‘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.

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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. 

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

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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. 

Rip 3D Blu-ray disks to SBS MP4 for playback on ATV 3 on Mac

“Our family are all movie fans. My questions is that is there any software can rip 3D Blu-ray disks to SBS MP4 watching on an apple TV and can do home videos?” 

To answer the question above: 
  
As one of the best BD/DVD disc handling tools on the market, Pavtube 3D BDMagic for Mac would be the suitable application to do so. It is capable of ripping 2D/3D Blu-rays to side-by-side (also known as Left/Right 3D mode) 3D formats with good results, like MKV, MP4, MOV, AVI and WMV. 
  
The contents below guide you through the process of copying 3D Blu-rays to MP4 movies in side-by-side 3D format for playback on ATV 3 on Mac. 

Guide: How to rip Blu-ray disks to SBS MP4 for playback on ATV 3 on Mac ?
  
Step 1: Install and launch the latest Pavtube 3D BDMagic onto your computer; then click "Load files" to import Blu-ray, Blu-ray ISO/IFO or Blu-ray/DVD folder. Choose subtitle, language or forced subtitles in the main interface. 

Step 2: From the Format bar, find "3D Video" catalogue, you will find several presets for Side-by-Side 3D, Top-Bottom 3D and Anaglyph 3D. You can choose the one according to your device specification. MP4 is usually the recommended one. 

   
Step 3: Click "Settings" to adjust bitrate, frame rate, 3D mode and depth according to your own need.

Tip: If you want to rip Blu-ray movies with multiple audio tracks and subtitle sincluded, Pavtube ByteCopy is the best choice. Besides output good 3D effect, it is also able to encode the original soundtracks into 5.1 channels with your wanted language.



Step 4: Hit the "Convert" button to rip your Blu-ray movies to SBS 3D MP4 video for 3D TV. When it finishes, click the "Open" option to locate the created 3D video and transfer your 3D Blu-ray movie to 3D TV for entertainment. 

What’s more? What Apple TV Supports
There are some others, but the core ones we care about are:
Containers - MP4
Video Codecs - h264
Audio Codecs - AAC, AC-3 (via passthrough) 

After conversion, you can stream the SBS MP4 filse to you ATV 3 on Mac. In actually, If you want to rip 3D for the true 3D effect, you can read:Convert DVD to Side-by-Side 3D MP4 for playing with TV on Mac
  
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See also: 
Convert 3D MKV movie files to 3D MP4 files on your 3D devices
Play Blu-ray with 3D TrueHD audio using home theater projector
Watch Blu-ray/DVDs and HD Videos on Alcatel OneTouch Pixi 7 Tablet
Rip 2D Blu-rays to side-by-side 3D MP4 or MKV for playing on a 3D TV
Convert Blu-ray to Samsung Smart TV?
watch rental 3D Blu-ray Movies on iPad/iPhone/iPod without Any Time Limit

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

Summary: If you have a Galaxy Tab 3 series tablet, you may wonder how to play DVD movies on this awesome tablet on the go? This DVD to Galaxy Tab 3 converter is highly recommended to help easily remove commercial DVD protection and output MP4 videos for freely playback.

   

Galaxy Tab 3 Features:

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 is packed with features designed to give you a chance to relax and connect with family, to keep you entertained, and to offer new conveniences in everyday life. It works a lot like your Galaxy smartphone, so there’s nothing new to learn. Just start having fun.
  
I bought “Frozen” last week, can i copy this DVD movie to Galaxy Tab 3? I want to play DVD on Galaxy Tab 3 on the bus. “Brightest Star ”and“Special ID”, they are all tge DVDs. Please help me watch DVD on Galaxy Tab 3(7.0/8.0/10.1). 

As there is no hard drive on Galaxy Tab 3, like any other tablets on the market. But no worries. You can find some DVD to Galaxy Tab converter online to convert your DVD collection to Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 easily. Then what you need is a DVD Ripper tool – Pavtube DVDAid (Mac users: DVDAid for Mac) - a top and all-in-one DVD Ripping program to help you remove DVD protection and convert DVD to Galaxy Tab 3 support format. 

Follow this guide to quick learn:

How to convert, copy and transfer DVDs to Galaxy Tab 3 ?

Step 1: Load DVD movie to the DVD to Galaxy Tab 3 Converter.

Insert your DVD movie to disc drive, and click "Load Disc" button on Pavtube DVDAID interface to load DVD from ROM; it also support importing DVD ISO and DVD folder. 

Step 2: Select video format.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 supported video formats: H.263, H.264, MPEG4, WMV, DivX.
Here we select MP4 with H.264 codec for Galaxy Tab 3 10.1. Click the Format drop-down list, and select "Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Video(*.mp4)" from Samsung category. And you can choose any format as you want for other tablets.



Tips:

1. If you have special requirements on target video, click "Settings" to customize video size, bitrate, frame rate and sample rate.

2: If you also want to enjoy Blu-ray/DVD movies to 3D videos for playback, trying Pavtube Bytecopy (Win/Mac), which can help you to backup your BD/DVD keeping original subtitle streams and convert latest Blu-ray and DVD movies to any other formats like MP4/MOV with multi-track audios , refer to Reviews of ByteCopy. 

Step 4. Ripping DVD to MP4 for Galaxy Tab 3.

Click the red "Convert" button to start ripping DVD to H.264/MPEG-4 MP4 for Galaxy Tab 3 10.1. When it finishes, click the "Open Output Folder" icon to quick locate the converted video.

Once get the converted videos, just copy and dump them to Galaxy Tab 3 via USB. Then you are ready to play DVD movies on Galaxy Tab 3 freely. 

Transfer Music, Video files from PC to Galaxy Tab 3 with Samsung Kies

More features about DVDAID:

Backup Existing DVD to NAS server for movie enjoyment
Store DVD Collection on Cloud Storage and Share with Family
How to watch DVD movies on Android tablet or mobile phone?
Hanker to get the best AnyDVD for Mac alternative to backup & rip DVD to Mac
How to convert DVD chapters from source disc to play on mobile devices? 

See also:
Watch DVD VOB on Galaxy Tab 3 (8/10.1-inch) with best video settings
Simple way to play DVD movies on Galaxy Tab 3 Kids edition
Transfer MKV/AVI/WMV/M4V/MPG to Samsung Galaxy NotePro 12.2
Convert 2014 FIFA World Cup Tivo recording to Galaxy TabPro 10.1