There’s a growing trend among families and friends to give Christmas gifts AFTER the holidays are over when prices are dramatically slashed. If the people on your wishlist aren’t buying that excuse, stick an IOU in their stocking and tell ‘em you’ve got this giveaway on LOCKDOWN. To support the release of the Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon DVD & Blu-ray, we’re giving away the aforementioned title along with Cowboys & Aliens, The Change-Up, Fast Five, AND a Blu-ray player. So, why not roll the dice and enter? You’re already in the doghouse for that stunt you pulled at Thanksgiving. Find out how to enter after the jump.

The new Robot Chicken Star Wars Episode III special came out on DVD and Blu-ray July 12th. It’s the first-ever Blu-ray release for the Robot Chicken franchise, which means you can actually see the puppet strings along with the fingerprints of the handler’s on the figures’ naughty parts. COED had the opportunity to interview co-creator… Click to read more

Here are all the hot DVDs being released this week.

Here are the DVDs being released this week that you must check out. We start things off with the action thriller Law Abiding Citizen.

With the breakneck speed of technological advances that we saw in the first years of the 21st century, the 2000s have had some of the best new products released. Here are the top ten of the decade.

Just last week I was talking about Gamer, where players controlled other people via their minds like a virtual avatar. Now comes Surrogates, with robot bodies taking over from weak fleshy bodies that control them via a mind control pod. Existing only as a human never looked so boring.
Surrogates

Releasing on DVD and Blu-Ray
It is the future, and people are liv… Click to read more

Lots of comedy this week with great stand up, a new comedy from Ricky Gervais, and an action movie where gamers are directly controlling prisoners in a battle with their lives in a simulated video game. People controlling other people as avatars in a completely different realm? No wonder it bombed in the box office.
Gamer

Releasing on DVD and Blu-Ray
Gamer is t… Click to read more

Something for everyone this week, with an Oscar-contending action/drama flick, another season of one of the longest running series on television, as well as some good ol’ fashion horror to boot:
The Hurt Locker

Releasing on DVD and Blu-Ray
If you take a look at some of the top critic’s choices for best films of 2009, you’re going to see the… Click to read more

January is a typical wasteland of DVD/Blu-Ray releases as most studios blow their wad in December, leaving mostly category re-issues this week like Cheaper by the Dozen 2, available for the first time on Blu-ray. Uh . . . great.
But there are a few releases this week worth noting, particularly the most finalist OF all the Final Destinations to date and a few goo… Click to read more

Well, what do you know–you just got back to the pad, a brand new HDTV in the backseat, and a hefty credit card bill in your back pocket. And while times are tough–as we’ve hard many times before–you just got yourself a shiny 1080P LCD TV and the details of how you financed such a purchase can wait for another day. So, you hook up your beautiful set, fire it up and – crap- you have jack to watch on it…

But now they are getting ugly.
The Blu-ray/HD DVD war has intensified over the holiday, but their idiot followers are taking it personally. On the corporate side, both camps have been particularly aggressive this holiday season, offering a variety of discounts, free movies, and other incentives to convince consumers to back a particular format.
If you ha… Click to read more

I despise Michael Bay – not because of his back catalog of overstuffed, budget-husking flicks (The Rock and Bad Boys were A-OK action fluff IMHO). There are hundreds-upon-hundreds of hacks in Hollywood; to pick out Bay as the single, solitary bane of moviemaking existence is plausible, but not probable.
I despise Michael Bay for being such a jaded, w… Click to read more