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What's so disappointing is that, with all the potential such a premise offers, the story comes down to a civil war between the colony, led by old-school military man Commander Nathaniel Taylor (Stephen Lang, essentially playing a warmer and more morally ambiguous version of his "Avatar" character), and a rebel faction that stages raids from their refuge in the jungle.
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The rest of it falls into family drama, with the growing pains and adolescent romance of kids in the crucible of the colony, so disconnected from the setting it could be imported from another, much safer series. Only one of the reasons this series fell while the other recent Spielberg-produced science fiction series, "Falling Skies," is making better drama with more hard-edged conflicts and smaller budgets.
Apart from the Lang, who brings an edgy intensity to Taylor, and the wildlife park spectacle of GCI dinosaurs wandering through the episodes, the show is otherwise built on a lot of old clichés in new wrapping. Which is probably why it only lasted 13 episodes.
All 13 episodes are collected on four discs. Features an extended version of the final episode, commentary on the final two episodes, "Occupation" and "Resistance," by producers Brannon Braga and Rene Echevarria and actor Stephen Lang, plus the featurettes "Director's Diaries: Making the Pilot," "Mysteries Explored," and "Cretaceous Life: The Dinosaurs of Terra Nova."
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"Forbidden Hollywood: Volume 7" (Warner Archive) is the collection I've been waiting for. It features two of my favorite pre-code discoveries, "Skyscraper Souls" (1932) and "Employees' Entrance" (1933), both starring Warren William in his silver fox phase: the big business tycoon who's a shark at work and a wolf with the women, putting the moves on the youngest and prettiest girls around. This is the era of kept women and philandering men and these films revel in his alpha male aggressiveness in the boardroom and on the prowl.
"Skyscraper Souls," directed by Edgar Selwyn, stars William as a New York banker and corporate gambler whose financial empire is centered in his beloved 100-story skyscraper (a phallic tower of his power just two stories shy of the Empire State Building), where he not only works but lives in a penthouse apartment. Maureen O'Sullivan is the fresh young beauty he picks out of the secretarial pool to replace his longtime mistress (Verree Teasdale), who is also his personal assistant. He juggles finances the same way he does women, and isn't above lying in either arena, which is why the bank examiners are looking into a dubious loan he made to himself to finance the building.
The pre-code era was famed for its films that pushed the envelope of sex with racy suggestiveness and "Skyscraper Souls" just oozes with lust and overflows with affairs, but the mercenary business dealings are just as forbidden here. William is a depression-era Gordon Gekko obsessed with building his own empire at any cost. O'Sullivan came to the film fresh from "Tarzan the Ape Man" and her wardrobe is almost as skimpy in a couple of scenes here. But she's no simple innocent sullied, despite William's predatory pressure. Everyone is compromised here.
"Employees' Entrance" (1933) is a perfect companion piece. This one, directed by Roy Del Roy, is set in a metropolitan department store with William playing the manager in the same corporate captain manner -- "My code is smash… or be smashed!" he tells the board of directors, and he follows through with a ruthless business code that allows no sentiment -- and Loretta Young as the comely model that he dallies with but refuses to commit to. The store is his true mistress and his life. Wallace Ford is the ambitious young clerk with bright ideas who is also wooing Young while William grooms him in his own image. The film packs a lot of conflict and bad behavior (not to mention a stock market crash and a suicide) in 75 minutes. William is both hero and villain, ruining businesses and lives as he cancels contracts and fires employees when they fail to live up to his standards, and he is suave yet ferocious in the part.
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"Side Effects" (Universal), medical drama-turned-psychological thriller with Jude Law and Rooney Mara, is ostensibly the last feature film from Steven Soderbergh, and it's a pretty sharp piece of filmmaking. Kind of like an updated Joe Esterhaus thriller from the nineties, only smarter and without any ice picks in sight. Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand. Videodrone's review is here.
"Beautiful Creatures" (Warner), the latest teen romance with a supernatural setting, stars Alice Englert as the new girl in town with magical powers and Alden Ehrenreich as the local boy entwined with her fate. Apparently it wasn't popular to spawn a franchise. Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand.
On the more traditionally action-oriented front, there is "The Last Stand" (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, On Demand and at Redbox), the Arnold Schwarzenegger come-back film, and "Parker" (Sony, Blu-ray, DVD, On Demand and at Redbox), with Jason Statham as the brutal anti-hero of the Richard Stark's crime novels. Skewing older is "Stand Up Guys" (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, and at Redbox), the geriatric gangster buddy film with Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin.
"The ABCs of Death" (Magnet, Blu-ray and DVD) is an indie anthology horror film with 26 short pieces, "The Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane" (Eagle Rock) looks back on the first two decades of the legendary band, and the Israeli drama "Yossi" (Strand, DVD) toplines the foreign list this week.
"Citizen Hearst" (HBO, DVD) and "Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters" (Zeitgeist, DVD) lead off the features in the monthly "True Stories" roundup. More releases here.
Most releases are also available as digital download and VOD via iTunes, Amazon, and other web retailers and video services.
Browse the complete New Release Rack here
TV on Disc:
"True Blood: The Complete Fifth Season" (HBO) is the final season of HBO's gothic pulp vampire melodrama supervised by Alan Ball, and he goes for broke with the most extreme season yet: more blood, more conspiracies, more transformations, and way more internal wars within and between the species. A little too much for many fans, but it's still addictive supernatural soap opera for many others. Oh, Sookie! 12 episodes on Blu-ray and DVD, plus commentary tracks, featurettes, and other supplements. Videodrone's review is here.
"Teen Wolf: Season 2" (Fox), MTV's entry in the supernatural teenager series, is turning out to be one of the best of the genre and a much more interesting and engaging series than "True Blood," as far as I'm concerned. 12 episodes on two discs on DVD. Reviewed on Videodrone here.
"Perception: The Complete First Season" (ABC) is TNT's latest attempt at the high-concept detective show with a damaged genius in the lead, this one with Eric McCormack as a schizophrenic neuroscience professor who can't separate his hallucinations from real life. 10 episodes on two discs, DVD. Videodrone's review is here.
Plus: "Saving Hope: The Complete First Season" (eOne), which is also the only season of this cancelled medical show-turned-supernatural drama, and "The Aquabats Super Show: Season One" (Shout! Factory), a kid's show with "the world's first musical crime-fighting super group." Both DVD.
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Cool and Classic:
"The Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics" (Warner) and "The Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Contemporary" (Warner) present nine films on Blu-ray, from 1931 to 2006, and a bonus documentary on DVD, across two box sets. You can enter to win a copy of both volumes in a giveaway from MSN and Warner Home Entertainment. Videodrone's review is here.
Two of Hayao Miyazaki's animated films debut on Blu-ray: "My Neighbor Totoro" (Disney) from 1988, a gentle film of magic and imagination in a time of childhood anxiety and Miyazaki's first genuine masterpiece, and his 2004 fantasy adventure "Howl's Moving Castle" (Disney). Both in Blu-ray+DVD combo packs with Japanese and English soundtracks. Reviewed on Videodrone here.
"National Lampoon's Vacation: 30th Anniversary Edition" (Warner) is a new Blu-ray release of the family road movie comedy with a new documentary.
