Happy Holidays and New Year from your friends at Cityonfire.com. This week sees several staggered releases since “Looper” arrives on 12/31, but some titles are coming out between the 28th and the 1st. Hopefully that’s not too confusing! If you’re interested in any of these titles, you can support the site by ordering through our affiliate. We appreciate it!
Here are your Blu-ray and DVD releases for the week of 1/01/12:
ACTION AND SCI-FI
Looper (Blu-ray/DVD) – Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis headline director Rian Johnson’s (“Brick”) mind-bending 2012 science-fiction/action film
FOREIGN CINEMA
Putin’s Kiss (DVD) – this 2012 Russian-language coming of age film tells the story of an idealistic college student who discovers there may be more to Vladimir Putin’s administration than meets the eye
MAINSTREAM
Cosmopolis (Blu-ray/DVD) – David Cronenberg’s latest feature is a 2012 adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel of the same, starring ‘It boy’ Robert Pattinson
Mass Effect: Paragon Lost (Blu-ray/DVD) – an animated prequel to the popular video game “Mass Effect,” this 2012 film features animation from the acclaimed Production I.G. (the anime sequence from “Kill Bill: Volume 1”)
Trouble With Bliss (DVD) – Michael C. Hall of “Dexter” fame headlines this 2011 indie drama that serves as a middle-aged ‘coming of age’ tale
CULT
Overtime (Blu-ray/DVD) – Al Snow and John Wells star in this 2013 ‘zombies-meets-aliens’ anything-goes action romp
The Room (Blu-ray) – the epitome of ‘so bad it’s good,’ writer/director/star Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 magnum opus is released in hi-def
War of the Dead (Blu-ray/DVD) – it’s Allied soldiers versus the undead in this 2011 ‘zombies in World War II’ feature
CLASSICS
The Black Pirate (DVD) – a 1926 silent adventure film starring Douglas Fairbanks, a matinee idol known for his turns as Zorro and Robin Hood
HORROR
The Thompsons (Blu-ray/DVD) – a well-to-do family runs afoul of a vampire clan in this 2012 feature billed as ‘Twilight meets Tarantino’
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Looper is confusing and overrated.