Blu-ray Highlights for 11/29/11 – Oh, Smurf It
We have quite an eclectic mix of movies coming out on Blu-ray this week. One of the big titles of the week stars an annoying singing gnome… and another stars the Smurfs. Ouch.
We have quite an eclectic mix of movies coming out on Blu-ray this week. One of the big titles of the week stars an annoying singing gnome… and another stars the Smurfs. Ouch.
Aside from ‘A Christmas Story‘ and ‘Christmas Vacation‘, there’s isn’t another Christmas-themed flick released during my lifetime that I consider a necessary holiday movie. Much to my surprise, ...
It’s a holiday week here in the United States. Have the Blu-ray studios given you anything to be thankful for?
Surprisingly, ‘Puss in Boots’ held onto the #1 spot at the box office with another $30+ million weekend. The family-friendly ‘Shrek’ spin-off only dropped an unheard-of 3% from its opening weekend, which br...
If you thought the early October releases were weak, I don’t think it gets any worse than this.
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.
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...
One of the more obvious downsides to the current generation of 3D home theater is an artifact known as crosstalk (or “ghosting”), in which picture information meant for one eye intrudes into the other eye’s view....
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?
This week brings us quite an eclectic mix of new Blu-ray releases. Among them, we get a failed blockbuster, a sleeper hit comedy, the latest lazy mess from Adam Sandler’s production company, and an art film that will likely ...
I would seem that, when I wrote last week’s Blu-ray update, I missed kind of a big title that was released on Friday. You know, the one involving giant robots beating the crap out of each other. Whoops. Allow me to consolida...
How embarrassing is it for new releases that ‘The Lion King’ is #1 again? For the second week in a row, the 3D re-release of a 17-year-old movie has dominated the box office. Only falling 26.6% in attendance, ‘Th...