Movies to Buy Digital Copies

Dune 2 - $10

Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - $10

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - $9

Fall Guy - $10

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - $14

Prices for 4K movie on Ultraviolet Cinema as of 8/24/24

Favorite Films

 Favorite Films in 2021

Catch Me if You Can

The Departed

The Fellowship of the Ring

Minority Report

Superbad

Aladdin

The Big Short

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

Other Favorites:

Mrs. Doubtfire

Good Will Hunting

Robin Hood (Disney)

Peter Pan (Disney)

The Jungle Book

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

City of God

The Lobster

The Matrix

X-Men 2

Social Network

The Wolf of Wall Street

Edge of Tomorrow

Inception

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Star Wars Return of the Jedi

Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back

Skyfall

End of Watch

American Hustle

The Big Sick

American Made

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Big Movies Made by the Jewish Dream Team

Notable Movies and TV made by the Jewish (Comedy) Dream Team

Superbad

Written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Starring Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen. Michael Cera is not Jewish, sadly.

Knocked Up
Written and Directed by Judd Apatow. Stars Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd. Jason Segel, Jonah Hill, and Jay Baruchel (1/4 Jewish),  

Pineapple Express
Written by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Judd Apatow. Stars Seth Rogen, 

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Written by Jason Segel and directed by Nicholas Stoller (Jewish), supporting cast includes Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, and Mila Kunis (all Jewish).

40 Year Old Virgin

Directed and co-written by Judd Apatow. Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, and Jonah Hill play supporting characters.

This is 40

Directed by Judd Apatow. Starring Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, and Jason Segel.

Undeclared series (2001-2002)

Who is the Jewish Dream Team?

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were childhood friends and Superbad was inspired by their adventures during adolescence.

Judd Apatow has written, directed, or produced just about every movie made by the Jewish dream team.

Jonah Hill

Jason Segel
Actor, writer, and musician 

Paul Rudd

Good and Crappy Movies at Redbox - April 2021

Certified Fresh

Promising Young Woman
90% critics / 88% audience

Our Friend
85% critics / 95% audience

Drama/Comedy
Jason Segel, Casey Affleck

News of the World
88% critics / 89% audience
Drama/Western
Tom Hanks

Rotten Movies

Cosmic Sin with Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo

Best Military Movies with a Deeper Message

Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

The Great Escape (1963)

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Patton (1970)

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Das Boot (1981)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Glory (1989)

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Courage Under Fire (1996)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Thin Red Line (1998)

Three Kings (1999)

Enemy at the Gates (1999)

Black Hawk Down (2001)

The Pianist (2002)

Master and Commander (2003)

Downfall (2004)

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

The Hurt Locker (2008)

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Lebanon (2009)

American Sniper (2014)

Fury (2014)

Lone Survivor (2013)




More options

Stalag 17 (1953)

Paths of Glory (1957)
Stanley Kubrick
World War I

The Train (1964)

Gettysburg (1993)
-- Director: Ron Maxwell

Hacksaw Ridge

Dunkirk (2017)

Top 10 Most Realistic War Movies According to Veterans [YouTube]

Jarhead
Lone Survivor
Black Hawk Down
Full Metal Jacket
Stalingrad
Saving Private Ryan
Come and See
Band of Brothers
Generation Kill

IMDB Top Military Movies fan list

Fresh Movies on DVD - Winter 2018

Battle of the Sexes
Steve Carell and Emma Stone
Trailer

The King's Choice
(Norway)
Trailer

Marshall
Trailer

Logan Lucky
Daniel Craig
Rotten Tomatoes

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Documentary
From Netflix Studios
Rotten Tomatoes

Mudbound
Rotten Tomatoes

California Typewriter
Rotten Tomatoes

Cuba and the Cameraman
Rotten Tomatoes




Bad Day for the Cut
(Ireland)
Trailer
In this witty and ultra-violent thriller, a mild-mannered farmer sets off on a bloody quest for vengeance after his elderly mother is murdered. As he tracks her killers through the criminal underworld of Belfast, he begins to realize that there was a darker side to his beloved mother--and to himself.

