RA: Renters Anonymous – August 31st, 2010
New Releases
Marmaduke – 2.6/10 – Trailer
Starring Owen Wilson, George Lopez, Lee Pace, Fergie, Kiefer Sutherland
A suburban family moves to a new neighborhood with their large yet lovable Great Dane, who has a tendency to wreak havoc in his own oblivious way.
RA: Renters Anonymous – August 24th, 2010
New Releases
The Back-up Plan – 4.4/10 – Trailer
Starring Jennifer Lopez, Alex O’Loughlin, Noureen DeWulf, Melissa McCarthy, Eric Christian Olsen
Zoe’s a woman who has a hard time letting anyone into her life. She has a habit of pushing people away when they get close. She also wants to have a baby but because she has no man in her life decides to be artificially inseminated. Shortly after having the procedure she meets a guy named Stan whom she connects with. But she’s still afraid to let him in and when she tells him about her pregnancy thinking he would bail but he sticks with her.
RA: Renters Anonymous – August 17th, 2010
New Releases
The Last Song – 3.6/10 – Trailer
Starring Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, Greg Kinnear
A drama centered on a rebellious girl who is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.
RA: Renters Anonymous – August 10th, 2010
New Releases
Date Night – 6.410 – Trailer
Starring Steve Carell, Tina Fey, James Franco, Taraji P Henson, Mila Kunis, Common, Mark Wahlberg, Leighton Meester, Kristen Wiig
Phil and Claire Foster are a couple who have been married for several years. Their days consists of them taking care of their children and going to work and coming home and going to bed. But they find time to have a date night wherein they go out and spend some time together. When another couple they know announce that they’re separating because they’re in a rut, Phil feels that he and Claire could be too. So when date night comes Phil decides to do something different. So they go into the city and try to get into a new popular restaurant. But when it’s full and still wanting to do this, Phil decides to take the reservation of a couple who doesn’t show up. While they’re having dinner two men approach them and instructs them to stand up and go with them. They think the men are with the restaurant and want to talk to them about taking someone else’s reservation. But it appears the couple whose reservation they took crossed someone and the two men work for this person. The men are after something, but whatever it is they don’t have it.
RA: Renters Anonymous – August 3rd, 2010
New Releases
Kick-Ass – 7.7/10 – Trailer
Starring Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Grace Moretz, Nicolas Cage, Mark Strong
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan with a few friends and who lives alone with his father. His life is not very difficult and his personal trials not that overwhelming. However, one day he makes the simple decision to become a super-hero even though he has no powers or training.
RA: Renters Anonymous – July 27th, 2010
New Releases
Clash of the Titans – 6/10 – Trailer
Starring Sam Worthington, Gemma Arterton, Mads Mikkelsen, Dizzy Gillespie, Alexa Davalos, Danny Huston, Pete Postlethwaite, Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson
The mortal son of the god Zeus embarks on a perilous journey to stop the underworld and its minions from spreading their evil to Earth as well as the heavens.
Special Features:
- 2.40:1 Widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1
- Additional Scenes
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RA: Renters Anonymous – July 20th, 2010
New Releases
The Runaways – 7.2/10 – Trailer
Starring Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart, Stella Maeve, Scout Taylor-Compton, Michael Shannon
The Runaways were the ground-breaking, all girl, teenage rock band of the 1970s. Friends, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie went from rebellious Southern California kids to rock stars of the now legendary group that paved the way for future generations of girl bands. Under the Svengali-like influence of rock impresario Kim Fowley the group became an outrageous success and a family of misfits. With its tough-chick image and raw talent, the band quickly earned a name for itself-and so did its two leads.
RA: Renters Anonymous – July 13th, 2010
New Releases
Greenberg – 6.8/10 – Trailer
Starring Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Jason Leigh
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother’s assistant.
Special Features:
- 2.35:1 Widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1
- Focus Features Spotlight Series Presentation
- Behind-the-Scenes
- Greenberg loves Los Angeles
- Noah Baumbach takes a novel approach
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RA: Renters Anonymous – July 6th, 2010
New Releases
A Single Man – 7.5/10
Starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Ginnifer Goodwin, Nicholas Hoult
It’s November 30, 1962. Native Brit George Falconer, an English professor at a Los Angeles area college, is finding it difficult to cope with life. Jim, his personal partner of sixteen years, died in a car accident eight months earlier when he was visiting with family. Jim’s family were not going to tell George of the death or accident let alone allow him to attend the funeral. This day, George has decided to get his affairs in order before he will commit suicide that evening. As he routinely and fastidiously prepares for the suicide and post suicide, George reminisces about his life with Jim. But George spends this day with various people, who see a man sadder than usual and who affect his own thoughts about what he is going to do. Those people include Carlos, a Spanish immigrant/aspiring actor/gigolo recently arrived in Los Angeles; Charley, his best friend who he knew from England, she who is a drama queen of a woman who romantically desires her best friend despite his sexual orientation; and Kenny Potter, one of his students, who seems to be curious about his professor beyond English class.
RA: Renters Anonymous – June 29th, 2010
New Releases
Hot Tub Time Machine – 6.7/10 – Trailer
Starring John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Chevy Chase, Crispin Glover, Lizzy Caplan, Lyndsy Fonseca
Four guy friends, all of them bored with their adult lives, travel back to their respective 80s heydays thanks to a time-bending hot tub.
Special Features:
- 1.78:1 Widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1
- Both Rated and Unrated Versions
- Deleted Scenes
- Trailers
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‘Back to the Future’ is Coming to Blu-ray
Great Scott! Marty McFly and Dr. Emmett Brown are coming to Blu-ray in their time traveling DeLorean. This comes during the 25th Anniversary of the first film. So if you’re a fan of hoverboards, save the date because on October 26th, we are gunning it to 88 and heading back to the future.
RA: Renters Anonymous – June 22, 2010
New Releases
Green Zone – 7.1/10 – Trailer
Starring Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, Khalid Abdalla, Jason Isaacs, Yigal Naor
Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region.
RA: Renters Anonymous – June 15th, 2010
New Releases
The Book of Eli – 5.9/10 – Trailer
Starring Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, Gary Oldman, Ray Stevenson
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Special Features:
- 2.40:1 Widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1
- Additional Scenes
- The Lost Tales
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IHM Staff Pick – June 10, 2010: “Jurassic Park”
Jurassic Park (1993)
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards, Martin Ferrero, Bob Peck, Samuel L Jackson, Wayne Knight
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Genres: Adventure
Rating: PG-13
I usually try to steer clear of international blockbusters that have Academy Award winning director’s attached but then I got to thinking “you know what brain? This movie is older than most highschool students”. The film is 17 years old and the last sequel was made almost a decade ago. The films haven’t even been released on Blu-ray yet. In a world full of remakes, it’s nice to visit an old film that hasn’t been touched.
RA: Renters Anonymous – June 8th, 2010
New Releases
Shutter Island – 7.2/10 – Trailer
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams
It’s 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston’s Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He’s been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn’t been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy’s shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals “escape” in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything – his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.
