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2016 Holiday Gift Guide: Blu-rays! DVDs! Box Sets!

Every year, millions of people rush out to the stores in a panic at the eleventh house to buy their Christmas gifts. This year, Irish Film Critic is going to help those people by getting a head-start on the holiday rush by presenting to you, the 2016 Movie & TV Holiday Gift Guide. Because movies and TV shows make for perfect stocking stuffers and are ideal for those last-minute presents, we will be covering Blu-rays, DVDs and Box Sets.

Deadpool (Blu-ray with collectible holiday box art)

Hold onto your chimichangas, folks. From the studio that brought you all 3 Taken films comes DEADPOOL, the block-busting, fourth-wall-breaking masterpiece about Marvel Comics’ sexiest anti-hero: me! Go deep inside (I love that) my origin story…typical stuff…rogue experiment, accelerated healing powers, horrible disfigurement, red spandex, imminent revenge. Directed by overpaid tool Tim Miller, and starring God’s perfect idiot Ryan Reynolds, Ed Skrein, Morena Baccarin, T. J. Miller and Gina Carano, DEADPOOL is a giddy slice of awesomeness packed with more twists than my enemies’ intestines and more action than prom night. Amazeballs!

Available Now
Retail Value: $39.99

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Aliens 30th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray)

Celebrate three decades of pulse-pounding action and bone-chilling suspense with this Aliens 30th Anniversary Limited-Edition Set that features both the Theatrical and Special Edition versions of the film on Blu-ray™, as well as audio commentary, deleted and extended scenes and more. This must-have set also includes collectible art cards, and a book featuring art from the Dark Horse Comics Aliens series with an all-new cover created exclusively for this 30th Anniversary Edition. The Blu-ray and Digital HD release will include an all-new, documentary titled “The Inspiration and Design of Aliens,” which delves into the origins of the film.

James Cameron directed this critically acclaimed sequel starring Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo’s deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien. After drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years, Ripley returns to Earth, haunted by nightmares of the past. Although her story is initially met with disbelief, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426…and this time it’s war!

Available Now
Retail Value: $24.99

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Independence Day 20th Anniversary “Attacker” Edition (Blu-ray with collectible alien attacker ship)

One of the biggest box office hits of all time delivers the ultimate encounter when mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth’s skies. But wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world’s only hope lies with a determinded band of survivors, uniting for one last strike against the invaders – before it’s the end of all mankind.

Available Now
Retail Value: $69.99

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Ice Age: Collision Course Limited Edition Gift Set (includes DVD and Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas on DVD)

Your favorite ICE AGE heroes are back and cooler than ever in this all-new animated adventure that’s mammoth-sized fun for the whole family! Scrat’s epic pursuit of the elusive acorn catapults him into the universe, where he accidentally triggers a series of cosmic events that threaten the Ice Age world. Now the entire herd—including Buck, Manny, Ellie, Sid and Diego—must work together on a hilarious journey filled with nonstop action and colorful new characters, in order to survive the global Scrat-tastrophe!

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas

Have you herd the news? Your favorite sub-zero heroes are back in an all-new holiday adventure for the whole family! When Sid accidentally destroys Manny’s heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa’s “naughty list,” he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up making things much worse. Now it’s up to Manny and his prehistoric posse to band together and save Christmas for the entire world!

Available Now
Retail Value: $16.99

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The League: The Complete Series DVD

Bring home the ultimate Shiva Bowl trophy—all seven seasons of TV’s most outrageously funny comedy. Huddle up for full-contact laughs with Ruxin, Kevin, Andre, Pete, Jenny and Taco, a tight crew of longtime buddies who always commit to an all-out blitz of trash-talking and ruthless, fantasy football competition. Filled with collusions, cons, lineup fiascos and trade-rapes, The League Complete Series Set is one impressive package.

Available Now
Retail Value: $99.98

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Brain Games: The Complete Series DVD

Blow your mind with all seven seasons of National Geographic’s most popular show! Hosted by Jason Silva, and featuring some of the world’s leading cognitive experts, this fun, Emmy®- nominated series** provides amazing insights about how our brains process information from the world around us. Through interactive games and fascinating experiments, every episode will mess with your mind and leave you wanting more. You’ll explore questions like whether or not there’s a difference between the male and female brain, why we remember some things and not others, whether some of us are actually born to be bad, and so much more. As entertaining as it is educational, “BRAIN GAMES” gets inside your head in the best possible way!

