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The Real Thing

The husband and wife duo of Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson have had smashingly successful dual careers as performers and songwriters and have provided iconic artists with some of their biggest hits.

“Ashford & Simpson: The Real Thing” is an exciting and intimate concert featuring their greatest hits, shot in High Definition and recorded in Digital Surround Sound at Feinstein’s at the Loews Regency in New York City.

The up close and personal performance truly magnified the power of Ashford & Simpson’s classic melodies and heartfelt lyrics. The joyous expressions lighting up every face in the audience are a testament to this special show.

“The Real Thing” is a front row seat to the great music and energy of Ashford & Simpson, transporting you to feel set in their living room – and it doesn’t get more real than that.

Blu-ray Track listing
1. It’s Much Deeper
2. Your Precious Love
3. Stay Free
4. Found A Cure
5. Still Such A Thing
6. Solid
7. Gimme Something Real
8. I’m Every Woman
9. I’m Not That Tough
10. This is Where We Meet
11. I Don’t Ride That Train
12. Born This Way
13. Invisible Life
14. Let’s Go Get Stoned
15. Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing
16. You’re All I Need To Get By
17. Reach Out And Touch (Somebody’s Hand)
18. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

Bonus Content:
Ashford & Simpson Interview
“CBS News: Sunday Morning” Profile
“Sweet Thing” with Dr. Maya Angelou
“Been Found” with Dr. Maya Angelou
Jukebox Feature

Audio Visual specs
1080i Video
PCM 2.0 Uncompressed Stereo
PCM 5.1 Uncompressed Surround

ZZ Top: Live from Texas

ZZ Top, the “little ol’ band from Texas”, has enjoyed enormous success on a global scale since their breakthrough in the early seventies and then their groundbreaking albums in the mid-eighties. Now for the first time one of ZZ Top’s legendary live performances has been filmed for simultaneous release on DVD & Blu-ray. The track listing spans their career from early tracks such as “Waitin’ For The Bus”, “Just Got Paid” and the classic “La Grange”, through their eighties blockbusters including “Gimme All Your Lovin’” and “Legs” (complete with furry guitars!) and up to more recent hits like “Pin Cushion”. Filmed in their home state of Texas in front of a wildly enthusiastic audience, this DVD & Blu-ray captures ZZ Top at their very best.

TRACK LISTING 1) Got Me Under Pressure 2) Waitin’ For The Bus 3) Jesus Just Left Chicago 4) I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide 5) Pin Cushion 6) Cheap Sunglasses 7) Pearl Necklace 8) Heard It On The X 9) Just Got Paid 10) Rough Boy 11) Blue Jean Blues 12) Gimme All Your Lovin’ 13) Sharp Dressed Man 14) Legs 15) Tube Snake Boogie 16) La Grange 17) Tush

BONUS FEATURE Poker Game – Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill & Frank Beard talk through the history of ZZ Top over a game of poker. Dallas Show Day – Behind the scenes on the ZZ Top live show. Photo Shoot – On location with ZZ Top for a typically iconic photo shoot. Bonus track – ZZ Top perform Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxey Lady” live on stage.

The Green Archer Serial Restored! On Blu-ray 50 GIG

RESTORED SERIALS MAKES VIDEO HISTORY AGAIN WITH THE FIRST SERIAL ON bluray3.com”title=”blu-ray” >BLU-RAY!TM Restored Serials is proud to offer our Blu-rayTM Serials in 2 formats: 25 GIG at Blu-rayTM LP speed or 50 GIG at Blu-rayTM SP Speed This listing is ONLY for the 50 GIG at SP Speed. Frame by frame Restoration to eliminate dirt and most other flaws! Mastered in 24P True Cinema Quality! IMAGE QUALITY IS UNBELIEVEABLE!! INTRODUCING THE SUPER RESTORATION SERIES!! FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE SAME TECHNOLOGY USED TO RESTORE MAJOR MOTION PICTURES COMES TO THE SERIALS!!! What is SUPER RESTORATION? “Restoration” and “Digital” are two of the most abused words in the English language today! Some Producers have literaly spent 5 minutes work turning on a Noise Reduction Filter and they call their movie “a Digital Restoration!” Each movie in the Super Restoration Series goes thru a MINIMUM of 500 HOURS OF FRAME BY FRAME RESTORATION!! ALMOST HALF A MILLION FRAMES WERE REPAIRED DURING THIS RESTORATION!!! Victor Jory plays Spike Holland, an investigator, who is on the trail of a gang of jewel thieves whose hideout is “haunted” by the mysterious Green Archer! Besides this groundbreaking restoration, Restored Serials is pioneering in Bonus Material not available on any other version of the Archer or for that matter any other Serial release! In addition to this incredible restoration you get: RE-ISSUE TRAILER! EXTREMELY RARE INTERVIEW WITH VICTOR JORY!! But wait! There is more! You get these great PDF BONUSES NOT OFFERED ANYWHERE ELSE! RE-ISSUE PRESSBOOK!! 5 LOBBY CARDS!! AND THE MOST SURPRISING BONUS: The Script from the “Lost” Serial “TERRIBLE PEOPLE!!!” Written by Edgar Wallace! 385 pages!!!!!! All PDF Bonus material is in full 300 dpi!! You can view on your computer or print out! Note: PDF material requires Computer capable of reading CD ROM and PDF files. For the serious collector, Restored Serials has pioneered in putting Serials on scratch proof Blu-rayTM Discs!

