Top-ranked 3 Best Blu-ray Ripper Reivewed for Android Tablet & Smartphone in 2016

Which is the Top-ranked 3 Best Android Blu-ray Ripper? Want to get a Blu-ray Ripper for Android Tablet & Smartphone? Here gives you a top 3 Blu-ray Rippers for Android review.

There is no higher standard of home video excellence than that which is provided on a high-definition Blu-ray disc which delivers a truly cinematic and immersive experience. Unfortunately, not all players are capable of displaying Blu-ray’s goodness.

Perhaps you have stored lots of Blu-ray movies like like Capital, Devil's Knot, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Non-Stop, True Detective: Season 1, The Expendables 3, etc. in your home, then how to watch Blu-ray disc on Android Tablet & Smartphone such as Galaxy Tab Pro, Galaxy Tab S, Galaxy Note 4, Xperia Z3, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, Nexus 6, Nexus 9, etc.? Now enter best Blu-ray Ripping program for Android to do this job.

These applications scan your Blu-ray movies, rip their contents from the disc and convert them into a format that can be wathable on your Android devices. The best converter software also prepares preset profiles on your Android devices such as tablets and smartphones.

Top-ranked 3 Best Blu-ray Ripper Reivewed for Android Tablet & Smartphone in 2016

Top 1. Pavtube BDMagic

Price: $34.3



Not any other Android Blu-ray Ripper can do with all kinds of BD/DVD sources: protected and unprotected Blu-ray Disc, BDMV folder, BD ISO, physical DVD, VIDEO_TS folder, DVD ISO and IFO file. As a professional and powerful all-in-one Blu-ray/DVD disc handling tool, Pavtube BDMagic integrates disc backing up and ripping skills to make it standout. If you are Mac users, view Pavtube BDMagic for Mac; well support Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite!

Features:

• Blu-ray Ripper + 3D Blu-ray Ripper + DVD Ripper
• Full Disc Copy BD/DVD’s original file structure to BDMV/Video_TS folder with all subs tracks, audio streams and chapter information included
• Directly Copy only BD/DVD main movie and leave out extras
• Convert 3D/2D Blu-ray discs to 3D files in format of MP4, AVI, MKV, MOV, WMV, etc
• Rip latest released BD/DVD Disc to your Android Device
• Add *.srt and *.ass subtitles into video part

Requires: Windows XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 8.1/Windows 10

• 1:1 Copy Blu-ray Without Compression on Mac
• How to Backup Blu-ray to .M2TS Streams

Top 2. Pavtube ByteCopyPrice: $29.4



It's an easy-to-use tool to backup files from Blu-ray discs and standard DVDs to MKV container format with multiple audio tracks and subtitles included. More than lossless output, it is possible to encode original BD/DVD to multi-track MP4, MOV, AVI and convert BD/DVD to almost all popular video formats for playback on Android. If you are Mac users, view Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac; well support Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite!

Features:

• Backup BD/DVD to MKV without quality loss. 
• Convert/rip/shrink/copy latest Blu-ray/DVD movies for Android tablets and phones.
• Allow full preservation of all audio tracks, subtitles and chapter markers.
• Remove unwanted subs streams and audio tracks at will.
• Preserve soundtracks and subs in multiple languages, e.g. English, Spanish, French, Deutsch…
• Extract SRT Subtitle File from Blu-ray/DVD 

Requires: Windows 2003/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 8.1/Windows 10

• Putting DVD movies onto Galaxy Tab 3 (8/10.1-inch) for watching

Top 3. Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate

Price: $52



With this program, you can easily enjoy Blu-ray/DVDs movies on Android smartphone/tablets with family and friends; playback family’s memory video on Android devices, or smoothly transfer your camera footage to Android for watching without any format problems, etc. All can be finished with this Video Converter Ultimate. If you are Mac users, view Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac; well support Mac OS X  10.10 Yosemite!

