The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is The Stanley Kubrick Collection on DVD for only $30.99 (that’s 59% off the list price of $74.98) and Blu-ray for only $60.99 (that’s 59% off the list price of $148.95).

Note, this deal is valid only for today, Friday, March 16, 2012, until 11:59pm PST while supplies last.

Both box sets come with 10 discs with 9 films from director Stanley Kubrick: Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut [...]

Amazon is currently selling the Austin Powers Collection on Blu-ray for only $16.99 (that’s 53% off the list price of $35.99).

The Blu-ray set comes with all three Austin Powers movies:

- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
- Austin Powers in Goldmember

The box set also includes documentaries; commentaries; deleted and alternate scenes; music videos, and trailers.

Grab this Blu-ray box set for the discounted price now, as the sale ends today, Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 11:59pm EST, while supplies last [...]

For the upcoming DVD and Blu-ray launch of The Muppets Disney has released a new promotional trailer that channels in more than a few ways another much-anticipated release, The Hunger Games.

You can check out the video here below.

I missed The Muppets in theaters last year so I’m anxious to catch the movie in the comfort of my own home. It’s good to hear that the big-screen comeback of Jim Henson‘s cherished creations did well enough at the box office for Disney to green-light a sequel, even though star/co-writer Jason Segel won’t be back next time due to a full dance card [...]

The eagerly anticipated arrival of the Game Of Thrones Season 1 DVD and Blu-ray is finally here. Released today, March 6, 2012, you can get the 5-disc DVD box set for only $29.99 (that’s 50% off the list price of $59.99) and the 5-disc Blu-ray box set for only $34.99 (that’s 56% off the list price of $79.98).

Both editions contain all 10 episodes of the first season of the HBO series Game Of Thrones, along with plenty of bonus features like a 30-minute “Making Game of Thrones” feature, seven audio commentaries by the cast and crew, and several behind-the-scenes featurettes. The Blu-ray edition also includes an interactive complete guide to Westeros, an in-episode guide, and a look at episode 6, as well as hidden “dragon eggs” of never-seen-before content.

You can see the full list of bonus features with descriptions here below [...]

If adventure has a name it must be Indiana Jones. The legendary film franchise that made Harrison Ford a household name and solidified the reputations of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas as the kings of Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking has been one of the more notable absences from getting the Blu-ray treatment so far, but all that is about to change. The Complete Indiana Jones Blu-ray Collection is finally heading our way courtesy of Lucasfilm Ltd. and Paramount Home Media Distribution.

You can watch a trailer for the release here below.

The Complete Indiana Jones Blu-ray Collection box set will include all four Indiana Jones movies (yes even Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) remastered in high-definition and featuring a “best of” collection of documentaries, interviews, featurettes, and a few additional bonus features as yet unknown. Maybe they’ll finally include those fabled deleted scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Lord knows the Lucasfilm archives are teeming with great material for Blu-ray extras. Lucas didn’t hold out on us (much) when he released the Star Wars Blu-ray set last year [...]

If adventure has a name it must be Indiana Jones. The legendary film franchise that made Harrison Ford a household name and solidified the reputations of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas as the kings of Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking has been one of the more notable absences from getting the Blu-ray treatment so far, but all that is about to change. The Complete Indiana Jones Blu-ray Collection is finally heading our way courtesy of Lucasfilm Ltd. and Paramount Home Media Distribution.

You can watch a trailer for the release here below.

The Complete Indiana Jones Blu-ray Collection box set will include all four Indiana Jones movies (yes even Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) remastered in high-definition and featuring a “best of” collection of documentaries, interviews, featurettes, and a few additional bonus features as yet unknown. Maybe they’ll finally include those fabled deleted scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Lord knows the Lucasfilm archives are teeming with great material for Blu-ray extras. Lucas didn’t hold out on us (much) when he released the Star Wars Blu-ray set last year [...]

The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy Extended Edition Blu-ray box set for only $49.49 (that’s 59% off the list price of $119.98 and $30 less than the usual sale price at Amazon).

Note – this deal is valid only for today, Sunday, February 26, 2012, until 11:59pm PST while supplies last [...]

