It didn't matter how many movies came out on DVD and Blu-ray this week; there was only going to be one contender for Recommendation of the Week: The Dark Knight Trilogy. The extremely popular Batman series helmed by Christopher Nolan has come to an end and is being honored by a DVD and Blu-ray box-set, contending all the features the individual DVDs and Blu-rays have.
First Release
- The Dark Knight Rises (DVD and Blu-ray)
- The Dark Knight Trilogy (DVD and Blu-ray)
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (DVD and Blu-ray)
- V/H/S (DVD and Blu-ray)
- Hope Springs (DVD and Blu-ray)
- The Odd Life of Timothy Green (DVD and Blu-ray)
- Butter (DVD and Blu-ray)
- Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn (DVD and Blu-ray)
- Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (DVD)
Re-Releases
- Francis Ford Coppola Collection (Blu-ray)
- Purple Noon (1960) (DVD and Blu-ray)
- Finding Nemo (2003) (3D Blu-ray)
- Up (2009) (3D Blu-ray)
- Brazil (1985) (Blu-ray)
- Tell No One (2006) (Blu-ray)
- Catch Me If You Can (2002) (Blu-ray)
- Ninja Scroll (1993) (Blu-ray)
- eXisteZ (1999) (Blu-ray)
The Dark Knight Trilogy (DVD and Blu-ray) *Recommendation of the Week*
Batman Begins (2005)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Written by Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer (screenplay), David S. Goyer (story), Bob Kane (comic)
Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Liam Neeson
The Dark Knight (2008)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Written by Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan (screenplay), Christopher Nolan David S. Goyer (story), Bob Kane (comic)
Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Written by Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan (screenplay), Christopher Nolan David S. Goyer (story), Bob Kane (comic)
Starring: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine
Two of the movies from The Dark Knight Trilogy have grossed over a billion dollars each, all of them have been praised by critics, audiences and comic book fans, and made Christopher Nolan a household name and fanboy favorite. Now that the series has ended with The Dark Knight Rises ,the whole of the Nolan series is coming out on DVD and Blu-ray as we witness Bruce Wayne’s (Christian Bale) journey to becoming Gotham City’s hero, Batman, taking on the threats of Ra’s al Ghul, The Joker, Two-Face and Bane.
Batman Begin (2005)
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 85% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 8.9/10 (read our review)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 94% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 9.7/10 (read our review)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 87% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 8.5/10 (read our review)
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: Batman Begins: The Dark Night Prologue [in High Definition]; Tankman Begins: A Batman Begins spoof; Batman - The Journey Begins: Concept, design and development of the film as well as the casting of Batman himself; ; Shaping Mind and Body: Observe Christian Bale's transformation into Batman; ; Gotham City Rises: Witness the creation of Gotham City, the Batcave, Wayne Manor ; ; Cape and Cowl: The development of the new Batsuit; ; Batman - The Tumbler: The reinvention of the Batmobile; ; Path to Discovery: A look at the first week filming on rugged and remote Iceland locations; ; Saving Gotham City: The development of miniatures, CGI and effects for the Monorali Chase scene; ; Genesis of the Bat: A look at the Dark Knight's incarnation and influences on the film; ; Reflections on Writing Batman Begins with David S. Goyer; ; Digital Batman: The effects you may have missed; ; Batman Begins Stunts/Confidential Files: Discover facts and story points not in the film; ; Stills Gallery; Theatrical Trailer, The Dark Knight: Disc 1:; Gotham Uncovered: Creation of a Scene - director Christopher Nolan and creative collaborators unmask the incredible detail and planning behind the film, including stunt staging, filmin in IMAX, the new Bat-Suit and Bat-Pod and exclusive features via BD-Live; Disc 2:; Batman Tech - the incredible gadgets and tools; Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of the Dark Knight - delve into the psyche of Bruce Wayne and the world of Batman througn real-world psychology; Gotham Tonight - 6 episodes of Gotham's cable premier news program; The galleries - the joker cards, concept art, poster art, production stills, trailers & tv spots; The Dark Knight Rises: THE BATMOBILE DOCUMENTARY: ENDING THE KNIGHT: PRODUCTION; The Prologue: High Altitude Hijacking; Beneath Gotham; Return to the Batcave; Batman vs Bane; The Bat; Armory Accepted; Gameday Destruction; Demolishing a City Street; The Pit; The Chant; The War on Wall Street; Race to the Reactor; The Journey of Bruce Wayne; Gotham's Reckoning: CHARACTERS; A Girl's Gotta Eat; Shadows & Light in Large Format; REFLECTIONS; The End of A Legend: TRAILERS: ART GALLERY
Amazon Price: $19.96 (DVD), $29.96 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A
Other highlights of the week include the releases of the independent hit Beasts of the Southern Wild, the web-series Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn and Oscar-elligible documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. On the re-release front are a large number of movies, including The Francis Ford Coppola Collection, two re-releases from the Criterion Collection, two Pixar movies and for anime fans, Ninja Scroll.