Features:

• Backup your Blu-ray/DVD discs for longtime preservation
• Transfer Blu-ray/DVD movies to Android smartphones and tablets.
• Convert videos/footages to various video formats
• Change 2D/3D Blu-ray/DVD/Video to 3D videos for playback
• 6X faster conversion speed

Requires: Windows XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 8.1/Windows 10

• Copy videos and movies to Google Nexus 7 (2013), Nexus 10 tablet
• Put MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, WMV, M4V, MPG videos to VTech InnoTab 3S/3

Hope you love this roundup! You can choose a Top-ranked Android Blu-ray convertion program. Enjoy your Blu-ray movies on Android Tablet & Smartphone as your like. Can you help me to share it for helping more guys? Thanks.

Updated on 6th, April, 2016

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New & Latest Blu-ray/DVD Discs Review - Do not miss

Summary: Really don't want to miss the opportunity to watch your favorite DVDs on your all portable devices anywhere? Getting a hot DVD discs review and choose your favorite one. 

 
1. Dom Hemingway (2013)
  

 

The Buzz: Writer/director Richard Shepard has been working mostly in TV since his experiencing an indie-film breakthrough, The Matador, back in 2005. His career heated up again thanks to "Girls", where he has directed a handful of episodes, some of them featuring the incredible Richard E. Grant, who co-stars here. Jude Law finds himself surrounded by a wonderful principal cast who have found success on television; Law himself seems like a prime candidate for a cable-TV program, right? 
  
2. Afflicted (2013)

 

The Buzz: CBS Films gets into the found-footage niche market with this, the feature debut from filmmaking duo Derek Lee and Clif Prowse, who won big at last year's Fantastic Fest, where Afflicted won Best Director, Screenplay, and Best Picture. Odd that there's been very little promotion for the release though. 

3. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

  

 

The Buzz: That Tom Hiddleston is hot enough to cause Tilda Swinton to fly from Tangiers to Detroit is one of many truths to be found in this music-soaked vampire fantasy from Jim Jarmusch, who is flirting with the mainstream for the first time since 2005's Broken Flowers. 

4. Locke (2013)

 

The Buzz: While your average movie-watcher has probably seen Tom Hardy perform in any number of movies -- dating all the way back to his big-screen debut in Black Hawk Down -- he's certainly not a household name yet. This contained thriller might not turn him into a superstar, but we sense that part of its design is to help showcase his leading-man appeal against a more subdued backdrop than, say, The Dark Knight Rises.

5. Blue Ruin (2013)

 

The Buzz: We're quite intrigued by Jeremy Saulnier's Cannes-award-winning revenge thriller which positions his lifelong friend Macon Blair as a man so haunted by another person's violent act that he fully turns away from conventional society, only to return to it as a novice assassin.

Latest Blu-ray Movie Review: Let’s Be Cops

Thanks to 20th Century Fox we had the chance to see Luke Greenfield’s new comedy Let's Be Cops prior to its Australian cinematic release. This is our review of the film, but – as usual – no matter what we say, we recommend that you still go to your local cinema and see the film because there is no better critic than yourself. 

 
The film follows best mates Ryan and Justin (Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr.), whose lives seem to be going nowhere; Ryan is living in the Past and complains daily about not becoming a professional rugby player due to an injury, while Justin struggles to be noticed as a Video game developer in order to sell his idea for a realistic police-themed game.



The pair mistakenly dresses as police officers for a masquerade school reunion party, becoming the mock of everyone around. However, after leaving they notice how everyone in the streets looks at them with respect, especially hot chicks. Ryan and Justin decide to embrace their new-found attention by acting like real cops. What was supposed to be a fun one night gig, soon becomes a silly daily routine for these fake cops, and of course this eventually they cross paths with an actual gang.



Let's Be Cops is a peculiar comedy, since from beginning to end this comedy seems destined to fail. However, despite the unoriginal and predictable plot, the unknown actors and the all-around silliness, this new cop-comedy manages to keep viewers laughing the entire time. This is mostly thanks to the great and at times childish chemistry between Johnson and Wayans Jr. who are definitely capable to carry on with the entire film, delivering a kind of Bad Boys/Rush Hour-type of performance, for a film that could otherwise have been a straight to DVD release.


