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10 April 2012 5:30 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

There are still a lot of films that have yet to see a release on the Blu-ray format, and to be honest, most of them never will. The more recognizable ones seem destined to reach the format eventually, so hopefully we can look forward to Blu releases of The Black Stallion, High Fidelity, True Lies and (a proper transfer of) The Game sometime in the near future. But for now we can at least rest easy knowing that one of the greatest summer blockbusters ever made is getting the Blu-ray treatment mere months from now. Steven Spielberg’s Jaws is being released on Blu-ray as part of Universal’s 100th anniversary, and the studio appears to be giving the release the special attention it deserves. The special features are detailed below, but one of the new additions is included here as a tease. “Jaws: The Restoration” is a brief (but still detailed) look at the effort »

- Rob Hunter

10 April 2012 8:52 AM, PDT | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »

Tonight, Raising Hope (Fox, 9:30 p.m.) begins its two-part season 2 finale, which finds the family’s history with Hope’s mother, the Boyfriend Killer, chronicled on Inside Probe, a TV program hosted by guest star Nancy Grace. At the end of the first half hour, there’s a bombshell that sends the family to court in the April 17 episode to retain custody of Jimmy’s daughter. “It’s an old-fashioned ‘To be continued…’ cliffhanger, which I love,” Martha Plimpton says of Part 1. “They always did that kind of stuff on all the shows I grew up watching. I love »

- Mandi Bierly

6 March 2012 1:21 PM, PST | The Movie Pool | See recent The Movie Pool news »

The Movie Pool gets in the holiday spirit with the Nutcracker: The Motion Picture DVD!

The Set-up

Tchaikovsky's classic ballet comes to life, thanks to the Pacific Northwest Ballet Company.

Directed by: Carroll Ballard

The Delivery

Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet is an absolute Christmas classic, but I do not remember it being this creepy.  Director Caroll Ballard (The Black Stallion) delivers a faithful cinematic presentation of a staged performance of the ballet, which can be a good and bad thing. Seeing the ballet performed onstage is nice, but by keeping faithful to the original story, it highlights the fact that Drosselmeier, the toymaker/magician/godfather who inspires the tale, acts like a child predator the entre film. A number of times in the film, he openly leers at the young Clara, so much so that she gets uncomfortable and moves away from him, and even other characters look at »

- feeds@themoviepool.com (Victor Medina)

3 items from 2012