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In this week's new releases, we have the comedic version of Back to the Future (1985) in Hot Tub Time Machine where four guys in a rut find themselves back in time with an opportunity to change their future. Next we have Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief where modern day mixes with Greek mythology and Percy must find the real lightning thief before Zeus wages a war that can destroy the whole world. Then we have two disturbing films, The Crazies and The White Ribbon. In The Crazies, contaminated water turns an entire town into infectious murderers, killing each other. In The White Ribbon, it is pre-World War I and the children of a small town may be behind some dark mysterious events that lead to the thought-provoking question of whether the mentality of these children may have influenced the outcome of German history. Finally, a different type of danger lurks in the Guatemalan jungle where humans are hunted as prey in the new Blu-ray re-release, Predator: Ultimate Hunter Edition.

Hot Tub Time Machine is comedy about four guys who are unhappy with their current lives and find themselves back in time with a chance to change it all. Adam (John Cusack) is unlucky in love and keeps getting dumped. His nephew Jacob (Clark Duke) is a video game addict, lives in Adam's basement and has no idea who his father is. Lou (Rob Corddry) is way too old to be partying like it is 1999. Nick (Craig Robinson) has an unhappy marriage with a cheating controlling wife Courtney (Kellee Stewart) and hates his loser job.

When Lou loses his party mojo, the guys decide to rememeber the good times at one of their favorite spots, the Kodiak Valley Ski Resort. Drinking away their woes at the hot tub, they wake up to find themselves back in Winterfest '86 when Poison rocked the Kodiak Resort. Far, far from present Los Angeles, Adam, Lou and Nick all look like their younger selves to everyone else and when they look at their own reflections; only they can see each other as their older selves. Since Jacob had not been born yet, he is the only one who looks the same.

Initially, Adam, Lou and Nick are afraid their actions may alter time and try to replicate their past actions. However after some thinking, they wondered if this was an opportunity to change their future. Initially, all goes well with Adam meeting April (Lizzy Caplan) after he gets dumped by his first girlfriend Jennie (Lyndsy Fonseca), Lou finds the courage to face his nemesis Blaine (Sebastian Stan) and Nick and his band are ready to rock the crowd. The thrill is short-lived when they realize their actions may wipe out Jacob's existence. Now the guys will have to find a way to make sure Jacob is still conceived by Adam's sister Kelly (Collette Wolfe) and improve all their futures at the same time.

There are several 1980s film star guest appearances: Chevy Chase as the Repair Man, Crispin Glover as Phil and William Zabka as Rick.

Special Features:

• Includes Rated R and Unrated Versions of Feature Films
• Deleted Scenes
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• Production: Acting Like Idiots *Blu-ray exclusive*
• Chevy Chase: The Nicest Guy in Hollywood *Blu-ray exclusive*
• Totally Radical Outfits: Dayna Pink *Blu-ray exclusive*
• Crispin Glover: One Armed Bellhop *Blu-ray exclusive*
• Digital Copy *Blu-ray exclusive*

Exclusives:

Best Buy - Hot Tub Time Machine Blu-ray Combo Pack includes Standard DVD and Digital Copy.

Best Prices:

DVD - $16.96 at Walmart.com, $16.99 at Amazon.com, Best Buy, $17.99 at Target

Blu-ray (includes Digital Copy) - $24.96 at Walmart.com, $24.99 at Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, Target, $26.99 at Best Buy (price match to store's online price)

Who stole Zeus' lightning bolt and wants to
destroy the world?

 Go to

June 29, 2010 DVD & Blu-ray - Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief

to read the review, check out special features and see which stores are offering special exclusives and best prices.

Welcome to Ogden Marsh, where we promise
to kill thy neighbor.

Go to

June 29, 2010 DVD & Blu-ray: Beware of thy neighbor and do not drink the water in The Crazies

to read the review, check out special features and see which stores are offering special exclusives and best prices.

White is the color of purity and innocence.

Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte) is a black and white dramatic foreign film written and directed by Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke. Years later, an elderly tailor (Ernst Jacobi) who was once a school teacher (Christian Friedel) recants his time in a small town called Eichwald located in northern Germany, where he met his fiancée Eva (Leonie Benesch). It is fifteen months prior to the beginning of World War I, between 1913 and 1914. The seemingly quiet town is run by the wealthy baron (Ulrich Tukur) who employs most of the townspeople, the local pastor (Burghart Klaußner) who preaches strict puritanical values  and the seemingly friendly doctor (Rainer Bock) who has a much darker side. Behind the veil of purity where the pastor ties a white ribbon around the arm of each of his two eldest children, Martin (Leonard Proxauf) and Klara (Maria-Victoria Dragus), there are strange happenings.

A field of cabbages have been attacked by a scythe. One of the baron's children Sigmund (Fion Mutert) disappears and is found bound and whipped. A midwife's (Susanne Lothar) handicapped child Karli (Eddy Grahl) is severely beaten and left with a warning of divine punishment; later they both disappear never to be seen again. A farmer's wife falls through rotting floorboards and dies; later the farmer has hung himself as well. The molesting doctor falls off his horse after it trips from a wire between two trees. Even the pastor's parrot is has been stabbed by a pair of scissors.

The school teach grows suspicious and believes that Klara and some of the village children have formed a secret society and are the bullies behind these horrible events. When he confronts the pastor, he is rebuffed as the pastor cannot believe children can be evil and strongly defend his belief of innocence. Could the pastor be wrong? Can those children, who harbor desires to revolt and dominate with violence as a result of their oppressive upbringing , be the explanation for the later events in German history?

Special Features:

• Making of White Ribbon
• Cannes Film Festival Premiere
• Interview with Michael Haneke
• My Life - Portrait of Michael Haneke
• Theatrical Trailer

Best Prices:

DVD - $18.86 at Walmart.com, $18.99 at Best Buy, $20.49 at Amazon.com, $22.49 at Target

Blu-ray - $27.86 at Walmart.com, $29.99 at Best Buy, $36.99 at Amazon.com, $29.29 at Target

It has arrived. Let the hunting games begin!

To promote the upcoming film Predators opening in theaters on July 9, 2010, John McTiernan's Oscar-nominated Predator (1987) has been digitally restored and re-released on Blu-ray in the Ultimate Hunter Edition with new additional bonus features and $10 Predators Movie Money. Predator is a science fiction action film about an elite commando team consisting of CIA Agent George Dillon (Carl Weathers), Sergeant Mac Eliot (Bill Duke), Blain Cooper (Jesse Ventura), Billy Sole (Sonny Landham), Jorge "Poncho" Ramirez (Richard Chaves) and Rick Hawkins (Shane Black) led by Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) into the Guatemalan jungle on a rescue mission. However, they soon realize it is a setup when they only find a scared girl Anna (Elpidia Carrillo). As they take her with them to the extraction point, an alien from a warrior race known as "The Predator" (Kevin Peter Hall) is lurking in the jungle, preying on them for sport. One by one, the commando team members are killed until only Dutch and Anna are left. Will they be able to escape before they become another victim?

Special Features:

• New to this release:
  
  
  • Digital Restoration of Predator
  • Sneak Peak at Predators
  • Evolution of the Species: Hunters of Extreme Perfection Featurette
• Feature-Length Audio Commentary by John McTiernan
• Text Commentary by Historian Eric Lichtensfeld
• “If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It” Making-Of Documentary
• “Inside The Predator” Documentary
• Special Effects Featurettes
• Deleted Scenes and Outtakes
• Short Takes
• Theatrical Trailers
• Photo Galleries
• Predator Profile
• Includes Movie Money for Predators, The A-Team or Knight and Day (up to $10.00 value)

Best Prices:

Blu-ray: $14.99 at Best Buy, $21.86 at Walmart.com, $21.99 at Amazon.com

Stores:

Best Buy: New York City locations or use the store locator for other areas.

Blockbuster: New York City locations or use the store locator for other areas.

FYE: New York City locations or use the store locator for other areas.

Kmart: New York City locations or use the store locator for other areas.

Toys 'R' Us: New York City locations or use the store locator for other areas.

Target: New York City locations or use the store locator for other areas.

Walmart: Long Island locations or use the store locator for other areas.

Amazon.com charges sales tax for all New York shipping addresses.

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