 
In addition, Let’s Be Cops is surprises half way through with the incorporation of the always greatAndy Garcia in a minor, but important role, giving the film an extra value.

Overall, Let’s Be Cops is a fun guilty pleasure; Even though most jokes are highly predictable and already spoilt by the movie trailers released for the film, they will still make most viewers laugh throughout the entire film, in spite of the average plot. Absolutely a film made for the sole purpose of entertaining, great to watch with your mates while enjoying a cold beer or two.

Source: http://spotlightreport.net/movies/lets-be-cops-movie-review

Let's Be Cops – In Cinemas 13 November 2014

Enjoy your life - Movie Review – Gutshot (2014)

Movie informations: Gutshot (aka Gutshot Straight), 2014.
  
Directed by Justin Steele, Starring George Eads, AnnaLynne McCord, Steven Seagal, Vinnie Jonnes, Ted Levine,Stephen Lang, Tia Carrere and Fiona Dourif.

SYNOPSIS: 

A hard-up gambler gets in deep with the underworld when he takes up a bet from a wealthy gangster to pay off his loans. 



Don’t be fooled by the poster art for Gutshot as this isn’t a Steven Seagal vehicle, despite his image being the most prominent. Neither is it a Vinnie Jones headliner, as his mug is also all over it, but both actors are part of an ensemble cast that includes Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs), George Eads (CSI: Crime Scene Investigtion), AnnaLynne McCord (Excision) and Stephen Lang (Tombstone) in a film that feels a little different in style for all involved, which isn’t a bad thing. 

Jack (Eads) is a professional gambler who has run up a considerable amount of debt and is unable to support his wife and daughter. Fed up with living in cheap motel rooms, scraping a few dollars together in card games and taking beatings from gang enforcer Carl (Jones), who is chasing Jack for $10,000, he accepts an offer from flash stranger Duffy (Lang) to earn some serious cash. However, after a few drinks at a strip club and a few easy challenges from Duffy, Jack goes back to Duffy’s house and things take a turn for the worse when Duffy makes Jack a lucrative offer that Jack refuses, forcing the down-on-his-luck gambler to put his life on the line to protect his family. 

The first thing that strikes you about Gutshot – apart from Steven Seagal’s ludicrous hair – is that stylistically it feels like one of those post-Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels gangter movies that seemed to be everywhere around the turn of the millennium, especially with the smooth jazz song that plays over the Bond-ish credits. But it doesn’t feel derogatory like a lot of those older films do as Gunshot finds its own feet fairly quickly as we find out why Jack has gone to Seagal’s loan shark Paulie, and why Paulie hands him a gun.

Source: http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2014/10/movie-review-gutshot-2014.html

Top Rate Movies for you on theater - Sep 19 weekend

Top 1: The Maze Runner (2014)

Running time: 113 minutes (2 hours). In Theaters: Sep 19, 2014 Wide


   
Marcus Goh is a former Singapore television scriptwriter. He’s also a Transformers enthusiast and avid pop culture scholar. 
  
"The Maze Runner" is a science fiction film that is based on the book of the same name. It follows the adventures of a group of boys who are trapped in an artificial, constantly changing maze, and their efforts to escape. It stars Dylan O’Brien (Thomas), Kaya Scodelario (Teresa), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Newt), Will Poutler (Gally), Ki Hong Lee (Minho), and Blake Cooper (Chuck).

Unlike many book adaptations, “The Maze Runner” utilises the film medium well and can stand on its own two feet solely as a movie. You never get the feeling that the film is slavishly adapting a plot point that doesn’t translate so well on to the big screen, and yet the exposition works well and no important information is lost.