Cult films from Italy: "Cold Eyes of Fear" (Redemption) and "The Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine" (Redemption), two exploitation horrors of the seventies, are restored for Blu-ray and DVD, and the spaghetti western "Grand Duel" (Blue Underground) with Lee Van Cleef arrives in DVD with the four-disc collection "Spaghetti Westerns Unchained" (Blue Underground).
Also new: the disc debuts of horror films "The Burning" (Shout! Factory) and "The Town that Dreaded Sundown" (Shout! Factory) on Blu-ray+DVD Combo Pack special editions and the Blu-ray debut of the 1990 "Captain America" (Shout Factory) in its correct aspect ratio.
Streams and Channels:
The Netflix original revival of "Arrested Development" debuts on Sunday, May 26 with 15 episodes. Meanwhile, here's what currently new and available on Netflix Instant.
"The Dictator" (2012) is a Sacha Baron Cohen comedy without the mock-documentary stuntwork of "Borat." Which means the gleefully outrageous bad taste and wild exaggerations are pushed to even more cartoonish extremes.
"Defiance" (2008) is a real-life World War II drama with Daniel Craig. Not new but getting a lot of renewed interest is "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982), still the best of the big screen "Star Trek" movies.
And here are a couple of recommended titles that aren't on disc yet: "Longmire: Season 1," the A&E original series starring Robert Taylor, Katee Sackhoff, and Lou Diamond Phillips, and the shadowy British psychological drama "The October Man" (1947).
Browse more Instant offerings here
New On Demand:
"Side Effects," Steven Soderbergh's medical drama-turned-psychological thriller with Jude Law and Rooney Mara, and "Beautiful Creatures," the first film in a new supernatural teen romance franchise, are now available.
Also new is Arnold Schwarzenegger's come-back action film "The Last Stand" and "Parker" with Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez.
Arriving before theatrical release are two comedies: "Free Samples" with Jess Weixler and Jesse Eisenberg and "Kid-Thing" with Sydney Aguirre and Nathan Zellner.
Available from Redbox this week:
Arriving day and date with video stores is "The Last Stand" (Lionsgate Blu-ray and DVD), Arnold Schwarzenegger's come-back action film, "Parker" (Sony, Blu-ray and DVD) with Jason Statham, and "Stand Up Guys" (Lionsgate, Blu-ray and DVD) with Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin.
Also arriving in Redbox kiosks this week is "Gangster Squad" (Warner, Blu-ray and DVD), with Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling as cops in 1940s Los Angeles, and "Promised Land" (Universal, Blu-ray and DVD), a drama about fracking in Midwest farmlands written by and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski.
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Plus 'Defiance' with Daniel Craig, 'Longmire: Season 1,' revisiting 'Khan,' and more
The big news of course is the Netflix original revival of "Arrested Development," which debuts on Sunday, May 26 when 15 episodes all launch at once. We'll try to get a review in by next week. Meanwhile, here's what's available now.
"The Dictator" (2012) is a Sacha Baron Cohen comedy that forgoes all pretense of mock documentary or reality TV parody to make a big, crazy, outrageous comedy that rides roughshod over all boundaries of taste to make both its point and its punchlines. And "it's all the more focused and consistently funny for that," argues MSN film critic Glenn Kenny. For this one, Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen the blithely brutal, oppressive, and self-aggrandizing dictator of the fictional North Africa nation of Wadiya, who gets accidentally deposed and replaced by a dazed and idiotic double (Baron Cohen again) on a trip to speak at the U.N.. To get back at his back-stabbing head of security (Ben Kingsley), he teams up with a dizzy activist health-food store manager (Anna Faris, still one of the funniest women in the movies today), despite her ungainly armpit hair and inexplicable compassion for oppressed refugees from brutal regimes. Videodrone's review is here.
"Defiance" (2008) dramatizes the real-life story of the Bielski brothers, Polish Jews who escaped the Nazi roundups and created a sanctuary for thousands of Jews in the Bellarussia forests during World War II. It was a passion project for director Edward Zwick and Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell star as Bielskis.
Not new but getting a lot of renewed interest is "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982), still the best "Star Trek" feature ever made, a pirate movie in space with an obsessed villain (wild-maned and bare-chested Ricardo Mantalban) and an impish Kirk. Director Nicholas Meyer brings a panache to the production and William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForest Kelley seem to have both gotten in touch with their characters and relationships all over again.
Not on disc is the shadowy British psychological drama "The October Man" (1947), written and produced by Eric Ambler and directed by Roy Ward Baker. John Mills, recovering from head trauma and his psychological torment after surviving a bus crash that killed a little girl he was caring for, is the innocent man accused of murdering a woman from his boarding house, a nightmare of petty characters, gossips and bores. This is film noir with British accents, set in a shadowy nocturnal world of cobblestone streets, lonely alleys, and a fog as atmospheric as it is symbolic of Mills' guilt, and the train whistles from the tracks next to the rooming house pull him back to the accident every time they cut through the night. All this and Joan Greenwood too!
"Brewster's Millions" (1945) is the best of the many screen adaptations of this chestnut of a stage comedy about a guy who has to spend a million in one month with nothing to show for it, and without telling anyone. It's a contrivance but the rather over-eager comedy is a lot of fun, with a terrific Dennis O'Keefe as the hapless Brewster and Eddie Anderson (Rochester on "The Jack Benny Show") hilarious as his sardonic sidekick. Dwan has a light touch and, let's face, is there ever a time when the mix of millionaire fantasy and money anxieties is not timely?
Instant TV:
Arriving on Netflix instant a week before disc "Longmire: Season 1," the new A&E modern frontier cop show based on the Wyoming-set mystery novels by Craig Johnson and starring Robert Taylor as Sheriff Walt Longmire, a hard-bitten Montana Sheriff with frontier sensibility. I've only seen a single episode but it's got its own austere style and rhythm and a pace and tone to go with it. Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck in "Battlestar Galactica") is his deputy, a former Chicago homicide cop frustrated by the job but respectful of Longmire, and Lou Diamond Phillips is Longmire's buddy.
Previous Netflix Instant recommendations here.
For more releases, see Hot Tips and Top Picks: DVDs, Blu-rays and streaming video for week of May 21
Plus Italian horror, spaghetti westerns, 'Captain America' circa 1990, and more
"The Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics" (Warner) and "The Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Contemporary" (Warner) present nine films on Blu-ray, from 1931 to 2006, and a bonus documentary on DVD, across two box sets. Videodrone's review is here, and you can enter to win a copy of both volumes in a giveaway from MSN and Warner Home Entertainment.
Two of Hayao Miyazaki's animated films debut on Blu-ray: his gentle and imaginative 1988 masterpiece "My Neighbor Totoro" (Disney) and his 2004 fantasy adventure "Howl's Moving Castle" (Disney). Reviewed on Videodrone here.
"National Lampoon's Vacation: 30th Anniversary Edition" (Warner) offers the holiday road comedy directed by Harold Ramis and written by future youth movie mogul John Hughes. Chevy Chase is the bumbling Dad who takes wife Beverly D'Angelo and kids Anthony Michael Hall and Dana Barron on a cross country road trip in the family station wagon. Disaster and hilarity ensues. Previously on Blu-ray, the new edition features the supplements of the previous release (cast and director commentary and an introduction by stars Chase and randy Quaid with producer Matty Simmons) plus a new 85-minute documentary.
