Forrest Gump - 14 clips from the Sapphire Series DVD.

New clips have been added from the "Forrest Gump" Sapphire Series DVD which sees release on November 3rd via Paramount Home Entertainment. The remarkable instant classic is available for the first time on high definition and includes two hours of dynamic new bonus features. Tom Hanks gives an astonishing performance as Forrest, an everyman whose simple innocence comes to embody a generation. Alongside his mamma (Sally Field), his best friend Bubba (Mykelti Williamson) and his favorite girl Jenny (Robin Wright), Forrest has a ringside seat for the most memorable events of the second half of the 20th century. Winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis), and Best Actor (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump remains one of the great movie triumphs of all time.

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10 Really Bad Ass War Movies

In honor of Memorial Day (belated anyways) -- Here's a run-down of the top 10 war movies that are pretty kickass. My favorites are Saving Private Ryan, Forest Gump, and Tropic Thunder. Only 1 of those made the list!! Come on...

Robert Zemeckis Eyeing The Nutcracker 3-D?

Robert Zemeckis is a director who was once mentioned alongside visionaries like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, having directed such blockbusters as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump and the Back To The Future trilogy. He certainly earned that reputation, but lately his career has taken a strange detour into the realm of motion capture technology, where his focus seems to be exclusively on taking existing stories and putting them on the big screen in a new way. Certainly Spielberg and Lucas have been big on pushing technology forward as well, but is Zemeckis letting his desire to pioneer get in the way of making good movies? His latest film A Christmas Carol hit theatres just last weekend and the reviews haven't been so hot, but that hasn't stopped him from lining up another Christmas movie to immediately follow it. According to Pajiba [1], Zemeckis wants to use motion capture to retell the Christmas classic The Nutcracker. The movie would be based on the E.T.A. Hoffmann novel, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, and set in 19th century Russia. And yes, of course it will use his patented performance capture technology, and will likely be released in 3-D. Zemeckis is also developing a 3-D remake of The Beatles' Yellow Submarine [2], and is producing a motion capture fantasy adventure called Airman [3], so apparently he won't be giving up this new format anytime soon. What do you think, is it a good thing that he is using these projects to perfect this new technology? Or is Zemeckis wasting his talent by choosing to direct uninteresting films? [1] http://www.pajiba.com/trade_news/robert-zemeckis-to-direct-the-nutcracker.php [2] http://www.filmjunk.com/2009/08/20/robert-zemeckis-tapped-for-3-d-yellow-submarine-remake/ [3] http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010150.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

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Zemeckis To Take On The Nutcracker

I miss the old Robert Zemeckis. You know, the one that directed Back to the Future, Forrest Gump and Castaway; those broad, fantastic stories with actual people. That is not to say that Beowulf and A Christmas Carol don't have their merits and place, but the whole "dead behind the eyes" thing is still rather unnerving. The director recently said that he will use motion capture for for the Roger Rabbit sequel, which, in a way, makes it seem that ...

Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Unnecessary and lifeless.  These two adjectives describe better than any my thoughts behind A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Robert Zemeckis’ latest, motion-capture adaptation of a classic story.  Unnecessary in that this, roughly the 61st time Charles Dickens’ legendary tale, is a story that has been told, verbatim, so many times before by filmmakers who were far more gifted in the art storytelling that even Zemeckis, the man who brought us BACK TO THE FUTURE and FORREST GUMP.  Lifeless in that the film offers very little in the way of newness, and, for the most part, the film plays by a paint-by-numbers version of…

This Week on DVD: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Food Inc.

The biggest DVD and Blu-ray release for this week is probably G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. It pains me to know that this week some brave souls will give it another chance, while others will discover its sheer idiocy for the first time. If you're looking for something slightly better but still mediocre, you might try Tony Scott's remake of The Taking of Pelham 123. Other smaller releases for the week include Dolph Lundgren's direct-to-DVD action flick Command Performance, the Spanish post-apocalyptic flick Before The Fall, and the G.I. Joe Resolute animated microseries. Also keep an eye out for a few noteworthy documentaries this week including Food Inc., The English Surgeon, and the John Hughes doc Don't You Forget About Me (in Canada only). Plus: James Bond and Rocky collections on Blu-ray, and the only partially redundant Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut! Will you be picking anything up this week? G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (DVD [1], Blu-ray [2]) The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4]) I Love You, Beth Cooper [5] (DVD, Blu-ray [6]) Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut [7] (DVD, Blu-ray [8]) Aliens in the Attic [9] (DVD, Blu-ray [10]) The Answer Man [11] (DVD, Blu-ray [12]) Command Performance [13] (DVD, Blu-ray [14]) Before The Fall [15] Bad Cop [16] Not Forgotten [17] (DVD, Blu-ray [18]) Lemon Tree [19] The Narrows [20] (DVD, Blu-ray [21]) Hardwired [22] National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation: Ultimate Collector's Edition [23] (DVD, Blu-ray [24]) Food Inc. [25] (DVD, Blu-ray [26]) The English Surgeon [27] Don't You Forget About Me (Canada only) Earth 2100 [28] (DVD, Blu-ray [29]) G.I. 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Vactors Blu-ray Bulletin for November 3, 2009

Here are the new Blu-ray releases for November 03, 2009: Aliens in the Attic (20th Century Fox) The Answer Man (Magnolia) A Christmas Carol (1951) (VCI) Command Performance (First Look) Earth 2100 (MPI) Food, Inc. (Magnolia) Forrest Gump (Paramount) Forrest Gump: Chocolate Box Giftset(Paramount) G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (Paramount) Howard’s End (Criterion) I Love You, Beth Cooper (20th Century Fox) IMAX: Mummies - Secrets Of [...]

Original Roger Rabbit Writers Return for the Sequel

Back in April director Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump) revealed that with the advancements in technology and performance capture, he can start thinking about a new "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" film. At the time, he mentioned that the second installment will be based on a completely new idea.

Brand-New John Wayne Performance Coming To DVD

John Wayne is back-- and thank God, it's not through some kind of digital manipulation that'll have him dancing with a vacuum cleaner or shaking hands with Forrest Gump. Incredibly, there is one performance that Wayne filmed before his 1979 death that has never been seen, as part of the indie sci-fi Western Thunder Riders of the Golden West. The filmmaker, Dave Burleson, was never able to distribute the film when it was finished in 1984, but now according to The Houston ...

New International Posters For A Christmas Carol

This year marks (amongst other things) yet another adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens tale, A Christmas Carol. This time Disney are having a go, enlisting the help of Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future trilogy) to write and direct, Jim Carrey to play Ebenezer Scrooge (as well as the Ghosts of Christmas [...]