Liam Neeson seems to be everywhere lately. On Friday he will make you laugh in the Seth MacFarlane comedy “A Million Ways to Die in the West” and on June 10 his edge of your seat thriller “Non-Stop,” will be available for home viewing in a Blu-ray Combo Pack, and that includes a Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD with ultraviolet. “Non-Stop” also stars Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery (TV’s “Downton Abbey”) and 2013’s Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o (“12 years a Slave”).
Liam Neeson seems to be everywhere lately. On Friday he will make you laugh in the Seth MacFarlane comedy “A Million Ways to Die in the West” and on June 10 his edge of your seat thriller “Non-Stop,” will be available for home viewing in a Blu-ray Combo Pack, and that includes a Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD with ultraviolet. “Non-Stop” also stars Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery (TV’s “Downton Abbey”) and 2013’s Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o (“12 years a Slave”).
In the film Neeson plays a U.S. Air Marshal on a transatlantic flight. Things go awry when he receives a cryptic message telling him that a passenger will die every 20 minutes unless $150 million is transferred into an off-shore account. From Universal, rated PG-13 for scenes of intense action and violence and some language and drug reference.
Bonus features include “Non-Stop Action” which is exclusive to the Blu-ray. In this segment you see how the action is created on a 20’ by 30’ set the shape of a tube. Director Jaume Collet-Serra, stunt co-coordinator Mark Vanselow, producer Joel Silver and star Liam Neeson discuss the film’s visceral action sequences.
“Suspense at 40,000 Feet” is on both the Blu-ray and DVD. In this bonus feature you will journey behind the scenes with Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore and the director and producer who discuss the making of this very suspenseful film.
For laughs, check out “About Last Night,” a romantic comedy that follows two Los Angeles couples as they journey from the bar to the bedroom in a modern take on a 1986 film that starred Demi Moore and Rob Lowe. In this new version the starry-eyed lovers soon discover that what started out as a casual sexy romp may actually lead to togetherness and monogamy.
Directed by Steve Pink from a screenplay by Leslye Headland, the film, like the 1986 original, is based on the play “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” by David Mamet. “About Last Night,” starring Kevin Hart (“Ride Along”), Michael Ealy (“Last Vegas”), Regina Hall (“The Best Man”) and Joy Bryant (TV’s “Parenthood”), is from Sony Pictures and is rated R for sexual content, language and brief drug use.
Exclusive featurettes on the Blu-ray are “About Last Night Advice,” “I Love You” and “Word on the Street.” The DVD and Blu-ray also have a feature entitled “An Un-Romantic Comedy.
On June 10“Deltora Quest: The Complete Series” comes to Home Entertainment. The world-famous anime series, based on the global best-selling book series by Australian author Emily Rodda, aired in the U.S. on The Hub in 2010-2011 and also aired on Cartoon Network in Australia and New Zealand This is the first time the complete series has been made available on DVD in the U.S., courtesy of Dentsu Entertainment USA Inc.
In the series the heroic Lief must venture into the darkest and most terrible places in Deltora to find the seven magical gems that can free everyone from the evil tyranny of the Shadow Lord.
“Visitors” is the latest collaboration between director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass. Thirty years earlier they created “Koyaanisqatsi.” Now in their latest work, “Visitors,” a stunning wordless portrait of modern life, they are joined by filmmaker Jon Kane.
As in their pioneering “Quatsi Trilogy” (Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi) they again takes us on a fantastic journey of sights and sounds. According to director Reggio, “‘Visitors’ is aimed at the solar plexus, at the appetite within us all, the atmosphere of our soul. I see the film as a meditation, as a transcendental event.”
The artistic film is comprised of only 74 shots, a series of human, animal and landscape portraits, that manage to take movie watchers on an emotional journey to the moon and back. The DVD bonus features present us with personal interviews with Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, Jon Kane and Steven Soderbergh on “The Making of Visitors.”
For horror fans Inception Media Group presents “Ghost of Goodnight Lane,” a homage to horror’s greatest kills. The creepy tale takes place in a renovated film studio, which just may be haunted as the cast and crew of a horror flick become victims of their own bloody story.
After a co-worker is found dead, the director and his beautiful actresses begin to piece together a 40-year-old puzzle. The key to survival is held by a mysterious old woman who reveals a murder mystery with a shocking and sinister twist, but will the movie makers get out of this scenario alive?
The film stars Lacey Chabert (“Mean Girls”), Billy Zane (”Titanic” and “Back to the Future I and II) and Richard Tyson (“Black Hawk Down”). The film will be available on DVD and VOD on June 10.
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Steve Coogan, who wrote and starred in the Academy Award-nominated film “Philomena,” reprises his popular role as the iconic Alan Partridge, the famous local radio DJ and one time talk show host. Now Alan finds himself at the center of a siege when a disgruntled fellow D.J. (Colm Meaney) decides to hold their station hostage after learning that he’s getting fired by the new management.
“Alan Partridge,” available June 10 on Blu-ray and DVD from Magnolia Home Entertainment, is rated R for language, brief violence and nudity. Bonus features include: “The Making of Alan Partridge,” “Behind the Scenes” and “AXIS TV: A Look at Alan Partridge.”