Two exploitation horrors of the seventies, restored by British genre house Redemption from original 35mm negatives, come stateside. "Cold Eyes of Fear" (Kino Lorber), directed by Enzo G. Castellari, opens like a traditional Italian giallo before it settles into a rather conventional, if intermittently stylish thriller. With hints of voyeurism, homo-eroticism, and corruption, it keeps threatening to use the decadent setting of swinging London for something more ambitious than this simple revenge scheme, though Castellari does deliver on a strong and smartly directed conclusion. Fernando Ray, Frank Wolff, and Karin Schubert star. English dub version only. Blu-ray and DVD.
"The Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine" (Kino Lorber), a self-professed example of "nunsploitation" directed by Sergio Grieco, mixes a "Romeo and Juliet" romance with a story inspired by "The Devils of Loudon," elements of Edgar Allan Poe, an Inquisition setting, and the usual sex and sadism of Italian exploitation horror. The results are neither as lurid as promised nor inspired enough to stand on its dubious dramatic merits. Italian with English subtitles. Blu-ray and DVD.
"Captain America: Collector's Edition" (Shout Factory) presents the 1990 film starring Matt Salinger (son of the late, legendary J.D. Salinger) as the gee-whiz symbol of American World War II pluck, a corny piece of nostalgic pulp with cheap action, cheesy dialogue and a charismatically challenged leading man. It was actually made for the big screen, but thanks to some bad luck with rights issues, the 1990 film was delayed a couple of years and dumped to home video. The Blu-ray presents the widescreen debut of the film on disc (an earlier MOD release was the boxy 1.33:1 Academy Ratio) and includes a new featurette featuring interviews with Matt Salinger and director Albert Pyun.
Also from Shout Factory are a pair of Blu-ray+DVD Combo Pack releases of cult horror films making their respective disc debuts. Charles B. Pierce's 1977 "The Town that Dreaded Sundown" (Shout Factory) stars Ben Johnson as a Texas Ranger after a killer in 1946 Texarkana, and this edition features commentary, interviews with co-stars Andrew Prine and Dawn Wells, and the bonus 1979 Charles B. Pierce film "The Evictors" with Vic Morrow and Michael Parks.
"The Burning" (Shout Factory), from 1981, is a summer camp slasher movie with early appearances by Fisher Stevens, Jason Alexander, and Holly Hunter, and a screenplay by Harvey and Bob Weinstein. With commentary and interviews.
The spaghetti western "Grand Duel" (Blue Underground) with Lee Van Cleef has been a staple of bargain bin releases for decades. It came out on Blu-ray in a nice edition a couple of months ago from bargain label Mill Creek. Now it arrives on DVD in new edition mastered from the original camera negative and featuring commentary by journalists C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke.
It makes a companion piece to the four-disc collection "Spaghetti Westerns Unchained" (Blue Underground), a repackaging of some of the best Italian westerns of the era, notably the original "Django" (1966), directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero, and "Keoma" (1976), probably the last great spaghetti western, directed by Tarantino fave Enzo G. Castellari and starring Nero, who also stars in "Texas Adios" (1966). The only film without Nero in this set is "Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot" (1967), a terrific revenge western with Tomas Milian. They've all been released before, but this is a well-curated collection with good well-mastered transfers. DVD.
"Lego Batman: The Movie" (Warner) is… well, an animated superhero film based on the video game featuring Lego versions of comic book superheroes. Blu-ray and DVD, with a featurette and bonus cartoons.
For more releases, see Hot Tips and Top Picks: DVDs, Blu-rays and streaming video for week of May 21
Plus 'Saving Hope,' 'Aquabats,' more 'Spy' form Britain, and more
"True Blood: The Complete Fifth Season" (HBO) is the final season of HBO's gothic pulp vampire melodrama supervised by Alan Ball, and he goes for broke with the most extreme season yet. Meanwhile, "Teen Wolf: Season 2" (Fox), MTV's entry in the supernatural teenager series, is turning out to be one of the best of the genre and a much more interesting and engaging series. Both reviewed on Videodrone here.
"Perception: The Complete First Season" (ABC) is TNT's latest attempt at the high-concept detective show with a damaged genius in the lead. In this case, veteran FBI Agent Kate Moretti (Rachael Leigh Cook) recruits her former professor, eccentric neuroscientist Daniel Pierce (Eric McCormack) to help make the connections in challenging cases. His problem, apart from issues of social decorum, is sorting out hallucinations from real life. He's schizophrenic, but the lovable, funny kind that makes good TV, and he refuses the medication that tames the hallucinations because it also dulls his senses. And because he's too attached to his imaginary friend (Kelly Rowan), who serves as his sounding board while he bats around ideas and offers advice that he knows he should follow, but doesn't.
Specifics aside, it plays out ideas we've seen a lot on network and cable shows alike, with his hallucinations becoming sidekicks or cyphers for Psychological Issues That Must Be Confronted, a gimmick that is only really interesting when starts to dismiss odd real life occurrences as just more visions. And while it's amiable enough, with an easy chemistry between McCormack and Cook (hey, do you think there's a romance brewing here?), it doesn't offer much in the way of distinctive mysteries, unique characters, or unusual situations. At least not within the genre. 10 episodes on two discs, DVD.
"Spy: Series 2" (BFS) is the second season of the hilarious British comedy about a sad-sack single dad (Darren Boyd) who inadvertently gets recruited by MI-5 by the easily excitable and distracted Robert Lindsay. All Boyd wants to do is impress his snooty son, but of course he has to keep his job a secret. Even when he brings the kid along for career day. Yet he's strangely adept at this kind of work. It's just the rest of it -- sustaining personal relationships, avoiding inappropriate remarks, impressing an intellectually precocious son -- that eludes him. The funniest British import I've seen in years. 11 episodes (including the 2012 Christmas episode) on two discs, DVD.
"Saving Hope: The Complete First Season" (eOne) stars Erica Durance as a surgeon whose fiancée (Michael Shanks) falls into a coma and haunts the hospital hallways, where he meets the spirits of dead patients. The Canadian medical show-turned-supernatural drama played stateside on NBC, where it lasted 11 episodes, but it's got a second season coming up on Canada. 13 episodes on DVD, including two episodes that never aired, plus interviews with the stars and behind-the-scenes footage.
"The Aquabats Super Show: Season One" (Shout! Factory) is a kid's show featuring "the world's first musical crime-fighting super group," a rock band on a never-ending quest to battle evil through music, super powers, and comedy. The series, which plays on Hub, features live-action skits, animated sequences, and musical numbers. 13 episodes on two discs, plus the original pilot and commentary on multiple episodes. DVD.
"Laverne and Shirley: The Sixth Season" (Paramount) features 22 episodes on three discs of the nostalgic sitcom starring Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams as two girls in Milwaukee. DVD, with gag reel.
"Mel Brooks: Make a Noise" (Shout! Factory) and "Witness: A World in Conflict Through a Lens" (HBO) lead off the non-fiction TV in the monthly "True Stories" roundup. More releases here.
For more releases, see Hot Tips and Top Picks: DVDs, Blu-rays and streaming video for week of May 21
Two box sets, one classic and one contemporary, of gangster movie landmarks
Back in the thirties, as sound remade the movie industry, Warner Bros. blasted into the new decade as the studio of scrappy, snappy, street-smart movies, full of wise-cracking reporters, blue-collar hustlers, and hard-luck guys and dolls struggling to get by in the hard times of the depression. They were also the godfathers of the gangster movie, launching the genre and its two most famous icons with early sound movie landmarks "Little Caesar" (1931) with Edward G. Robinson and "The Public Enemy" (1931) with James Cagney.