“Brain Games: The Complete Collection” Special Features Include:

  • Season 1 – How to Build a Beating Heart
  • Season 2 – Behind the Scenes
  • Season 3 – Brain Games DIY
  • Season 4 – Superstition, Addiction and Language
  • Season 5 – Brain Magic Shorts & Jason Silva Riffs
  • Season 6 – Jason Silva on Positive Thinking, Jason Silva on Perspective, Brain Magic: The Perspective Illusion, Jason Silva on Scams, Brain Magic: The Scam Illusion
  • Season 7 – Behind-the-Scenes of All 6 Episodes (also included on Season 7 discs)

Available Now
Retail Value: $99.98

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X-Men: Apocalypse 4K

OSCAR® Winner Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy lead a powerhouse cast in director Bryan Singer’s extraordinary follow-up to X-Men: Days of Future Past. After thousands of years, Apocalypse – the world’s first and most powerful mutant – has awakened to find a world led by humans. Intent on cleansing the Earth of mankind, he recruits a group of mutants to create a new world order. In a desperate race to save humanity, Professor X (McAvoy) leads the young X-Men in an epic showdown – against an unstoppable enemy – that will determine the fate of the world.

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE Blu-ray™ Special Features Include:

  • 12 Deleted/Extended scenes with optional introduction by Bryan Singer
  • X-Men: Apocalypse Unearthed Documentary:
  • En Sabah Nur: Setting the Stage for Apocalypse
  • Clan of Akkaba: Apocalypse and His Horsemen
  • Answering the Call: Assembling the New X-Men Team
  • The End of Times: Creating a New Age of Apocalypse
  • Unlimited Powers: VFX, Stunts and Set Pieces
  • What’s Next
  • Wrap Party Video

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE Blu-ray™ DVD and Digital HD Special Features Include:

  • Audio Commentary by Bryan Singer and Simon Kinberg
  • Gag reel with close to 10 minutes of hilarious moments from production
  • Gallery of concept art and unit photography

Available Now
Retail Value: $39.99

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Independence Day: Resurgence 4K

Twenty years after mysterious aliens nearly wiped out humankind, they’re back with a vengeance in this explosive sequel to the original blockbuster hit, Independence Day! Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth developed a vast defense program to protect the planet, led by Jeff Goldblum, returning as brilliant scientist David Levinson. But nothing could prepare us for a new invasion of unprecedented scale—and only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can save our world from extinction. Co-starring Liam Hemsworth, Jesse T. Usher and Bill Pullman, Independence Day: Resurgence is an action-packed thrill ride from start to finish!

Independence Day: Resurgence Special Features (Available on All Formats)

  • Eight Deleted Scenes with Audio Commentary by Roland Emmerich
  • The War of 1996
  • It’s Early, ABQ!
  • Another Day: The Making of Independence Day: Resurgence (available as Digital HD Extra on DVD)
  • Gag Reel
  • Audio Commentary by Roland Emmerich
  • Concept Art
  • Theatrical Trailers and TV Spot

Available Now
Retail Value: $39.99

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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates 4K

You are cordially invited to the comedy event of the year! In order to avoid embarrassing their family, hard-partying brothers Mike (Adam Devine) and Dave (Zac Efron) place an online ad to find “respectable” dates for their sister’s Hawaiian wedding. Instead, the boys find themselves out-hustled by an uncontrollable duo (Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza). Based on hilarious true events, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is the perfect marriage of over-the-top humor and outrageous fun!

MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES Blu-ray and DVD Special Features Include:

  • Over 90 Minutes Of Outrageous Content
  • 14 Deleted Scenes
  • 16 Extended Scenes
  • Alternate Storyline Pig Sequence
  • Bits on Bits on Bits
  • Line-O-Rama
  • Gag Reel
  • Funny Or Die Shorts
  • Director Commentary
  • Gallery
  • Red Band Trailer
  • Theatrical Trailer

Available Now
Retail Value: $39.99

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Papa Hemingway in Cuba DVD

In 1959, Miami journalist and aspiring writer Ed Myers (Giovanni Ribisi) travels to Havana to meet his idol, Ernest Hemingway (Adrian Sparks). A fascinating and unexpected friendship develops as the legendary author mentors young Myers in deep-sea fishing, drinking — and finding his literary voice — while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them. The first U.S. movie filmed in Cuba in more than half a century, Papa: Hemingway in Cuba offers an extraordinary glimpse into the life of a uniquely American icon.