The Dark Knight Rises (DVD and Blu-ray)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Written by Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan (screenplay), Christopher Nolan David S. Goyer (story), Bob Kane (comic)
Starring: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine
The Dark Knight Rises was one of the biggest and most anticipated movies of 2012, grossing over $1 Billion to become the seventh highest-grossing movie of all time. It is also the last entry of Christopher Nolan’s version of the Batman series.
Set eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, Batman has been out of action since the death of Harvey Dent and Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) has become a recluse. Crime has been curtailed but a new threat has emerged, an exiled member of the League of Shadows, the intelligent and super-strong Bane (Tom Hardy), continuing Ra’s Al Ghul’s crusade against Gotham and Bruce.
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes: 87% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 8.5/10 (read our review)
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: The Journey of Bruce Wayne
Additional Blu-ray Special Features: THE BATMOBILE DOCUMENTARY: ENDING THE KNIGHT: PRODUCTION; The Prologue: High Altitude Hijacking; Beneath Gotham; Return to the Batcave; Batman vs Bane; The Bat; Armory Accepted; Gameday Destruction; Demolishing a City Street; The Pit; The Chant; The War on Wall Street; Race to the Reactor; The Journey of Bruce Wayne; Gotham's Reckoning: CHARACTERS; A Girl's Gotta Eat; Shadows & Light in Large Format; REFLECTIONS; The End of A Legend: TRAILERS: ART GALLERY
Amazon Price: $14.96 (DVD), $24.96 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): Content 4 stars, Video 4.5 stars, Audio 4.5 stars, Extras 4 stars, Replay 4.5 stars (out of 5). Highly Recommended.
Beasts of the Southern Wild (DVD and Blu-ray)
Directed by Benh Zeitlin
Written by Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin
Starring: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry
Beasts of the Southern Wild is one of the biggest hits of the independent circuit this year, winning the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Best Breakthrough Director at the Gotham Awards and four awards at the Cannes Film Festival Film. The movie’s young star, Quvenzhané Wallis, is also predicted to be the youngest actress ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.
Set in an impoverished area of the Louisiana bayou known as the Bathtub, Hushpuppy (Wallis) is a young girl living with her hotheaded father whose heath is failing. With the Ice Caps melting, their home is flooded and the remainer of the community tries to survive in what seems to be impossible circumstances.
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 86% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 8.5/10 (read our review)
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: N/A
Amazon Price: $17.99 (DVD), $24.99 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A
V/H/S (DVD and Blu-ray)
Directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence
Written by David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Ti West, Chad Villella, Justin Martinez, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Starring: Joe Sykes, Hannah Fierman, Joe Swanberg, Sophia Takal, Norma C. Quinones, Helen Rogers
Keeping the found footage genre fresh is tricky considering the flood on the market since the success of Paranormal Activity. Horror movie website Bloody Disgusting and The Collective has found a way round this by making V/H/S, an anthology horror movie, telling the story of a group of people who find a load of video tapes, all featuring disturbing footage. Each segment was helm by a different director.