Both of those films debut on Blu-ray this week in "Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics" (Warner), which arrives with its companion set "Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Contemporary" (Warner). Together they present nine films on Blu-ray, from 1931 to 2006, and a bonus documentary on DVD.
Enter to win a copy of both volumes in a giveaway from MSN and Warner Home Entertainment.
"Classics" is the more exciting of the two releases, as the four landmark gangster movies from Warner Bros. all make their respective Blu-ray debuts this week (they also debut in individual volumes on Blu-ray). Along with "Little Caesar" (1931), which established the classic rise-and-fall arc of the gangster thriller, and "The Public Enemy" (1931), which unleashed dynamo Cagney in a star-making turn, is "The Petrified Forest" (1936), which gave supporting player Humphrey Bogart his breakthrough role as a mad dog of a fugitive killer, and "White Heat" (1949), with Cagney in an explosive performance as the most psychotic gangster in classic cinema: "Made it, ma. Top of the world!"
All four films also debut in individual volumes on Blu-ray include the commentary tracks, featurettes, archival shorts, and other supplements from the earlier DVD releases, and the set includes the bonus documentary "Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film" on DVD.
All of these films are newly mastered in 1080p from the best elements available for their Blu-ray debut. In the case of "Little Caesar," which was produced in 1930, they are not in top shape and the disc shows the damage of its surviving elements, but as with other preserved classics, the sharpness and detail of the image helps us see "through" the damage to the film below. The other films are in better condition, with "White Heat" being both the best film and the best looking disc in the set. As directed by Raoul Walsh, it's white hot and Cagney gives a blindingly unhinged performance as an emotionally unstable and mentally unbalanced Cody Jarrett, putting his dancer's moves to work in a riveting physical performance.
See clips of Cagney in "The Public Enemy" and "White Heat" below.
"Contemporary" collects five films that have previously been released on Blu-ray, including three by Martin Scorsese: "Mean Streets" (1973), the director's first great film and perhaps the most personal gangster movie ever made; the violent, dynamic, and exhilarating "Goodfellas" (1990), a stylistic tour-de-force which has lost none of its visceral charge or cinematic ecstasy in the twenty-some years since its release; and "The Departed" (2006), which earned Scorsese his first Academy Award for Best Director. Scorsese's gangster films offer a vibrant alternative to the "Godfather" films, suggesting both the glamor of gang life and the lurid, mercenary reality of the life, and his filmmaking captures the energy of the violent life, as well as the jittery paranoia.
Brian De Palma's "The Untouchables" (1987) was actually a Paramount production and takes a more operatic approach to the classic gangster movie, while Michael Mann's "Heat" (1995) is a thoroughly modern crime thriller of professional heist crew headed by Robert De Niro and Al Pacino as an obsessed cop on their trail. As mentioned, they have all been released on Blu-ray before and this release includes the supplements from the previous Blu-ray releases: commentary tracks, featurettes, and more.
Both sets collect the five discs in a compact cast with hinged trays (my preferred storage option) in a sturdy box with an accompanying booklet with stills and (very brief) notes on the films.
Two films clips are after the jump. Click on "More" below…
For more releases, see Hot Tips and Top Picks: DVDs, Blu-rays and streaming video for week of May 21
Plus 'Beautiful Creatures,' 'The ABCs of Death,' 'Yossi' from Israel, and the Rolling Stones
"Side Effects" (Universal), medical drama-turned-psychological thriller with Jude Law and Rooney Mara, is ostensibly the last feature film from Steven Soderbergh, and it's a pretty sharp piece of filmmaking. Videodrone's review is here.
"The Last Stand" (Lionsgate) – Always on the look-out for new flavors for its studio projects, Hollywood is now drafting directors from South Korea's lively action and crime thriller industry and "The Last Stand" is the first out of the gate. Designed as a come-back for Arnold Schwarzenegger, it's also the American debut of Korean director Kim Jee-woon, who made a reputation with dark horrors like "I Saw the Devil" and "A Tale of Two Sisters" but hit it big with the wild, wild Eastern take on old west goofiness, "The Good, the Bad, and the Weird."
The buoyant energy of that colorful lark is conspicuously absent in this thoroughly conventional frontier showdown, which pits border town sheriff Schwarzenegger and his crew against a Mexican drug lord (Eduardo Noriega) on a fast car getaway with a small army of soldiers clearing the roads with maximum collateral damage. Kim does create an amiable camaraderie within the group (even with Johnny Knoxville's comic relief overkill) but fails to add any memorable invention to an otherwise familiar shoot 'em up / blow 'em up / smash and crash action movie. More from MSN film critic Glenn Kenny.
Blu-ray and DVD, with four featurettes and deleted and extended scenes. The Blu-ray includes a digital copy of the film for portable media players and an UltraViolet digital copy for download and instant streaming. Also On Demand and at Redbox.
"Parker" (Sony) stars Jason Statham as the brutal anti-hero of the crime novels of Richard Stark (a pseudonym for Donald Westlake). He's not the first to take the role (Lee Marvin was, in "Point Blank") but he is the first to take name from the books, even if he is a Brit in an American role, and MSN film critic Glenn Kenny recommends the film as "not only a very good vehicle for the star; it's a pretty damn good crime movie overall."
"Director Taylor Hackford's certainly had his ups and downs but he always seems energized when working with down-and-dirty material. He doesn't shy away from the material's less reputable aspects…. Statham stomps and chomps through all his action scenes with spectacular vigor while never losing his cool, and Jennifer Lopez, believe it or not, is better than credible as his skeptical and then smitten eventual accomplice." Michael Chiklis
Blu-ray and DVD, with director commentary and two featurettes, plus an UltraViolet digital copy for download and instant streaming. The Blu-ray also includes two additional featurettes. Also On Demand and at Redbox.
"Beautiful Creatures" (Warner) is the latest attempt to launch a new franchise of teen romance with a supernatural setting, with Alice Englert as the new girl in town with magical powers and Alden Ehrenreich as the local boy entwined with her fate. "Just as the "Twilight" series rejiggered (rather idiotically, if you ask me) the mythologies of vampires and werewolves and other supernatural favorites, so does "Beautiful Creatures" -- written and directed by Richard LaGravenese from the first novel in a series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl -- give us a new vision of witchery that is more playful, coherent and intelligent," explains MSN film critic Glenn Kenny. "If you're thinking a deep-fried, more hormonally charged Harry Potter, that's not it, but it's close to the intention at least." Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis, and Emma Thompson provide the adult supervision here.
Blu-ray and DVD, with deleted scenes. Exclusive to the Blu-ray are six short featurettes, plus an UltraViolet digital copy for download and instant streaming. Also On Demand.
"Perfectly agreeable thanks to the charms and charisma of its three stars, "Stand Up Guys" (Lionsgate) promises buckets of fun and a raucous team-up between Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin," writes MSN film critic James Rocchi. "The fact is, that bill of sale isn't quite matched by the contents of the movie, but the enterprise is light and slight enough to mean that you can enjoy watching the three lead actors playing sunset-years tough guys out for one last spree before the bill has to be paid."
Blu-ray and DVD, with director commentary, three featurettes, and deleted scenes. The Blu-ray also includes an UltraViolet digital copy for download and instant streaming. Also at Redbox.