Grey’s Anatomy: The Complete Fourth Season

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DESCRIPTION-Grey s Anatomy is a drama about the intensity of medial training mixed with the funny, sexy and sometimes painful lives of people who are about to discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white. Real life only comes in shades of grey. END

Raphael: Art and Music Expressions Series [5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio/ Video Disc]

Raphael Sanzio (Italian: Raffaello) (April 6 or March 28, 1483 April 6, 1520)usually known by his first name alone, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop, and despite his death at thirty-seven, a large body of his work remains. Many of his works are found in the Apostolic Palace of The Vatican, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. After his early years in Rome, much of his work was designed by him and executed largely by the workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael’s more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (from 1504-1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.

Video:
ART of Raphael: 1080p VC-1 Slideshow Presentation includes fragments from The School of Athens, Wedding of the Virgin, Deposition of Christ, The Fire in the Borgo, Galatea, Transfiguration and many more.

Audio:
Program produced with Music by Baroque Composers 17th century
24 bit 96K 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio

Spy Game

When a top-secret, unauthorized mission goes awry, CIA agent Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt) is captured—and sentenced to die. With just 24 hours to get him out alive, Bishop’s boss, Nathan Muir (Robert Redford), must battle enemies abroad and the system inside the CIA to save his friend. Now the clock is ticking and the race is on … as the deadliest game of all explodes into the spectacular, adrenaline-fueled thriller that ABC Radio says “sizzles with suspense!”

Rush: Snakes and Arrows Live

RUSH: Snakes and Arrows Live

Filmed over two performances in Rotterdam, Holland in October of 2007, Rush’s new DVD Snakes & Arrows Live captures the legendary band in peak form, performing classic Rush material and nine new songs from their critically acclaimed 2007 CD Snakes & Arrows. Bonus footage of four songs added for their 2008 American tour, including “Ghost of a Chance,” filmed here for the first time.

Since the release of their eponymous first LP in 1974, Rush has continually expanded the definition of “progressive power trio.” Guitarist Alex Lifeson, bassist/keyboardist/vocalist Geddy Lee and drummer/lyricist Neil Peart combine dazzling virtuosity, laser-beam intensity and unbridled creativity to create a cohesive whole that’s infinitely greater than its parts. The Toronto-based group has become one of Canada’s leading exports, with a catalog of genre-defining releases including 2112, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Vapour Trails and Snakes & Arrows and a live show which combines musicianship, showmanship and multi-media effects that engage all the senses. Following their previous best-selling DVDs Rush in Rio and R30, Snakes & Arrows Live presents a band not resting on its considerable laurels but still earning its reputation as one of the world’s best live bands – one night at a time.

Stormriders AKA Fung Wan:Hung Ba Tin

HDNet World Report – Shuttle Discovery’s Historic Mission

World Report cameras have had unique access to the mission of Shuttle Discovery. From the events leading up to the STS-114 launch, to the touchdown of the spacecraft, relive this historic series of events through the eye of HDNet’s high definition cameras.

Traitor (+ Digital Copy)

Academy Award® nominee Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash) and Guy Pearce (Memento, L.A. Confidential) star in Traitor, a taut international thriller set against a puzzle of covert counter-espionage operations. When straight-arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton (Pearce) investigates a dangerous international conspiracy responsible for a prison break in Yemen, a bombing in Nice and a raid in London, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn(Cheadle). But a tangle of contradictory evidence emerges, forcing Clayton to question whether his suspect is a disaffected former military operative—or something far more complicated.
Obsessed with discovering the truth, Clayton tracks Horn across the globe as the elusive ex-soldier burrows deeper and deeper into a world of shadows and intrigue. Traitor is written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff (screenwriter of The Day After Tomorrow).

The Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition)

In this charming film based on the popular L.Frank Baum novel, Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornado’s path and somehow end up in the land of Oz. Here she encounters some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who everyone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friends their goals of a brain, heart and courage.

Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List: Season Four

Schindler’s List

Steven Spielberg had a banner year in 1993. He scored one of his biggest commercial hits that summer with the mega-hit Jurassic Park, but it was the artistic and critical triumph of Schindler’s List that Spielberg called “the most satisfying experience of my career.” Adapted from the best-selling book by Thomas Keneally and filmed in Poland with an emphasis on absolute authenticity, Spielberg’s masterpiece ranks among the greatest films ever made about the Holocaust during World War II. It’s a film about heroism with an unlikely hero at its center–Catholic war profiteer Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who risked his life and went bankrupt to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps.

By employing Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army, Schindler ensures their survival against terrifying odds. At the same time, he must remain solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant (Ben Kingsley) and negotiate business with a vicious, obstinate Nazi commandant (Ralph Fiennes) who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony of his villa overlooking a prison camp. Schindler’s List gains much of its power not by trying to explain Schindler’s motivations, but by dramatizing the delicate diplomacy and determination with which he carried out his generous deeds.

As a drinker and womanizer who thought nothing of associating with Nazis, Schindler was hardly a model of decency; the film is largely about his transformation in response to the horror around him. Spielberg doesn’t flinch from that horror, and the result is a film that combines remarkable humanity with abhorrent inhumanity–a film that functions as a powerful history lesson and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit in the context of a living nightmare. –Jeff Shannon

The Wrestler

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Verdi: Il Trovatore

XXX: State of the Union

With a core audience of gameboys and hot-rodders aged 25 and under, xXx: State of the Union is the kind of action movie that requires literally no thought to enjoy. With Vin Diesel’s original character just killed in Bora Bora (for details, see the uncensored unrated director’s cut of xXx), Ice Cube steps in to play bad-ass, and the whole franchise takes on a hip-hop edge that’s almost admirably absurd. The asinine plot is anarchy in Washington, D.C., as an insanely hawkish Secretary of State (Willem Dafoe) plots a Capitol coup just as the President (Peter Strauss, playing it straight) is giving his state-of-the-union address. All of this is prefaced by Cube’s recruitment as a former Navy SEAL turned new-xXx, escaping from jail (Dafoe’s character put him there), hooking up with an old flame who runs a chop-shop full of the world’s hottest wheels, and reuniting with his old commander (Samuel L. Jackson) for a bullet-train climax that feels like Mission Impossible Lite. You could argue that Diesel’s the smartest guy in the franchise for cashing out early, but xXx: State of the Union gets the job done in passable fashion, with action veteran Lee Tamahori delivering the goods while he waits for a grown-up script to come along. –Jeff Shannon

XXX

Persepolis (+ BD Live)

Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine-year-old Marjane that we see a people’s hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power — forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the “social guardians” and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable. As she gets older, Marjane’s boldness causes her parents to worry over her continued safety. And so, at age fourteen, they make the difficult decision to send her to school in Austria. Vulnerable and alone in a strange land, she endures the typical ordeals of a teenager. In addition, Marjane has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism she fled her country to escape. Over time, she gains acceptance, and even experiences love, but after high school she finds herself alone and horribly homesick. Though it means putting on the veil and living in a tyrannical society, Marjane decides to return to Iran to be close to her family. After a difficult period of adjustment, she enters art school and marries, all the while continuing to speak out against the hypocrisy she witnesses. At age 24, she realizes that while she is deeply Iranian, she cannot live in Iran. She then makes the heartbreaking decision to leave her homeland for France, optimistic about her future, shaped indelibly by her past.

Thunderball

Thunderball (James Bond)

The thrills never let up as James Bond dives into this riveting adventure filled with explosive confrontations and amazing underwater action sequences! Sean Connery brings his characteristic style, humor and magnetism to Agent 007 as he travels to Nassau to track down villainous criminal Emilio Largo, who’s threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust. From Bond’s thrilling jetpack flight to his heart-stopping clash with Largo’s killer sharks, Thunderball is a stupendous mixture of action, romance and edge-of-your-seat suspense!

