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[Blu-ray Review] “The Walking Dead: Season 2″, ‘The Raid,’ ‘The Hunger Games,’ and ‘A Little Bit Zombie’!

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Posted by Mike Pereira on September 01, 2012 @ 12:04pm
Category: Movies / Home Video

THE WALKING DEAD: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON

I’m a late-comer in all things concerning The Walking Dead. I own the first thirty or so issues of this post-apocalyptic zombie comic book series but for some reason or another, I didn’t get the opportunity to go through them all. I’m so behind in the game that I’ve decided to just pick up the trade paperbacks from now on. Things aren’t much different concerning AMC’s television series adaptation. I just recently caught up to the first season and really dug it. The six-episode run established the gritty, unflinching, unpredictable tone of Robert Kirkman’s comics. Like everyone else, I was supremely worried going into season two since Executive Producer, Frank Darabont (The Mist, The Shawshank Redemption) left the show. Glen Mazzara (The Shield) took over the reins and thankfully sticks to the sturdy template left behind.

It’s good to see that the tough budget cuts forced upon by AMC hasn’t hurt the show in any obvious way. The writers have worked around this obstacle by narrowing the scope considerably. The second season leads the characters to an old farmhouse and stays confined there for the entire thirteen episodes. The action-packed, breakneck pace of its predecessor has been replaced with a slower, more character-driven tempo. While this frustrated some, I actually believe this added a much darker, more tension-filled feel to the show. It stays true to what I love about The Walking Dead. The trials and tribulations of these very human, flawed characters are now further explored. Since there are a lot less action beats, doesn’t mean they lose their effect. Actually the opposite happens. Stakes feel much higher. KNB’s FX work is still first rate stuff and the performances by the ensemble is some of the best I’ve ever seen on television. READ MORE

Best Action Movie In Years, ‘The Raid: Redemption’, Gets Jam-Packed Home Video Release!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 02, 2012 @ 7:35pm
Category: Movies / Home Video

One of the most awesomely bloody, action-packed genre films of the year is making its way to DVD and Blu-ray.

Iko Uwais and Joe Taslim star as members of a rookie SWAT team tasked to infiltrate a safe house containing the world’s most dangerous killers and gangsters in the hard-hitting, jaw-dropping, martial arts action extravaganza The Raid: Redemption (review), coming to Unrated DVD and Blu-ray with UltraViolet August 14th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. When the SWAT team’s cover is accidentally blown, they become stranded inside the dangerous high-rise with no way out and must fight their way through the city’s worst criminals to survive their mission. The film also stars Ray Sahetapy, Donny Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhian, and Pierre Gruno and features an English dub with music by Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda. Both discs also include the original language track and music.

The DVD and Blu-ray are loaded with bonus features, including commentary with writer/director Gareth Evans; six behind-the-scenes video blogs with Gareth Evans; a “Behind the Music” featurette with Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park and composer Joe Trapanese; “Inside the Score,” a trailer teaser for Mike Shinoda’s first feature score, and “An Evening with Gareth Evans, Mike Shinoda and Joe Trapanese” feaurette. Also included are four featurettes in “Conversation with Gareth Evans and Mike Shinoda” on the hard shoot, score, stunts, and themes, as well as “An Anatomy of a Scene,” in which Gareth Evans talks in detail about creating the hole drop scene. “THE RAID TV Show Ad (circa 1994)” is a spoof of a 1994 Japanese anime TV commercial created by Phil Askin, with the idea that Gareth Evans may have seen it as a child and set off to make a live action version one day. Finally, “Claycat’s The Raid” features Lee Hardcastle’s UK claymation short film with a Mike Shinoda music score. READ MORE

Action-Packed Bloodbath ‘The Raid: Redemption’ Gets Dated For Home Video

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Posted by MrDisgusting on June 12, 2012 @ 12:03pm
Category: Movies / Home Video

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced DVD ($30.99) and Blu-ray ($35.99) releases of The Raid: Redemption for August 14th.

Extras will include a commentary with Writer/Director Gareth Evans, featurettes (“An Evening with Gareth Evans, Mike Shinoda & Joe Trapanese”, “Behind the Music”, “An Anatomy of a Scene”, “Hard Shoot”, “Score”, “Stunts”, “Themes”, “Inside the Score”, “Claycat’s The Raid”), Blogs (“Bootcamp”, “Set Location, Camera & Lighting, Make up & Special Effects”, “Courtyard, Hole Drop”, “Drugs Lab, Tama’s Office”, “Machete Gang & Corridor, Jaka vs. Mad Dog”, “Post Production”), THE RAID TV show ad (circa 1994), and an UltraViolet digital copy of the film.

