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By Eric Hughes

July 20, 2010

Eat your heart out, Lita Ford!

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Critical opinion of the movie was mixed, and it ended with about what it cost to make -- $25 million. Director Sylvain White told MTV that he purposefully left the door open for a potential sequel. Even so, The Losers has a lot of ground to make up on the home media side of things if audiences are to expect more Losers movies.

Disc includes: Band of Buddies: Ops Training featurette, The Losers: Action-Style Storytelling featurette, deleted scenes, Batman: Under the Red Hood sneak peek, Plus: Zoe and the Losers featurette

For people who think the unruly fans of Philadelphia – a tyke drinking a beer, anyone? – should automatically disqualify its teams from winning championships: Chicago Blackhawks 2010 Stanley Cup Champions

For a city that celebrated a ridiculous number of NBA championships in the ‘90s, followed by a World Series title in 2005, it seems silly (and greedy) to say that Chicago just a month or so ago was itching for its next champion. Yet given the state of the miserable, Lebron-less Bulls, and the fact that half the city is incapable of rooting for the Black Sox because they’re Cubs fans, Chicagoans had an obvious hankering for a championship when the Blackhawks reached the NHL finals against Philadelphia’s Broad Street Bullies.

I had the fortune of moving to Chicago by the time the series came ‘round, and let me tell you first hand that Blackhawk fans were hungry. The franchise hadn’t won a championship since the early ‘60s, and prior to this season hadn’t even tasted a division title since 1993. Players (and fans) grew beards for camaraderie, and one of the city’s most popular publications kept a daily log of the facial hair.

The night the Hawks clinched Lord Stanley’s cup, organized chaos flooded the streets. Sure, policemen on horseback patrolled certain areas, but fans were mostly orderly. Besides broken bottles of beer on the streets, the worst I saw was… people honking their horns. Because it’s, you know, Chicago! And not, you know, the city where obnoxious teens literally regurgitate on young girls.




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Disc includes: Extended Chicago Parade Celebration featurette, 2006 NHL Draft: Jonathan Toews featurette, 2007 NHL DraftL Patrick Kane featurette, Behind the Scenes with the Stanley Cup featurette, Extended Locker Room Stanley Cup Celebration featurette, Extended On-Ice Stanley Cup Celebration featurette, Extended Phantom Camera Game 4 Highlights featurette

July 20, 2010
Blu-ray
Being Human: Season 1
Black Narcissus (Criterion Collection)
Cats & Dogs
Chicago Blackhawks 2010 Stanley Cup Champions
Cop Out (Special Edition)
Evil Aliens
Forbidden World
Galaxy Of Terror
Just Another Day
Kurokami: Part 2
Last Chance to See
Legends of the Dark Kings: Fist of the North Star
The Losers
Margot/The Royal Ballet
Mother
The Red Shoes (Criterion Collection)
Rin Daughter of Mnemosyne: The Complete Series
The Runaways
Tin Man (Collector's Edition)
UFC Presents WEC: Aldo vs. Faber

DVD
Being Human: Season 1
Black Narcissus (Criterion Collection)
Chicago Blackhawks 2010 Stanley Cup Champions
Cop Out (Special Edition)
Degrassi the Next Generation: Season 9
Forbidden World
Galaxy Of Terror
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Includes free item)
Jackson Browne: Going Home
Jersey Shore: Season One Uncensored
Just Another Day
Kurokami: Part 2
Legends of the Dark Kings: Fist of the North Star
Look Around You: Season One (Widescreen)
The Losers
Matlock: Seasons 1-5 (Set)
Matlock: The Fifth Season
Mother
My Boys: The Complete Second & Third Season
The Red Shoes (Criterion Collection)
The Runaways
Tin Man (Collector's Edition)


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