American Made
Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson
Trailer
Barry Seal, a TWA pilot, is recruited by the CIA to provide reconnaissance on the burgeoning communist threat in Central America and soon finds himself in charge of one of the biggest covert CIA operations in the history of the United States that spawned the birth of the Medellin cartel and eventually almost brought down the Reagan White House with the Iran Contra scandal.

Dunkirk
On video: December 19
World War II drama about one of the largest battles.

Stronger
On video: December 19
Trailer
STRONGER is the inspirational and heroic true-life story of Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal), the man whose iconic photo from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing captured the hearts of the world. Based on Bauman's New York Times bestselling book, co-authored with Bret Witter.

Mother!
On video: December 19
Trailer
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence. From filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream), mother! stars Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer in this riveting psychological thriller about love, devotion and sacrifice.

Detroit
On video: December 12
Trailer
From the Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow of THE HURT LOCKER and ZERO DARK THIRTY, DETROIT tells the gripping story of one of the darkest moments during the civil unrest that rocked Detroit in the summer of '67.

The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee

On video: December 4

A profile of Ben Bradlee (1921-2014), the executive editor of the Washington Post from 1968 to 1991 who was largely credited with taking down President Nixon in 1974 after the paper broke the Watergate story. The film also chronicles his childhood in Boston, World War II service and early career as a journalist.

The Ballad of Lefty Brown 
On video: February 13th, 2018
The blu-ray release will include a digital copy and I should buy one!
Trailer
When cowboy Lefty Brown (Bill Pullman) witnesses the murder of his longtime partner - the newly-elected Senator Edward Johnson (Peter Fonda) - he strikes out to find the killers and avenge his friend's gruesome death. Tracking the outlaws across the vast and desolate Montana plains, Lefty recruits a young gunslinger, Jeremiah (Diego Josef), and an old friend, a hard-drinking U.S. Marshall (Tommy Flanagan), to help deliver the men to justice.
Filmed entirely in Montana.

A movie that takes its time, rambling rather than galloping toward a dramatically and emotionally satisfying climax. Full review

Joe Leydon
Variety

Bill Pullman stars in the likable, easygoing western The Ballad of Lefty Brown, which tips its cowboy hat to classics of the genre. Full review

Manohla Dargis
The NYTimes

Gringo
David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton
In Theaters: March 19, 2018
Trailer


Hostiles
Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike,
In Theaters January 19

Sicario 2 - Soldado

Movies that qualify for cloud conversion (Disc to Digital) on VUDU

Movies that VUDU supports for Disc to Digital (put your movies in the cloud).

Type the name of your movie on VUDU's Disc to Digital page to see if it qualifies.  This is a dynamic search and does not leave the page.  ** Sometimes the search does not work in Chrome, so try Firefox instead!

Only 100 discs can be converted per year, and to prevent fraud, they require that you enable GPS in the mobile app to ensure that movies are being converted at your billing address.


Batman Begins
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Contagion
Courage Under Fire
Crazy Stupid Love
Dallas Buyers Club
The Dictator
Easy A
The Descendants
Gattaca
Get the Gringo
Gone Baby Gone
The Hangover
Hereafter
Jersey Boys
Kill the Messenger
The Kings of Summer
Like Crazy
Lincoln Lawyer
Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
A Most Wanted Man
Nightcrawler
Perks of Being a Wallflower
Pitch Perfect
Prisoners (2013) [Hugh Jackman / Jake Gyllenhaal]
Shrek
St. Vincent
X-Men (all of them through First Class)
World War Z

Movies VUDU does not support for Disc to Digital:
- Marvel movies
- Disney movies

99 Homes
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Artist
Bad Lieutenant (Nicolas Cage)
Dope
Inside Llewyn Davis
In the Loop
Room
The Rover
Stuck in Love
The Terminator (first film)

Disney Movie Rewards - Points to Get Free Movies

Hunchback of Notre Dame [blu-ray]
1200 points



1325 points
Hercules (1997)

1750 points Blu-Rays
Toy Story, Toy Story 3, Enchanted

1850 points
Sword in the Store

2000 points
A Bug's Life, Jungle Book, Little Mermaid,  Emperor's New Groove, and Finding Nemo.

