Monday, June 30, 2014

Put Blu-ray movies on WD TV for smoothly playback

“Am thinking of buying a WD TV but key is going to whether this player can play back blu-ray movies? I need to backed up the blu ray discs using tsMuxeR and then converted it with suitable formats for playback on WD TV. so, which converter is the best? Help on getting this clarified would be greatly appreciated!” 
  
“I'm extremely interested in purchasing the WDTV, mostly for it's HD playback. I have ripped some Blu-ray copies so I can store them and play them with my WD TV , but it does not support my movies well. Could you offer me some hints? Thanks.”
   
If you have the same problems, you can get the best solutions from this article. As for me, I kind of want to keep things simple, So what i wanted to know was whether the converter can achevive put blu-ray on WD TV for playback without me having to do anything else. 


  
In this case, a professional Blu-ray to WD TV Ripper is the key to assist you to rip your Blu-ray disc to WD TV supported video formats. Pavtube BDMagic is the best tool I’d like to recommend to you. With it, you can fast rip and convert Blu-ray to WD TV friendly format AVI, MP4, MOV, MKV with the original quality. Besides, this Blu-ray ripping tool allows you to lossless backup Blu-ray with whole structure or just make a main movie copy of Blu-ray according to your needs. If you are a Mac user, please turn to turn to BDMagic for Mac. If you haven’t got the software, download it now and let’s start the conversion. 

Convert/Encode Blu-ray movies to MKV for playing on WD TV

Step 1. Run best Blu-ray to WD TV software, load Blu-ray discs, Blu-ray folder, Blu-ray ISO image files. This program will help you analysis ISO files automatically so that there’s no need to run virtual drive to mount ISO image files any more. 
  
 
   
Step 2. Click the “Format” menu, here you are suggested to choose “Common Video > MKV(Matroska) Video (*.mkv)”.


   
Tip: If you want to backup your blu-ray movies with keeping multiple audio tracks and subtitles, ByteCopy will be you ideal tool. Here take MKV as an example, and follow the easy guide below to rip Blu-ray for WD TV Streaming with mkv format. Above all, If you choose ByteCopy as your assistant, just select “Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV(*mkv)” format to output the Blu-ray with keeping multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitles.

Step 3: If you like, modify profile settings such as video size, bitrate, frame rate, etc to get optimized video and audio playback. (Learn more>>)

Step 4: Return to BDMagic main interface, and hit the “Convert” button to start encoding Blu-ray to mkv format. 

Once it finshes, open output folder, locate the created mkv file and you can transfer the converted files to WD TV’s drive. Or you can play movies on WD TV Live Hub via USB flash drive.

Everything is done! Just have a fun of your Blu-ray movies. 

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Top 3 Best DVD Copying and Ripping Software Reviewed 2016

This DVD Ripping Tool page includes the newest reviews, tips & tricks on how to choose the best DVD Copying and Ripping Software from top 3 options for backing up and converting DVD movies.

Your entertainment, your way ! Put that your all DVDs to good use. Look, we all want to watch our favorite DVD movies on the tablets, smartphones or HD media player, whether they’re home movies to share with family, viral movies to share with friends, or copy DVD movies to watch on a flight. But, how to do this? 
    
“I have a bunch of DVD’s that need to rip to stream on my tablet for holiday days later. At the moment we are trying to use some software to handle them. Can I extract a chapter or make full backup copy of them? I've recently looking for a program that will rip or copy DVDs and hope a best software does not waste my time...”  
      
As you know, there are lots of problems as this stiuation and searched on google with no best results. Here you can found a best program from “Pavtube” and solve all your problem, it’s very strong and ease of use. Here is a list of Top 3 best DVD copying & ripping software reviewed, hope you can get the answer and take a good to use. 

What you to know?
    
The Best In DVD Copying Software - The Features to Look For
   
When it comes down to choosing a DVD Copying software make sure you look for it's best features which you would label as:

Cost/Performance: Everybody wants to gain more with less money. 

