LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11 (UPI) — The animated family flick “Monsters University” is the top-selling DVD and Blu-ray in the United States, Rentrak announced Monday.
Banning R-rated movies for your kids isn’t enough to spare them from scenes of gun violence. The amount of gun violence in R-rated films has stayed fairly stable since 1985, while gun violence in PG-13 movies has soared.
WASHINGTON – Gun violence is on the rise in US movies and has more than tripled since 1985 in those rated as acceptable for teenagers 13 and older, according to a study out Monday. The amount of such violence seen in modern movies rated PG-13 even exceeded that in films rated R for adults in 2012, said the findings by American and Dutch university researchers in the US journal Pediatrics. The …
Microsoft is going to launch its first ever game console with a built-in Blu-ray player. The much Xbox One will have a Blu-ray player but you will not be able to playback 3D Blu-ray movies on the new…
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Pioneer Electronics Inc. today unveiled its new 2014 line of in-dash multimedia DVD receivers that focuses on providing the most entertainment options in the car. Consisting of the AVH-X1600DVD, AVH-X2600BT, AVH-X3600BHS, AVH-X4600BT and AVH-X5600BHS, all five models have a refined, sophisticated look and offer advanced technologies that provide users with a variety of entertainment options …
To get an “A” rating, a movie needs to have two named female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man. It sounds simple enough, but a ton of successful blockbusters would fail this rather facile test. “The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, all Star Wars movies, The Social Network,  Pulp Fiction and all but one of the Harry Potter movies fail this test,” said Ellen Tejle …
The Right Stuff arrives today from Warner Brothers with the 30th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray. It was just a few weeks ago that our own Rob Vaux eloquently put the film’s scope and impact in perspective (read the Fall of 83: The Right Stuff here). I wanted to address another aspect of the film and the personal and still reaching effect it had on me…