Sony praises OUR LADIES (review)

The choir of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour in the Scottish Highlands are ready for a day of sex, drugs, and... sex when they take a day trip to Edinburgh for a concert in this musical sex comedy.

REVIEW LINK: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

OUR LADIES Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.39:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English, English SDH, and French subtitles

Sony hits back with NEVER BACK DOWN: REVOLT (review)

Immigrant Anya gets lured into a trafficking operation while trying to fight to pay off her brother's debts and she will need the help of her fellow prisoners to revolt against their captors.

REVIEW LINK: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

NEVER BACK DOWN: REVOLT Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.00:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English, English SDH, French, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Portuguese, and Spanish subtitles
• Trailers

Sony Pictures resurrects THE GRUDGE (review)

When someone dies in the grip of extreme rage, a curse is born and it festers like a grudge, infecting everyone who comes into contact with the place of death.  That curse has come to America with THE GRUDGE, an untold chapter of the original curse from the 2004 film.

REVIEW LINK: Sony Home Entertainment (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE GRUDGE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French and Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, English and French Descriptive Audio Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles
• Featurettes:
• "Designing Death"
• "Cast of the Cursed"
• "Easter Egg Haunt"
• Deleted Scenes
• Previews
• Slipcover

Samuel Goldwyn Films goes IN SEARCH OF FELLINI (review)

Growing up shielded from anything bad by her mother Claire, Lucy is unprepared for real life when her mother falls ill.  Enraptured by the films of Federico Fellini, Lucy takes life by the horns and heads to Italy in search of the great director unprepared for the dangers she will face as well as the possiblity of love at first sight in this semi-fictional/semi-autobiographical story from actress Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart on THE SIMPSONS).

REVIEW LINK: Samuel Goldwyn Films (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

IN SEARCH OF FELLINI DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• English Closed Captioning
• Audio Commentary by writer/producer Nancy Cartwright and director Taron Lexton
• Behind the Scenes
• Theatrical Trailer
• Preview

Vega Baby hears the DEVIL'S WHISPER (Review)

Sixteen year old Alex dreams of becoming a priest.  When he is given an old cross belonging to his grandfather, he starts to experience hauntings and begins to believe that a demon wants to possess him and will hurt anyone he looks to for help.

REVIEW LINK: Vega Baby (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

DEVIL'S WHISPER DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Previews

Vega Baby tracks SHORTWAVE (Review)

After their daughter disappears, a young couple retreat to a high-tech house in the middle of the woods to continue experiments in shortwave radio signals.  As they start experiencing hallucinations and violent manifestations, they start to wonder if their work has attracted a malevolent entity into their safe home.

REVIEW LINK: Vega Baby (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

SHORTWAVE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.66:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Previews 

Sony holidays with MAD FAMILIES (review)

Charlie Sheen, Leah Remini, and Naya Rivera star in this comedy about three families who wind up fighting over the same campsite for the Fourth of July weekend after a computer mix-up.  Insults lead to fighting and to all-out war as the three dysfunctional families engage in a series of competitions to determine who will be sent home, but they may all be losers when winning becomes more important than family.

REVIEW LINK: Sony Pictures (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

MAD FAMILIES DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English, English SDH, and French subtitles
• Start-up Trailers

Sony warns WE DON'T BELONG HERE (review)

Catherine Keener and Anton Yelchin (in his final role) star in this story of a dysfunctional family wracked with mental illness, loss, and tragedy.  Riley Keough, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, and Cary Elwes also star.

REVIEW LINK: Sony (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

WE DON'T BELONG HERE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English and French Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English, English SDH, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Thai subtitles

Sony Pictures remembers YOUTH IN OREGON (review)

Frank Langella, Billy Crudup, Christina Applegate, Mary Kay Place, and Josh Lucas star in this comic drama about an eighty year old man who announces that he will be taking a trip to Oregon to end his life by assisted suicide.  His son-in-law reluctantly drives him and his wife across the country with side trips in an attempt to delay his mission.

REVIEW LINK: Sony Pictures (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

YOUTH IN OREGON DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English, English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles

Sony Pictures Classics dissects TRUTH (review)

Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace, Elizabeth Moss, and Dennis Quaid head an all-star cast in this provocative account of the scandal that lead to Dan Rather stepping down from the Nightly News over a 60 Minutes story about President George W. Bush's National Guard Service records.

REVIEW LINK: Sony Pictures Classics (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

TRUTH Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and English Descriptive Audio Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English and English SDH subtitles
• Audio commentary with Writer/Director James Vanderbilt and Producers Brad Fischer and William Sherak
• Deleted Scenes
• "The Reason for Being" featurette
• "The Team" featurette
• Q&A with Cate Blanchett, Elisabeth Moss, and Director/Writer James Vanderbilt
• Theatrical Trailer
• Previews

Sony Pictures Classics pays a visit to GRANDMA (review)

Lily Tomlin, Sam Elliott, Marcia Gay Harden, Judy Greer, Laverne Cox, Elizabeth Pena, and Julia Garner star in Paul Weitz's family drama.  No sooner has burnt-out poet Elle breaks it off with her younger girlfriend than her estranged granddaughter turns up in need of money for an abortion.  Flat broke and unwilling to seek help from her daughter, Elle drags her granddaughter around town shaking down friends and old flames and dredging up drama and opening up old wounds.

REVIEW LINK: Sony Pictures Classics (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

GRANDMA Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English Descriptive Audio Dolby Digital 5.1, French DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Portuguese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, and Thai Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English, English HoH, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Thai subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Paul Weitz & actors Lily Tomlin, Sam Elliott, and Julia Garner (with optional English, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, and Thai subtitles)
• "A Family Portrait: Making Grandma" featurette
• Q&A with Lily Tomlin, Sam Elliott, and director Paul Weitz
• Theatrical Trailer (2:06)