Movie Information: 

When Thomas wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape. Based upon the best-selling novel by James Dashner. (c) Fox
  

Top 2: The Guest (2014) 

Running time:  1 hr. 37 min. In Theaters: Sep 17, 2014 Limited



Boldly striking in style and content, ‘The Guest’ comes knocking at your door with electronic tunes, breakneck editing and a tour de force performance from Dan Stevens. It’s a clever mash-up of genres that somehow blend together nicely to tell, perhaps not a grand scale story but an enjoyable, dark and tense one nonetheless. 
The Peterson family are trying to deal with the news that Caleb, their son/brother has died at war, it seems that a mysterious and unreadable arrival to their house who knew Caleb could help them through this tough time. This guest’s name is David (Dan Stevens) and it isn’t long until his presence in the house draws in interest from bullied Luke (Brendan Meyer) and parent oppressed Anna (Maika Monroe).

    
Movie Information:

From the director of YOU'RE NEXT and featuring a standout, badass performance from Dan Stevens ("Downton Abbey"), comes THE GUEST: a tense, action-packed and unpredictable film like everything and nothing you've ever seen before. Empire Magazine called it "a demented action-horror hybrid of sci-fi conspiracy thriller and gore-fest", and Vanity Fair said, "THE GUEST is big, it's bold, it's badass, full of flavor Hollywood wishes it could pour over its vanilla blockbusters." (c) Picturehouse.

Enjoy your DVDs for watching on the go - DVD News on Sep 9

What are you waitting for? This weekend which great DVDs are coming out? Let’s see this list of September 9, 2014 DVD released date. 

Top 1. No Good Deed DVD
 DVD Release Date: September 12
Director: Sam Miller
Studio: Columbia Pictures  

Storyline: 

Follows a former D.A turned stay-at-home mom and her two small children who are terrorized and kidnapped after she invites a handsome but mysterious stranger into their home to wait for help after his car runs off the road.

Top 2. Palo Alto DVD
 DVD Release Date: September 9
Director: Gia Coppola
Studio: Tribeca Film 

Storyline: 

Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April (Emma Roberts), torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach (James Franco) and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy (Jack Kilmer); Emily (Zoe Levin), who offers sexual favors to any boy to cross her path; and the increasingly dangerous exploits of Teddy and his best friend Fred (Nat Wolff), whose behavior may or may not be sociopathic.

Top 3. Burning Blue DVD
 DVD Release Date: September 9
Director: D.M.W. Greer
Studio: Lionsgate Films
 

Storyline: 
  
A government agent is assigned to an aircraft carrier after two flight accidents to find the cause of the problem. The investigation takes a wide turn when a sailor informs the agent that he saw a high ranking airman at a local gay club. The agent then begins to dig into the private life of not only the accused pilot, but the rest of his flight squad as well. As the airmen and their wives are suddenly made to deal with what has become a glorified witch hunt, they must quickly decide who they can truly trust and who they cannot.

Top 4. A Long Way Down DVD
 DVD Release Date: September 9
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Studio: Magnolia Pictures 

Storyline: 

A disgraced TV presenter (Pierce Brosnan), a foul-mouthed teen (Imogen Poots), an isolated single mother (Toni Collette) and an aging pizza delivery boy (Aaron Paul) – decide to end it all on New Year’s Eve. When this disillusioned group of strangers unintentionally meet at Topper’s Tower, a trendy jumper hotspot, they agree to call off their plans for six weeks. Their written pact inadvertently binds them together and sweeps the public up--transforming them into unwitting media sensations—as they discover that even accidental families make life worth living. Four people meet on New Year's Eve and form a surrogate family to help themselves weather the difficult holiday period. 
  
Top 5. Words and Pictures DVD
 DVD Release Date: September 9
Director: Fred Schepisi
Studio: Roadside Attractions 

  

Storyline: 

Prep school English teacher Jack Marcus (Clive Owen) laments his students' obsession with social media and good grades - as opposed to rigorous engagement with language. A one-time literary star, Jack has not published in years. He's let the school's literary magazine fall into ruin. He's estranged from his son. In short, Jack has much to despair of, and when Jack despairs, Jack drinks. A lot. Jack's drunken behaviour has been bad enough to have him banned from a local upscale pub. Dina Delsanto (Juliette Binoche) is an abstract painter. Like Jack, she was once celebrated for her art, but the onset of arthritis has made the physical act of painting too painful to bear. Jack finds Dina attractive but icy; he flirts with and provokes her with equal relish.   
  
