Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Gino Sassani on October 9th, 2018
"We gather here today to remind ourselves what happens to the enemies of Wonkru. It doesn't matter who you are, if you choose sides against us, if you divide us, if you defy us then you are not us. Before we give these traitors a second chance to be called brother, sister or seda, we pay tribute to those who have died, so that we may live."
And there have been a lot of those folks. The series title once referred to the 100 teens who were sent to the surface of Earth a hundred years after a nuclear war to find out if it was habitable once again. By the time we reach the end of Season 5, there will only be four members of the 100 remaining alive. The title might have lost its meaning by now, but this season will literally take us to a completely new world before it's finished. Fox brings you the complete fifth season of The 100, and the ride isn't quite over yet.
Posted in: Contests by Gino Sassani on October 9th, 2018
31 Nights Of Terror continues to roll with another giveaway. This time it's our old buddies at FOX that have given us a treat for our readers. They've given us a copy of American Horror Story: Cult on DVD for a lucky reader. It's the entire season on 3 DVD's and it's all up for grabs.
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Posted in: Tuesday Round Up by J C on October 9th, 2018
We are reaching unprecedented heights with this week's Round Up! Thanks to Universal, we'll be scaling the tallest building in the world alongside Dwayne Johnson in Skyscraper (4K). Elsewhere, Warner Bros. counts to The 100: Season 5, and heads west with occult investigator John Constantine in Constantine: City of Demons — The Movie (4K). HBO hits its mark with hitman comedy Barry: Season 1, while Fox prepares for battle with Vikings: Season 5, Volume 1. Fries Entertainment Group gets animated with Starchaser: The Legend of Orin, Monarch stays for a 3rd Night, and Shout! Factory goes back to school for Saved by the Bell: The Complete Series. (We'll have full coverage of the fan-favorite teen comedy next month, following the conclusion of “31 Nights of Terror.”)
Speaking of the spooky season, we'll also be reviewing Columbia's Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween on the big screen a little later this week. Finally, we are taking one small step to offer our take on Universal's First Man. Before you run off until next week, here's your customary reminder: if you’re shopping for anything on Amazon and you do it through one of our links, it’ll help keep the lights on here at UpcomingDiscs. See ya next week!
Posted in: Contests by Gino Sassani on October 8th, 2018
Universal practically invented Halloween, at least for me. I owe my love of movies to watching the Universal Monsters on chiller and shock theaters with my Dad. Boris Karlof, Lon Caney, Jr and Bela Lugosi would become icons for me. Now Universal has brought a mega-collection of those classic monsters to one huge Blu-ray collection of 30 films that feature the likes of Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man and The Creature From The Black Lagoon. Our pals over at Universal have given us one of these film collections to give away as part of our 31 Nights Of Horror. It's been a while since our last contest. Now we're going to make it up to you BIG TIME! Enter to win a copy of this massive Blu-ray collection of monster movie history.
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Posted in: The Reel World by Gino Sassani on October 7th, 2018
"Eyes. Lungs. Pancreas. So many snacks. So little time."
The Marvel Venom character started simply enough with a desire to change the look of Spider-Man's costume in the 1980's. Spider-Man along with a collection of Marvel's heroes were abducted by a character called The Beyonder to fight on a battle planet. It's much like the iconic Planet Hulk story, which was used for the recent Thor film. When Spider-Man returns to Earth, he has a new black and white suit that he found in space. For quite a while the new look for the Web Crawler caused a debate in Marveldom about the hero’s new look. Eventually Peter Parker discovered the suit gave him new abilities and was self-healing. He was also finding himself more and more fatigued. It turned out he wasn't getting rest at night because the suit would take him out for its own adventures. Reed Richards of The Fantastic Four discovers that the suit wasn't a suit at all, but an alien life-form that had bonded to Spider-Man. When Parker rejects the symbiote, it attaches to rival Daily Bugle reporter Eddie Brock, and together they become the sometimes hero/sometimes villain Venom.
Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Brent Lorentson on October 6th, 2018
It seems the 80’s is the go-to gimmick nowadays. With the success of Stranger Things and It, I can’t really blame the studios for cranking out the films set in this time period. Personally my favorite film to do this would be Summer of 84. For me it’s been the film that has best captured what it was like to grow up during that time period, but Sleep No More is definitely a film that I’m glad has climbed aboard the 80’s bandwagon. Personally what grabbed me was how the DVD boasts that it is from the creator of Final Destination. While the sequels fell more into the guilty pleasure category for me, the first film holds up and is great, so of course I’m curious to see what he has cooked up for Sleep No More.