Available Now
Retail Value: $14.99

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Nine Lives Blu-ray/Digital Copy/DVD

Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Garner and Christopher Walken star in this purr-fect family comedy! Billionaire Tom Brand’s (Spacey) workaholic lifestyle has distanced him from his beautiful wife Lara (Garner) and adoring daughter Rebecca (Malina Weissman). Hoping to make amends, Tom buys Rebecca a cat for her birthday. But a bizarre event lands Tom inside the cat’s body. Now, Tom must either cough up proof that he’s a loving dad – or he’ll spend the rest of his life coughing up hairballs in this hilarious romp directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black films)!

Available Now
Retail Value: $25.99

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Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Blu-ray/Digital Copy/DVD

Edina and Patsy are back in their fabulous and hilarious big-screen debut! Still oozing glitz and glamour while clubbing their way around London, the beloved boozers find themselves in a media firestorm when they’re blamed for accidentally killing Kate Moss at a fashion event. Perfectly accessorized with dozens of celebrity cameos, including Jon Hamm, Kate Moss, Joan Collins and many more, this uproarious, madcap romp is bloody good fun, sweetie darling!

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE Digital HD, Blu-ray & DVD Special Features:

  • Deleted Scenes
  • Outtakes
  • On Set with Dame Edna
  • Have A Look, Sweetie Darling! Featurette
  • Locations Featurette
  • Legacy Featurette
  • Cameos Featurette
  • Drag Queens Featurette
  • Making of Featurette
  • Fashion Featurette
  • Characters Featurette
  • Gallery

Available Now
Retail Value: $25.99

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Morgan 4K

From Oscar®-Nominated producer Ridley Scott* and director Luke Scott comes this visceral, edge-of-your-seat thriller with an all-star cast starring Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Toby Jones, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rose Leslie. Inside a remote, top-secret lab, a group of scientists are working on an experiment that is leading the way for the next steps in human evolution. But when the experiment’s subject – a genetically designed “human” (Anya Taylor-Joy) – triggers a terrifying event, those involved must decide if the promise of infinite potential outweighs the incalculable danger.

Blu-ray Special Features Include:

  • Modified Organism: The Science Behind Morgan
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Feature Film Audio Commentary by Luke Scott
  • Loom – Luke Scott Short Film with Audio Commentary by Luke Scott
  • Still Gallery

Available December 13th
Retail Value: $25.99

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do The Time Warp Again DVD

After their car breaks down during a storm, straitlaced couple Brad and Janet (Ryan McCartan and Victoria Justice) find themselves at the eerie castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Primetime Emmy® nominee Laverne Cox*). The innocent duo’s mind-bending adventure escalates when their host, a sexually ambiguous mad scientist, unveils a stunning creation – a buff bodybuilder designed for her pleasure.

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do The Time Warp Again” includes performances by Adam Lambert, Reeve Carney, Annaleigh Ashford, Christina Milian, Staz Nair, Ivy Levan, Ben Vereen and a special appearance by Tim Curry. The film is executive produced by Lou Adler and directed by Kenny Ortega.

DVD Special Features Include:

  • Extended Cut Featuring Deleted Scenes and Brad’s version of “Once in a While” sung by Ryan McCartan
  • Don’t Dream It, Make It: Celebrating “Rocky Horror”
  • Let’s Do The Time Warp Again: Comic-Con 2016
  • Laverne Cox Screen Test
  • Mick Rock Still Gallery

Available Now
Retail Value: $14.99

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Vikings Season 4: Volume 1 Blu-ray

Take another gripping voyage into the ruthless world of Vikings, with its thrilling action, powerful performances and intriguing story line. King Ragnar returns from battle gravely ill. Disheartened by his marriage to Aslaug and challenges with his sons, Ragnar seeks companionship with his slave Yidu. Meanwhile, a defiant Rollo remains in Frankia, Queen Kwenthrith plots to reclaim Mercia, and the enigmatic Harald Finehair appears. Ultimately, Ragnar and Rollo engage in a merciless battle to define their legacies.

Available Now
Retail Value: $24.99

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American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson Blu-ray

A phenomenal cast, including John Travolta, Cuba Gooding Jr., Sarah Paulson, David Schwimmer, Bruce Greenwood and Sterling Brown, lead this critically acclaimed account of the explosive and utterly captivating O.J. Simpson murder trial. Told from the perspective of the lawyers, it explores the chaotic dealings behind closed doors and how prosecution overconfidence, defense shrewdness and shocking courtroom twists led to one of the most earth-shattering verdicts of all time. Based on the best-selling book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin, this must-see TV event shows you the trial that riveted the world as you’ve never seen it before.