Top 6. God's Pocket DVD
 DVD Release Date: September 9
Director: John Slattery
Studio: IFC Films 

Storyline: 

Set in the gritty blue-collar neighborhood of God's Pocket, a man's crazy stepson is killed in a construction "accident" and the man quickly tries to bury the bad news with the body. But when a local columnist comes sniffing around for the truth, things go from bad to worse. The man finds himself stuck in a life and death struggle between a body he can’t bury, a wife he can’t please and a debt he can’t pay. 

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DVD Release date on this week of September 1, 2014

Below, our editors have selected 5 interesting films and top rates debuting this week, listed in alphabetical order and sharing some Youtube videos.  

Top 1. Draft Day on DVD 
 
Release date: April 11, 2014

                       Tuesday September 2, 2014 (dvd)

 

 

Draft Day Movie Synopsis: 
  
On the day of the National Football League (NFL) Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver (Kevin Costner) has the opportunity to save football in Cleveland when he trades for the number one pick.
He must quickly decide what he's willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with dreams of playing in the NFL.

Top 2. They Came Together on DVD

Release date:June 27, 2014 - Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary
                      July 11 - Ottawa
                      Tuesday September 2, 2014 (dvd)

They Came Together Movie Synopsis:

When Joel (Paul Rudd) and Molly (Amy Poehler) first bump into each other on Halloween while wearing matching Benjamin Franklin outfits, they take an instant dislike to each other in this parody of corny romantic comedies. Things get worse when it turns out that the company Joel works for is planning to demolish Molly's adorable Upper West Side candy store.
However, as they get to know each other, they realize they have a lot in common. They both love fiction, Q-tips, the color blue and grandmothers. But an argument leads to a break up and Molly winds up dating her awkward accountant (Ed Helms) while Joel gets confusing advice from his buddies.

Top 3. Moms' Night Out on DVD

Release date: May 9, 2014
                       Tuesday September 2, 2014 (dvd)

Moms' Night Out Movie Synopsis: 

What exhausted moms like Allyson (Sarah Drew) and her friends want more than anything is to have a peaceful grown-up evening dinner out away from the kids. In order for this to happen they need their husbands to step up and watch the children for a few hours.
But their carefree evening without kids doesn’t go quite as planned. Problems with their restaurant reservation, car theft, a trip to a police station and a tattoo parlor, getting zapped with a stun gun, teaming up with bikers to find a missing baby – Allyson didn't have anything like this in mind for their night out.

Top 4. For No Good Reason on DVD

Release date: May 16, 2014 - Toronto, Vancouver
                       Tuesday September 2, 2014 (dvd) 

  

For No Good Reason Movie Synopsis: 

For No Good Reason is a documentary about Ralph Steadman, a British cartoonist best known for his work in collaboration with the American writer and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson.
This visually creative film follows Steadman’s career, starting in the early 1970s up to today. Director Charlie Paul spent 15 years meticulously putting together the footage and the animation to match Steadman’s expressive illustrations. Through Johnny Depp, the audience is presented with the portrait of the artist’s life, his friendships, his art and passion.
Exploring the connection between life and art, For No Good Reason is an uplifting film with contributions from Terry Gilliam and Richard E. Grant, as well as music from Slash, Jason Mraz, James Blake, All American Rejects and Crystal Castles.

Top 5. Third Person on DVD 

Release date: Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Third Person Movie Synopsis:

Follows three inter-connected love stories of three couples in three cities, Rome, Paris and New York. The Rome-set segment revolves around a young couple on a road trip, to be played be Casey Affleck and Moran Atias. Both Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde will play writers in the Paris-set section of the film. Mila Kunis is negotiating to play one half of an estranged couple in New York, with James Franco playing her partner in the segment. 

