At first glance, the week’s Blu-ray release schedule may appear to be dominated by the final adventure of a certain boy wizard. No doubt, young Mr. Potter will cast another spell and tear up the sales charts. However, if you dig a little beneath the surface, you’ll find a good selection of other important titles worth buying too.
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From a suggestion made by reader Alex, we thought that this week’s Roundtable topic would be a good opportunity to discuss the various ways to organize a movie collection. Do you arrange your discs in a strictly alphabetical fashion, or do you sort by genre? Do specific directors or actors have their own sections? Do you keep Criterions or other special collections separated? Are TV shows separate from movies? The possible variations here are virtually endless. We’ll tell you how we do it if you’ll do the same.
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A recent poll we ran a couple weeks ago about discs in collectible packaging got me to thinking about the many elaborate DVD, Blu-ray and even Laserdisc box sets that I’ve bought over the years (imported from other countries in many cases) that are currently collecting dust in my home theater room. I figure that this would be a good opportunity to pull some of them off the shelf and take another look inside. For our first post in the “Unboxed” series, let’s open up the ‘Kill Bill’ DVD box sets from Japan.
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Have you been holding back from purchasing Criterion Collection Blu-rays and DVDs in anticipation of Barnes & Noble’s semi-annual Criterion sale? I sure have. Well, now is the time to start stocking up. The B&N 50% Off sale begins today. Which titles will you pick up?
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The beginning of November is apparently Pixar week on Blu-ray. The month starts off with the studio’s latest blockbuster new release, plus reissues of some of its classics.
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Another one of those long-awaited “holy grail” titles comes to Blu-ray this week. Of course, I’m referring to master Italian filmmaker Joe D’Amato’s 1977 sexploitation classic ‘Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals’. Wait, did you think I was talking about something else?
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The Barnes & Noble semi-annual sale on DVDs and Blu-rays from the Criterion Collection is just around the corner (November 1st – get your wallets ready!). Let’s use this week’s Roundtable as an opportunity to identify some of our favorite titles from the esteemed collection.
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This week, Warner Bros. re-released ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ (previously available in a Digibook, and then in a standard Blu-ray keepcase) into a new “Ultimate Collector’s Edition” box set. This follows a number of similarly elaborate disc packages such as ‘Ben-Hur‘ and ‘Citizen Kane‘. Are you the type of collector who buys up these fancy disc packages, or do you eschew the box sets and Digibooks in favor of simple, straightforward cases? Or do you throw away the packaging altogether and toss the discs into binders or a multi-disc changer? Vote in our poll after the break.
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This week sees the Blu-ray release of one of the year’s billion-dollar blockbuster hits. Frankly, I couldn’t care less. I’m more interested in the catalog titles. What grabs your attention?
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I’ve got to say that, based on all the creative entries we received, I think that last week’s ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ giveaway may be my favorite so far of all the contests we’ve run here in the blog. You guys really rocked this one! Now it’s my turn to sort through all the submissions and pick two winners. Follow after the break to see who won.
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