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05 Mar 2013

The Scene At Home: DVD and Blu-ray releases for March 5, 2013

Two words make me very happy when it comes to watching movies: Big Week. March 5 is traditionally a big release week for home video; it starts off the whole season of home entertainment releases for everything that was a big hit over the holidays. I managed to squeeze in...

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26 Feb 2013

The Scene At Home: DVD and Blu-ray releases for February 26, 2013

I started my weekly viewings with a horror film, as one does. Girls Against Boys is the story of a duo of women who have been wronged one too many times and decide it is time for payback. This is a lower budget indie feature but I’ll be damned if...

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21 Feb 2013

The Scene At Home: DVD and Blu-ray releases for February 19, 2013

Here’s what’s out for DVD and Blu-ray releases this week What would a week be without at least one horror movie on my watch list? Sinister was one of the better reviewed horror films of 2012 and for good reason. Ethan Hawke is a true crime author who moves into...

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12 Feb 2013

The Scene At Home: DVD and Blu-ray releases for February 12, 2013

What a surprising week of film this was. I began with one of the most acclaimed movies of the year, Daniel Craig’s return to the role of James Bond with Skyfall. Audiences and critics alike praised Skyfall, but I found myself to be in a very small minority. I loved...

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05 Feb 2013

The Scene At Home: DVD and Blu-ray releases for February 5, 2013

I love a week packed with films I was anticipating but somehow missed in the movie going frenzy of the holiday season. I managed to squeeze in three new films this week, plus a classic Disney for good measure. My triple this week was a sliding scale of seriousness. I...

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29 Jan 2013

The Scene At Home: DVD and Blu-ray releases for January 29, 2013

Nothing makes a movie freak like me happier than a double-double feature week. I like to theme my movie watching and this week was very accommodating. I started off with an action double. Now, technically, it was a quintette, as my first sit down comprised of the new Die Hard...

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22 Jan 2013

The Scene At Home: DVD and Blu-ray releases for January 22, 2013

Oh glorious film! In addition to the usual goodies coming out this week at home, I got to catch a big screen showing of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo at my local Cineplex last week. What a treat that was, the digital print looked great, and the film gets better with each...

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15 Jan 2013

The Scene At Home: DVD and Blu-ray releases for January 15, 2013

Here’s what’s out for DVD and Blu-ray releases this week Strange time of year January, especially in the world of movies. The theatre is full of films that didn’t quite make it into the busy Christmas season, and the home video market is loaded up with stuff to spend our...

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08 Jan 2013

The Scene At Home: DVD and Blu-ray releases for January 8, 2013

Here’s what’s out for DVD and Blu-ray releases this week Ah, a brand new year! As I breathe in the cool winter air and gaze at the frost covered branches on the maple trees, I oh who am I kidding, I am in the basement with the home theatre warming...

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01 Jan 2013

The Scene At Home: DVD and Blu-ray releases for January 1, 2013

I unfortunately missed Rian Johnson’s Looper in the theatre, which is a shame especially now that I have seen it. A fantastic genre bending time travel action thriller, Looper was a great exercise in how to make a movie completely different than it looks in its trailer. Sure Gordon-Levitt is...

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21 Dec 2012

The Scene At Home: DVD and Blu-ray releases for December 21, 2012

Here’s what’s out for DVD and Blu-ray releases this week Well, Christmas has arrived and smack dab right on a new release Tuesday! It seems everyone is making up for it by releasing everything on Friday the 21st of December, so we will check those out for those of you...

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18 Dec 2012

The Scene At Home: DVD and Blu-ray releases for December 18, 2012

Troubled box office films, why have ye been brought unto Blu-ray with little heralding? I guess this week was designated for the DVD and Blu-ray releases that didn’t really perform at the box office. First up is a dreaded I know the word is taboo remake! Len Wiseman of Underworld...

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11 Dec 2012

The Scene At Home: DVD and Blu-ray releases for December 11, 2012

Oh what a multitude of movie marvels this week! The film fun started off this week with some big mainstream DVD and Blu-ray releases. The Bourne Legacy was a more scientific approach to the Matt Damon actioners from the past decade or so, this time with Jeremy Renner as a...

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06 Dec 2012

The Scene at Home: holiday gift guide for the true movie geek

Who doesn’t love a good movie? At this, my favorite time of year, I look forward to the frustration of my family and friends as they navigate the delicate landscape of my movie collection to try and determine which, if any, films I do not own yet. Every film buff...

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04 Dec 2012

The Scene At Home – December 4, 2012

This week we find what may be the top film of 2012 coming to Blu-ray and DVD. Christopher Nolan’s finale to his Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises. As a finale, the film hits all the right marks. We get conflict, resolution, and what I think is the best baddie...

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27 Nov 2012

The Scene at Home: DVD and Blu-ray releases for November 27, 2012

While aging at an incomprehensible rate, I pride myself on still being childlike in many ways. I like to still look at the world with a sense of wonder, still find I have quite the active imagination, and still like to be told a good story. Family movies have come...

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20 Nov 2012

The Scene at Home: DVD and Blu-ray releases for November 20, 2012

The weeks leading up to the holidays are pretty thin for the movie lover when it comes to DVD and Blu-ray releases for watching at home, but the movies that do come out make for some interesting pairings. Expendables 2 is the sequel to Sylvester Stallone’s ’80s-inspired testosterone-filled homage to...

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13 Nov 2012

The Scene at Home: DVD & Blu-ray releases for November 13, 2012

BRAVE DIRECTOR: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman Starring: Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson Disney and Pixar do it again with Brave, the tale of Merida, a princess with a desire to be more than her pre-determined place in life. Headstrong and adventurous, Merida defies age old customs and confronts her...

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06 Nov 2012

The Scene at Home: DVD & Blu-ray releases for November 6, 2012

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ““ FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9TH DIRECTOR: Marc Webb Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Sally Field Mark Webb takes the reins and directs Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone in a retelling of the origin of Marvel Comic’s famous webslinger. Deeper characters, more realism,...

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30 Oct 2012

The Scene at Home: DVD & Blu-ray releases for October 30, 2012

THE CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR: Jay Roach Starring: Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis, Dylan Mcdermott, John Lithgow, Dan Aykroyd When long-term congressman Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) commits a major public gaffe before an upcoming election, a pair of ultra-wealthy CEOs plot to put up a rival candidate and gain influence over...

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The Dark Knight Rises is without a doubt the most anticipated major release of 2012. In a little over ten years, Christopher Nolan has gone from exciting indie filmmaker (Following…

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