Application Stability: In order to make an appearance in our review, each product must be able to run smoothly throughout the ripping, converting and burning process. The best DVD ripper software should be reliable, stable and accessible immediately after you install it on your computer.

Ease of Use: This section refers to how intuitive and user-friendly the application is. The best DVD ripper software pays particular attention to navigation, design interface, cleanliness and overall simplicity. Applications that are instinctual, straightforward and uncomplicated scored highly in this category.

Ease of Installation: This criterion deals with how easy it is to put the DVD ripper software on your computer. We took several things into consideration, including time to install, simplicity of the install and compatibility with operating systems.

Quality of Copy: The best DVD rippers make an exact 1:1 copy of the movies on your disc. This means that the copy on your hard drive is indistinguishable from the movie on the original disc.

Feature Set: In order to be considered among the best DVD rippers, there are a few must-have features. Of course, applications must be able to transfer movies from the DVD to your hard drive. Applications on our list also need to have the ability to remove copy protections on commercial discs – this feature unlocks the content on your DVDs and makes them available for backup and conversion, and viewing on multiple devices. 
   
Let’s take a look at who are in the list now. 

TOP 1. Pavtube DVDAid 
   


A. Rip DVD to popular video and audio format
     
Pavtube DVDAid is regarded as the best DVD ripping software on the market that provides movie lovers, children and people in any group with the easiest and fastest way to rip and convert DVD movies to MP4/AVI/MKV/WMV and many other video and audio formats with high quality. It lets you enjoy DVD movies on any portable device like iPhone 5S, 5C, iPad Air, 2nd Gen Nexus 7, Asus Fonepad 7,Sony Xperia Z2, Surface 2, Surface Pro 2 and Surface RT/Pro, Kindle Fire HDX, etc. 

B. Make a Copy of DVD Disc
   
It makes 1:1 copy of original DVD Disc without quality loss with all audio streams, subtitle tracks, extras, etc. For the short time it takes to convert the movie with the help of CUDA/AMD GPU acceleration, and you will get hours of enjoyments. It's simple to use and well worth the investment.

C. Perfect the video with creative editing features
  
It can support latest DVD, features with adding *.srt and *.ass subtitle, also help you direct copy titles from DVDs. Below is two users' reviews:
Your profile works just great and the picture is clear, well as always you guys are fantastic with your products and please work on being able to burn to DVD once the user has made their conversation that is something that your competitors can not do directly and that would be awesome and I would love to be your beta tester. 
  
It is easy to use for editing and conversion and makes great quality copies of my DVDs. I really like that I can turn up the volume on my DVDs. It is a great feature! I also like that it gives me a lot of options when choosing how to copy and convert my DVDs. I tried some other DVD software and researched others and this seems to be the best! I am glad that I bought this software!
   
D. A news for a Free software
  
If you want to freely convert your DVD videos on Windows or Mac? Like Pavtube at their Facebook Page and get its Free DVDAid for Win/Mac to help you convert any DVDs to MOV, MKV, AVI, MPG, VOB, WMV, FLV, etc. with fast speed. It also helps edit DVD and add SRT/ASS/SSA subtitles to DVD movies. 
   
TOP 2. Handbrake
   

     
Handbrake is our favorite video encoder for its simple, easy-to-use, easy-to-install, and powerful tweaking options to get the best convert quality as a result. It’s a open source tool for converting video and DVD to nearly any format, available for Windows, Linux or Mac OS X. It’s perfect but only can read and transcode non-protected DVD. For it is illegal. So you need to use a 3rd-party software to remove the proctection first, then read and rip the DVD with Handbrake. 

TOP 3. AnyDVD
   
 
    
AnyDVD (which rips DVDs only) and AnyDVD HD (which supports Blu-rays and HD DVDs) both scored praise from readers for their solid feature set and frequent updates to get around the copy protection that many disc publishers include . The app can handle unwanted DRM, remove region restrictions, disables forced subtitles or delays, and even plays nice with DVD authoring tools if you’re backing up your movies. You can try AnyDVD for free, but its features will cost you: AnyDVD is 49EURand AnyDVD HD is 79EUR. 
   
