Blu-ray Highlights for 7/5/11 – What Are You Buying?
Welcome back! Did you all have a good long weekend? While we’re back to work today, things are looking pretty slow in Blu-ray land.
Welcome back! Did you all have a good long weekend? While we’re back to work today, things are looking pretty slow in Blu-ray land.
Why does it seem like the most awaited Blu-ray catalog titles so often arrive on the format surrounded by controversy? Is it really that hard to do a film-to-video transfer without messing around with the essential look of a famou...
There’s a peculiar theme at work in this week’s Blu-ray releases. In separate movies, both Liam Neeson and Matt Damon find their whole lives taken away from them by mysterious forces. Neeson wakes up from a car acciden...
We’ve got a pretty weak slate of new Blu-ray releases coming out today, if you ask me. Is there anything worth buying? Let’s take a look and see what we can find.
Looks like it’s western week on Blu-ray. Today’s release slate gives us one of the best films of last year (which just so happens to be a western) and a slew of catalog titles to tie in with it. Giddy up!
Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. Are you ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence? Viddy well, my brothers, for surely the Blu-rays this week are gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh.
Well, folks, it appears that we have another week where catalog titles dominate the Blu-ray scene. In fact, the release slate as a whole is a lot smaller than usual. Fortunately, there’s some quality wheat hidden among the c...
When I wrote up last week’s Blu-ray Highlights post, I somehow missed the fact that ‘Justin Bieber: Never Say Never‘ was released on Friday the 13th. What an inexcusable oversight! Can you ever forgive me? I sure...
While this week isn’t quite the dead zone that last week was, today’s Blu-ray release schedule is once again filled with a lot of reissued or repackaged titles previously available on the format. However, if we dig in,...
Wow, this is a pretty dreary week for Blu-ray releases. Although the release list may look huge, the vast majority of titles are simply reissues of discs previously released on the format. And no, I don’t mean that these are...
For the first time in quite a long time, there are essentially no notable day-and-date titles on the Blu-ray release slate this week. Instead, this week is all about cult movies. Of those, there are a few worth looking at.
Royal fever is in the air. As you may have heard, there’s kind of a big wedding happening in England at the end of next week. It seems like fortuitous timing, therefore, that recent Oscar winner ‘The King’s Speec...