Blu-ray Highlights: Week of August 12th, 2018 – Beyond the
That small Blu-ray drought we experienced the last couple of weeks ends in spectacular fashion with a surge of new disc releases, including the biggest movie of the year.
That small Blu-ray drought we experienced the last couple of weeks ends in spectacular fashion with a surge of new disc releases, including the biggest movie of the year.
Virtually every iconic movie from the 1980s get released on Blu-ray and Ultra HD this week, all conveniently condensed into a single 140-minute package and given a glossy CGI sheen. Also available for good measure: one of the chee...
One of the few movies I saw (and loved) at the theater this year comes out on Blu-ray this week. Though I have no doubt it will be an excellent disc in all technical respects, I’m left torn about whether to buy it now or wai...
New to Blu-ray this week is a blockbuster thriller that had audiences shouting from the rooftops this past spring. Unfortunately, those viewers failed to learn anything from the movie and were promptly eaten by monsters. Seriously...
The Barnes & Noble summer Criterion Collection sale started a little early this year, and consequently I wasn’t ready for it at all. Forgive my lateness, but here’s our semi-annual update to help you with your sho...
As I see it, this slow holiday week doesn’t offer many interesting new Blu-ray releases to spend money on. However, coinciding with the latest Barnes & Noble Criterion Collection sale (which I’ll write more about ...
This week brings us an odd assortment of new Blu-rays. The lengthy list of discs is heavy on back catalog releases with almost no new movies of significance. Tom Cruise fans get quite a bounty, though.
What happens when you make a sequel to a movie that was only marginally successful or well-liked the first time around, and strip away the few features that made it at all interesting? We find out in this week’s new Blu-ray ...
Why studios keep spending tons of money to make movies based on video games when so few of them have been successful is one of those mysteries of Hollywood that may never make sense. Nevertheless, they keep coming. One from this s...
On this rather slow holiday week, new Blu-rays are headlined by a movie that almost didn’t get released at all.
We don’t have any new mega-hits on par with last week’s ‘Black Panther’ arriving on Blu-ray this week, but a couple of classic blockbusters get upgraded to Ultra HD. That is, if calling a 25-year-old movie ...
Here we go. It’s been nearly two months since a blockbuster movie people might actually be excited about hit Blu-ray. Of course, it’s another Marvel superhero flick, because that’s pretty much all anyone cares ab...