Sisterhood

Catherine St.John-Burke is an independent, uptight, status obsessed, sophisticated, British woman, living alone in London’s Chelsea, and doing herself no favors by having an affair with a married man. Her world is turned upside down when she comes home one day to discover an uneducated, Kiwi woman (with very hairy legs) drinking beer in her living room. Shirley Zachary claims to be Catherine’s long lost half-sister and that their father, who Catherine thought died when she was a child, is still alive and trying to make claims on both of their properties following the death of their mothers! Catherine is furious and frustrated with Shirley’s refusal to ‘disappear’, so Shirley reluctantly agrees to undertake a DNA test, and to Catherine’s horror, the results conclude that they are indeed related. Both girls agree to work together and track down their ‘con-man trapped in the 70s’ father in order to get rightful ownership of their inheritance. Of course, hiding from the local Mob, Jack is not an easy man to find, but they begin by following a man called ‘Sir Crawford’ with hilarious consequences!

In the Valley of Elah

In the Valley of Elah

Mike Deerfield returns to the U.S. after his tour of duty in Iraq and abruptly goes missing. His father Hank, a spit-and-polish ex-MP from the Vietnam era, goes looking for him. What he finds goes to the heart of American combat experiences in the Iraqi conflict. Academy Award®-winning* Crash filmmaker Paul Haggis teams with Oscar®- winning* actors Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon in a probing, powerful, fact-based look at fathers and sons…and at a nation and the young soldiers it sends into battle. Jones plays Hank, whose quest lays bare a tangled web of cover-up, murder, mystery and profound revelation about the personal costs of war.

Notorious

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Passengers

While helping a handful of plane crash survivors cope with their grief, young psychologist Claire Summers (2008 Best Actress, Oscar® nominee Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married) begins to uncover conflicting accounts of the accident. At first, Claire believes that trauma is behind her patients’ wildly different stories – until the survivors mysteriously begin disappearing one by one. Now Eric (Patrick Wilson, Lakeview Terrace), a surviving passenger she has grown dangerously close to, may hold the key to unlocking the truth about the tragic incident in this shocking psychological thriller.

Mumien Box Set

Wild Hogs

Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy star in Wild Hogs, the hysterically funny comedy about four weekend-warrior friends who decide to rev up their ho-hum suburban lives with a cross-country motorcycle adventure. They don their leathers, fire up their hogs and throw caution and their cell phones to the wind as they hit the open highway. A lot can happen on the road to nowhere, including a run-in with the bad-to-the-bone Del Fuegos, a real biker gang who don’t take kindly to the wannabes. Filled with hilarious misadventures, screwball situations and madcap mayhem, this laugh-out-loud comedy is a movie your whole family will go hog wild over.

Wild Pacific

This landmark series explores the sheer scale and majesty of the largest ocean on Earth, the isolation of its islands, the extraordinary journeys wildlife and humans have gone through to reach these specks of land, and what happened to both after their arrival. Unimaginably vast, the Pacific is 99% water and only 1% land – you could fit the whole of the world’s landmasses into it and still have enough room for another Africa! The distance between these islands can be huge – literally hundreds or thousands of miles – but somehow, life made it there. Isolation does curious things – animals evolve and adapt in strange ways. Witness flesh-eating caterpillars, giant crabs capable of opening coconuts, geckos that can breed without any need of a male, frogs that have never been tadpoles… Beyond cliched images of swaying palms and idyllic beaches, this is the real, immense and surprising South Pacific.

Kiss of the Spider Woman (Collector’s Edition)

Kiss of the Spider Woman (Collector’s Edition) [Blu-ray]
This groundbreaking film (the first independent ever to receive the top four Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Director for Hector Babenco), adapted for the screen by Academy Award nominated screenwriter Leonard Schrader from Manuel Puig’s novel set in a non-specific Latin American country, takes a penetrating look at the role of sex and politics under an oppressive right-wing regime. The timeless story, more relevant today than ever, follows the complex relationship between two distinctly different men with opposite views about life – building with powerful emotional crescendo as they gradually come together in a stunningly transcendental conclusion. Hurt delivers his Oscar-winning performance in this captivating tribute to the power of film and fantasy as escape from inhumane conditions.
Run time: 121 minutes

Tangled Web: Making Kiss of the Spider Woman
A strange odyssey from novel to film is chronicled in Tangled Web: Making Kiss of the Spider Woman. Creative team Manuel Puig, William Hurt, Hector Babenco, David Weisman, Leonard Schrader, and Raul Julia confess the daunting challenge and profound satisfaction of creating this watershed film – which almost never made it to the big screen. Burt Lancaster’s mysterious obsession, director Babenco’s epic struggle with author Puig, the birth of today’s independent cinema – all play parts in the startling saga of this timeless gem. Filmmaker David Weisman’s Tangled Web captures the many unique and emotional moments that serendipitously turned this courageous movie into a masterpiece.
Run time: 109 minutes

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