“Deep in the heart of Jakarta’s slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world’s most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the rundown apartment block has been considered untouchable. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, they find themselves stranded on the 6th floor with no way out. The unit must fight their way through the city’s worst to survive their mission.” READ MORE

The Raid: Redemption

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on March 23, 2012 @ 12:00am
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Rama, a member of a special forces team, arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord. The building has become a sanctuary to killers, gangs, rapists and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they cannot be touched by the police. When a spotter blows their cover, Rama and his team must fight their way through every floor and every room not just to complete their mission but to survive their bloody ordeal.

The Raid: Redemption OST (Co-Composed By Mike Shinoda) Available For Pre-Order

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on March 17, 2012 @ 11:15pm
Category: Music / News

The Raid: Redemption OST (Co Composed By Mike Shinoda) Available For Pre Order

Now available for pre-order is the soundtrack to the upcoming action thriller The Raid: Redemption, which has been getting pretty much nonstop love on the front page. The soundtrack is composed by both Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park, Fort Minor) and Joseph Trapanese. You can listen to several tracks below including RAZORS.OUT, which features Deftones singer Chino Moreno. Then, if you like it, snag a copy here.

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Posted by EvanDickson on March 12, 2012 @ 6:17pm
Category: Movies / News

Sequel To The Raid: Redemption, Berendal, Officially Announced

We continue to reserve the right to cover Gareth Evans’ The Raid on the grounds that it is indeed bloody. and disgusting (read our review). And soon we’ll be covering the sequel, Berendal. We’ve known The Raid was intended as the start of a trilogy for a while, now the realization of that plan is coming to fruition.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, “In a long-rumored move among the action movie set, director Gareth Evans is officially making a sequel to his upcoming film The Raid. Following successful runs at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival and the 2012 Sundance Festival, XYZ Films and Evans’ PT Merantu company brokered a deal to create a follow-up that will reunite the filmmaker with his Raid leading man Iko Uwais. Although Sony didn’t divulge plot details for the sequel, it follows the events of the first film, in which an Indonesian SWAT team gets trapped in a Jakarta slum and its members are forced to fight their way out. Tentatively titled Berandal, the sequel will have a “significantly larger” budget than its predecessor, and its shooting schedule is to include approximately 100 days of physical production.”

According to Evans, this is the story he wanted to tell originally anyway (which makes it the best kind of sequel), “the sequel idea came up while I was still writing ‘The Raid’, the first one. What happened is we tried to get the budget in place for a film called ‘Berendal’ first, and we spent a year and a half doing that. And in the process of trying to get the money for that film, we’d already designed the choreography, we’d already written the script, and we were already to go and we just needed the money in order to pull the trigger on it. And that’s a year and a half of not getting any closer to getting the money. We were in a position where we just decided, you know what, f*ck it, we’re not going to get it, we have to do something else with a lower budget. So ‘The Raid’ became that plan B project.”

The Raid: Redemption opens on March 23rd. READ MORE

Five Hardcore Clips From ‘The Raid: Redemption’ Get You Ready For The Carnage!

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Posted by EvanDickson on March 09, 2012 @ 6:19pm
Category: Movies / Videos

Five Hardcore Clips From The Raid: Redemption Get You Ready For The Carnage!

We continue to reserve the right to cover Gareth Evans’ The Raid on the grounds that it is indeed bloody. and disgusting. This film premiered last September at TIFF (read our review) and soon you’ll get a chance to see it for yourselves. You’ll likely walk out a different person.

In theaters March 23, we now have five new clips from The Raid: Redemption . Check them out below.

“Rama, a member of a special forces team, arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord. The building has become a sanctuary to killers, gangs, rapists and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they cannot be touched by the police. When a spotter blows their cover, Rama and his team must fight their way through every floor and every room not just to complete their mission but to survive their bloody ordeal.” READ MORE

A Flurry Of Violence Unleashed In ‘The Raid’ Theatrical Trailer!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 23, 2012 @ 6:49pm
Category: Movies / Videos

A Flurry Of Violence Unleashed In The Raid Theatrical Trailer!

While other horror websites take jabs at us for covering Gareth Evans’ The Raid, the fact of the matter is that none of them have seen the movie. Not only is the movie jam-packed with face-stomping action, but it’s nothing short of bloody and disgusting. We reserve the right to cover this insanely gory foreign film that premiered last September at TIFF (read our review), and you’ll eventually thank us for it.

In theaters March 23, Sony Pictures Classics has released the first oficial theatrical trailer for the thriller now titled The Raid: Redemption . Check it below.