Disc 1:

  • From the Ashes of Tragedy
  • The Run of His Life
  • The Dream Team
  • 100% Not Guilty

Disc 2:

  • The Race Card
  • Marcia, Marcia, Marcia
  • Conspiracy Theories
  • A Jury in April

Disc 3:

  • Manna From Heaven
  • The Verdict
  • Past Imperfect: The Trial of the Century
  • Facts of the Case: An Interactive Timeline

Available Now
Retail Value: $31.99

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Miracle on 34th Street 65th Anniversary Blu-ray

Miracle on 34th Street is an irresistible fable that has, for many years, become synonymous with celebrating Christmas. And now this three-time OSCAR®-Winning tale is as resplendent as the holiday itself in a Blu-ray™ version that’s sure to delight fans old and new! The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy beard (Edmund Gwenn) is hired as a Macy’s department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and he soon fills everyone with Christmas spirit…except for his boss, Doris Walker (Maureen O’Hara), who’s raising her daughter (Natalie Wood) to not believe in Santa. But when Kringle is declared insane, and put on trial, everyone’s faith is put to the test as young and old alike face the age-old question: Do you believe in Santa Claus?

Disc Information:

  • Theatrical Feature Blu-ray
  • Audio Commentary By Maureen O’Hara
  • Hollywood Backstories: Miracle on 34th Street
  • Fox Movietone News Footage: Hollywood Spotlight
  • Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: Floating In History Featurette
  • Promotional Short
  • Poster Gallery

Available Now
Retail Value: $12.99

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The Sound of Music 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition Blu-ray

Celebrate Rodgers & Hammerstein’s cinematic treasure with this all-new 5-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition. Featuring the restored film on Blu-ray™ and DVD with over 13 hours of bonus content, this set also includes an exclusive 50th Anniversary CD soundtrack. Plus, the all-new hour-long documentary, The Sound of a City: Julie Andrews Returns to Salzburg, details Julie Andrews’ visit to Salzburg where she filmed her iconic role as Maria half a century ago!

Disc 1: Feature Film Remastered Blu-ray

  • Your Favorite Things: An Interactive Celebration
  • Music Machine Sing-Along
  • Audio Commentaries with Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Director Robert Wise

Disc 2: Blu-ray Special Features

  • Musical Stages: Creating The Sound of Music
  • A City of Song — Virtual Map of Filming Locations in Salzburg, Austria
  • Vintage Rodgers & Hammerstein and The Sound of Music Programs
  • Screen Tests, Rare Treasures, Interviews, Photo Galleries & More!

Disc 3: Blu-ray Documentary

  • All-New 60-Minute Hi-Def Documentary The Sound of a City: Julie Andrews Returns to Salzburg

Disc 4: DVD Feature Film & Special Features

  • Feature Film in Standard Definition
  • Optional Sing-Along Track
  • Music Machine Sing-Along
  • The Sound of Music Tour — A Living Story

Disc 5: 50th Anniversary Soundtrack CD

Digital HD

Available Now
Retail Value: $31.99

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Home Alone Blu-ray/Digital Copy/DVD

Celebrate 25 years of holiday hijinks and hilarity with the ultimate Home Alone collection on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital HD! Accidentally left behind when his parents rush off on their Christmas vacation, eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) embarks on a hilarious, madcap mission to defend the family home when two bumbling burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) try to break in — and find themselves tangled in Kevin’s bewildering battery of booby traps!

Disc 1: Theatrical Feature Blu-ray

  • Feature Audio Commentary by Director Chris Columbus and actor Macaulay Culkin
  • The Making of Home Alone
  • Mac Cam: Behind the Scenes with Macaulay Culkin
  • How to Burglar-Proof Your Home: The Stunts of Home Alone
  • Home Alone Around the World
  • Where’s the Buzz Now?
  • Angels with Filthy Souls
  • Deleted Scenes/Alternate Takes
  • Blooper Reel
  • 1990 Press Featurette

Disc 2: Theatrical Feature DVD

Digital HD

Available Now
Retail Value: $12.99

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Blu-ray/Digital Copy/DVD

Great news – Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is spending the holidays in New York City! Bad news – his parents are spending them in Florida! Separated once again from his family, Kevin manages to find food, lodging and fun using his dad’s credit card. But his big-spending solo act takes a dangerous turn when the Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), escape prison and also land in the Big Apple. Now, Kevin must outrun and outprank them again in this high-flying adventure with twice the ingenuity, twice the kid power and twice the laughs as the original!