Handbrake vs. AnyDVD vs. Pavtube DVDAID: Good & Bad

1. Pavtube DVDAID 

The good: Not any other DVD Ripper can do with all kinds of DVD sources: protected and unprotected DVD Disc, MV folder, DVD ISO, physical DVD, VIDEO_TS folder, DVD ISO and IFO file. As a professional and powerful all-in-one DVD disc handling tool, Pavtube integrates DVD Ripping, Conversion, and Backup.

The bad: Although the interface is easy to understant, it need to be improved.

2. Handbrake 

The good: A very great feature is Handbrake is designed with preset profiles for Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod and Apple TV. It also provides numerous video and audio parameter settings for advanced users to alter the file size and video quality.

The bad: This free DVD ripper only works well with personal DVDs that you have purchased. If you want to rip some encrypted commercial DVD movies

3. AnyDVD

The good: You can control the drive speed of your DVD drive, allowing you to reduce the noise level when watching movies on your PC. You can even adjust the display frequency of your monitor for both NTSC and PAL displays. Additionally, AnyDVD can remove unwanted movie features, including subtitles and prohibition messages such as copyright and FBI warnings. 
The bad: The bad: For Audio CD, only protection removing is available. There is no help file to properly explain all the options to less experienced users.

The bad: The AnyDVD is no time estimation for job completion when copying a DVD Video disc and too many updates, but have no one time fee with lifetime update and technical support. It does not support convert DVD to many kinds of formats and put to device. 

Conclusion:
  
All above the Features to best DVD ripping software, the Pavtube DVDAid is proved to be the best DVD ripper for Android tablet/phone. It ranks top on the DVD ripping application list for almost every aspect except for interface design. Next month, this software will have a special offer with 30% for summary holiday. What are you waiting for? just make your choice. 
    
Hope this top 3 best DVD Ripper Review can help you fast choose an easy-to-use and yet professional DVD ripping tool. Enjoy it and have fun! 

Updated on 6th, April, 2016

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Share news for movie Fans: DVD films of this week - June 24 2014

There are many wonderful DVD movies last week. what kind of DVD will come out? Are you a movie fan like me,I have been searched online but not sure which is the best one. so, the following list are the movies that audiences will be able to enjoy this weekend. 
   
After a great movie “Endless Love” , here are list of three good evaluation movie you can have a see:   
   
1.300: Rise of an Empire    June 24 
 
 
   
"300: Rise of an Empire" - The Warner Bros sequel is the biggest release of the week. The movie tells the story of Greek general Themistokles who leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia. The film, which was directed by Noam Muro, scored mixed reviews and grossed $106 million at the box office. The sequel was not as successful as the 2006 actioner which made $210 million. The reason for a lackluster box office was the result of little buzz and no hype. However "Rise of an Empire" has a chance of gaining some traction on DVD and on demand as it is the perfect summer blockbuster that audiences are into at the moment. It also serves as an option for those moviegoers who are not in mood to go to the movies. 

2. Winter's Tale              June 24 
 
 
 
"Winter's Tale" - Warner Bros will also release the fantasy tale starring Colin Firth, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly. Directed by Akiva Goldsman, the film tells the story of a burglar who falls in love with an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out on a journey to save her.  The movie was released on Feb 14 in hopes that it would be the perfect date movie but the results were poor. The movie not only received negative reviews but only made $12 million after having opened to $7 million. Warner Bros will attempt to regain some of its losses on DVD and try to attract females who have been very active movie goers during the summer season. The release is good counter programming especially with the lack of female driven films and with none coming out in the next few weeks, "Winter's Tale" could easily recuperate some of the money it lost at the box office earlier this year.  

3. Repentence     June 24 

   
"Repentence" - This Lionsgate drama was one of the most ignored releases in February. The movie, starring Forest Whitaker and Anthony Mackie, tells the story of a successful author and spiritual advisor who takes on a troubled man as a client, completely unaware that the man's fixation on his mother's death will soon put his life in jeopardy. The movie opened in 152 theaters and ended its run making only $1.1 million. The drama is likely to attract Whitaker fans but at a time when movie goers are looking for a fun action film, this movie is unlikely to get any more fandom. 