Indies and oddities:
"The ABCs of Death" (Magnet) is an anthology horror film with a short piece for every letter of the alphabet and an impressive line-up 27 directors from around the world, including Jason Eisener ("Hobo with a Shotgun"), Xavier Gens ("Frontier(s)"), Jorge Michel Grau ("We Are What We Are"), Nacho Vigalondo ("Extraterrestrial"), Ti West ("The Innkeepers"), Ben Wheatley ("The Kill List"), and the team of Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet ("Amer"). "With such a wide pool of talent and so many different themes and plots covered, "The ABCs of Death" unquestionably has something to offer for every horror fan (even as they snooze through the film's tamer segments)," offers MSN critic Kate Erbland. This is unrated and definitely for mature audiences.
Blu-ray and DVD, with commentary, numerous featurettes, deleted scenes, and other supplements. The Blu-ray features more supplements and there's also a Blu-ray+DVD Combo Pack.
"The Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane" (Eagle Rock) premiered on HBO in 2012, but the nearly two-hour documentary is a feature film-worthy tour through their history, through a rich array of archival clips and counterpoint with new interviews by the band. With primary focus on their dramatic sixties and seventies, the film, in the words of Time Magazine TV critic James Poniewozik, "uses documentary outtake footage from decades of earlier films to spin a new take on that trip, paralleling the Stones as news story (the drug busts, Brian Jones' death, Altamont) to their development as artists, aiming to show how one was inseparable from the other." Bret Morgen directs and the Blu-ray and DVD editions feature bonus performances by the band from concert and TV appearances in 1964 and 1965.
'Totoro' and 'Howl's Moving Castle debut of Blu-ray
Director, artist, producer, and animation visionary Hayao Miyaziki is much more than Japan's Walt Disney. Miyazaki is an original with an epic vision, an animist mythology, an environmentally-conscious subtext, and a dedication to the art of hand-drawn animation maintained in the face of the digital revolution. As both director and producer (through his Studio Ghibli), Miyazaki believed that children deserved stories with depth and emotional complexity as well as imagination and excitement, and that's what he delivered in film after film. Two of his greatest films debut on Blu-ray this week: "My Neighbor Totoro" (1988) and "Howl's Moving Castle" (2004).
"My Neighbor Totoro" (Disney), a gentle film of magic and imagination in a time of childhood anxiety, is Miyazaki's first genuine masterpiece. Released in 1988, it's a darling story of two young sisters befriended by a forest spirits (among them a friendly, perhaps imaginary, giant blue hedgehog who introduces them to the wonders of nature) one magical summer. While the fantasy and whimsy captures the playful imagination of children, a powerful undercurrent of emotional crisis grounds their experience: their infirm mother is recuperating from some unexplained illness in a local hospital. Rarely has there been such a tender and respectful exploration of the emotions and fears of children, and never in such a delightful flight of fantastical adventure and wonder. A masterpiece of modern animated fantasy made for children and adults alike.
about the blogger
Sean Axmaker is MSN's DVD columnist and the editor of Parallax View. He writes for Turner Classic Movies Online and his work has appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Seattle Weekly, The Stranger, Senses of Cinema, Asian Cult Cinema, Psychotronic Video and "The Scarecrow Video Guide."
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So long, Exide: Frisco lead-acid battery recycling plant closes after 48 years
The Exide Technologies lead-acid battery recycling plant has been a contentious issue for Frisco residents in recent years. Photo by Kelsey Kruzich.
By Anthony Tosie,
Published: Friday, November 30, 2012 11:31 AM CST
Editor's Note: This article was originally published at 9:20 a.m. on Nov. 30. It has been updated to clarify Get the Lead out of Frisco's mission.
Today Exide Technologies is closing its lead-acid battery recycling plant in Frisco after spending nearly half a century in the city.
The news is both good and bad -- depending on who's discussing the matter, the closure could mean great things or dire consequences for the city. But these are the facts: with the plant's closure, 120 people have lost their jobs, a large portion of whom are Frisco residents; at the same time, however, the closure will halt the contamination of land where the plant is located.
According to data released by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Exide exceeded federal standards for lead emission during a majority of months within the past year.
Humble beginnings
When a ground breaking for the Gould National Batteries plant was held on April 25, 1964, the new business addition was widely considered to be an economic boon for the city.
A large ceremony was held to celebrate the plant's opening, with Frisco's mayor, J.C. Grant, and the chairman of the Frisco Industrial Committee, Erwin G. Pink, taking part in a ceremonial first shovel dig with a representative from Gould National Batteries.
"Enthusiasm and community pride were quite evident in Frisco Saturday when ground was broken for a new oxide manufacturing plant," a Lewisville Leader article shortly after the plant's groundbreaking said. "... a large gathering of Frisco residents as well as Collin County dignitaries and visiting guests [were present at the ceremony]."
The plant initially employed about 15 people, although it slowly expanded and employed more area residents.
At the time, Frisco was a small town that lacked the business development of the modern incarnation of the rapidly growing city.
Frisco wasn't the only North Texas town benefitting from the plant's opening, either. A Lake Dallas construction company was a contractor for the construction of the plant.
For the most part, the first few decades of the plant's operation were smooth. There was little concern about its operations, and the city appeared happy with its economic contributions.
Lead contamination
It wasn't until Frisco started growing that the plant's emissions truly became a concern for residents.
The plant began a history of exceeding federal containment standards -- including both air quality and lead contamination -- in the early 1990s. These standards violations went largely unnoticed for years, however -- well after Exide bought the plant from Gould National Batteries in 2000.
Two groups, Frisco Unleaded and Get the Lead Out of Frisco, were founded in 2011 in an attempt to get the plant to comply with federal standards or shut down.
Get the Lead Out of Frisco's founding followed a bill by state Sen. Florence Shapiro requiring Exide to comply with health standards and conduct assessments of environmental contamination. After that bill was introduced, the group gathered signatures from Frisco residents who supported the bill.
At a public meeting on April 13, 2011, with Exide officials at the Embassy Suites in Frisco, Val Maso, a co-founder of Get the Lead Out of Frisco, said the plant was ruining the city's family atmosphere.
"We care about our children and we care about our families," she said at the meeting. "No amount of lead emission is acceptable to me as a mother ... The only thing that is going to make us happy is for you to be gone. I don't get why you don't think it is in your best interests to move out of town ... Lead is a neurotoxin and we don't want poison in our dirt and in our air."
That meeting was called by Exide officials, who said with new technology upgrades, the plant would meet the EPA's National Ambient Air Quality Standards by November 2012.
Frisco Mayor Maher Maso said the fact that Exide continued to miss environmental standards was a major factor in the city's desire to see the plant closed.
"Frankly, we're meeting the needs and requests of the majority of our residents," he said. "Many residents thought that use of the land was incompatible with Frisco's growth, especially in that area of the city."
When the city saw the opportunity to reach an agreement with Exide regarding the plant's closure, Maso said he and the city council made sure to look over all aspects of the agreement.
One of those aspects was job losses -- something the mayor said the city took very seriously.
"One of the challenging outcomes with the closing of the plant is job losses," he said. "The entire council is concerned about those. As a city, we've offered all our services to help mitigate that. The first thing I did when we came to an agreement with Exide was to work with the Texas Workforce Commission, and Exide has worked closely with them to help find some jobs for them."