Right now, Amazon is selling the Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection Blu-ray Edition for only 56.49 (that’s 44% off the list price of $99.99), while the DVD is $41.99 (that’s 34% off the list price of $63.98).

The Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy Blu-ray Edition is only $20.74 (that’s 69% off the list price of $65.99), while the DVD is only $14.49 (that’s 64% off the list price of $39.98).

For The Next Generation fans, the Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection — which contains First Contact, Generations, Insurrection, and Nemesis — Blu-ray Edition is only $36.99 (that’s 47% off the list price of $69.99), while the DVD is only $26.99 (that’s 32% off the list price of $39.98) [...]

War of the Arrows
Blu-ray l DVD
DIRECTOR: Kim Han-Min
WRITER: Kim Han-Min
STARRING: Park Hae-il, Moon Chae-won, Ryoo Seung-Ryong, Kim Mu-Yeol, Kim Ku-Taek, Lee Han-wi, Park Gi-woong
Lotte Entertainment
RELEASE DATE: February 21, 2012

It’s hard not to love Asian cinema. It delivers a style and an intensity not often in found in other films. Sometimes this can feel a little over the top, but, for the most part, the result is a lot of really great movies.

Sadly many people (myself included, for a time) don’t get to enjoy a whole lot of these movies because they’re not in plain sight. [...]

The Blu-ray box set deal of the week over at Amazon this is the The Ultimate Matrix Collection on Blu-ray for only $25.49 (that’s 61% off the list price of $64.98).

Note, this sale is valid through, Saturday, January 28, 2012, until 11:59PM PST while supplies last.

This Blu-ray edition features all three Matrix films — The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions — in high definition, along with The Animatrix presented in 1080p for the first time.

There’s 35 hours’ worth of bonus material in this set pertaining to the making of the trilogy, the music, stunts, effects, deleted scenes, commentaries, and much more, including the companion piece “The Matrix Revisited.” There’s also a digital copy of The Matrix [...]

Belle De Jour
DVD | Blu-ray
Directed by Luis Bunuel
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Genevieve Page
The Criterion Collection
Release date: January 17, 2012

When digging through the history of film, very few filmmakers had quite the career of one Luis Bunuel. The surrealist icon first started in the short film medium (giving the world classics like Un Chien Andalou) only to get behind some of the most intriguing pictures of his generation, none of the cult auteur’s canon may be quite as beloved as his fantastical Belle De Jour.

Featuring Bunuel’s patented themes of human desire and pleasure, Belle feels like the physical manifestation of each and every single aspect of the surrealist belief structure, all in the guise of one of the most beautiful and complex pieces of narrative from one of film’s most interesting directors [...]

First released overseas more than a decade, the futuristic Japanese survivalist action-drama Battle Royale is finally coming to DVD and Blu-ray for the first time in the United States. Distributor Anchor Bay Entertainment has even cut a brand new trailer to promote the release. You can watch it here below.

The film is based on a popular manga and is set in a time where overpopulation and an unstable economy forces the Japanese government to institute the Battle Royale Act, whereupon one class of students will be taken each year against their will to a small island and forced to fight for their lives. [...]

The Gold Box deal of the day today over at Amazon today is the Farscape: The Complete Series box set on DVD for only $44.99 (that’s 70% off the list price of $149.95) and Blu-ray for only $68.99 (that’s 65% off the list price of $199.95).

Note, this deal is valid only for today, Wednesday, January 18, 2012, until 11:59pm PST while supplies last.

The 26-disc DVD set and 20-disc Blu-ray set both contain all 88 episodes of the sci-fi series Farscape, along with over 15 hours of bonus features like audio commentaries, featurettes, deleted scenes, and behind-the-scenes footage. Also, on the Blu-ray set, there’s an all-new documentary titled Memories of Moya: An Epic Journey, which features new interviews with the cast and creators [...]

Much like the brain-craving zombies that rise from the grave to torment its main characters, The Return of the Living Dead will never die. The 1985 horror-comedy was spawned from nearly a decade of half-starts, costly lawsuits, and clashing personalities and went on to become one of the most genre films of all time.