Cheap iTunes Digital Movie Codes

Eye in the Sky for $2.50

The Big Short for $2.29 (2 left in stock as of 11/8/16).

2016 Theatrical Trailers that Look Incredible

Directed by Oliver Stone Snowden with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nicolas Cage, Tom Wilkinson, and Rhys Ifans In theaters Sept 16 Imperium with Daniel Radcliffe, In theaters Aug 19 "The Accountant" with Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, and JK Simmons. In Theaters Oct 14 Hell or High Water with Chris Pine, Ben Foster, and Jeff Bridges Crime Thriller In theaters Aug 12

Promising Upcoming Films

The Big Short (2015) - IMDb
Directed by Adam McKay
Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling

Story of Your Life (2016) - IMDb
Directed by Denis Villenueve (Sicario, Prisoners, Enemy)
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

Hail, Caesar! (2016) - IMDb
Directed by the Cohen Brothers
A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.

Untitled Matt Damon/Bourne Sequel (2016) - IMDb
Directed by Paul Greengrass
Matt Damon and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)

Suburbicon - IMDb
Directed by George Clooney.  Written by the Cohen brothers
A crime mystery set in the 1950s.
Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Julianne Moore

Three Seconds - IMDb
An ex-convict working undercover intentionally gets himself incarcerated again in order to infiltrate the mob at a maximum security prison.

The Magnificent Seven (2016) - IMDb
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Chris Pratt, Denzel Washington, 

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Will keep my expectations lower:

M:I 6 - Mission Impossible (2017) - IMDb

Inferno (2016) - IMDb
Directed by Ron Howard

Fan cuts of Star Wars - the despecialized edition revives childhood memories

'Star Wars: Despecialized Edition' Restores the Original, Unedited Trilogy | Motherboard
"...for years, fans have been clamouring for a high-quality DVD or Blu-ray release of the original and unaltered Star Wars trilogy.

One such devotee, Petr Harmáček (aka “Harmy”), has spent nearly half a decade pursuing his own long-running saga—to return the first Star Wars trilogy to its former glory. "I wanted to be able to show people who haven't seen Star Wars yet, like my little brother or my girlfriend, the original, Oscar-winning version, but I didn't want to have to show it to them in bad quality,” he explained."

...with the aid of fellow Star Wars fans, he embarked upon creating the “Star Wars Despecialized Edition”: a version of the films that restores them to their original theatrical vision—albeit in HD quality—by collating footage from various sources and then combining them into one seamless edit.

Montana Movie Critics

Molly Laich at the Missoula Independent

Fields of dreams | Film | Missoula Independent
Deep Time (documentary) about the oil fields

Apple man | Film | Missoula Independent
Steve Jobs

Thrilling enough | Film | Missoula Independent
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

Summer surprise | Film | Missoula Independent
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Spot on | Film | Missoula Independent
Trainwreck

Just beachy | Film | Missoula Independent
Love and Mercy

Mad sense | Film | Missoula Independent
Mad Max

Infinite yes | Film | Missoula Independent
The End of the Tour

Trailing off | Film | Missoula Independent
Still Alice
March 19, 2015

Strange, but true | Film | Missoula Independent
Mr. Turner

Rush to judgment | Film | Missoula Independent
Gone Girl

Sundance 2015 films roundup from IMDB

Poll: IMDb Editors Sundance 2015 Film Selections - IMDb - IMDb

Grandma - 93% fresh
Drama / Comedy

The End of the Tour - 92% fresh
Drama

Mississippi Grind - 89% fresh
Drama

Mistress America - 81% fresh
Comedy

Results - 81% fresh
Drama / Comedy

Cop Car - 79% fresh
Thriller

Z for Zechariah - 77% fresh
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Experimenter - 70% fresh



Related:

IMDb: New Ones - a list by blamb147
Jauja, Awake: The Life of Yogananda, Clouds of Sils Maria, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,

Welcome to New York - 74% fresh

Movie Roundup: This is Not a Film

This is Not a Film

Dazed and Confused

Me and Orson Welles

Ultraviolet and Digital Movie Industry News

Movie Attendance Among Younger ‘Digital’ Audiences Drops 15% in 2014: Nielsen | Variety
12/11/14