A group of graduate students are working on a study to see what happens to the body after it has gone more than 200 hours without sleep. Their theory is that once you reach this threshold you will never have to sleep again. Unfortunately their first subject that they used for the study snapped and ends up killing themselves in a rather gruesome manner. Still confident in their research, they plan on continuing their study, only this time using themselves as the test subject. It’s a cool little setup for a horror film; one you know can’t possibly end well for those deciding to take part in this experiment. It’s like Flatliners meets an episode of The X-Files called “Sleepless”. In the episode it’s soldiers being put into a sleep study that of course has nasty consequences. So how does the film come out?
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Michael Durr on October 5th, 2018
As some of you might know, I have a son, a three-year-old toddler. Since we live in the suburbs, we unfortunately don't get out as often as we like to places like the beach or any other places where we might be able to explore the animals and creatures that inhabit the wondrous ocean. As a result, we have a tendency to watch plenty of underwater nature documentaries or whichever Pixar animated Nemo or Dory show we can find. Today, we have for review an animated tale about creatures who can turn into beautiful red dolphins so they can be a part of the human world. Is the movie as beautiful as it seems, or much like the dolphins, is it something else in disguise?
"Some fish aren't meant to be caged. Because they belong to the sky." In the northern ocean, fish go by the name of Kun, because they are too large to measure. We listen to a narrator who is 117 years old explain the philosophy of life. We apparently are all just fish of the sea. Four and a half billion years ago, fish were the souls of human beings. At the end of the sea is a sky into the human world.
Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Gino Sassani on October 5th, 2018
"All I know for certain is if the four Mickaelsons come together, it will signal darkness like we've never known. So many possible tipping points, but without the benefit of hindsight, how can we know if we're at the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?"
We do have hindsight as Warner Brothers releases the final season of The Originals on DVD. This is the beginning of the end. It's a bit of a shame. This show always had better stories and a more compelling cast than The Vampire Diaries had on their best season. With the very notable exception of Ian Somerhalder, who is phenomenal, the rest of that casts pales like a vampire in a crypt to the outstanding cast found on The Originals. Unfortunately, Warner Brothers stopped caring so much for the spin-off once the original show exited stage left. The home releases went from Blu-ray to DVD only and the marketing all but dried up. The result of this negligence is a series dying before its time. But you can at least check out the final unlucky 13 episodes crammed on just three discs with the release of The Originals: The Final Season.
Posted in: The Reel World by Brent Lorentson on October 4th, 2018
When I first heard that Bradley Cooper would be making his directing debut with A Star is Born, honestly, I kind of groaned. It’s not because I didn’t believe he’d have the chops; after all, he’s worked with many successful directors over the span of his career. I groaned because I believed the world didn’t need yet another remake of the film. This will be the fourth incarnation of the film, and while many can debate on which version is their favorite, the film was pretty much a relic I felt should have stayed in the past. I mention this and want to also put out there even after some of the trailers I had caught for the film; my excitement level was pretty low going into this. Well, this turned out to be the sleeper hit of the year for me. Sure, many could have told me this would be a hit, and because of the cast I wouldn’t dispute it, but when I walked out of the auditorium I felt like I had experienced something special (even if it had been made three times before).
The film opens up with Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) taking the stage and performing for a large crowd. After his show he’s looking to get a drink and stops off at the closest bar; as it turns out it is one that caters to drag-queens. Jackson doesn’t care about the location; all he’s interested in is getting some drinks, but that all changes when he sees Ally (Lady Gaga) perform on stage. As the night stretches on and the two continue to get to know one another, one thing is undeniable; the chemistry between Cooper and Gaga is phenomenal. The flow of the first act of this film is perfect, and by the time Maine has Ally convinced to go on tour with him, I was convinced this movie will be a box office smash.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by J C on October 4th, 2018
“This is the greatest s— show on Earth!”
The First Purge arrives in theaters a little more than five years after the (lowercase) first Purge rampaged into moviegoers’ consciousness as a nasty bit of R-rated, summer blockbuster counterprogramming. The movies are obviously quite popular, but I’ve never felt that any of them fully lived up to the killer concept at the center of this franchise. Unfortunately, that still holds true for The First Purge, which had a chance to deviate from the established formula in a variety of interesting ways, but ends up playing a lot like The First Three Purges.
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