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Crime solving has gone “mental” with the release of The Mentalist: The Complete First Season on DVD the 23rd September, 2009 from Warner Home Video. Starring Golden Globe® nominee Simon Baker (The Devil Wears Prada, “The Guardian”) as Patrick Jane – an independent consultant with the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI), who has a remarkable track record for solving serious crimes by using his razor sharp skills of observatio n – “The Mentalist” is one of the most watched new series in 2008-09*. Fans can own this hit series in a six-disc set containing all 23 one-hour episodes and never-before-seen extras, including featurettes with the cast and crew and a gag reel.
The series also stars Robin Tunney (Hollywoodland, “Prison Break”), Tim Kang (Rambo, “Third Watch”), Owain Yeoman (Generation Kill, “The Nine”) and Amanda Righetti (Friday the 13th, “The O.C.”). “The Mentalist” was created and executive produced by Bruno Heller (“Rome”) and is produced by Warner Bros. Television.
“Mentalist, noun. A master manipulator of thought and behavior.” The mentalist is Patrick Jane (Simon Baker in an acclaimed performance), a celebrity psychic whose wife and child are viciously murdered by an elusive serial killer called Red John. Devastated, Patrick admits his paranormal act is fake, renounces his earlier life and uses his astonishing skills of observation and analysis – talents that made him appear psychically gifted – to bring killers to justice. At crime scenes across California, Patrick now helps an elite team of detectives break their toughest cases. But no matter how many criminals he catches, Patrick never forgets his central goal: Find Red John and bring him down.
“The Mentalist is the smash new hit of the season and achieves an average of 1 million viewers each week of broadcast on Channel Nine," said Caroline Skillen, Warner Home Video Australia’s Non-Theatrical Franchise Marketing Manager. “With engaging storylines and the captivating performance of star Simon Baker, we expect the first season to be highly successful on DVD.”
Episodes:
1. Pilot
2. Red Hair and Silver Tape
3. Red Tide
4. Ladies in Red
5. Redwood
6. Red Handed
7. Seeing Red
8. The Thin Red Line
9. Flame Red
10. Red Brick and Ivy
11. Red John's Friends
12. Red Rum
13. Paint It Red
14. Crimson Casanova
15. Scarlet Fever
16. Bloodshot
17. Carnelian Inc
18. Russet Potatoes
19. A Dozen Red Roses
20. Red Sauce
21. Miss Red
22. Blood Brothers
23. Red John's Footsteps
Special Features:
• Evidence of a Hit Series - Interviews with the creators, directors and cast expose the origins and inspirations for this alluring character—part Sherlock Holmes, part charlatan
• Cracking the Crystal Ball: Mentalist vs. Psychic - In addition to the producers, directors and cast, we interview detectives, mentalists and police psychics to determine if their powers are just a function of keen observation, a charade… or something more.
• Unaired Scenes
• Surveillance Video: Gag Reel
Rating: M
Approximate Runtime: 956 mins
By Grant Shepherd
By Grant Shepherd
Teleportation. Mind control. Invisibility. Astral projection. Mutation. Reanimation. Phenomena that exist on the Fringe of science unleash their strange powers in this thrilling, critically acclaimed series, as Warner Home Video releases Fringe: The Complete First Season on DVD and Blu- ray™ Hi Def on 30 September, 2009 for $59.95RRP / $79.95RRP.
Packed with nearly 6 hours of special features, including featurettes, production diaries, producer and writer commentaries, deleted scenes, gag reel, Blu- Ray exclusive content and much more, this is one release that fans definitely won’t want to miss!
From J.J. Abrams (Lost), Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (the team behind Star Trek, Mission: Impossible III and Alias) and executive producers Jeff Pinkner and Bryan Burk (both of Lost and Alias ), Fringe revolves around three unlikely colleagues – a beautiful, young and determined FBI agent (Anna Torv), a brilliant but off-the-wall scientist (John Noble), and his sardonic, roguish son (Joshua Jackson) – who team up to investigate a series of peculiar deaths and disasters known as “The Pattern.” The trio suspects that someone is using the world as a laboratory. And many of the clues lead them to Massive Dynamic, a shadowy global corporation that may be more powerful than any nation. Season 1 also starred Lance Reddick, Kirk Acevedo, Blair Brown, Jasika Nicole and Mark Valley. Fringe is from Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.
Fringe has been showered with critical accolades, named as one of USA’s 10 Best TV Shows of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly, and was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild Award for Best New Series. In addition, the show has achieved ratings success, averaging more than 10 million US viewers a week and ranking as the top new show among Adults 18–49 in its first season.*
“Fringe: The Complete First Season features 20 episodes of the most exciting new show on television and includes over six hours of never-before-seen bonus features.” said Caroline Skillen, WHV Non Theatrical Marketing Manager. “Warner Home Video is ecstatic to release this much-anticipated science - fiction hit on DVD and Blu-Ray.”
Episodes:
1. Pilot
2. The Same Old Story
3. The Ghost Network
4. The Arrival
5. Power Hungry
6. The Cure
7. In Which We Meet Mr. Jones
8. The Equation
9. The Dream Scape
10. Safe
11. Bound
12. The No-Brainer
13. The Transformation
14. Ability
15. Inner Child
16. Unleashed
17. Bad Dreams
18. Midnight
19. The Road Not Taken
20. There’s More Than One Of Everything
Special Features:
- Evolution: The Genesis of Fringe featurette - The creators of the show discuss how the series unfolded and the qualities that make it so unique
- Behind the Real Science of Fringe featurette - From teleportation to re-animation, Fringe incorporates recent discoveries in science. Consulting experts and scientists who are the authorities in their field address the areas of science which are the inspiration for the show.