Hope this guide help you choose your favorite one and enjoy it with your family. Do you agree with me? Movies make our life colorful! 

Monday, June 23, 2014

Nice movie review: Maleficent- “do not miss it!”

 
Summary:
  
A fairy who was deceived by human in pursuit of his dream of living in a castle – to be a king. Soon the King and the Queen had their first baby. During the grand christening, everyone in the kingdom was invited including the pixies when except for Maleficent. Unknowingly Maleficent came to join with the celebration and gave her gift to the Princess – she’ll prick her finger in a spindle before the sun set at the age of 16 and she will fall asleep just like death. Nothing can ever awake her except for a true love’s kiss. This curse can never be retracted even by the strongest force on Earth. Princess Aurora was then was left by the King and Queen in the custody of the pixies confident that the curse will never happen.

As Princess Aurora grows, Maleficent became fond of Princess Aurora that she loved her as if her own daughter however; no matter how she tried to revert back the curse; she’s always a failure. True enough, no force can ever take it back.

The time has come and the oath has happened. A prince charming came and kissed Princess Aurora but she never woke up. With all regret and sorrow, Maleficent kissed the Princess and she awoke – the kiss of a true love.

Directly copy DVD to VOB files with VLC Media Player on Mac

 
As you know, If we are always play the DVD discs, the disc will be damaged. It’s a big problem for movie fans and they will feel upset. Now, it will require a process called 'ripping'. Just few steps can achieve the dircetly copy DVD to get the VOB files with HD media player on Mac. 
  
“Like everybody I get stressed out because of my inability to play movies I purchased as a DVD on portable media players, computers without DVD drives, etc. I'm an open source nut so I don't want to pay for $50 software that doesn't work that great. Luckily I found out how to rip DVDs to VOB files using my favorite media player- VLC.”

Yes, he found this website and It solve all the possible issues. To rip a DVD means to digitally extract the movie from the physical DVD, turn it into a digital file and convert it to the appropriate format for the device on which you want to watch it. Well, how can we use DVD to VOB files converter to rip DVD sucessfully and transfer the DVD VOB to media players on Mac? Hold on reading...

Part I: Get start to Directly copy DVD to VOB files with Pavtube BDMagic for Mac
  
1. Download a free trail and Load DVDs to this DVD to VOB files converter. 
  
 
   
2. Click "Format" drop-down list and choose "Copy > Directly Copy" as the VOB files preset with best video quality.
  
 
  
3. Start DVD to VOB files to VLC Conversion. Click the "Convert” button and finish it to get the VOB files. 

Part II: Play VOB files by using VLC 
  
Just as what tell on www.videolan.org, the VLC player is capable of playing vob files, because it is able to tell your DVD drive where to look for the decryption codes. It operates just like any other stand alone DVD player would and in some cases may give you more control over the rewinding, fast forwarding and skipping chapters then a DVD player can. But that depends on what DVD player you have so you have to decide for yourself if playing vob files on the VLC player is worth it. No matter what your opinion, playing vob files on the VLC player will suffice if you have nothing else. 
  
Hope this guide can help you finish the task. Enjoy the DVD to VOB files with VLC Media Player on Mac. 

See also:
  
DVD movies on my cloud storage: When you have a large DVD library, why not convert them into .MP4, so that you can store DVD movies onto WD My Cloud Network disk for better playing and sharing. If are you confused about how to rip DVDs to WD My Cloud, just read below article and you will find an easy way. 

Friday, June 20, 2014

Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 is better than Apple's MacBook Air -- here's 5 reasons why

Nowadays, if you buy a brand new laptop, it is hard to buy an absolute lemon. Unless you scrape the bottom of the barrel at Best Buy and get some god-awful $200 underpowered computer, you should be fine. Hell, even that inexpensive computer may meet some people's needs. However, some of us spend many hours of each day on a computer, so it makes sense to invest in something great. If you are reading BetaNews, I'm sure you fall into that category. If you ask me which computer to buy, I would recommend many (depending on budget), but two stand out among the rest. 
 

The Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and Apple MacBook Air are great balances between portability, power and cost. Yes, there are more powerful computers, but they are often very heavy and have terrible battery life. Portability cannot be underestimated when it comes to a laptop's value and both of these machines are super thin and light. Last month, my colleague Mihaita pondered the question of which was better based on specs alone. However, as someone who has used both, hands-on, for long periods of time, I am ready to definitively tell you that the Surface Pro 3 is better. Do you agree?

1.Screen Quality 

The MacBook Air 13.3-inch (the model I am using for comparison) uses a washed-out non-IPS display that simply looks horrendous by today's standards. It uses a 1,440 by 900 resolution that makes pixels easily visible. Apple usually makes great hardware, but the screen on the Air is simply not up to its normal standards. It also uses a 16:10 aspect ratio that just is not ideal for surfing the web. 

The Surface Pro 3 however, offers a gorgeous 2,160 x 1,440 resolution display with vibrant colors that hides pixels from the average eye. It even uses a 3:2 aspect ratio which is better suited for surfing the web. I smile every time I look at the beautiful display on the SP3. 

2.Touchscreen/Tablet 

Speaking of the screen, the Surface Pro 3 is also a touch-screen hybrid device that also serves as a tablet. This essentially kills two birds with one stone. Apple users will have to buy a MacBook Air and an iPad for the same experience found on SP3. This is a huge inconvenience for travelers that must pack two devices, two chargers and worry about keeping data synced between the two. 

Even in laptop mode, the touch screen comes in handy when sitting at a desk or table. Many people find a touchscreen on a laptop to be cumbersome and not ideal. True, you wouldn't want to use the touch screen exclusively at a desk, but having the option is better than not having it, and you'd be surprised at how many times I reach out and touch the SP3 display. The stylus is just icing on the cake. 

3.Weight 

The Surface Pro 3 without the Touch Keyboard attachment weighs 1.76 pounds. With it, it weighs 2.41 pounds. The 13.3-inch MBA? 2.96 pounds. Pretty much, Apple's machine weighs a half pound more -- that is significant.
But hold on, an iPad Air weighs 1 pound. So, to get a similar experience to the SP3, an Apple user would have to carry a MBA and iPad Air, which would weigh almost 4 pounds. This means your backpack or briefcase will weigh a pound and a half more with Apple's product. The Surface Pro 3 is so light, that I often have to check my backpack to see if I forgot it. 

4.More (and Better) Software 

I love both OS X and Windows 8.1. However, Windows has the edge, because it has more quality apps and programs. To take it a step further, programs are better too. Don't get me wrong, there is some fine software for Apple's OS, but for someone wanting to get work done, on the go, it is no comparison. Office 2013 is far superior to Office 2011. 

But wait you say, that's not fair because Microsoft makes Office, right? OK, fair enough. I encourage you to read this article that lists suggested apps and programs for the Surface Pro 3. You will see many selections, not only from Microsoft, that blows away the offerings on OS X. 

5.Price

Some people will say the MacBook Air is less expensive, but that is debatable. A Surface Pro 3 with an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD and Type Cover would cost $1430. A 13.3-inch MacBook Air in the same configuration would cost $1300. 

So, the MacBook Air is cheaper right? Not so fast. You still do not have a tablet. To get the same features from Apple you also have to buy an iPad Air at $499. This means going Apple would cost an extra $370 and you would be juggling two device -- ouch! 

Conclusion
Overall, both the Surface Pro 3 and MacBook Air are great laptops -- the Surface Pro 3 is simply better. For the money, you are getting more features and access to more apps and programs. Even though the MBA overall is solid, the fact that Apple in 2014 can sell its customers a laptop without a touchscreen is beyond me. Not to mention, the display quality is so poor in comparison to the Surface Pro 3, that it is hard to believe they are both being sold in the same year. As someone who has spent a lot of time with the Surface Pro 3, I can assure you it is the real deal. 