On Nov. 7, the Frisco Economic Development Corporation, Texas Workforce Commission and Frisco Chamber of Commerce held a job fair in coordination with the EDC and another workforce solutions group that helped several Exide employees looking for work.
About 12 to 15 businesses were at that event, said Tony Felker, president and CEO of the chamber.
"I've talked to several of those companies, and they did have discussions with Exide employees, so at the very least there's potential for them there," he said.
Job losses
While Lead-Free Frisco and many residents are overjoyed -- to put it mildly -- with Exide's closure, other residents aren't so happy.
Al Brewster, a longtime Frisco resident, said the loss of jobs in the city is unacceptable. Brewster spent 10 years as a vice president for Northrop Corporation, an experience that he said gives him a different perspective on the Exide situation.
"During that time, the company was expanding and building new plants in places other than California, which treated business terribly," Brewster said. "I can assure you that the attitude of local government regarding business was a high priority on the selection list. With Frisco's recent record, we would have rated it an 'F' in that area -- don't believe anyone who tells you there is no business impact in this decision."
Mayor Maso said the city understands Exide's importance in its growth, but that the growth was actually one of the reasons the plant was no longer a good fit for Frisco.
"We can't forget that the plant was here since the early '60s and was really the first major employer here in Frisco," he said. "To Exide's credit, they supported and helped with many community organizations in the city, such as the Frisco Education Foundation, and some of their employees lived here and were engaged in the community. So on one hand, yes, there's a history there that needs to be recognized and honored, but as far as the current operations, the time was right for them to close this plant."
When the city announced its agreement to acquire much of the land around the plant with Exide, Brewster said he was shocked. The city was agreeing to get rid of a company that employed 134 area residents.
"I went through a series of emotions regarding the closure," he said. "I was disgusted and disappointed with our elected officials, and I felt sorrow for all the Exide employees."
One of the reasons Brewster was upset with the city's decision was because Exide made attempts to rectify any state and federal violations, he said.
Last year, the company announced it would spend $20 million to improve the plant in an effort to reduce emissions.
"Have they not willingly been in the process of not only trying to upgrade the facilities, but also carry out decontamination work?" Brewster asked. "And my understanding is that will continue. So, the question really should be: Who is responsible for the lack of regulations -- the government, or Exide? It's certainly not the Frisco residents who have now lost their jobs."
Brewster added that everyone has a right to their opinions, but he said he wishes people would have considered the impact it has on those who lost their jobs.
"I would ask people who support Exide's closure, 'What are you personally doing now to help the families you put on the street, to replace the income they lost?'" he said.
The economic impact
Felker said the closing of Exide will have both positive and negative ramifications for Frisco's future.
"Anytime you have just one loss it's an economic impact of some sort, but with 120 employees losing their jobs it definitely an economic impact on the city," he said. "That's why we, along with the Frisco EDC and community and regional partners, are doing all we can to make certain those individuals have found new jobs."
Felker said the last figures he saw indicated roughly a half to two-thirds of the employees of the plant were Frisco residents, although he didn't have an exact figure.
The chamber and other organizations in the city still plan on helping former Exide plant employees find work, Felker added, although he noted much of that responsibility will be taken on by Exide.
Despite the impact of the closure on the plant's employees, there will also be a positive economic impact for the city, Felker said.
"Part of the land will be used for commercial development, especially along the Dallas North Tollway. That will be a huge economic impact to the city in terms of potential development and tax base," he said. "Other areas of the land will be used for the benefit of the community, which could be parks and open space or other city facilities. We'll have to wait and see how it all pans out for what the full economic impact will be, but it has the potential to be substantial."
Mayor Maso said the fact that the land will open up new real estate is a major asset to Frisco's growth. Some of those potential uses include a courthouse and fire department training center, he said, along with office space.
For the most part, he's just glad the city can now move forward.
"It's been a long process -- I'm thankful for our council and citizens being patient as we did this the correct way," he said. "I think it's a big positive for the city moving forward, and I'm proud to have had an active hand in it."
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Revision as of 23:10, 22 January 2013
This guide is a work in progress. Expect some quirks.
This tutorial will show you how to install Funtoo on ZFS (rootfs). This tutorial is meant to be an "overlay" over the Regular Funtoo Installation. Follow the normal installation and only use this guide for steps 2, 3, and 8.
Since ZFS was really designed for 64 bit systems, we are only recommending and supporting 64 bit platforms and installations. We will not be supporting 32 bit platforms!
Setting up your environment
In order for us to install Funtoo on ZFS, you will need an environment that provides the ZFS tools. We will be downloading two things:
- System Rescue CD,
- ZFS System Rescue Module (SRM)
This is just a file that when combined with System Rescue CD, gives you those tools.
Name: SystemRescueCd-x86-3.2.0 (353 MiB) Release Date: 2013-01-07 md5sum 90528f0c4b861363992fd9cbcc52d00a
Download System Rescue CD 3.2.0
Download the ZFS System Rescue Module
Follow the instructions here to download and place the srm into your flash drive.
Creating partitions
There are two ways to partition your disk: You can use your entire drive and let ZFS automatically partition it for you, or you can do it manually.
Using your entire disk drive is recommended since ZFS turns on/off a few settings. For one, if you use your whole-disk, ZFS will set the I/O elevator for the drive automatically. On Solaris machines, ZFS also enables the disk's write cache.
If you partition it manually, you should set your I/O scheduler to no-op so it doesn't conflict with the ZFS scheduler. Partitioning manually also gives you the advantage of putting your /boot outside the ZFS pool so that you can use a bootloader that doesn't support booting from ZFS.
Whole Disk
This is the easiest method and the recommended method.
First lets make sure that the disk is completely wiped from any previous disk labels and partitions.
We will also assume that /dev/sda is the target drive.
# gdisk /dev/sda Command: x ↵ Expert command: z ↵ About to wipe out GPT on /dev/sda. Proceed?: y ↵ GPT data structures destroyed! You may now partition the disk using fdisk or other utilities. Blank out MBR?: y ↵
This is a destructive operation. Make sure you really don't want anything on this disk.
Now that we have a clean drive, we will create the new pool in it while letting zfs automatically partition it.
Create the pool as normal:
# zpool create -f -o ashift=12 -o cachefile= -O compression=on -m none -R /mnt/funtoo rpool /dev/sda
Doing this will let ZFS create a GPT style disk with two partitions. We will also slightly modify this to add a BIOS Boot Partition so that grub can be installed successfully. First lets export the pool so that the kernel can use the new partition table without rebooting.
# zpool export rpool
And now lets create a new BIOS Boot Partition at partition 2 from sectors 48 to 2047:
# gdisk /dev/sda Command (? for help): p ↵ Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 16758783 8.0 GiB BF01 zfs 9 16758784 16775167 8.0 MiB BF07 Command: n ↵ Partition number: 2 ↵ First sector: 48 ↵ Last sector: 2047 ↵ Hex code or GUID: EF02 ↵ Command: w ↵ Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/sda. The operation has completed successfully.
If you were to check /dev/sda again, you would see these 3 partitions:
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 16758783 8.0 GiB BF01 zfs 2 48 2047 1000.0 KiB EF02 BIOS boot partition 9 16758784 16775167 8.0 MiB BF07
Let's import the pool again:
# zpool import -f -o cachefile= -R /mnt/funtoo rpool
Now continue with creating your datasets.