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 51% (average)
Player Affinity Score: 7.0/10 (read our review)
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: Closed Caption; Alternate Ending; "Tuesday the 17th"; Amateur Night: Balloon Night; Webcam Interviews; Interviews with Cast & Crew; Commentary with Cast & Crew
Amazon Price: $14.99 (DVD), $19.99 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A
Hope Springs (DVD and Blu-ray)
Directed by David Frankel
Written by Vanessa Taylor
Starring: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell
Director David Frankel and Meryl Streep have reunited for the first time since they made The Devil Wears Prada. Hope Springs tells the story of Kay (Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones), a middle aged married couple whose marriage has hit the rocks. The pair go to the resort town of Great Hope Springs for a week of intensive marriage counseling with Dr. Feld (Steve Carell), despite the couple's differing opinions.
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 73% (good)
Player Affinity Score: 7.0/10
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: N/A
Amazon Price: $16.99 (DVD), $19.96 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): Content 4 stars, Video 4 stars, Audio 4 stars, Extras 4 stars, Replay 4 stars (out of 5). Recommended.
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (DVD and Blu-ray)
Directed by Peter Hedges
Written by Peter Hedges (screenplay), Ahmet Zappa (story)
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, CJ Adams
The family fantasy drama The Odd Life of Timothy Green centers on Cindy (Garner) and Jim Green (Edgerton, Warrior), a childless couple that buries a box in their garden with all the qualities they want in their prospective child. The next day a child (CJ Adams, Dan in Real Life) appears, claiming to be their son.
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 39% (poor)
Player Affinity Score: N/A
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: Glen Hansard "This Gift" Music Video
Amazon Price: $16.99 (DVD), $22.99 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A
Butter (DVD and Blu-ray)
Directed by Jim Field Smith
Written by Jason Micallef
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Ty Burrell, Olivia Wilde, Rob Corddry, Ashley Green, Alicia Silverstone, Hugh Jackman
While in The Odd Life of the Timothy Green Jennifer Garner is one of the good guys, in Butter she is the antagonist in this ensemble comedy featuring the likes of Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone and Hugh Jackman. Butter tells of the cuthroat world of butter-carving in Iowa and how those involved will do anything to win.
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes: 36% (poor)
Player Affinity Score: 5.0/10 (read our review)
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: N/A
Amazon Price: $14.99 (DVD), $16.99 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): Content 3 stars, Video 4.5 stars, Audio 4 stars, Extras 3 stars, Replay 1.5 stars (out of 5). Rent It.
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn (DVD and Blu-ray)
Directed by Stewart Hendler
Written by Aaron Helbing, Todd Helbing
Starring: Tom Green, Anna Popplewell, Enisha Brewster, Osric Chau, Kat De Lieva, Daniel Cudmore
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn was a live-action web series made to promote the release of Halo 4. Made with a budget of $10 million, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn features talents such as Anna Popplewell (Narnia series) and Daniel Cudmore (X-Men series and Twilight series). The film follows Cadet Thomas Lasky (Tom Green, Dance Academy) who has to conquer his fears and doubts to become a solider and fight the evils of the Covenant.