Digital Downloads of Movies Top $1.5 Billion for First Time in 2014 | Variety
1/6/15

UltraViolet Registered Accounts Top 20 Million | Home Media Magazine
12/15/14


news articles via UltraVioletcinema.com

Movies to Review for the Newspaper

Monk with a Camera
DVD Release: April 7, 2015

Welcome to Me
DVD release: June 16, 2015

The Wrecking Crew
DVD Release: June 16, 2015

Winter Sleep
DVD Release: May 4, 2015

A Most Violent Year
DVD Release: April 7, 2015

Collectable edition of Star Wars: A New Hope drops in price, while Empire and Jedi stay strong

The Limited edition DVD of Star Wars: A New Hope has dropped in price in recent months, while The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi have maintained their values on the used marketplace.

A few years ago these DVDs were discontinued in retail outlets.  I was fortunate enough to get the collectable DVDs at $10/each when Target was clearing out their inventory.

Here are the historical used values on 5/19/15 of the three DVDs that include the original theatrical cuts that have not had the adulterations that true Star Wars fans have grown to hate.

How to Get Brand New Blu-Ray Movie Releases for $10 or Less

I don't like paying more than $8-10 for a movie, unless it's an extended edition of the movie, collectors edition with significant extras, or a Disney/Criterion/Studio Gibli movie that would be hard to come by for less than $10.

What's the best way to get cheap movies new on Blu-Ray, if you only want the Blu-Ray?

1. Buy the Blu-Ray movie on Amazon.
2. Sell the DVD.
3. Sell the Ultraviolet code (Digital Copy).
4. Keep the Blu-Ray.

If you follow the above steps, you can get brand new Blu-Ray releases for about $10 or less.
The trick is buying the movie immediately after it's been released, because the DVD and Ultraviolet code will have the highest resale value at that point.  If you can't buy the movie within a month of it's release, the DVD and Ultraviolet code will drop significantly in value, and this master plan to get cheap movies will not work.

Ultraviolet codes have an average resale value of $5 for common, new release titles in HD format, and $6-9 for a title that has fewer copies being sold. Disney, Marvel, and Pixar titles that include more redemption choices than standalone Ultraviolet titles also command a premium of $6-10 online.

Examples of getting new release movies on the cheap:


Interstellar [Blu-ray]
Buy on Amazon for $20
Sell the DVD for $7-8
Sell the Ultraviolet code for $5-6
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Final price for the Blu-Ray: $6-8



The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Blu-ray + DVD + UltraViolet)
Buy on Amazon for $25
Sell the DVD for $8
Sell the Ultraviolet code for $5
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Final price for the Blu-Ray: $12



The Imitation Game (Blu-ray + Ultraviolet)
Buy on Amazon for $18
Sell the Ultraviolet code for $7
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Final price for the Blu-Ray: $11



The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 [Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD]
Buy on Amazon for $20
Sell the DVD for $7-8
Sell the Ultraviolet code for $4-5
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Final price for the Blu-Ray: $7-9



Into the Woods 1-Disc Blu-ray + Digital HD
Buy on Amazon for $20
Sell the Digital HD code for $8-9
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Final price for the Blu-Ray: $11-12

More tips:

• If you only want to buy one Blu-Ray at a time, use Amazon Prime, or find a friend that uses Amazon Prime and have them order the movie for you so the shipping is free, (even if the Blu-Ray is cheap).
• Ensure that you buy a Blu-Ray title with the DVD included, otherwise you're going to shell out more cash in the end to get your movie.
• You can still get a digital copy of the movie later for $2 or less if you use VUDU's Disc to Digital Program.  Purchase 10 or more movies in the cloud and get 50% off.  This means that getting 10 of your eligible Blu-Rays to stream on VUDU and Ultraviolet will only cost $10.  Most Disney and Marvel movies are not licensed on the Disc to Digital service, so if you want a digital copy for those, best to keep the digital copy that comes with your Blu-Ray movie.
• Disney, Marvel, and Pixar digital copy codes have the highest resale value for single titles.  Some Marvel Blu-Rays do not include DVDs, but their codes can be worth as much as $10 if you sell them within a week of their release.