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Extras! Extras! Read All About Them On ‘Jackass 3.5,’ ‘The Adjustment Bureau,’ ‘Sucker Punch,’ ‘Battle: LA’ and More
Streaming or downloading movies is a convenient way to rent a flick even though the picture and sound quality are not as good as Blu-ray, but those sometimes fun behind-the-scenes extras are not usually available digitally. To keep you spinning physical discs for years to come, studios are including innovative and often immersive bonus features on the DVDs and Blu-rays of your favorite movies and TV shows. Read all about this month’s best extras served up on shiny silver platters that take you beyond the feature presentations.
The Adjustment Bureau: The coolest feature on the Blu-ray version is easily “The Labyrinth of Doors: Interactive Map of New York.” Just like Matt Damon in the movie, you can explore the Big Apple like a Bureau agent by leaping through one door to the next and watching either a snippet of the movie or a short clip of behind-the-scenes footage from that particular location.
Battle: Los Angeles: This alien-invasion shoot-’em-up starring Aaron Eckhart and Michelle Rodriguez already looks like a videogame, so it makes sense that the Blu-ray contains a 30-minute demo version of Resistance 3 that is playable on your PS3. The BD also contains a “Command Control” picture-in-picture commentary track featuring various interviews with the cast and crew about the production, which was actually shot in Louisiana—not Southern California.
Rubber: If you are game for a movie about a seemingly regular tire that comes to life and starts telepathically exploding people while on a murderous rampage in the desert, then you probably expect the supplements to be equally freaky. Well, you’d be right. Check out the interview with director Quentin Dupieux during which the interviewer is a male blow-up doll and all of Dupieux’s answers are backwards masked and subtitled, sort of like those “Red Room” sequences in Twin Peaks.
Sanctum: This soggy thriller about divers trapped in underground labyrinth of caves drowned with critics, but there are some extras of note that are actually more interesting than the film itself. “Sanctum: The Real Story” explores the terrifying real-life adventure that inspired the movie and is available on both the DVD and Blu-ray. The BD also adds “Nullarbor Dreaming,” a documentary that follows a team of cave divers and their fateful exploration of a mammoth cave system in Australia.