Off the Shelf: The Driver
Among the many car chase classics that Edgar Wright’s surprise hit ‘Baby Driver’ references and owes a notable debt to is Walter Hill’s 1978 heist thriller ‘The Driver’. The movie was released o...
Among the many car chase classics that Edgar Wright’s surprise hit ‘Baby Driver’ references and owes a notable debt to is Walter Hill’s 1978 heist thriller ‘The Driver’. The movie was released o...
Not only is this a holiday week, but that holiday awkwardly falls on Tuesday, the traditional day when movies are released on home video. As a result, most studios have decided to give this week a pass. Only a few new Blu-rays mak...
Now in its fifth season, the Netflix original series ‘House of Cards’ increasingly feels like a show that’s running out of gas. The difference between this series and others in a similar situation is that the cre...
Upcoming Blu-ray and UHD SteelBooks are all about cars cars cars. We’ve got cars driven by superhero spies, cars driven by babies (wait, that can’t be right), and cars that turn into robots. Also, a giant monkey. I gue...
This is the kind of week where lots of old stuff comes back around again. Appearing on Blu-ray are the big screen reboots of a kiddie superhero series and a corny cop show, plus the TV revival for a pair of brothers who keep break...
I haven’t spent a lot of time talking about SteelBooks in the blog recently, probably because many of the ones released lately have been inflicted with ugly Pop Art designs. In the interest of keeping our readers abreast of ...
Back in 2004, ‘Splash’ celebrated its 20th anniversary with a brand-new DVD release. You probably didn’t know that a Blu-ray version of that release hit the market in 2013. For whatever reason, Disney decided to ...
No exciting blockbusters on Blu-ray this week, sadly. The biggest release of the week was a box office bomb. The few interesting new discs available are arty or cult catalog titles.
Perhaps feeling a bit cheeky about the political climates brewing in both the United States and the UK at the end of 2015, Blu-ray distributor Twilight Time licensed director Michael Radford’s adaptation of George OrwellR...
New Blu-ray and Ultra HD releases this week bring us two of the darkest, broodingest, scowlingest badasses to hit cinema screens this year. One of them happens to be an inch and a half tall… and also kind of a doofus.
For one reason or another, the Blu-ray edition of John Hughes’ 1985 comedy ‘Weird Science’ never got sufficient coverage here at High-Def Digest. My intent isn’t to provide a full review of the disc, but ra...
What goes around comes around. Among this week’s new Blu-rays are a nearly shot-for-shot live-action remake of an animated classic, plus plenty of catalog releases either making repeat appearances on the format or getting up...