For a forthcoming Blu-ray release of the movie in the United Kingdom, DVD distributor Severin Films, the U.S.-based company that has spread its own brand of digital Trioxin over long-buried cult classics such as the original Inglorious Bastards and Richard Stanley’s scorched earth sci-fi horror epic Hardware, has produced a trio of brand new retrospective featurettes looking back at the film’s tortured script development and the creation of its brilliant visual effects and headbanging punk rock soundtrack [...]

Right now, Amazon is offering up the Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Blu-ray box set for only $27.99 (that’s 57% off the list price of $64.98).

This is the Three-Disc 40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo box set, which contains the 1971 film starring Gene Wilder on both DVD and Blu-ray, along with bonus features like commentary and an interview with author Roald Dahl, as well as collectibles [...]

Right now, Amazon is selling the Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection Blu-ray Edition for only $48.99 (that’s 51% off the list price of $99.99), while the DVD is $41.99 (that’s 34% off the list price of $63.98).

Also, the Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy Blu-ray Edition is only $22.55 (that’s 66% off the list price of $65.99), while the DVD is only $11.97!!! (that’s 70% off the list price of $39.98).

Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection contains the first six movies of the Star Trek film series, all of which star the cast from the original 1960s television series: The Motion Picture, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier, and The Undiscovered Country. Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy contains movies 2, 3, and 4: The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, and The Voyage Home [...]

The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption, the latest direct-to-video sequel to the 2002 prequel to The Mummy Returns that featured Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in his first lead role in a film, is set to hit store shelves this week and Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released several preview clips from the film.

You can watch all six videos, including a trailer and a behind-the-scenes clip, here below [...]

Now that all three seasons of the original run of Gene Roddenberry‘s sci-fi television classic Star Trek are available on Blu-ray, it’s time for Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal determined crew of the Enterprise-D to take its continuing mission into the realm of high definition. Star Trek: The Next Generation is coming to Blu-ray in 2012, just in time for the show’s 25th anniversary, beginning with a sampler disc called Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Next Level that will feature several popular episodes. You can check out a trailer for the restoration along with the cover art of the sampler release here below [...]

Fright Night
Blu-ray 3D | Blu-ray | DVD
DIRECTED BY: Craig Gillespie
WRITTEN BY: Marti Noxon
STARRING: Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Imogen Poots, David Tennant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Toni Collette
DreamWorks Pictures
RELEASE DATE: December 13, 2011

By now we should all be familiar with the drill: whether we like it or hate it, Hollywood will and is remaking everything they can get their hands on, and that’s because people pay lots and lots of money to see them. So, knowing that, we might as well at least remain open to the possibility that every now and again a remake will be done properly (the Coen’s True Grit, for example) and in-turn, be worth our time and our money. [...]

Final Destination 5
Blu-ray | DVD
DIRECTED BY: Steven Quale
WRITTEN BY: Eric Heisserer
STARRING: Nicholas D’Agosto, Emma Bell, Miles Fisher, Arlen Escarpeta, David Koechner, Tony Todd, Courtney B. Vance, P.J. Byrne, Ellen Wroe, Jacqueline MacInnes-Wood
Warner Brothers
RELEASE DATE: December 27, 2011

The last time we had a brush with death was in 2010′s The Final Destination. As it turned out, that installment in the horror movie franchise was by far the worst of them all with horrible acting, nonsensical situations, soap opera-level acting, and just an all-around unlikable final product. And that’s coming from someone who very much enjoyed the previous installments in the series for what they are: gruesomely fun guilty pleasures. [...]

There are far worse movies in the world than “Manos”: The Hands of Fate, the only film in the history of cinema made by an El Paso, TX fertilizer kingpin on a budget of $19,000 with a hand-cranked camera and a cast of hippie freaks and suicidal acid heads. But “Manos” remains the popular choice among fans of both Skid Row filmmaking and Mystery Science Theater 3000, the show that brought Hal Warren‘s obscure abortion of a horror flick back into the public eye. You can read my review of the recent DVD release of the MST3K version here [...]