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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of March 10th, 2019 – Crimes and Punishments

Josh Zyber — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:00:59 +0000

Poised to dominate the Blu-ray and Ultra HD scene this week is the latest entry from the Wizarding World. But could this year’s surprise Best Picture winner sneak in and upset the sales charts the way it upset the Oscars? Probably not, but I suppose anything is possible. New Releases (Blu-ray) Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes...

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SteelBook Alert: Take Your Protein Pills and Put Your Helmet On

Josh Zyber — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:00:11 +0000

As befitting its blockbuster status, Christopher Nolan’s space travel opus ‘Interstellar’ will hit Blu-ray next month in several deluxe packaging options, including at least two different SteelBook cases. Although I’m a big SteelBook collector, in this instance I may choose a different route. While the American and Canadian SteelBooks technically use different images, they’re both...

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Mid-Week Poll: Do You Buy New Blu-rays on Release Day?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:00:07 +0000

As we learned last week, a lot of our readers skip going to see new movies in the theater and just wait for their eventual release on Blu-ray a few months later. That being the case, do you make a point of buying new Blu-rays as soon as they come out, or do you wait...

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Full Metal Jackets: Quite a Merry Gathering

Josh Zyber — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:00:42 +0000

That the first installment in Peter Jackson’s epic ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel trilogy, ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’, would become one of the biggest movies of 2012 was not unexpected at all. The film was virtually preordained to be a blockbuster. Commensurate with its success, the movie will receive not just one, but several...

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Cleaning Up My Home Theater Clutter

Josh Zyber — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:00:37 +0000

My home theater room had gotten out of control. I’d long since run out of enough shelving space to hold my entire movie collection, and had allowed stacks of new discs to pile up all around me. The room was an unsightly mess, and I’d been reluctant to do anything about it for entirely foolish...

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Mid-Week Poll: Do You Collect Discs in Special Packaging?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:00:08 +0000

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...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 5/10/11. What Are You Buying?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:00:01 +0000

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, we might find a few things of interest. Here’s the full release slate: ‘Alien‘ (20th Century Fox)...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 8/3/10. What Are You Buying?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:00:34 +0000

This week’s Blu-ray releases kick ass! Well, at least one of them does. Let’s take a gander at the release slate and see if we can’t find anything else interesting, shall we? Here’s what’s coming out this week: ‘After.Life‘ (Starz/Anchor Bay) ‘Blood Simple‘ (MGM/UA) ‘The Breakfast Club: 25th Anniversary Edition‘ (Universal) ‘Bull Durham‘ (MGM) ‘Charlie’s...

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Bring on the Digibooks!

David Krauss — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:00:45 +0000

Packaging special edition Blu-rays isn’t easy for movie studios, especially in these challenging economic times. They’re expensive to produce, sport a hefty price tag (even when discounted by outfits like Amazon.com), and often have a limited appeal. In addition, they pose some dilemmas for consumers. First is the question of weighing a title’s bang-for-the-buck quotient....

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