Disc 1: Theatrical Feature Blu-ray

Disc 2: Theatrical Feature DVD

Digital HD

Available Now
Retail Value: $12.99

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Jingle All the Way Blu-ray

Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this hilarious comedy as a father desperate to buy that must-have present during a frantic Christmas Eve shopping spree. Howard Langston (Schwarzenegger) has promised his young son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas, unaware it’s the season’s hottest-selling toy. And so begins a frenzied quest that pits Howard against a stressed-out mailman (Sinbad), a sleazy Santa impersonator (James Belushi) and every other harried parent in town, in “the best holiday family film in years.” (Don Stotter, Entertainment Time-out)

Disc 1: Jingle All the Way Extended version

Deleted Scenes:

  • Howard buying doll from woman on street
  • Howard and Mall Santa in car
  • Mall Santa breaks into song
  • Howard and Mall Santas fight
  • Howard and Myron in diner
  • Howard riding home with tow-truck driver

Vignette/Documentary/Featurette:

  • The Making of a Hero
  • Super Kids
  • Turbo Man Behind the Mask

Trailer

Disc 2: Jingle All the Way Theatrical version

Deleted Scenes:

  • Howard buying doll from woman on street
  • Howard and Mall Santa in car
  • Mall Santa breaks into song
  • Howard and Mall Santas fight
  • Howard and Myron in diner
  • Howard riding home with tow-truck driver

Vignette/Documentary/Featurette:

  • The Making of a Hero
  • Super Kids
  • Turbo Man Behind the Mask

Trailer

Available Now
Retail Value: $9.99

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Teen Wolf: Season 5: Part 2 DVD

Reeling from crushing losses, Scott struggles to put his pack back together while the Dread Doctors’ final creation, a creature known as The Beast, terrorizes Beacon Hills.

Disc 1:

  • The Last Chimera
  • Damnatio Memoriae
  • Codominance
  • The Sword and the Spirit

Disc 2:

  • Amplification
  • Lie Ability
  • A Credible Threat

Disc 3:

  • Maid of Gévaudan
  • The Beast of Beacon Hills
  • Apotheosis
  • Ultimate Dread – The Creatures of Season 5

Available Now
Retail Value: $18.99

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American Horror Story: Hotel Blu-ray

The plot centers around the enigmatic Hotel Cortez in Los Angeles, California, that catches the eye of an intrepid homicide detective (Wes Bentley). The Cortez is host to the strange and bizarre, spearheaded by its owner, The Countess (Lady Gaga), who is a bloodsucking fashionista.

Disc 1:

  • Checking In
  • Chutes and Ladders
  • Mommy

Disc 2:

  • Devil’s Night
  • Room Service
  • Room 33
  • An Invitation to Devil’s Night

Disc 3:

  • Flicker
  • Ten Commandments Killer, The
  • She Wants Revenge

Disc 4:

  • She Gets Revenge
  • Battle Royale
  • Be Our Guest
  • The Cortez: An Era of Elegance Gone By

Available Now
Retail Value: $38.99

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Empire: Season 2 DVD

Welcome back to the Lyons’ den, with all its passion, music, and jaw-dropping performances! Three months have passed since Lucious Lyon’s (OSCAR® Nominee Terrence Howard) shocking arrest. Now, released from prison, he and Cookie (Taraji P. Henson in her GOLDEN GLOBE®-winning role) enter a hostile competition to dominate the music industry. Despite an ongoing feud between their sons Jamal and Hakeem, a stunning betrayal may unite the family against an outside takeover of Empire Records. Meanwhile, Cookie learns a frightening truth about her new lover, and tragedy tests Andre’s newfound faith. Featuring off-the-charts guest stars, the acclaimed second season of Empire is here, along with exciting special features that grant you backstage access!

