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New releases on DVD for this upcoming Tuesday 10/20/2009
New release DVDs this week features: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13), Cheri (R), & Blood: The Last Vampire (R).
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13)
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, John Turturro
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
It is disclosed that millenia ago there had been a race of traditional Transformers who scoured the universe looking for energon sources.
Known as the Dynasty of Primes, they used machines called Sun Harvesters to empty stars of their energy to change it to energon and power Cybertron’s AllSpark. The Primes concluded that life-bearing worlds would be spared, but in seventeen thousand BC, one brother, afterward dubbed “The Fallen”, built a Sun Harvester on Earth.
While on a mission in Shanghai, Optimus and his team destroy Decepticons Sideways and Demolishor, being given an alert by the latter that “The Fallen will rise again”. Back in the US, Sam Witwicky uncovers a chip of the demolished AllSpark, and on contact the chip fills his mind with Cybertronian symbols. Deeming it deadly, Sam gives the AllSpark chip to his squeeze Mikaela Banes for safe keeping, and leaves her and Bumblebee behind to go off to university.
Decepticon Wheelie attempts to thieve the shard, only to get caught by Mikaela. After having a psychological breakdown, uncontrollably writing in Cybertronian language, Sam calls Mikaela, who straight away leaves to get to him. Decepticon Soundwave hacks into a US satellite and learns the locations of the dead Decepticon leader Megatron and another piece of the AllSpark. The Decepticons retrieve the shard and use it to revive Megatron, who flies into space and is brought together with Starscream and his master, The Fallen. The Fallen teaches Megatron and Starscream to capture Sam to discover the situation of the Matrix of Leadership. The Decepticon known as “The Doctor” gets ready to remove Sam’s brain, but Optimus and Bumblebee turn up and rescue him. In an ensuing fight, Optimus engages Megatron, Grindor and Starscream. Optimus manages to kill Grindor and rip off Starscream’s arm, but he is at last impaled thru the chest by Megatron and dies.
After Prime’s death, The Fallen is liberated from his captivity and Megatron orders a full-scale attack in the world. The Fallen talks to the world and demands they surrender Sam to the Decepticons or they’ll continue their attack. Sam, Mikaela, Leo, Bumblebee, the twins and Wheelie regroup, and Leo advises his online rival “RoboWarrior” might be of help.
“RoboWarrior” is made public to be previous Sector seven agent Simmons, who alerts the group the symbols should be articulate for a Decepticon.
Mikaela then releases Wheelie, who can’t read the language, but identifying it as that of the Primes, directs the group to a Decepticon seeker named Jetfire. They then find Jetfire at the F Udvar-Hazy Center and reactivate him. By following the clues, the group arrive at the crypt where they finally find the Matrix, but it crumbles to dust in Sam’s hands. Believing the Matrix can still revive Optimus, Sam collects the dust and teaches Simmons to call Major William Lennox to bring the other Autobots and Optimus’ body. The army arrives with the Autobots, but so do the Decepticons, and a battle arises. Jetfire arrives and destroys Mixmaster, but is mortally hurt by Scorponok. The Air Force carpet bomb the Decepticons, but Megatron breaks thru the offensive and kills Sam. The Matrix is assembled from the dust, and Sam uses it to revive Optimus. The Fallen then takes the Matrix and turns on the Sun Harvester. In his last moments, Jetfire volunteers his parts and spark to Optimus. With reinforced capacities, Optimus destroys the Sun Harvester and takes on Megatron and The Fallen, slaughtering the second. Sam then eventually reciprocates Mikaela’s love as Megatron and Starscream retreat and promise that their fight isn’t finished. The film ends with Optimus sending a message into space exclaiming the humans and Transformers both share a standard past. (source)
Cheri (R)
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend
Cheri
Set in 1900s Belle Époque Paris, Cheri tells the story of the end of a six-year affair between an aging retired courtesan, Léa, and aflamboyant young man, Fred, nicknamed “Chéri” (“Dear”). Turning stereotypes upside-down, it is Chéri who wears silk pyjamas and Léa’s pearls, and who is the object of gaze.The two believe their relationship is casual until they are separated by Chéri’s marriage at which point they realize they are in love. They spend a miserable nine months apart, at which point Chéri appears at Léa’s home. They spend the night together and Léa begins to plan their new life together. However, when she learns that Chéri had returned for the moral strength to be a husband, she releases him to return home. The final scene shows Cheri leaving Lea’s home to walk down the street towards his home. Lea returns to her vanity table to gaze at herself in the mirror. The narrator cuts in that after many years Cheri will realize that Lea was the only woman he could ever love, but she was too old for him. Cheri will kill himself after this realization. (source)
Blood: The Last Vampire (R)
Cast: Michael Byrne, Constantine Gregory
Blood: The Last Vampire
Blood: The Last Vampire, released in Japan as Last Blood, is a 2009 live-action remake of the 2000 anime horror film of the same name. Directed by Chris Nahon and co-produced by Hong Kong-based Edko and French company Pathé with the blessing of Production I.G, the English language film was released in Japan and other Asian markets on May 29, 2009. It was released in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2009 and saw a limited release to theaters in the United States starting on July 10, 2009. The film focuses on a half-human, half-vampire girl named Saya who hunts full-blooded vampires in partnership with humans and seeks to destroy Onigen, the most powerful of vampires.
Saya works loosely with an organization known as “The Council” while seeking out Onigen, the highest ranking and strongest of vampires. Seeking clues about Onigen, Saya transfers to a school near the Yokota Air Base. Normally a loner, Saya forms a friendship with a young girl named Alice that she rescues from some vampires. (source)
The Tournament (R)
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ving Rhames
The Tournament
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Pandemic (R)
Cast: Ray Wise, Alesha Clarke
New releases date: 10/27/2007
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