Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return To NYC!
Studio: Nickelodeon
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Retail: $14.99
ASIN: B00WGEALKW
Running Time: 157 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

While TMNT fans are patiently waiting for the final episodes of the third season to air on Nickelodeon, they grab their hands on the newest DVD release, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return To NYC!, which features seven action-packed episodes (Vision Quest, Return to New York, Serpent Hunt, The Pig and the Rhino, Battle for New York - Part 1, Battle for New York - Part 2, Casey Jones vs. the Underworld) from the current season. Special Features includes Mutation of a Scene for each episode.

Season Three started with the Turtles along with their human pals Casey Jones and April O'Neil, taking shelter at April's family farm as the Kraang and Shredder take over New York City. "Vision Quest" finds Leonardo leading the turtles into the forest, so they can be one with nature. They quickly receive a message from a spiritual manifestation of Splinter, which leads them on a journey to overcome their weaknesses.


The Turtles, April and Casey head back to New York City, which is overrun by Kraangdroids and Foot Clan, to search for Splinter. Thanks to amnesia, Splinter has lost his humanity and the turtles must somehow convince him to snap back to his normal self in "Return to New York."


Now reunited with Splinter, the turtles go in search of his daughter, Karai in "Serpent Hunt," whom is now a serpent mutant, but they must deal with a handful of Kraangdroids as well as two humans, Zeck and Sternko, who work for Shredder.

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If you are in a book club, where do you meet? A restaurant, someone's home, the library? If you aren't in a book club, why not?

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   I've never been involved in a book club. If I every am, it would probably be best to meet at someone's home for the club as a restaurant would be too noisy and a library is a little too quite.

“The best Nicholas Sparks movie since The Notebook”* out on Digital HD Now and Coming to Blu-ray and DVD on July 14

The Longest Ride has won hearts everywhere with its lovely and talented cast including young actors Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson, Oona Chaplin, and Jack Huston and the accomplished Alan Alda. In celebration of the Blu-ray/DVD release, we present to you this lineup’s family lineage extending through years and years of hit movies and colossal careers.


Known for having inherited his father’s iconic good looks, Scott Eastwood broke hearts everywhere as the sexy cowboy in The Longest Ride. If you haven’t guessed yet, his dad is the legendary Clint Eastwood. He became a movie star through classic films such as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Dirty Harry, and Escape from Alcatraz among many others.

Echoes Of War
Director: Kane Senes
Starring: James Badge Dale, Ethan Embry, William Forsythe, Maika Monroe
Studio: ARC Entertainment
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Retail: $20.99
ASIN: B00W3W2QB4
Running Time: 99 minutes
Rating: R
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Arriving on DVD on Tuesday July 7, 2015 is the western-drama Echoes Of War. Co-written and directed by Kane Senes, the film stars James Badge Dale (The Lone Ranger, Iron Man 3), Ethan Embry, William Forsythe (The Rock, Once Upon a Time in America) and Maika Monroe. There are no extras or special features on the single-disc.

Echoes Of War centers on a Confederate veteran Wade (played by James Badge Dale) returning home to the post-Civil War Texas to visit his brother-in-law Seamus Riley (played by Ethan Embry), his niece Abigail (played by Maika Monroe) and nephew (played by Owen Teague), only to learn that the family is still grieving the death of his sister and that they are barely making it on selling animal pelts.

The neighboring Randolph McCluskey (played by William Forsythe) has had his own share of grief with the death of his son, which is drove his wife Doris (played by Beth Broderick) crazy. Plus, he lost most of his cattle during the war.

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Do you lend your books out to friends and family?

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   I use to let an elderly friend borrow books, but her eyes are failing her, so she's no longer interested in reading.

Maggie
Director: Henry Hobson
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson
Studio: LionsGate Home Entertainment
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Retail: $12.99
ASIN: B00XI057UM
Running Time: 95 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Buy Link: Amazon

Arriving on Blu-ray this coming Tuesday, July 7, 2015 is the post-apocalyptic drama film Maggie. Directed by Henry Hobson, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger (Terminator Genysis), Abigail Breslin (Zombieland) and Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck). Special Features include: Director's Commentary, "Making Maggie" Featurette, Deleted Scenes, Cast/Crew Interviews and a Trailer Gallery.

