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THE HUNGER GAMES CATCHING FIRE Highlights this week in Blu-ray, DVD and VOD Releases

THE HUNGER GAMES CATCHING FIRE | THE LAST DAYS ON MARS | © 2014 Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: THE HUNGER GAMES CATCHING FIRE – Hard not to highlight the sequel to THE HUNGER GAMES as the title of the week considering it was one of the largest grossing movies of 2013. The second adaptation to Suzanne Collin’s trilogy amps up the action big time as […]Read On »


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TV Review: BEING HUMAN – Season 4 – “Rewind, Rewind”

Meaghan Rath as Sally Malik, Sam Witwer as Aidan Waite, Kristen Hager as Nora Sergeant in BEING HUMAN | © 2014 Pana Pantazidis/Syfy

Stars: Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, Sam Huntington, Kristen Hager, Vincent Leclerc, Sarah Allen, Gianpaolo Venuta, Andreas Apergis, Angela Galuppo Writer: Casey Fisher, adapted for U.S. television by Jeremy Carver & Anna Fricke, created for U.K. television by Toby Whithouse Director: Stefan Pleszcyznski Network: Syfy, Mondays @ 9 PM Airdate: March 3, 2014 You’d think with vampires, werewolves and ghosts already essential features of BEING HUMAN, adding BUTTERFLY EFFECT time travel (actually name-checked here by the characters) might be a bit much, but “Rewind, Rewind” makes it work in a way that is holds our attention. What’s interesting is not how […]Read On »


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TV REVIEW: MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD – Season 1 – “T.A.H.I.T.I.”

Coulson (Clark Gregg) and Ward (Brett Dalton) plan to save Skye (Chloe Bennet) on MARVELS AGENTS OF SHIELD | © 2014 ABC/Kelsey McNeal

Cast: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge, Iain De Caestecker Network: Airs on ABC Tuesdays @ 8 p.m. Original Telecast: March 4, 2014 In the previous episode of MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD, Skye (Chloe Bennet) was shot twice and left for dead by an evil henchmen working for the Clairvoyant and Centipede. In “T.A.H.I.T.I.”, the race is on to find a way to save her after the doctors inform Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) that she won’t make it. Coulson with the knowledge that he was brought back from the dead figures if he can take her […]Read On »


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TV Review: BEING HUMAN – Season 4 – “Gallows Humor”

Meaghan Rath as Sally Malik on BEING HUMAN "Gallows Humor" | © 2104 Philippe Bosse/Syfy

Stars: Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, Sam Huntington, Kristen Hager, Amy Aquino, Connor Price, James A. Woods, Katharine Isabelle, Gianpaolo Venuta, Jesse Rath Writer: Lisa Randolph, adapted for U.S. television by Jeremy Carver & Anna Fricke, created for U.K. television by Toby Whithouse Director: Paolo Barzman Network: Syfy, Mondays @ 9 PM Airdate: February 24, 2014 BEING HUMAN is generally at its best when our main characters – vampire Aidan (Sam Witwer), ghost Sally (Meaghan Rath) and werewolves Josh (Sam Huntington) and Nora (Kristen Hager) – are all together. “Gallows Humor” separates them of necessity, as they’ve all got their own […]Read On »


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Video Game Review: THIEF

THIEF | © 2014 Square Enix

Distributor: Eidos Montreal Publisher: Square Enix Platform: PS4, Xbox 1, PC, Xbox 360, PS3 The original THIEF video game was back in a time before gamers didn’t have the attention span of a gnat. You spent numerous amounts of game play sitting in the dark just trying to figure out the pattern of guards or if there was enough light to give you away in a small corner so you could get to your objective of stealing some tiny trinket from some turn-of-the-century highbrow socialite. If you did manage to kill a guard or knock them out, you had to […]Read On »


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Blu-ray Review: GRAVITY

GRAVITY | © 2014 Warner Home Video

Cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris Writer: Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón Director: Alfonso Cuarón Distributor: Warner Home Video Just when you think that Hollywood has run out of ideas and everything is a remake or a retelling or a sequel or adaptation … OK, that’s actually the truth. That is what Hollywood has become. But every so often a gem sneaks through all the crap and blows you away with how good Hollywood can actually be. GRAVITY lives up to all the hype that it has been given in so many ways. The sheer scale of this film is […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview with INTELLIGENCE creators Michael Seitzman & Barry Schindel

Gabriel (Josh Holloway) heads to San Francisco when he learns the Witness Protection database has been hacked on INTELLIGENCE | © 2014 Neil Jacobs/CBS

In CBS’s new series INTELLIGENCE, Mondays at 10 PM, Josh Holloway playsU.S. government agent Gabriel Vaughn, who has a computer chip in his head that allows him to both access computers all over the world and virtually walk through “computer render” scenes of events that have happened. Because of this, Gabriel is a valuable asset requiring protection, much to his annoyance. His bodyguard is agent Riley Neal (Meghan Ory), while the scientist responsible for the tech in Gabriel’s head is Dr. Shenandoah Cassidy (John Billingsley). All of them report to project director Lillian Strand (Marg Helgenberger). INTELLIGENCE creator Michael Seitzman, […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Luke Arnold on BLACK SAILS seven seas

Luke Ryan in BLACK SAILS | ©2014 Starz

Starz’s pirate series, BLACK SAILS, Saturdays at 9 PM, was created by Robert Levine & Jonathan E. Steinberg. The storyline, set on Nassau Island and its surrounding waters in the early eighteenth century, combines historical figures like Charles Vane (Zach McGowan) and Anne Bonny (Clara Paget) with fictional people (Mark Ryan as Mr. Gates, quartermaster of the pirate ship The Walrus) with characters first introduced in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel Treasure Island. Chief among the Treasure Island crew is veteran pirate Long John Silver. John Silver – not “Long” yet – is played in BLACK SAILS by Australian […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 9 – “Captives”

Misha Collins as Castiel on SUPERNATURAL "Captives" | © 2014 Diyah Pera/The CW

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Osric Chau, Lauren Tom, Adam J. Harrington, James Immekus Writer: Robert Berens, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Jeremy Wanek Network: The CW, Tuesdays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: February 25, 2014 When hugely likable Prophet of the Lord Kevin Tran (Osric Chau) was murdered by the angel Gadriel, who at the time possessed the body of Sam (Jared Palalecki), it was a horrible blow for the audience, as well as for the Winchester brothers. In the SUPERNATURAL episode “Captives,” we not only get Kevin back – more or less – we get […]Read On »


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TV Review: BEING HUMAN – Season 4 – “Cheater of the Pack”

Kristen Hager as Nora on BEING HUMAN "Cheater of the Pack" | © 2014 Philippe Bosse/Syfy

Stars: Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, Sam Huntington, Kristen Hager, Connor Price, James A. Woods, Katharine Isabelle, Mylene Dinh-Robic, Tim Rozon, Gianpaolo Venuta, Jesse Rath, Stephanie Lemelin Writer: Craig Lamarsh, adapted for U.S. television by Jeremy Carver & Anna Fricke, created for U.K. television by Toby Whithouse Director: Jeff Renfroe Network: Syfy, Mondays @ 9 PM Airdate: February 17, 2014 Poor Josh (Sam Huntington) just can’t win with his wolf. Almost no sooner than he thinks he’s got control of himself – turning at the full moon and so on – than he wakes up next to fellow married werewolf Wendy […]Read On »


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