Manual partitioning
fdisk (MBR Style)
Create Partition 1 (boot):
Command: n ↵ Partition type: ↵ Partition number: ↵ First sector: ↵ Last sector: +250M ↵
Create Partition 2 (ZFS):
Command: n ↵ Partition type: ↵ Partition number: ↵ First sector: ↵ Last sector: ↵ Command: t ↵ Partition number: 2 ↵ Hex code: bf ↵ Command: p ↵ Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 514047 256000 83 Linux /dev/sda2 514048 1953525167 976505560 bf Solaris
gdisk (GPT Style)
Create Partition 1 (boot):
Command: n ↵ Partition Number: ↵ First sector: ↵ Last sector: +250M ↵ Hex Code: ↵
Create Partition 2 (BIOS Boot Partition):
Command: n ↵ Partition Number: ↵ First sector: ↵ Last sector: +32M ↵ Hex Code: EF02 ↵
Only make the above BIOS Boot Partition if you are using GRUB 2 on GPT. If you are using the extlinux bootloader, this partition is not necessary.
Create Partition 2 (ZFS):
Command: n ↵ Partition Number: ↵ First sector: ↵ Last sector: ↵ Hex Code: bf01 ↵ Command: p ↵ Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 514047 250.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem 2 514048 1953525134 931.3 GiB BF01 Solaris /usr & Mac ZFS Command: w ↵
Format your boot volume
If you did manual partitioning, format your separate boot partition:
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
Create the zpool
We will first create the pool. The pool will be named `rpool` and the disk will be aligned to 4096 (using ashift=12)
# zpool create -f -o ashift=12 -o cachefile= -O compression=on -m none -R /mnt/funtoo rpool /dev/sda2
If you followed the manual GPT partitioning instructions, you should change /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda3.
If you have a previous pool that you would like to import, you can do a: zpool import -f -R /mnt/funtoo <pool_name>
Create the zfs datasets
We will now create some datasets. For this installation, we will create a small but future proof amount of datasets. We will have a dataset for the OS (/), and your swap. We will also show you how to create some optional datasets: /home, /var, /usr/src, and /usr/portage.
Create some empty containers for organization purposes, and make the dataset that will hold / # zfs create -o mountpoint=none rpool/ROOT # zfs create -o mountpoint=/ rpool/ROOT/funtoo Optional, but recommended datasets: /home, /root # zfs create -o mountpoint=/home rpool/HOME # zfs create -o mountpoint=/root rpool/HOME/root Optional datasets: /usr/src, /var # zfs create -o mountpoint=none rpool/FUNTOO # zfs create -o mountpoint=/usr/src rpool/FUNTOO/src # zfs create -o mountpoint=/var rpool/FUNTOO/var
Creating a separate portage dataset (optional)
Creating a separate portage dataset could be useful if you would like to keep your portage tree, distfiles (source code files), and packages (your compiled binaries if you have FEATURES="buildpkg" enabled) in a safe place (or if you want to back up this directory up easily). This requires a few extra steps because we can't just do a regular emerge --sync when we initially chroot. We will need to download a portage snapshot tarball and extract it into the directory. The required steps for getting and extracting the snapshot will be shown later on in the guide once you chroot into the environment.
For now just create the datasets:
# zfs create -o mountpoint=/usr/portage -o compression=off rpool/FUNTOO/portage # zfs create -o mountpoint=/usr/portage/distfiles -o compression=off rpool/FUNTOO/distfiles
Create your swap zvol
Make your swap +1G greater than your RAM. An 8G machine would have 9G of RAM (This is kinda big though).
# zfs create -o sync=always -o primarycache=metadata -o secondarycache=none -V 9G rpool/swap
Format your swap zvol
# mkswap -f /dev/zvol/rpool/swap # swapon /dev/zvol/rpool/swap
Last minute checks and touches
Check to make sure everything appears fine:
# zpool status # zfs list
Copy the zpool.cache file to your new environment.
# mkdir -p /mnt/funtoo/etc/zfs # cp /etc/zfs/zpool.cache /mnt/funtoo/etc/zfs
Make an empty mtab file
# touch /mnt/funtoo/etc/mtab
Now we will continue to install funtoo.
Installing Funtoo
Download and install the Funtoo stage3 and continue installation as normal.
Then chroot into your new funtoo environment:
# cd /mnt/funtoo Mount your boot drive ** You don't need to do this if you're using whole-disk zfs ** # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/funtoo/boot Bind the kernel related directories # mount --rbind /proc proc # mount --rbind /dev dev # mount --rbind /sys sys Copy network settings # cp /etc/resolv.conf etc/chroot into your new funtoo environment # env -i HOME=/root TERM=$TERM chroot . /bin/bash -l
Syncing your portage tree
If you didn't create a separate portage dataset, then just sync your portage tree as normal.
# emerge --sync
If you did create a separate portage dataset, let's now get the portage snapshot set up.
Change into your /usr directory # cd /usr Download and extract the portage snapshot # wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/funtoo/funtoo-current/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.xz # tar xf portage-latest.tar.xz Change into your portage directory and checkout the funtoo branch # cd portage # git checkout funtoo.org Now sync your portage tree # emerge --sync
Kernel Configuration
The below configurations are the requirements for "Bliss Initramfs Creator". Some of these might not be needed for genkernel.
Tested with kernel 2.6.32, 3.2.34, 3.6.9, 3.7.[1-3].
When you get up to the kernel, make sure that you disable the CFQ scheduler, and turn on No-op (It's the default one once you disable all schedulers). The reason for this is because ZFS has its own scheduler and the CFQ one conflicts with it. Go to your kernel config, and make sure you have the following: (there should be a /usr/src/linux symlink as well)
ZLIB_INFLATE/DEFLATE must be compiled into the kernel (not as a module). > ZLIB_INFLATE [=y], ZLIB_DEFLATE [=y] General setup ---> > [*] Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support > () Initramfs source file(s) [*] Enable loadable module support ---> [*] Module unloading Enable the block layer ---> IO Schedulers ---> < > Deadline I/O scheduler < > CFQ I/O scheduler Default I/O scheduler (No-op) Device Drivers ---> > Generic Driver Options ---> >> [*] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev >> [*] Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs Cryptographic API ---> <*> Deflate compression algorithm <*> Zlib compression algorithm * All other drivers required to see your PATA/SATA drives must be compiled in.
Continue and compile/install your kernel:
# make bzImage modules # make install # make modules_install
Installing the ZFS userspace tools
# emerge -av zfs
Check to make sure that the zfs tools are working, the zpool.cache file that you copied before should be displayed.# zpool status # zfs list
If everything worked, continue.
Install the bootloader
If you are using whole-disk zfs then you will need grub2 because grub2 is the only bootloader that supports booting from a zfs pool.
Before you do this, make sure this checklist is followed:
- Installed kernel and kernel modules
- Installed zfs package from the tree
- /dev, /proc, /sys are mounted in the chroot environment
Once all this is checked, let's install grub2. First we need to enable the "libzfs" use flag so zfs support is compiled for grub2.
# echo "sys-boot/grub libzfs" >> /etc/portage/package.use
Then we will compile grub2:
GRUB should be _at least_ version 2.0.0 since 2.0.0 added zfs support. 1.99,.98 will not work.
# emerge -av grub
Once this is done, you can check that grub is version 2.00 by doing the following command:
# grub-install --version
grub-install (GRUB) 2.00
Now try to install grub2:
# grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda
You should receive the following message
Installation finished. No error reported.