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Top New Movies In Theater Opening This Week - August 29, 2014

Top 1. As Above, So Below (2014)
  
93 min   -   Horror | Thriller
When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Stars: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil

Storyline:

Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead. A journey into madness and terror, As Above, So Below reaches deep into the human psyche to reveal the personal demons that come back to haunt us all. Written by John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle (Quarantine, Devil) and directed by John Erick Dowdle, the psychological thriller is produced by Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Drew Dowdle and Patrick Aiello. Alex Hedlund serves as the executive producer. 

Top 2. The November Man (2014) - [Opens 8/27]

108 min   -   Action | Crime | Thriller
Metascore: 33/100 (14 reviews)
An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
Director: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey, Olga Kurylenko, Bill Smitrovich

      

Storyline:

Pierce Brosnan and director Roger Donaldson reunite nearly 20 years after Dante's Peak for Bronan's Bondiest outing since Die Another Day. Apparently the studio is already at work on a potential sequel; often that's a last-minute Hail Mary for a film of questionable awareness, though. We hear Olga Kurylenko is underutilized and watching Bronan with his protege, played by Luke Bracey, is like "trying to get invested in a battle between Captain America and a tuna sandwich." 

Top 3. Last Weekend (2014) - [Limited]

94 min   -   Comedy | Drama
When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Directors: Tom Dolby | Tom Williams
Stars: Patricia Clarkson, Zachary Booth, Joseph Cross, Chris Mulkey

Storyline:

Patricia Clarkson has been sporadic with her movie appearances over the past few years, and it's possible that that the funding for this film hinged upon her participation (we don't know that for sure -- just theorizing). After watching the trailer, we immediately thought about what it would be like to see Clarkson lead this cast in a staged version of the material so she could really go far in her development of what seems to be a memorable character.

Top 4. If I Stay (2014)

106 min   -   Drama
Metascore: 46/100 (33 reviews)
Life changes in an instant for young Mia Hall after a car accident puts her in a coma. During an out-of-body experience, she must decide whether to wake up and live a life far different than she had imagined.
Director: R.J. Cutler
Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos, Jamie Blackley, Joshua Leonard

Storyline:

Mia Hall thought the hardest decision she would ever face would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at Juilliard or follow a different path to be with the love of her life, Adam. But what should have been a carefree family drive changes everything in an instant, and now her own life hangs in the balance. Caught between life and death for one revealing day, Mia has only one decision left, which will not only decide her future but her ultimate fate. 

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Weekly Blu-ray New Releases: August 18-22 2014

This is a list of new released and announced Blu-ray discs. All these Blu-ray discs come to my attention and would like to get these wonderful movies.

  

1. The Flintstones (1974)
Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraVioletUniversal Studios | 1994 | 91 min | Rated PG | Aug 19, 2014 (New Release)

Storyline:
  
The Flintstones and the Rubbles are modern stone-age families. Fred and Barney work at Slate and Company, mining rock. Fred gives Barney some money so he and Betty can adopt a baby. When Fred and Barney take a test to determine who should become the new associate vice president, Barney returns the favor by switching his test answers for Fred's, whose answers aren't very good. Fred gets the executive position, but little realizes that he's being manipulated by Cliff Vandercave to be the fall guy for an embezzlement scheme. 
  
2. Leviathan (1989)

Shout Factory | 1989 | 98 min | Rated R | Aug 19, 2014 (New Release)

Storyline:
  
Perched on the hull of a wrecked Soviet freighter, a team of deep-sea miners -- led by head oceanographer Steven Beck -- comes face to face with a mutant creature that's the product of a failed genetic experiment. As Beck's crew members begin to disappear one by one, the flesh-eating monster lurks below the surface -- and the divers left alive are scared to death.

3. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) (Criterion)

The Criterion Collection / Blu-ray + DVDCriterion | 1990 | 102 min | Rated NC-17 | Aug 19, 2014 (New Release)

Storyline:

In 1988, after years of making sexually adventurous provocations that didn’t travel very far beyond Spain, Pedro Almodóvar scored a major international hit with his hyperactive farce Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown. It was the perfect time for him to play it safe, capitalizing on his newfound success by heading even further toward the mainstream. Instead, he followed Women On The Verge with Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, a twisted romantic comedy in which the meet-cute sees the guy deliberately punch the girl in the face hard enough to knock her unconscious. Audiences eager to see more wacky shenanigans, perhaps involving consensual bondage, were treated to a relatively subdued and rather disturbing tale about a woman who slowly falls in love with her abductor, seemingly against her will. What’s more, the MPAA saddled the film with an X rating ... 

4. Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) (Criterion)
The Criterion Collection / Blu-ray + DVDCriterion | 2001 | 106 min | Rated R | Aug 19, 2014 (New Release)

Storyline:

The story of Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael García Bernal) makes up only half of Y Tu Mamá También, as that ribald bildungsroman works at an apparent remove from another narrative, one in which Cuarón's pet themes emerge: Although Tenoch and Julio may be willfully ignorant to it, their lives are irrevocably affected by the political and social insecurities of Mexico as the country embraces a dubious idealism. 

5. Once Upon a Time: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray

Disney / Buena Vista | 2013-2014 | Season 3 | 950 min | Rated TV-14 | Aug 19, 2014 (New Release)

Storyline:

Emma Swan gets the surprise of her life when Henry, the son she gave up 10 years ago, arrives on her doorstep. Returning the boy to his adoptive mother becomes complicated when Henry reveals a stunning theory to Emma. Everyone in Storybrooke, Maine is a fairytale character under a curse, and Emma - as the long lost daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming - is the one who can save them all. The story unfolds; interweaving scenes of the drama in the sleepy New England town and the the inhabitants' past lives in the world of fairy tales. The timeless battle of good vs evil is ready to begin again.

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Movie review: 22 Jump Street

I found the first one hilarious, and I was excited for this one since it was getting massive praise. But jesus, was this movie bad from what I saw. Jokes just fell flat and seemed disjointed and reminded me of a Family guy episode. I made it to the frat party and bounced. Anyone else felt the same?

  


22 Jump Street
(MA15+) ***
Creation date: July 8, 2014 
Director: Phil Lord & Chris Miller.
Cast: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Wyatt Russell, Amber Stevens, Peter Stormare, Jillian Bell.
  
22 Jump Street, the sequel to the 2012 comedy, brings us more hilarious, laugh out loud moments.  The sequel tells a similar story to the previous film and uses a lot of same jokes.  While the redundancy might slow the movie down from time to time, the film’s self-awareness of being a sequel is just over the top funny.

Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum return as Schmidt and Jenko, the two undercover cops for the Jump Street program.  After the success in the previous film, the Jump Street program received more budgets and our heroes are going to undercover at college this time around.  The movie then follows the same path as the previous movie, and the two partners ended up joining different social groups.  Jenko ends up investigating with the jocky frat boys, and Schmidt ends up with the artsy crowd.  The two begin to resentment each others, but the final stretch put them back together and their friendship never ends. 

 

Review: 'Begin Again' sparkles sometimes but tries too hard

  
Rating: R (for language)
Cast: Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Adam Levine, Hailee Steinfeld, Catherine Keener
Director and writer: 
John Carney 
Running time: 1 hour, 
41 minutes
   
Writer-director John Carney replays his greatest hit with "Begin Again," a semi-successful attempt to re-create the magic of the Oscar-winning musical "Once," only this time in New York and with a big-name cast.
Get past the wildly improbable "music biz" moments and impromptu performances that feel anything but impromptu, and this all-star cast and several utterly charming scenes give it a sparkle that overcomes the manufactured/trying-too-hard feel of it.

Keira Knightley is a British singer-songwriter summoned, reluctantly, on stage by a busker-pal who is performing in an intimate, down-market bar in Manhattan. Mark Ruffalo plays the only guy paying attention, standing, staring, transfixed by her performance.

A flashback takes us through the bad day Dan Mulligan's had, leading to that moment. He's a drunken has-been of a music "A & R Man," an "artists and repertoire" guru who had the record label he started snatched away from him by his partner (Mos Def).