- Massive Undertaking: The Making of Fringe (on select episodes) - An in-depth exploration of how select episodes came to be made: from the frozen far reaches of shooting the pilot in Toronto, to the weekly challenges of bringing episodes to air
- The Casting of Fringe- The story, as told by producers and cast, of how Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble and others came to be cast in the series.
- Fringe Visual Effects featurette - Goes deep into the creation of the shared dream state with some of the biggest VFX shots of the show.
- Dissected Files: Unaired Scenes
- Unusual Side Effects: Gag Reel
- Deciphering the Scene
- Roberto Orci Production Diary
- Gene the Cow montage
- Three Full-Length Commentaries from writers/producers, including J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtman, J.R. Orci, David Goodman, Bryan Burk, Akiva Goldsman and Jeff Pinkner
Additional Blu-Ray Bonus Features:
- Fringe Pattern Analysis - Take a closer look at 6 select scenes from Season 1 with experts who dissect each scene with notes, photos, and diagrams.
- BD-Live enabled features include Media Centre, My Commentary, and commentary on Season 1 finale episode.
Rating: TBC
Approximate DVD Feature Runtime: 1028 mins
Approximate Blu-ray Feature Runtime: 1039 mins
Star Wars games seem to be an enigma in the video games industry; they always sell well and get fairly positive reviews. But overall none have really encapsulated what the fans really want. They have always been lacking in some regard.
But finally Star Wars fans can rejoice, the force unleashed is like no other Star Wars game before it.
The force unleashed is set in between episodes 3 and 4 as you take on the role of Darth Vader’s secret apprentice Star killer. Initially the game focuses on carrying out Vader’s orders and hunting down the last remaining Jedi in the galaxy.
But much like the George Lucas’ films many twists and turns occur along the way to offer you as the gamer a very complex and entertaining story line. As Star Killers journey unravels you begin to realise that this is possibly the most intriguing and troubled star wars character ever created by Lucas and gives the games story a real cinematic feel to it.
Now when it comes to game play Force does not disappoint, more often than not you are encountered with a huge number of opponents at once and the game never suffers, even in the ultra slick environments the frame rate never gives.
The speed at which this game moves is another factor to applaud, Star Killer is so quick and it’s an absolute blast to zip around with a lightsaber in hand and using a huge array of force powers at your disposal.
The game scale is huge and you get to explore a very diverse array of landscapes including star ships, lush rainforests and garbage heaps. You will never get bored with the many different levels in this game.
Overall it is not a very long experience and you can finish it in a few sittings, but the game offers exceptional replay ability by offering two different endings and multiple items to collect, like different colour lightsabers. Which is pretty cool indeed.
Star Wars: The force unleashed is probably the best Star Wars game ever created, mainly due to the unbelievably interesting and exciting storyline and characters. But it also offers gamers unbeatable playability and super slick visuals. Plus who doesn’t like swinging a lightsaber around and pushing stormtroopers off cliffs.
Saints Row has always been referred to as a GTA rip-off, a mere diversion to keep GTA fans happy while waiting for the next instalment of the Rockstar franchise to come out
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In what has been a dramatic few months of television a huge amount of shows are being constantly thrown around by networks and then some are completely disappearing without a trace.
New crime drama The Mentalist is the most recent with it only being in its new timeslot on Wednesday for about two weeks beforing vanishing. The Mentalist initially aired on Sunday nights and was met with mixed success. Due to the fact that it had not developed a huge fan base they shipped it over to Wednesdays, now next week we are being treated to a mid week movie. What is going on channel Nine
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it has been rumoured on GameSpot forums that the new Australian release date for the upcoming SCEE title Little Big Planet, will be November 7th.
This is still only speculation at the moment and it has been met with some sceptisism by other forum bloggers. Stating that they doubt this date would be plausible
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Undoubtedly one of the most anticipated Playstation 3 games of the year, Little Big Planet has sadly been recalled worldwide due to its soundtrack
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It has been revealed that in addition to the new add on pack released in November, Spore will also be releasing its first official expansion in Spring 2009
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Sony Computer Entertainment has revealed a new addition to the Little Big Planet community, Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid series and Sephiroth from Final Fantasy.
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on Why is the inferior Wii so popular?
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For all of you who claim its the social aspect and playability of the Wii and every one can play etc, Have you not heard of Singstar, Buzz, Little Big Planet?
Also to the anonymous guy who disputes my claim that Nintendo limit shipments, it is true, i work in retail. Even though it has increased slightly for Xmas, in the past stores were given roughly under 10 consoles at a time and had to wait months to get anymore in. Customers had to layby them and without even having any in stock, hoping they would eventually come in. Nintendo is notorious for this and loves created un-warranted hype.
Yes i agree that te Wii is probably doing a good thing for the gaming industry, in terms of attracting more gamers. But overall it is making the gaming industry go backwards in terms of graphics, story, design etc.
Many high up game reviewers from reputable publications like Gamespot and IGN have also mentioned there worries about the future of the WII. Especially now that Nintendos creator has stated he has all ready released all the "big" games designed for the Wii - WII sports, Wii play, Wii fit and Wii music.
Everything has now been done, there are no more gimicks coming. The Wii is going to seriously crash over the next year and i feel truly sorry for the people who would have wasted their money on a obviously outdated system.
While you will all be playing your PS2 style games and inferior attempts at PS3 and XBOX titles (star wars the force unleashed for example) i will be happily playing truly remarkable games like Little Big Planet, MGS4, GTAIV, Fallout, Resistance, Saints Row etc etc etc.
Go on keep arguing with me, i dont really care, i know in the long run you will understand.