If not, then go back to the above checklist.
There are four things we need to do for extlinux:
- Install extlinux bootloader
- Write the .bin to the front of the target disk
- Toggle BIOS partition flag
- Write a extlinux configuration file
First emerge extlinux:
# emerge -av syslinux
Then create a /boot/extlinux directory:
# cd /boot # mkdir /boot/extlinux
Change into the extlinux dir and install the bootloader:
# cd /boot/extlinux # extlinux --install .
# fdisk /dev/sda Command: a ↵ Partition number: 1 ↵ Command: w ↵
Printing the fdisk partition layout should show a star next to /dev/sda1:
/dev/sda * 2048 514047 256000 83 Linux
Flash the .bin to the front of the disk:
# dd conv=notrunc bs=440 count=1 if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda
# sgdisk /dev/sda --attributes=1:set:2
Flash the .bin to the front of the disk:
# dd conv=notrunc bs=440 count=1 if=/usr/share/syslinux/gptmbr.bin of=/dev/sda
We will write the extlinux/grub configuration file in the next section.
Create the initramfs
There are two ways to do this, you can use genkernel, or you can use my bliss initramfs creator. I will show you both.
# emerge -av sys-kernel/genkernel # genkernel --zfs initramfs
Example: kernel name is: vmlinuz-3.7.3-ALL initramfs name is: initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.7.3-ALL pool name is: rpool
set timeout=3 set default=0 # Funtoo menuentry "Funtoo - 3.7.3" { insmod zfs linux /ROOT/funtoo/@/boot/vmlinuz-3.7.3-ALL root=rpool/ROOT/funtoo real_root=ZFS=rpool/ROOT/funtoo dozfs=force initrd /ROOT/funtoo/@/boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.7.3-ALL }
LABEL funtoo MENU LABEL Funtoo 3.7.3-ALL KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.3-ALL INITRD /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.7.3-ALL APPEND real_root=ZFS=rpool/ROOT/funtoo dozfs=force
Bliss Initramfs Creator
Clone my creator which is located at: git://github.com/fearedbliss/Bliss-Initramfs-Creator.git
# git clone git://github.com/fearedbliss/Bliss-Initramfs-Creator.git
Then go into this new directory, run the script as root, and place it into /boot:
# cd Bliss-Initramfs-Creator # ./createInit # mv initrd-<kernel_name>.img /boot
<kernel_name> is the name of what you selected in the initramfs creator, and the name of the outputted file. Once you do this just go to your bootloader config, and add it in there.
Example: Kernel name is: vmlinuz-3.7.3-ALL initramfs name is: initrd-3.7.3-ALL.img Pool root is: rpool/ROOT/funtoo
set timeout=3 set default=0 # Funtoo menuentry "Funtoo - 3.7.3" { insmod zfs linux /ROOT/funtoo/@/boot/vmlinuz-3.7.3-ALL root=rpool/ROOT/funtoo quiet initrd /ROOT/funtoo/@/boot/initrd-3.7.3-ALL.img }
LABEL funtoo MENU LABEL Funtoo 3.7.3-ALL KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.3-ALL INITRD /boot/initrd-3.7.3-ALL.img APPEND root=rpool/ROOT/funtoo
Final configuration
Add the zfs tools to openrc
# rc-update add zfs boot
Add filesystems to /etc/fstab
# nano /etc/fstab
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
# Do not add the /boot line below if you are using whole-disk zfs
/dev/sda1 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/zvol/rpool/swap none swap sw 0 0
Clean up and reboot
We are almost done, we are just going to clean up, set our root password, and unmount whatever we mounted and get out.
Delete the stage3/portage tarballs you downloaded earlier so they don't take up space. # cd / # rm stage3-latest.tar.xz # rm /usr/portage-latest.tar.xz Set your root password # passwd >> Enter your password, you won't see what you are writing (for security reasons), but it is there! Get out of the chroot environment # exit Unmount all the kernel filesystem stuff and boot (if you have a separate /boot) # cd /mnt/funtoo # umount -l proc dev sys boot Turn off the swap # swapoff /dev/zvol/rpool/swap Export the zpool # cd / # zpool export -f rpool Reboot # reboot
Don't forget to set your root password as stated above before exiting chroot and rebooting. If you don't set the root password, you won't be able to log into your new system.
and that should be enough to get your system to boot on ZFS.
Extra: After reboot
After you restart your machine and your inside your desktop, continue to set up anything you need in terms of /etc configurations. Once you have everything the way you like it, take a snapshot of your system. You will be using this snapshot to revert back to this state if anything ever happens to your system down the road. The snapshots are cheap, and almost instant.
To take the snapshot of your rootfs, type the following:
# zfs snapshot rpool/ROOT/funtoo@install
To see if your snapshot was taken, type:
# zfs list -t snapshot
If your machine ever fails and you need to get back to this state, just type:
# zfs rollback rpool/ROOT/funtoo@install
Recovery Environment
On ZFS it is extremely easy to create a recovery environment using an already working snapshot. So that's what we will be doing. Create a clone of the @install snapshot which you will use for recovery purposes. If something happens to your main install, you can boot into this clone and fix the main one. One of the differences (maybe the only difference) between a clone and a snapshot is that a clone is rewritable while a snapshot is only read-only.
# zfs clone rpool/ROOT/funtoo@install rpool/ROOT/recovery
Add the clone to your grub.cfg
set timeout=3 set default=0 # Funtoo Recovery menuentry "Funtoo Recovery - 3.7.3" { insmod zfs linux /ROOT/funtoo/@/boot/vmlinuz-3.7.3-ALL root=rpool/ROOT/recovery quiet initrd /ROOT/funtoo/@/boot/initrd-3.7.3-ALL.img }
Add the clone to your extlinux.conf
LABEL funtoo-recovery MENU LABEL Funtoo Recovery KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.3-ALL INITRD /boot/initrd-3.7.3-ALL.img APPEND root=rpool/ROOT/recovery
Things to watch out for
Since your recovery clone will tend to get old as you use your main system, and since your recovery and other stuff are on the same pool, we don't want the new pool stuff to be mounted when we launch recovery. We also don't want video drivers to be conflicting.
- Make sure that nvidia/nouveau stuff are blacklisted.
- Make sure that your /boot and /lib/modules for the kernel in your 'recovery' are matching.
- Disable the zfs openrc script so that nothing else gets automatically mounted. Only your rootfs.
You can do the above stuff by mounting your copy and chrooting into it.
Mount the recovery clone # mkdir /mnt/recovery # mount -t zfs -o zfsutil rpool/ROOT/recovery /mnt/recovery # cd /mnt/recovery Mount the kernel devices # mount --rbind /proc ./proc # mount --rbind /dev ./dev # mount --rbind /sys ./sys Copy zpool.cache # cp /etc/zfs/zpool.cache etc/zfs Chroot into the new environment # env -i HOME=/root TERM=$TERM chroot . bash --login Disable zfs/zfs-shutdown openrc scripts # rc-config delete zfs boot Blacklist nouveau/nvidia drivers # echo "blacklist nouveau" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf # echo "blacklist nvidia" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
Once you are done doing your changes, just umount and exit the chroot:
# cd / # umount -l proc dev sys # exit
Getting into the recovery
Just start your machine and pick the Funtoo Recovery option from the Boot Menu.
Enjoy your new install on ZFS :)


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