This Week on DVD and Blu-ray: September 8, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Disney, Lionsgate, New Line, Sony, Warner Bros, Action, Documentary, Drama, Family, Horror, Music, Period, Comedy, Thrillers, Home Entertainment, Lists,

Here are some of the DVD and Blu-ray options available this Tuesday:

• Bedknobs and Broomsticks: DVD
• Catwoman: Blu-ray
• Crank 2: High Voltage: DVD, Blu-ray
• Creepshow: Blu-ray
• Dance Flick: DVD, Blu-ray
• Dead Calm: Blu-ray
• Freddy vs. Jason: Blu-ray
• Friday: DVD, Blu-ray
• Local Color: DVD
• Menace II Society (Director’s Cut): DVD, Blu-ray
• The New World (The Extended Cut): Blu-ray

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Nicolas Cage Matches With ‘The Wrestler’

Posted by David Onda Categories: Drama, Independent, Sports, Casting, Filmmaking, Rumors, Upcoming Releases,

Nicolas Cage may don the tights and deliver a box office smack down in Darren Aronofsky’s indie drama The Wrestler. Aronofsky, best known for such trippy films as Pi, Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain, is joined by screenwriter Robert Siegel for this film.

Cage will enter the squared circle as Randy “The Ram” Robinson, a star from the ’80s who has become a burnt out nothing (see present-day Jake “The Snake” Roberts.)  After Robinson suffers a heart attack mid-match, he decides to hang up his boots to avoid certain death. As most ex-wrestlers do, Robinson shacks up with an old stripper and tries to start a family. But when a tempting offer comes along, Robinson must decide whether the fight is worth probable death.

Sound awful? Just remember Cage’s last film Next. Doesn’t seem so bad now, now does it?

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