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Get Your Photo On a Classic Horror Blu-Ray!

BLU-RAY / DVD Monday, January 11 by Captain


As horror fans will tell you, Paranormal Activity has taken the world by storm, as the highest grossing horror film of the decade in Australia and record breaking $110 million Box Office in the US, putting into a range of extreme profitability for its shoestring budget

To thank fans for being part of the phenomenon, Icon Home Entertainment is giving the public a unique opportunity to part of the DVD and Blu-ray release of Paranormal Activity on April 2, 2010.

For a strictly limited time, fans will be able to upload their photo and have it featured on the DVD & Blu-ray by logging onto www.paranormalactivity-movie.com.au.
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Win a Free Push!

BLU-RAY / DVD Saturday, January 9 by Captain


To celebrate the DVD & Blu-Ray release of PUSH starring Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning, SCI FI and Icon Home Entertainment are giving you the chance to win a PUSH Prize pack. This includes a PUSH DVD, a PUSH Comic collection ( 5 pieces ) and a Knowing DVD. PUSH is available to Rent or Buy on Blu-ray & DVD from January 6, 2010.





PUSH is about a group of extraordinary individuals with special abilities. Some can move objects with their mind, see the future, create new realities, and kill without touching their victims. Nick Gant (Chris Evans), a victim himself, has been hiding out in Hong Kong to keep his 2nd generation telekinetic powers a secret from a shadowy government agency called, Division. Division genetically turns citizens into psychic weapons and kills off those unwilling to participate.
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Push DVD/BD Review

BLU-RAY / DVD Thursday, December 24 by Captain




Starring Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Joel Gretsch,Camilla Bell, Djimon Honsou
Director Paul McGuigan
Rated M
Released Jan 4

If you're looking for a movie that blends Hong Kong grunge with X-Men style powers, this is your holy grail.





An edgy, gritty style of filmmaking gives a real 'in your face' texture to a story more similar, perhaps, to fans of Firestarter, than to fans of X-Men, although in this case, the execution of the action takes a leaf form its setting and gives it a Hong Kong style of fight choreography and action-plus action.
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Giving The Gift of Sci Fi: Stargate SG-1

BLU-RAY / DVD Wednesday, December 16 by Captain


Christmas time is descending upon us like a voracious Gundark eager not to have its ears pulled. Panic is starting to set in.

Sure, you can always take the easy, clever and rather delightful path that begins with giving the gift of a SCI FI Channel subscription to those nearest and dearest who haven't discovered the joys of Channel 125 yet. Not a bad option at all.

;)

However, you could also consider giving the gift of shows that you see on SCI FI.


One of the all time SCI FI faves, and one of the longest running Sci Fi shows in history, is Stargate SG1. Currently in it's third evolution on SCI FI as Stargate Universe, Stargate SG1 is a classic adventure story that lovers of Sci Fi need very little introduction to. The continuing adventures of Jack O'Nell, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson and Teal'c, and then later, Cameron Mitchell and Vala Mal Doran, (and let's not forget Jonas Quinn!) have enthralled and delighted for ten seasons and two movies - and you can see them all in the Stargate SG1 Portal Collection.
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Giving The Gift of Sci Fi: Stargate Atlantis

BLU-RAY / DVD Saturday, December 12 by Captain


Christmas time is descending upon us like a voracious Gundark eager not to have its ears pulled. Panic is starting to set in.

Sure, you can always take the easy, clever and rather delightful path that begins with giving the gift of a SCI FI Channel subscription to those nearest and dearest who haven't discovered the joys of Channel 125 yet. Not a bad option at all.

;)

However, you could also consider giving the gift of shows that you see on SCI FI.

Take a look, if you will, at Stargate Atlantis. SGA to its friends.
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Giving The Gift of Sci Fi: Buffy

BLU-RAY / DVD Wednesday, December 9 by Captain


Christmas time is descending upon us like a voracious Gundark eager not to have it's ears pulled. Panic is starting to set in.

Sure, you can always take the easy, clever and rather delightful path that begins with giving the gift of a SCI FI Channel subscription to those nearest and dearest who haven't discovered the joys of Channel 125 yet. Not a bad option at all.

;)

However, you could also consider giving the gift of shows that you see on SCI FI.

Take a look, if you will, at The Buffy. Or, by it's full name, Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Or in the latin, Buffus Vicious Chicous.
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Star Trek on BD/DVD Review

BLU-RAY / DVD Monday, November 9 by Captain





Starring Christopher Pyne, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy, Bruce Greenwood, Eric Bana
Director JJ Abrams
Rated PG
Out Oct 29


It's pretty obvious to everyone that Star Trek was a successful film - creatively and at the box office. It's a shared triumph for geeks everywhere, and a bridge between the Star Wars and Star Trek tribes of Sci Fi lovers. A gateway, too, perhaps, for many young people to the original series. In many ways, with so much riding on it, it's release this year was not just another movie release. It was an affirmation that Star Trek is for everyone. The ideals behind it, but also the 'come with us for the ride' call that has been so often ignored by mainstream audiences has now been answered.
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Wolverine on BD/DVD Review

BLU-RAY / DVD Wednesday, October 14 by Captain





Starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Schrieber, Danny Huston, Ryan Reynolds
Director Gavin Hood
Rated M
Released Oct 14





Based on fairly sketchy material to begin with, the story of Wolverine's journey from an unkillable blade-waving mutant to an unkillable armoured blade-waving mutant isn't one that is brimming with subtlety and rich variations on the emotional landscape. By including such hoary cliches as 'hero walks from explosion' 'hero walks into sunset with girl in arms' 'Mendozaaaaaaaa! scream into the sky' there's a pretty good indicator that he's not trying to satisfy an audience who has a great experience of film or who crave originality. A film like this doesn't have to, though.
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Stargate SG1: Children of the Gods - Final Cut Review

BLU-RAY / DVD Saturday, August 29 by Captain





Stargate: SG1 - Children of the Gods - Final Cut
Starring Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge
Director Mario Azzopardi
Rated M
Out Now

It was late 1997 that Stargate:SG1 first appeared on TV screens. Since then it has confounded conventional wisdom about Sci Fi shows by drawing major audiences in mainstream time slots, and now with a third spinoff scheduled for October, shows little signs of slowing down.
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Watchmen on BD and DVD

BLU-RAY / DVD Saturday, August 1 by Captain





Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Carla Gugino
Directory Zack Snyder
Rated MA 15+
Released Jul 29

THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE 2-DISC SPECIAL EDITION ON BD and DVD.




This is a lavishly shot super-production that is as faithful as any true believer of Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore's original could hope to see.

Which means, as a Hollywood Blockbuster, it's one hell of an anomaly. The traditional experience of the comic book movie is turned on its head. The usual lines that separate good and evil are blurred beyond recognition, and the the touchstones that we usually use when watching this kind of movie are missing.
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