The MacBook Air had a long run as the king of thin and laptops, but now it must be said -- All hail the new king, Surface Pro 3! 

Sunday, June 15, 2014

‘Jump Street’, ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ at top 2 spots


Sequels ruled the cineplex this weekend as young cops and a young dragon duked it out at the box office. 

"22 Jump Street”,  the follow-up to the 2012 comedy, scored a surprise win at theaters with $60 million, according to studio estimates from box office crunchers Rentrak. 

The debut exceeded the projections of analysts, who expected a neck-and-neck race between "Street"and the animated comedy "How to Train Your Dragon 2."Both were expected to collect about $50 million. 

But audiences were in the mood for a laugh. "Neighbors"marked the last broad comedy of summer, and that came out more than a month ago. Since then, moviegoers got a steady diet of action and drama. 

"Street"hit the funny bone of critics and fans, earning an 83 percent approval rating from critics, says Rotten Tomatoes. According to Cinemascore, audiences gave it a collective A-minus. 

"Dragon"was no slouch, taking second place. And it could have legs, thanks to reviews and word of mouth. About 92 percent of critics gave that movie a thumbs-up, while audiences gave it a straight A. 

 
Both films also ended the two-week run of original films ruling the box office. Along with "Maleficent,"the teen drama "Fault in Our Stars"topped theaters. Still, analysts say, studios did sequels right this time. 

"Hollywood may be mostly out of ideas,"says Reagan Sulewski, analyst for Box Office Prophets. "But the ideas they’re reusing, at least this weekend, are pretty strong.” 

"Maleficent"was third with $19 million, followed by the Tom Cruise action film "Edge of Tomorrow"with $16.2 million. "Stars"rounded out the top five with $15.7 million.

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Happy Father’s Day : Save up to 50% off movie backup tool from Pavtube

What dad really wants for Father's Day? Save up to 50% movie backup software for dad! 


  
Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. 

While 2014 Father’s Day is nearly here, it's time to show your appreciation to thank the man who most shaped your life! Have you prepared something for your beloved Daddy yet? But do you want to make a unique gift that will be truly memorable? 

Why don't you take a look at Pavtube Father's Day Speical Offers?

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To celebrate Father’s Day together with you, Pavtube Studio now offering up to 50% off software as the 2014 Father’s Day Special Gifts. Backup your dad's favorite Blu-ray/DVD movie to IOS/Android gadgets, HD TV, home theatre or game console. Even better you can make a father's day video for your beloved dad on your own! It’s more precious than just picking up something on store casually! 

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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

The Rover review – an Australian road movie that runs out of road

Robert Pattinson proves his acting chops in David Michod's mysterious follow-up to Animal Kingdom – it's just a shame it squanders its early promise. 
 

 
It’s time to put away those Robert Pattinson jokes – the kid can act. He showed more attachment to the elephant in Water for Elephants than co-star Reese Witherspoon, but then he probably knew better how it felt:Twilight turned him into the most gawped at mammal on the planet. He cut like a blade through the first film, cheekbones set to stun, as pale as a rock star in recovery, summoning a palpable sense of threat. 

The series emasculated Edward as it wore on, shoving him to the side of the action, while Bella grew increasingly impatient – it was the only vampire series in which the vampires were afraid of the virgins, and exploited Pattinson’s greatest flaw as an actor: his passivity. He was coolly dissipated in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, as a megastar essaying the end of the world in blacked-out limo shades, but the film, and the role, both stayed well within the confines of the comfortably numb. In his new film, The Rover, Pattinson tries a different tack in his pursuit of a world seen without yellow contact lenses: he acts his socks off. 

When we first see him, he is face down in the Australian outback, bleeding out into the dirt. He’s been abandoned by his brother (Scoot McNairy), who heads up a gang of thugs making their getaway in a truck, with another member bleeding in the back. What they have done, or even who they are, is never made clear. The film, directed by David Michod, is set “10 years after the collapse”, in a future where resources like petrol and water have gone much the same place as the world’s reserves of narrative exposition. 

