Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts

Monday 12 October 2015

Fury (2014)

Directed by David Ayer and starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, 
Jon Bernthal and Jason Isaacs.


Blu-ray bought in 2015
135mins






Deleted and Extended Scenes (56mins)
Blood Brothers (11mins)
Director's Combat Journal (18mins)
Armoured Warriors: The Real Men Inside the Shermans (12mins)
Taming the Beasts: How to Drive, Fire & Shoot Inside a 30 Ton Tank (13mins)
Photo Gallery

Wednesday 7 October 2015

Stalingrad (2013)

Directed by Fedor Bondarchuk and starring Petr Fedorov, Yanina Studilina, Dmitriy Lysenkov and Thomas Kretschmann


2-disc 3D Blu-ray bought in 2015
130m 51s







The Making of Stalingrad (12mins)
Stereoscopic Stalingrad (6mins)

Monday 7 September 2015

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, 
Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent.


Blu-ray bought in 2010
153m 12s






Extended and Alternate Scenes (11mins)
Nation's Pride - short (6mins)
Roundtable Discussion with Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt, and Elvis Mitchell (31mins)
Making of Nation's Pride (4mins)
The Original Inglorious Bastards (6mins)
A Conversation with Rod Taylor (7mins)
Rod Taylor on Victoria Bitter (3mins)
Quentin Tarantino's Camera Angel (3mins)
Film Poster Gallery Tour with Elvis Mitchell  (11mins)
Killin' Nazis" trivia
Inglourious Basterds poster gallery
US Theatrical Trailer
International Theatrical Trailer
Japanese Theatrical Trailer

Wednesday 2 September 2015

Valkyrie (2008)

Directed by Bryan Singer and starring Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten and Terence Stamp.


DVD bought in 2009
115m 24s






Audio commentary by Tom Cruise, director Bryan Singer and co-writer Christopher McQuarrie
Audio commentary by co-writers Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander
The Valkyrie Legacy (43mins)
The Journey To Valkyrie (16mins)

Friday 14 August 2015

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya and Tsuyoshi Ihara.


5-disc Collector's Edition DVD bought in 2007
Blu-ray bought in 2010
141mins







Blu-ray extras -

Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of Letters from Iwo Jima (21mins)
The Faces of Combat: The Cast of Letters from Iwo Jima (19mins)
Images from the Frontlines: The Photography of Letters from Iwo Jima (3mins)
November 2006 World Premiere at Budo-kan in Tokyo (16mins)
November 2006 Press Conference (24mins)
Theatrical Trailer



 

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, Paul Walker, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Robert Patrick and Neal McDonough.


5-disc Collector's Edition DVD bought in 2007
Blu-ray bought in 2010
131m 53s














 Blu-ray





5-disc DVD extras -
   
An Introduction by Clint Eastwood (5mins)
Words on the Page (17mins)
Six Brave Men (20mins)
The Making of an Epic (30mins)
Raising the Flag (3mins)
Visual Effects (15mins)
Looking Into the Past (9mins)
Theatrical trailer

DVD set also includes -

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) directed by Clint Eastwood (141mins)
Heroes of Iwo Jima (2001) documentary (93mins)
To the Shores of Iwo Jima - news reel (19mins)

Wednesday 1 July 2015

Hart's War (2002)

Directed by Gregory Hoblit, starring Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard and Cole Hauser.


DVD bought in 2004
125mins






Audio commentary by Bruce Willis, director Gregory Hoblit and screenwriter Billy Ray
Audio commentary by producer David Foster
Deleted scenes
Photo gallery
Theatrical trailer

Windtalkers (2002)

Directed by John Woo and starring Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich and Mark Ruffalo.


3-disc Collector's Edition DVD bought in 2003
Blu-ray bought in 2013
134mins (153mins)





 3-disc DVD








3-disc DVD extras -

Director's Cut Edition
Optional Video Introduction by John Woo
Audio Commentary by Director John Woo and Producer Terence Chang
Audio Commentary by Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater
Audio Commentary by Roger Willie and Navajo Codetalker Advisor Albert Smith
The Code Talkers - A Secret Code of Honor (23mins)
American Heroes: A Tribute to Navajo Code Talkers (9mins)
The Music of Windtalkers (5mins)
Battle Sequence Multi-Angle
Fly-On-The-Set Scene Diaries (23mins)
Actors Boot Camp (15mins)
Behind-The-Scenes Photo Gallery
John Woo Biography
Theatrical Trailers

We Were Soldiers (2002)

Directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Sam Elliott, Greg Kinnear, Chris Klein and Barry Pepper.


DVD bought in 2002
Blu-ray bought in 2010
138mins





 DVD





DVD extras -

Audio commentary with director and writer Randall Wallace
Getting It Right: Behind The Scenes Of We Were Soldiers
10 deleted scenes
Theatrical trailers

Friday 26 June 2015

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Directed by Michael Bay and starring Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr, Tom Sizemore, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Garner, Dan Aykroyd and Jon Voight.


DVD bought in 2001
4-disc Director's Cut DVD bought in 2003
184mins





4-disc DVD








4-disc DVD extras -

Audio Commentary by Michael Bay and Film Historian Jeanine Basinger
Audio Commentary by Jerry Bruckheimer, Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin and Josh Hartnett
Audio Commentary by Cinematographer John Schwartzman, Production Designer Nigel Phelps, Costume Designer Michael Kaplan and Composer Hans Zimmer
Music Video - Faith Hill "There You'll Be"
Journey to the Screen: The Making of Pearl Harbor (47mins)
Production Diary (62mins)
Boot Camp (22mins)
Super 8 Montage
One Hour Over Tokyo - History Channel documentary (46mins)
Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor - History Channel documentary (46mins)
Oral History: The Recollections of a Pearl Harbor Nurse
Interactive Attack Sequence (28mins)
Deconstucting Destruction: A Conversation on Visual Effects with Michael Bay and Eric Brevig (21mins) (plus 28mins of Branching Footage)
When Cultures Collide- Interactive Timeline (68mins)
Production Design, Publicity and Historical Galleries
Storyboards
Theatrical Trailer
24-Page Collector's Booklet
4 Original Lobby Cards