This week’s edition of Digital Wire Blu-ray Releases features new release announcements for several important upcoming home video releases, including a pair of acclaimed indie genre flicks, a raunchy comedy smash featuring two of the funniest actors working today, and a trio of high profile cult classics making their Blu-ray debut soon courtesy of Shout! Factory. We also have an update on this summer’s release of an extended cut of one of last year’s biggest blockbusters.

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Just before Sunday night’s Super Bowl, Terminator Genisys star Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a video where he revealed which team he was rooting for by holding up a sign with a metal Terminator robot hand, and during NBC’s live broadcast of the big game, there was a Terminator Genisys TV Spot for the film.

But that wasn’t the end of the night for the former California governor. After the Super Bowl, the actor made his way over to The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon for the special live episode. Right before the first commercial break (after the star-studded a capella version of Queen’s “We Are the Champions), Schwarzenegger made a smokey entrance in his Terminator attire of t-shirt, leather jacket, and dark sunglasses to simply say “We’ll be back.”

There’s no individual clip of the entrance, but the full episode is embedded here below, so skip to around the 30:30-minute mark just before the first ad break to see it. [Update – the individual clip is now online, see it here below.]

The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon lifted the spirits of Seahawks fans, while filling the proud hearts of Patriots fans, with an awesome post-Super Bowl live episode from Phoenix, Arizona near the big game that included two of his best bits: the lip sync battle and a capella. Watch both segments here below, along with other highlights from the show.

Fallon’s epic lip sync battle was between Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, and of course, himself. Ferrell came out with Beyonce’s “Drunk in Love” complete with dance moves, followed by Fallon’s lip-syncing Kelly Clarkson’s “Since You Been Gone.” Kevin Hart did a moving “All of Me” by John Legend, crooning to Will Ferrell, who tried to move in for a kiss.

Ride Along
Director: Tim Story
Cast: Kevin Hart, Ice Cube, Tika Sumpter, John Leguizamo, Laurence Fishburne
Universal Pictures
Rated PG-13 | 100 Minutes
Release Date: January 17, 2013

Directed by Tim Story (Think Like a Man), Ride Along stars Kevin Hart as Ben, a hyperactive hardcore gamer who joins his potential brother-in-law James (Ice Cube), a detective, on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta in order to prove himself worthy of marrying Angela (Tika Sumpter), James’ sister.

Tim Story is the filmmaker responsible for such cinematic atrocities as Taxi, Fantastic Four, and Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer. The director came onto the scene in 2002 with the well-received comedy Barbershop, which also stars Ice Cube, but hasn’t made a decent movie since.

I’d like to tell you that Ride Along serves as a set of shock paddles to Story’s flatlining career, but this contrived mess of clichés is dead on arrival. An odd-couple comedy starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart has a lot of potential – just look at this clip from Conan – but Ride Along is such a colossal misfire because of its uninspired, unfunny script.

Krod Mandoon & The Flaming Sword of Fire
DVD
Created by Peter A. Knight
Sean Maguire, Matt Lucas, John Rhys-Davies, Kevin Hart
Comedy Central
Release date: March 23, 2010

In a time when all you had to go on were your brains and your brawn, and warlocks and mythical creatures were around, we find the hero of our story Krod Mandoon. This somewhat insecure but courageous hero is thrown into many situations that would normally take great skill to escape. Fortunately for him and his band of somewhat bumbling misfits, pure dumb luck is on their side as well. Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire is a six-episode miniseries created by Peter A. Knight for BBC Two and Comedy Central.

I was not sure what to make of this show when I first saw the advertisement playing on Comedy Central last summer, but I knew one thing for sure, that it looked hilarious. To my surprise it did not disappoint. While having a bit of a slow start (which is to be expected of new shows sometimes) it gradually gets better as it goes. If you love corny and raunchy humor, then you will love this series.