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes: N/A
Player Affinity Score: 7.8/10
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features:
Amazon Price: $12.99 (DVD), $16.99 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): Content 3.5 stars, Video 5 stars, Audio 4.5 stars, Extras 4 stars, Replay 4 stars (out of 5). Highly Recommended. MUST EDIT
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (DVD and Blu-ray)
Written and directed by Alison Klayman
Starring: Ai Weiwei, Danqing Chen, Ying Gao, Changwei Gu
Ai Weiwei is one of the most famous artists and political dissents in China and Beijing-based American journalist Alison Klayman chronicles Weiwei’s life as he prepares for exhibits and clashes with the Chinese government. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry won a Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes: 97% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: N/A
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: N/A
Amazon Price: $12.99 (DVD), $26.98 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A
Francis Ford Coppola 5-Film Collection (Blu-ray)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Written by John Milius Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, Marlon Brando
Apocalypse Now: Redux (2001)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Written by John Milius Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, Marlon Brando
One From the Heart (1982)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Written by Armyan Bernstein, Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia, Nastasssja Kinski, Lainie Kazan, Harry Dean Stanton
Tetro (2009)
Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdú, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Carmen Maura
The Conversation (1974)
Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Gene Hackman
Francis Ford Coppola was one of the biggest directors of the 1970s and now five of his movies are coming out in a Blu-ray box-set, featuring both versions of Apocalypse Now, the paranoid-thriller The Conversation, the Argentine set Tetro and musical One From the Heart.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 99% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 9.8/10
Apocalypse Now: Redux (2001)
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 93% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 8.8/10
One From the Heart (1982)
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 46% (average)
Player Affinity Score: N/A
Tetro (2009)
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 71% (good)
Player Affinity Score: N/A
The Conversation (1974)
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 98% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 8.3/10
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: N/A
Amazon Price: $28.83 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A
Purple Noon (1960) (DVD and Blu-ray)
Directed by René Clément
Written by René Clément, Paul Gégauff (screenplay), Patricia Highsmith (novel)
Starring: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt
From the Criterion Collection is Purple Noon, a French adaptation and the original adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley as the mysterious Tom Ripley (Alain Delon) is sent to Rome to retrieve Philippe Greenleaf (Maurine Ronet), the spoiled playboy son of an American millionaire, and bring him back to the States.
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes: 100% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: N/A
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: New video interview with René Clément scholar Denitza Bantcheva; Archival interviews with actor Alain Delon and novelist Patricia Highsmith, on whose book The Talented Mr. Ripley the film was based; Original English-language trailer; PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Geoffrey O’Brien and a reprinted interview with Clément
Amazon Price: $14.99 (DVD), $20.99 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): Content 3.5 stars, Video 5 stars, Audio 4.5 stars, Extras 4 stars, Replay 4 stars (out of 5). Highly Recommended. MUST EDIT
Finding Nemo (2003) (Blu-ray and 3D Blu-ray)
Directed by Andrew Stanton
Written by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds (screenplay), Andrew Stanton (story)
Starring: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould
Finding Nemo was recently re-released in the 3D format in cinema and now it has earned a 3D Blu-ray re-release. From mega studio Pixar, this Oscar-winning movie tells the story of Marlin (Albert Brooks), a clownfish and a paranoid father of Nemo (Alexander Gould) after his partner and all his other eggs were killed. But after Nemo is taken by the evils of man, Nemo is forced on a mission to find his son with the aid of the memory-impaired Pacific regal blue tang fish, Dory (Ellen DeGeneres).
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 99% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 9.6/10
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: N/A
Amazon Price: $22.99 (Blu-ray), $27.99 (3D Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A
Up (2009) (3D Blu-ray)
Directed by Pete Docter
Written by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter (screenplay), Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Thomas McCarthy (story)
Starring: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson
The other Pixar re-release of the week is the 2009 movie Up. Carl Fredricksen (Edward Asner) is 78-year-old man who has recently lost his wife and developers want to take his home. With the threat of being evicted, Carl fills thousands of balloons with helium to make his house fly to South America. But he has a small boy, Russell (Jordan Nagai) as a stowaway, and the pair end up on an adventure involving a rare bird, a legion of talking dogs and Carl’s childhood hero, Charles F. Muntz (Christopher Plummer).
Up has one of the saddest openings to a movie in recent memory.
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 98% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 8.8/10
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: N/A
Amazon Price: $27.99 (3D Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A
Brazil (1985) (Blu-ray)
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Written by Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown
Terry Gilliam is known for making many great movies, Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Time Bandits, and his dyspotian tale, Brazil, is a highly regarded movie.