In a role that is a complete opposite of his action-flicks, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Wade, a father who retrieves his daughter Maggie (played by Abigail Breslin) from a hospital in the city. Maggie has been infected with the Necroambulist virus that slowly turns people into flesh-eating zombies. Against the doctor's orders, Wade takes Maggie back home to their farmhouse. Fearing they'll be infected too, he sends Maggie's step-siblings, Bobby and Molly (played by Aidan and Carsen Flowers) to live with their aunt while Maggie spends her last days at home with him and her stepmother Caroline (played by Joely Richardson).

Abigail Breslin ("Maggie") and Arnold Schwarzenegger ("Wade") star in Lionsgate Home Entertainment's MAGGIE.

If you're a male and over 30, like me, you might have a hard time gaining muscle and losing body fat as most likely your testosterone has started to decrease. While you can go to a doctor and get a prescription, it can be a bit costly and you're taking a risk of exposing yourself to unwanted side effects. Luckily for us there are many dietary supplements that work as a testosterone booster.

For the past few weeks, I've been taking two capsules of Maximum Power by Core Vitality daily. The supplement is manufactured in a  state-of-the-art GMP and FDA approved facility.

It has a mixture of Tongkat Ali, Maca (0.6% extract) L-Arginne and Ginseng Blend as well as 745mg of Core Vitality's proprietary blend. 

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Fire Birds
Director: David Green
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Retail: $14.98
ASIN: B00WV7TN80
Running Time: 91 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Arriving on Blu-ray for the first time is the 1990 action-film Fire Birds. Directed by David Green, the film stars Nicholas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones and Sean Young. There are no extras or special features on the single-disc.

Originally released under Disney's Touchstone Pictures label in 1990, the film received negative reviews from critics, all of which compared the storyline to 1985's Top Gun. It didn't do very well with moviegoers at the time, grossing under $15-million before being pulled from theaters after only three weeks.

The film centers on U.S. Army and the Drug Enforcement Administration putting together a task force to stop the drug cartels in South America. Nicholas Cage plays a hotshot pilot Jake Preston
who enlists into the Apache air-to-air combat training program, which one of the trainees happens be his ex-girlfriend Billie Lee Guthrie (played by Sean Young). Running the training program is flight instructor Brad Little (played by Tommy Lee Jones), whom for some reason sees past Preston's cockiness and pushes him to become a great pilot.

Of course Preston tries to romance Billie Lee before they are sent on a deadly mission to take out the cartel leader, Eric Stoller (played by Bert Rhine).

Ever After: A Nantucket Brides Novel
Nantucket Brides Trilogy, book three
by Jude Deveraux
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pub. Date: June 23, 2015
ISBN: 978-0345541857
Pages: 358
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Now available to purchase in bookstores is the third installment in the Nantucket Brides Trilogy - Ever After by bestselling author Jude Deveraux. It might seem a bit odd to find a male reader writing a review for a contemporary romance, but the fact is that I grew up reading any book that I could grab my hands on, which included the Jude Deveraux romances that my mother owned.

Typically, the author uses characters that are related to the Montgomery and Taggert family that first appeared in the 1980 novel, The Black Lyon, which was published a year before I was born. The characters that appear in the Nantucket Brides series are in related to the same family line.

Ever After centers on Hallie Hartley, a young woman who just got her physical therapist license. Life hasn't been too easy for her. Her mother died when she was young and her father and stepmother died when she was a teenager, leaving her alone to raise her stepsister Shelly, who’s a spoiled brat.

Just as she's about ready to start a new job, she finds a huge surprise in her living room - Jared Montgomery. It seems Hallie had inherited an old house in Nantucket from a distant relative and Shelly had been posing as her, so she can steal the house. Shelly had also agreed to let to Jared's cousin, James Taggert, stay on the first floor, so she could help him recover from his knee injury, which is really weird as Shelly knows nothing about physical therapy. Once Hallie and Jared figured out what was going on, she quickly agrees to travel to Nantucket and help his cousin as it's the only way to get away from her stepsister.

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