Disc 1:

  • Devils Are Here, The
  • Without a Country
  • Fires of Heaven

Disc 2:

  • Poor Yorick
  • Be True
  • High Hope for a Low Heaven, A
  • True Love Never
  • Uncut Music Performances

Disc 3:

  • My Bad Parts
  • Sinned Against
  • Et Tu, Brute?
  • Death Will Have His Day
  • Uncut Music Performance – “Miracles”

Disc 4:

  • Rose By Any Other Name, A
  • Tameness of a Wolf, The
  • Time Shall Unfold
  • More Than Kin

Disc 5:

  • Lyon Who Cried Wolf, The
  • Rise By Sin
  • Past Is Prologue
  • Empire Around the Globe: USO Tour
  • Studio Sessions
  • Freda Gatz Music Video
  • The Look of Empire

Available Now
Retail Value: $24.96

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IP Man Trilogy Blu-ray

One great man. One inspiring story. And now the IP MAN TRILOGY presented on Blu-Ray and DVD featuring the iconic vision of director Wilson Yip and starring the incomparable Donnie Yen (Rogue One, xXx Return of Xander Cage) as Ip Man, legendary Wing Chun Grandmaster and mentor to several martial arts masters, including Kung Fu superstar Bruce Lee.

Included are:

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Wing Chun grandmaster Ip (Donnie Yen) cements his reputation after defeating a roving band of kung fu masters who have come to his village to challenge him and the other marshal arts masters. But his devotion to the martial arts results in tension and discontent with his wife. When the Japanese occupy his hometown of Foshan during the Sino-Japan war (1937), Ip is forced to work as a coolie in a factory and participate in brutal sparring matches for the enemy’s amusement. He demonstrates his superior fighting skills by defeating his opponents despite being heavily outnumbered and wins the admiration of the Japanese Colonel, Mr. Miura (Hiroyuki Ikeuchi), who challenges Ip to a championship fight. The outcome of the match inspires the Chinese villagers to rise up and defeat their oppressors.

IP MAN 2

Master Ip (Donnie Yen), a new arrival in British-occupied Hong Kong, wants to open a martial arts academy to teach his unique Wing Chun style. A corrupt group of martial arts masters, led by Master Hung (Sammo Hung) refuses to allow him to teach in peace until he proves himself as a kung fu master. Ip’s trouble continues when he is forced to enter a brutal “King of the Ring” boxing match against Twister (Darren Shahlavi), a Western-style boxer who insults the Chinese locals, in a East versus West knock-down, drag-out fight to the finish.

IP MAN 3

Donnie Yen (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2) ignites the screen in a return to the role that made him an icon – as Ip Man, the real-life Wing Chun grandmaster who mentored Bruce Lee. In this explosive third installment of the blockbuster martial arts series, when a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer (Mike Tyson) make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand. Fists will fly as some of the most incredible fight scenes ever filmed play out on the big screen in this soon-to-be genre classic.

Available Now
Retail Value: $34.98

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The Legend of Bruce Lee: Volume One DVD

Young Bruce Lee (Danny Chan, IP MAN 3, KUNG FU HUSTLE) has no interest in studying and is obsessed with martial arts. After losing a street fight, he resolves to master kung fu under the tutelage of Master Ye Wen. Targeted by street gangs after standing up for the weak, Bruce has no other option but to leave Hong Kong for a strange and far off land: America. At the University of Washington Bruce starts teaching martial arts and befriends an American girl named Linda (Michelle Lang). An extraordinary performance at a national karate championship launches Bruce, his film career, and his kung fu school on the path to international renown.

Danny Chan brings the legendary figure of Bruce Lee and his incredible story to life in the first 10 of 30 action-packed episodes.

Available Now
Retail Value: $12.96

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Jason Bourne (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD)

Matt Damon returns to his most iconic role in Jason Bourne. Paul Greengrass, the director of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, once again joins Damon for the next chapter of Universal Pictures’ Bourne franchise, which finds the CIA’s most lethal operative drawn out of the shadows. Damon is joined by Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel and Tommy Lee Jones, while Julia Stiles reprises her role in the series.

Special Features:

  • Digital Copy of Jason Bourne (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
  • Includes UltraViolet (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)
  • Bringing Back Bourne
  • Bourne To Fight
  • The Athens Escape
  • Las Vegas Showdown

Available Now
Retail Value: 19.96

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Game Of Thrones: The Complete Sixth Season Blu Ray

This release features all ten episodes from the sixth season of the smash hit HBO fantasy drama Game of Thrones. After the events of season five, new questions arise about the death of Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) as Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) continues his training with Three-Eyed Raven (Max von Sydow), and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) continues her quest to rule the Seven Kingdoms. Included in this set are bonus content and behind the scenes footage.

Available Now
Retail Value: $39.99

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James McDonald

Originally from Dublin, Ireland, James is a Movie Critic with 40 years of experience in the film industry as an Award-Winning Filmmaker. He is also a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association.