Set in a retro-future, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is a bureaucrat who discovers that the government has arrested the wrong man and ends up going on a strange adventure, involving meeting the girl of his dreams, Jill (Kim Greist), a terrorist leader (Robert De Niro) and Sam's mother (Katherine Helmond) trying to convince him to take a higher position.
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes: 98% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 8.0/10
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: Restored high-definition digital transfer of Terry Gilliam’s 142-minute director’s cut, supervised by Gilliam, with DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 surround soundtrack; Audio commentary by Terry Gilliam; What Is “Brazil”?, a thirty-minute on-set documentary by Rob Hedden; The Battle of “Brazil”: A Video History, a sixty-minute documentary by author and film writer Jack Mathews about the controversy surrounding the film’s release; The “Love Conquers All” version of Brazil, a ninety-four-minute cut of the film produced by the studio in an attempt to make it more commercial, with commentary by Brazil expert David Morgan; The Production Notebook, a collection of supplements featuring a trove of Brazil-iana from Gilliam’s personal collection: a short documentary on the screenplay, featuring interviews with screenwriters Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard; Gilliam’s storyboards for unfilmed dream sequences, animated and narrated by Morgan; visual essays on the film’s production design and special effects; a visual essay on Brazil’s costumes, narrated by costume designer James Acheson; and interviews with Gilliam and composer Michael Kamen on the score; Trailer; PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt
Amazon Price: $20.99 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A
Tell No One (2006) (Blu-ray)
Directed by Guillaume Canet
Written by Guillaume Canet, Phillippe Lefebvre (screenplay), Harlan Coben (story)
Starring: François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, Marina Hands, Kristin Scott Thomas, Nathalie Baye
Based on Harlan Coben’s American novel, Tell No One is an excellent French thriller about Alexandre Beck (François Cluzet, The Intouchables), a doctor whose wife was murdered. Eight years after her murde,r Beck is accused of a double homicide and even stranger receives an e-mail showing a picture of his wife looking older, alive and well. Beck has to prove his innocence and figure out the mystery of what happened to his wife.
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes): 93% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 8.5/10
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: N/A
Amazon Price: $17.96 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A
Catch Me If You Can (2002) (Blu-ray)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by Jeff Nathanson (screenplay), Frank Abagnale, Stan Redding (auto-biography)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks
Based on Frank Abagnale’s autobiography, Catch Me If You Can stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Abagnale, who as a teenager becomes a successful fraudster, from cashing fake checks from Pam-Am to pretending to be a doctor and a lawyer. But FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) is on his trail.
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes: 96% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: 8.5/10
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: N/A
Amazon Price: $21.83 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A
Ninja Scroll (1993) (Blu-ray)
Written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Starring: Kōichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara, Daisuke Gouri, Takeshi Aono
Ninja Scroll is a cult classic and a favorite Anime fans. Set in the 16th Century, Jubei (Kōichi Yamadera) joins forces with a female ninja, Kagero (Emi Shinohara) after a village is wiped out by a plague and the two have to stop a clan of demons who plan to overthrow the Japanese government.
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes: 100% (excellent)
Player Affinity Score: N/A
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: N/A
Amazon Price: $22.48 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A
eXistenZ (1999) (Blu-ray)
Written and directed by David Cronenberg
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm
From the strange mind of David Cronenberg, the man who gave us Scanners, The Fly and Crash, is his 1999 sci-fi movie eXistenZ. Set in the near future, people are able to play computer games through organic virtual game consoles that are plugged into the spinal cord. The world’s greatest game designer, Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Last Exit to Brooklyn) is the target for assassination and a marketing trainee, Ted (Jude Law), has to protect her. The pair have to go into the game world to find out why Allegra is being targeted.
Critics Rating (Rotten Tomatoes: 71% (good)
Player Affinity Score: 7.0/10
DISC DETAILS
DVD Special Features: N/A
Amazon Price: $7.99 (Blu-ray)
Score (DVDTalk.com): N/A
