (very good) Entertainment Fuse Score: 8.0/10 Hot Fuzz (2007) Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 91% (excellent) Metacritic Rating: 81/100 (very good) Entertainment Fuse Score: 8.2/10 The World's End (2013) Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 89% (excellent) Metacritic Rating: 81/100 (very good) Entertainment Fuse Score: 8.5/10 (read our review) DISC DETAILS DVD Special Features: Over 6 hours of apocalyptic bonus features!:; Including 9 feature commentaries, 11 featurettes, out-takes, deleted scenes and much, much more!; Additional Blu-ray Special Features: interactive screenplays for Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End Amazon Price: $33.98 (DVD), $34.59 (Blu-ray) There are plenty of first release movies this week, with comedy being the theme of the week with the likes of The World's End, 2 Guns and We're the Millers. The World's End (DVD and Blu-ray) Directed by Edgar Wright Written by Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike The World's End is the long awaited third and final part of The Cornetto Trilogy and it is challenging for the position as the best comedy of 2013. Gary King (Simon Pegg) is man who wants to relive the greatest night of his life, the night when he and his friends tried to complete the pub crawl known as The Golden Mile. 20 years after that event Gary finds his old school friends and through various forms of manipulation convict them to complete the pub crawl. But as their night progresses they soon discover their home town's residents have been replaced by robots! Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 89% (excellent) Metacritic Rating: 81/100 (very good) Entertainment Fuse Score: 8.5/10 (read our review) DISC DETAILS DVD Special Features: Completing the golden mile - the making of The World's End; Feature commentary with writers Edgar Wright & Simon Pegg; And more! Additional Blu-ray Special Features: U-control: storyboard picture-in-picture; Trivia track; Edgar & Simon's flip chart; Deleted scene and out-takes; Signs & omens; Additional commentaries, featurettes and more!; Amazon Price: $17.99 (DVD), $22.99 (Blu-ray) Score (DVDTalk.com): Content 4.5 stars, Video 4.5 stars, Audio 5 stars, Extras 5 stars, Replay 4 stars (out of 5). DVD Talk Collector Series. Planes (DVD and Blu-ray) Directed by Klay Hall Written by Jeffrey M. Howard (screenplay), John Lasseter, Klay Hall, Jeffrey M. Howard (story) Starring: Dane Cook, Stacy Keach, Priyanka Chopra, Brad Garrett, Cedric the Entertainer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Roger Craig Smith, John Cleese, Carlos Alazraqui It has finally happened, a less popular film series by Pixar, Cars has now earn a spin-off series. Planes was produced by DisneyToon Studios, the Disney wing that made straight-to-DVD sequel to their classics and Planes was originally meant to be a straight-to-DVD movie before earning a theatrical release. Dusty Crophopper (the unfunny Dane Cook) is a cropduster plane who dreams of becoming a racer and his chance comes when he gets to compete in a around-the-world competition. Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 27% (very bad) Metacritic Rating: 39/100 (poor) DISC DETAILS DVD Special Features: Meet The Racers; Klay's flight plan Additional Blu-ray Special Features: Deleted scenes; Exclusive! Franz's song; Top ten flyers - count down the world's most famous aviators with host Colin Cowherd Amazon Price: $17.99 (DVD), $22.99 (Blu-ray) 2 Guns (DVD and Blu-ray) Directed by Baltasar Kormákur Written by Blake Masters (screenplay), Steven Grant (comic book) Starring: Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg 2 Guns is an action comedy Bobby Trench (Denzel Washington) and Michael 'Stig Stigman (Mark Wahlberg), two men who worked together to rob the bank of a drug lord. But unknown to each other they are undercover agents for the DEA and US Naval Intelligence and cross each other. Soon they are forced to work together again, despite their mutual hatred for each other. Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 64% (good) Metacritic Rating: 55/100 (average) Entertainment Fuse Score: 7.5/10 (read our review) DISC DETAILS DVD Special Features: Deleted and extended scenes; Undercover and into action; Feature Commentary with Director Baltasar Kormákur and Producer Adam Siegel Additional Blu-ray Special Features: The good, the bad and the sexy; Finding the vibe; Living dangerously Amazon Price: $17.99 (DVD), $22.99 (Blu-ray) Score (DVDTalk.com): Content 3.5 stars, Video 4.5 stars, Audio 5 stars, Extras 2.5 stars, Replay 3.5 stars (out of 5). Recommended. We're the Millers (DVD and Blu-ray) Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber Written by Bob Fisher, Steve Faber, Sean Anders, John Morris (screenplay), Bob Fisher, Steve Faber (story) Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Will Poulter, Emma Roberts, Ed Helms Another comedy out this week is We're the Millers. Jason Sudlekis (Horrible Bosses) stars as David Clark, a small time marijuana dealer who is offered $10,000 by drug baron Brad Gurdlinger (The Hangover) if he smuggles a large shipment of marijuana from Mexico into the United States. He finds the best way to do it would be to create a fake family, hiring stripper Rose (Jennifer Aniston), his nerdy 18-year-old neighbor Kenny (Will Poulter, The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader) and teenage runaway Casey (Emma Roberts). Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes: 47% (average) Metacritic Rating: 44/100 (poor) Entertainment Fuse Score: 7.0/10 DISC DETAILS DVD Special Features: See more Jennifer and more Jason, and extend the road trip even farther with over 45 minutes of smoking-hot extras, outrageous outtakes and nonstop laughs; ; Disc 1:; Theatrical feature; Millers unleashed: outtakes overload - never-before-seen memorable moments; Gag reel & deleted scenes; Extreme Aniston; The Miller makeovers; And so much more; ; Disc 2: ; Extended cut - over 8 minutes of new material Amazon Price: $14.99 (DVD), $22.99 (Blu-ray) Score (DVDTalk.com): Content 3.5 stars, Video 4.5 stars, Audio 4 stars, Extras 3.5 stars, Replay 3.5 stars (out of 5). Highly Recommended. Paranoia (DVD and Blu-ray) Directed by Robert Luketic Written by Barry Levy, Jason Dean Hall (screenplay), Joseph Finder (novel) Starring: Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford, Amber Heard With a 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a $7.3 Million box office gross from a $35 Million budget is a massive flop. Adam Cassidy (Liam Hemsworth, The Hunger Games, The Expendables 2) is a young employee who ends up in the world of corporate espionage between two billionaires played by Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford. Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 4% (awful) Metacritic Rating: 32/100 (poor) DISC DETAILS DVD Special Features: Closed Caption Additional Blu-ray Special Features: Deleted scenes Privacy is dead The paranoia begins The players Amazon Price: $14.99 (DVD), $35.99 (Blu-ray) Tokyo Story (1953) (DVD and Blu-ray) Directed by Yasujirō Ozu Written by Kogo Noda, Yasujirō Ozu Starring: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara The Criterion Collection are back and this week they are re-releasing the Japanese movie Tokyo Story. Directed by Yasujirō Ozu (Late String, Early Summer). Tokyo Story follows an elderly couple who leave their home in the countryside to visit their children and grandchildren in Tokyo but comes across a generational clash and the change in Japanese urban society because of the post-war boom. Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes: 100% (excellent) DISC DETAILS DVD Special Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the BD; Audio commentary featuring Yasujiro Ozu scholar David Desser; I Lived, But . . . a 2-hour documentary from 1953 about Ozu's life and career; Talking with Ozu, a forty-minute tribute to the director from 1993; Trailer; New English subtitle translation; PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic David Bordwell Amazon Price: $33.96 (Blu-ray) Bells of St Mary's (1945) (DVD and Blu-ray) Directed by Leo McCarey Written by Dudley Nichols (screenplay), Leo McCarey (story) Starring: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman Last but not least is Bells of St Mary's, a witty drama that was nominated for nominated for eight Academy Awards and adjusted for inflation the 50th highest grossing film of all time. Father Chuck O'Malley (Bing Crosby) is a priest who has a failing parochial school and clashes with Sister Mary Benedict (Ingrid Bergman) on how is the best way to save the school. Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 94% (excellent) DISC DETAILS DVD Special Features: The Look of Love - an essay by film critic R. Emmet Sweeney Amazon Price: $17.96 (DVD), $26.96 (Blu-ray) Score (DVDTalk.com): Content 4 stars, Video 3.5 stars, Audio 4 stars, Extras 1 stars, Replay 4.5 stars (out of 5). Highly Recommended.

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