The whole thing is told in the mythic-elliptic style first pioneered in the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone and later retrofitted as pulp by George Miller in the Mad Max films, where the post-apocalypse means never having to explain yourself. This movie gives nothing up. 

So we never find out the exact circumstances that led to Pattinson being left for dead, or why he is speaking in a southern white trash accent, while everyone else speaks Australian, or why he is being hunted by squadron of American soldiers. Did he desert? What is important is that he crosses paths with Guy Pearce, about whom we know even less, except that a) he never cracks a smile, b) he looks pissed even before the gang make off with his car, and c) he wants it back. That’s how mythic he is: his character is carved out in the dust cloud left by his actions. He’s the Man With No Ride Home. 

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Can’t wait to own great DVDs/BDs on week on June 9, 2014

Top1: Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (2014 TV Series)
DVD and Blu-ray
    
   
A documentary series that explores how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time. (60 mins.)

Stars: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stoney Emshwiller, Piotr Michael 

Top2: Non-Stop (2014) 
DVD, Blu-ray and Amazon Instant Video 
 

 
An air marshal springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages that put his fellow passengers at risk unless the airline transfers $150 million into an off-shore account. (106 mins.)

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Stars: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Scoot McNairy, Michelle Dockery

Top3: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) 
DVD, Blu-ray and Amazon Instant Video
 

 
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack. (105 mins.)

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Stars: Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Branagh

Top4: Ray Donovan (2013 TV Series) 
DVD, Blu-ray and Amazon Instant Video
 

 
Ray Donovan, a professional "fixer" for the rich and famous in LA, can make anyone's problems disappear except those created by his own family. (60 mins.)

Stars: Devon Bagby, Liev Schreiber, Paula Malcomson, Kerris Dorsey

Top5: Resurrection (2014 TV Series) 
DVD and Amazon Instant Video
 

 
The lives of the people of Arcadia, Missouri, are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return. (43 mins.)

Stars: Omar Epps, Frances Fisher, Matt Craven, Devin Kelley

Top6: Klondike (2014 Mini-Series) 
DVD and Blu-ray
 

 
The lives of two childhood best friends, Bill and Epstein, in the late 1890s as they flock to the gold rush capital in the untamed Yukon Territory... (274 mins.)

Stars: Abbie Cornish, Marton Csokas, Ian Hart, Greg Lawson

Top7: All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Blu-ray and DVD Combo
 

 
An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers. (89 mins.)

Director: Douglas Sirk

Stars: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead,Conrad Nagel

Top8: A Short History of Decay (2014) 
DVD and Amazon Instant Video
 

 
A comedy from an original script by Michael Maren, about a failed Brooklyn writer, Nathan Fisher, played by Bryan Greenberg... (94 mins.)

Director: Michael Maren

Stars: Emmanuelle Chriqui, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Bryan Greenberg, Linda Lavin

See the titles new on Blu-ray and DVD this week. And hope you have fun! If you want to more comfortable, you can transffer thses DVDs and Blu-rays to your all devices and enjoy it everytime everywhere! More details you can know from : http://www.multipelife.com/

Monday, June 9, 2014

Film Review: ‘Burning Blue’

 
Top guns in love struggle against institutional homophobia in a tone-deaf melodrama well past its sell-by date. 

When Quentin Tarantino riffed on the homoeroticism of “Top Gun” in his famous cameo from the otherwise forgotten 1994 indie “Sleep With Me,” little could he have known that, two decades later, the LGBT community would get a fighter-jock opus to call its very own. Optimistically dubbed “Brokeback Top Gun” in some quarters of the Internet, writer-director DMW Greer’s “Burning Blue” certainly harbors such outsized ambitions, but they’re poorly matched by Greer’s leaden direction and a didactic screenplay about the tortured lives of military personnel living in the shadow of President Clinton’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Bearing a distinctly musty odor confirmed by its 2011 copyright date, this day-and-date Lionsgate pickup never achieves dramatic liftoff.

