Entertainment / Get Reel Digital: November

Get Reel Digital: November

Entertainment Nov 13, 2014

by Matthew Currie

This month’s Blu-ray Roundup Finds Angelina Jolie In Evil-Queen Mode, A One-Of-A-Kind Ghost Story And The Continued Reinvention Of Harry Potter

Maleficent (Now available, Disney)

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Angelina Jolie gives the infamous sleeping beauty baddie a sympathetic makeover in this blockbuster Disney flick, which tracks back to Maleficent’s origins as a peaceful forest nymph who is betrayed by her lover, a human king (District 9’s Sharlto Copley) and, twisted by her thirst for vengeance, places a curse upon the man’s newborn daughter (Elle Fanning).

However, as the years pass, Maleficent, watching from the shadows, develops a mother’s love for the girl — but is it too late to reverse her fatal spell?

22 Jump Street (Now available, Sony)

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Bumbling baby-faced cops Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum), fresh off going undercover as high-school students to bust a drug ring, head off to college to do the same. Gunplay and slapstick ensue in this unnecessary, over-the-top sequel that, against the odds, managed to win over critics and audiences alike by expertly satirizing unnecessary, over-the-top sequels.

Housebound (Now available, Xlrator)

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Low-budget New Zealand shocker puts an ingenious twist on the haunted-house story — the hauntee is under house arrest. Young troublemaker Kylie (Morgana O’Reilly) is confined to her mother’s home following a botched break-in, and gradually comes to realize that her mum’s claims of a malevolent spirit haunting the halls are true. Legally tethered to a supernatural hotspot, Kylie is no victim. With wits and moxie to burn, she’s going to make this otherworldly evil wish it had stayed dead.

Stretch (November 25, Universal)

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Patrick Wilson — who’s spent most of his time of late battling demons and evil spirits in The Conjuring and the Insidious films — faces off against his most terrifying foe yet — Hollywood. Here he plays the title character, an actor-turned-limo-driver who suddenly finds himself in need of six grand to cover a gambling debt. Desperate for a big-ticket client, he agrees to serve as wheelman for an eccentric, utterly debauched billionaire (Chris Pine) on the run from the feds and looking to go on one last epic bender through the streets of L.A. Director Joe Carnahan’s (The Grey) latest is a slick, funny takedown of TInseltown, appropriately packed with self-deprecating celebrity cameos.

What If (November 25, Sony)

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Daniel Radcliffe continues charting an admirably offbeat post-Harry Potter career path with this much-buzzed romantic indie from homegrown helmer Michael Dowse (Goon). Radcliffe plays Wallace, a young Torontonian whose miserable romantic history has left him gun-shy when it comes to relationships. Enter Chantry (Zoe Kazan), a young woman Wallace instantly sparks with. Despite the fact that she has a boyfriend, their connection gradually deepens, but will their personal baggage and past entanglements keep them both stuck in the friend zone?

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Matthew Currie

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A long-standing entertainment journalist, Currie is a graduate of the Professional Writing program at Toronto’s York University. He has spent the past number of years working as a freelancer for ANOKHI and for diverse publications such as Sharp, TV Week, CAA’s Westworld and BC Business. Currie ...

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