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DVD/Blu-Ray Tuesday Roundup (December 4th 2012)

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• DVD Reviews

It’s time for the DVD/Blu-Ray Tuesday Roundup of December 4th 2012! Some of titles coming out today include: The Dark Knight Rises, Eastbound & Down: The Complete Third Season, Simpsons: Season 15, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and more. Each week I’ll list the latest DVD/Blu-Ray releases and point out the ones worth buying. I can’t review everything I get so this serves as a nice guide for what’s coming out each week. Plus, it’s just fun making fun of movies and TV shows!
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London Music Works – “Music from the Batman Trilogy”

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Record Label: Silva Screen
Genre: Film Score
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Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy have been some of the finest filmmaking in the last 20 years. The same can be said for Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard’s score for Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. I always love hearing the compilations from London Music Works and the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Hans Zimmer composes “Aurora” composition in dedication to theater shooting victims

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The Dark Knight Rises composer Hans Zimmer is dedicating a piece he composed called “Aurora” to the Batman theater shooting victims. He worked on the track this week and is donating 100% of the proceeds to charities to the victims & families. It’s an 8 minute or so track that’s memorable and somber. Help out and purchase the track on Watertower Music’s website or iTunes (will be on there soon).
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Reel Big Fish donate proceeds from Colorado show to Aurora Theater shooting victims & families

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Reel Big Fish played in Denver on Thursday when the Aurora, Colorado shootings took place. Now they are donating proceeds from that show to the families and victims of that tragic event. Talk about a good deed! I expect more bands to follow in their footsteps in the days to come, if they haven’t already. The full band statement is below:
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Christopher Nolan issues a statement on Dark Knight Rises shooting tragedy

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By now, you’ve all heard the upsetting news of the theater shooting at a Dark Knight Rises screening in Aurora, Colorado. Some gun-tooting loser ended up shooting up a movie theater, killing 12 people (including a hockey writer Jessica Ghawi) and injuring 59 others. It’s quite scary to think that this could have happened (and still happen) at any movie theater; just because any asshole can easily walk into a store and get a gun. If you think there shouldn’t be some type of gun control, I’m sorry but you’re a moron! A lot of celebrities have been commenting about the tragedy including Director Christopher Nolan. He has issued a statement about the tragedy which you can read below:
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Hans Zimmer – The Dark Knight Rises

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Record Label: Warner Music
Genre: Film Score
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The final Batman in the Christopher Nolan series is upon us, which means another fantastic film score by Hans Zimmer! Everything that you have loved from Zimmer’s Dark Knight score returns and I can’t think of a better film score out this year than this one.
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