Poorly concealing its origins as a stage play (first produced in London in 1995), “Burning Blue” unfolds mostly as a series of stilted, talky scenes set in and around a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier where a couple of hotshot pilots find themselves getting too close for Uncle Sam’s comfort, in and out of the cockpit. To all outward appearances, Lts. Daniel Lynch (Trent Ford) and Matthew Blackwood (Rob Mayes) are a couple of straightlaced — and straight — young recruits with loyal wives/girlfriends waiting for them at home and, if they play their cards right, a couple of highly competitive slots at the Navy’s Test Pilot School. But all those smoldering glances Lynch keeps trading with the guitar-strumming Blackwood in their shared barracks come to a head during a night of shore leave in New York that begins like “On the Town” and ends up somewhere close to “Cruising.”

Greer, who was a Navy chopper pilot himself, certainly deserves credit for wanting to shine a light on the difficult lives of LGBT servicemen working in a climate of thinly veiled persecution — a situation, an end title card informs, that has only marginally improved since the repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” in 2011. But good intentions don’t count for much in art, especially when Greer muddies his own with a fairly ludicrous subplot involving a dogged NCIS investigator who suspects that a “gay cult” may be responsible for three seemingly unrelated fatal flight accidents (the implication being that a gay soldier would rather crash and burn than risk being outed).

It doesn’t help matters that Ford and Mayes both seem to have been chiseled from the same block of wood, with no fairy godmother around to turn them into real live boys. Even if they did, they’d still have to speak or react to dialogue like “Taxpayers get nervous if they start hearing their warriors sniveling” and “We are warriors paid to defend the country, not spill our guts and frolic in the daisies” — a mission that might have stymied even Laurence Olivier.

Given its subject matter, “Burning Blue” turns out to be a surprisingly chaste affair, though nearly all of the actors — even those playing allegedly straight characters — seem to have been directed by Greer to leer at one another with the intensity of sex-starved Victorian maidens. Of the principals, only William Lee Scott shows signs of a real personality as a coy Southern pilot who doesn’t ask or tell, but always seems to be one step ahead of the game. Staged with a complete lack of visual energy, the pic manages to make even its occasional shots of fighter jets in flight about as exciting as a minivan rounding a corner.

Film Review: 'Burning Blue' 

Reviewed on VOD, New York, June 6, 2014. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 104 MIN. 

Production
A Lionsgate release of an Articulated Pictures production in association with Harbor Picture Co. Produced by Andrew Halliday, DMW Greer, Arthur J. Kelleher. Executive producers, John Hadity, Mike Harrop, Sig De Miguel, Stephen Vincent. Co-producers, Lester Petracca, Nicholas Petracca, Michael Sirow, Andrew Tobias. 
Crew
Directed by DMW Greer. Screenplay, Greer, Helene Kvale, based on the play by Greer. Camera (color), Frederic Fasano; editor, Bill Henry; music, James Lavino; music supervisor, Ruy Garcia; production designer, Robert Savina; art director, Jack Ryan; costume designer, Amy Lynn Zwart; sound, Mikhail Sterkin; sound designer/supervising sound editor, Marshall Grupp; re-recording mixers, Cory Melious, Tony Volante; associate producers, Rick Buhr, Dan Critchett, Michael Nutt; line producer, Kamen Velkovsky; visual effects supervisor, David Isyomin; visual effects, & Company; stunt coordinator, Manny Siverio; assistant directors, Daniel Lulgo, Shahrzad Davani, Thomas R. Kazansky; second unit camera, Erin Henning; casting, Sig De Miguel, Stephen Vincent.

With
Trent Ford, Morgan Spector, Rob Mayes, William Lee Scott, Cotter Smith, Michael Cumpsty, Michael Sirow, Mark Doherty, Chris Chalk, Tracy Weiler, Gwynneth Bensen, Jordan Dean, Johnny Hopkins, Haviland Morris, Karolina Muller, Dylan Rafferty Brown, Tammy Blanchard.