{"id":100534,"date":"2019-09-03T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=100534"},"modified":"2019-09-06T05:21:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T12:21:49","slug":"bluray-highlights-sept-3-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/bluray-highlights-sept-3-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 1st, 2019 &#8211; Time to Hit the Books Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer may not officially end for a couple more weeks according to the calendar, but the week after Labor Day marks the start of the school season for most American kids. For our purposes here, it also means that more summer movie leftovers make their way to home video.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-997\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_997\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/blog\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_997_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"64fdfe9037\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"997\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_multiple_ans_997\" name=\"poll_multiple_ans_997\" value=\"53\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Which Blu-rays Interest You This Week (9\/3\/19)?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-997-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-22476\" name=\"poll_997\" value=\"22476\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-22476\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/76004\/absolution.html\">Absolution<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-22477\" name=\"poll_997\" value=\"22477\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-22477\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/74241\/aceattorneyseasontwopartone.html\">Ace Attorney: Season Two Part One<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-22478\" name=\"poll_997\" value=\"22478\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-22478\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/74933\/alps.html\">Alps<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-22479\" name=\"poll_997\" value=\"22479\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-22479\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/75388\/batman80thanniversary18filmcollection.html\">Batman: 80th Anniversary 18-Film Collection<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-22480\" name=\"poll_997\" value=\"22480\" \/> <label 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href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/75079\/thegoodmother.html\">The Good Mother<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-22489\" name=\"poll_997\" value=\"22489\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-22489\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/74872\/gravitationcompletecollection.html\">Gravitation: Complete Collection<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-22490\" name=\"poll_997\" value=\"22490\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-22490\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/74218\/igotthehookup2.html\">I Got the Hook-Up 2<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-22491\" name=\"poll_997\" value=\"22491\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-22491\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/76620\/inhishonor.html\">In His Honor<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-22492\" name=\"poll_997\" value=\"22492\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-22492\"><a 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The first movie was only sort-of OK and the sequels were pretty bad. The series still has name recognition value, however, which means that it&#8217;s time for Sony to reboot the thing and try again. New stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson take over for Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, with <em>Fate of the Furious<\/em> director F. Gary Gray at the helm. By most accounts, the changes are only superficial and all the jokes still feel stale. Reviews were poor and the spinoff faltered at the box office. If you remain a fan, Target has an exclusive (Blu-ray only) with a book. I&#8217;ll discuss the 4k options below. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Booksmart<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 I&#8217;ve been told that calling actress Olivia Wilde&#8217;s directorial debut &#8220;<em>Superbad<\/em> for girls&#8221; is reductive and inaccurate, but that&#8217;s exactly what it looks like and nearly every review I&#8217;ve read makes the comparison. Critics had a lot of love for the R-rated coming-of-age comedy anyway. Although it wasn&#8217;t quite the breakout success that Fox may have hoped, its low $6 million budget means that it didn&#8217;t take much effort to turn a profit. Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever play a pair of high school overachievers who try to cram in four years&#8217; worth of missed fun before graduation.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ma<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 More high school escapades are in store when a lonely middle-aged veterinary technician (Octavia Spencer) tries to make friends with a bunch of teens by buying them alcohol and letting them party at her house. This one&#8217;s no comedy, though, and things turn dark when the old lady snaps. Mixed reviews couldn&#8217;t stop the Blumhouse horror thriller from pulling in a bunch of money, but something tells me that Spencer won&#8217;t be winning another Oscar for her reunion with <em>The Help<\/em> director Tate Taylor. <\/p>\n<h2>UHD<\/h2>\n<p>The only of this week&#8217;s day-and-date titles to score an Ultra HD edition is <em><strong>Men in Black: International<\/strong><\/em>. Best Buy has a SteelBook, while Walmart has a collector&#8217;s set with some Funko Pop! figurines. <\/p>\n<p>Nearly ten months after the first three movies in the franchise, Lionsgate finally upgrades Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s 2008 <em><strong>Rambo<\/strong><\/em> sequel to 4k in time to promote the impending fifth entry. <\/p>\n<p>Also serving as a sequel tie-in, Warner Bros. reissues the 2017 adaptation of Stephen King&#8217;s <em><strong>It<\/strong><\/em> in a new SteelBook for those who missed getting one the first time around. <\/p>\n<h2>Catalog Titles<\/h2>\n<p>Not to be confused with the 2017 remake (or, perhaps trying to cause some confusion about it), Warner Bros. also has a SteelBook reissue of the 1990 TV miniseries called <em><strong>Stephen King&#8217;s It<\/strong><\/em>. This one&#8217;s just in 1080p, though; no 4k.<\/p>\n<p>Next, Warner celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Dark Knight with a <em><strong>Batman: 18-Film Collection<\/strong><\/em> comprised of the character&#8217;s DCU animated movies, from 1993&#8217;s <em>Mask of the Phantasm<\/em> to 2018&#8217;s <em>Batman Ninja<\/em>. The more recent <em>Batman: Hush<\/em> and <em>Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/em> do not appear to be included. In fact, I don&#8217;t think this set is necessarily intended to be comprehensive.<\/p>\n<p>Criterion sticks its <em><strong>Fists in the Pocket<\/strong><\/em> for a 1965 Italian drama that the label describes as having &#8220;coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and savage gallows humor.&#8221; What more could you ask for in a movie? <\/p>\n<p>Now that he&#8217;s achieved some mainstream recognition with <em>The Favourite<\/em>, Kino brings director Yorgos Lanthimos&#8217; darkly comedic <em><strong>Dogtooth<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Alps<\/strong><\/em> to Blu-ray. <\/p>\n<p>After that, Kino licenses a trio of classic comedies starring Alec Guinness from the famed Ealing Studios: <em><strong>Kind Hearts and Coronets<\/strong><\/em> (1949), <em><strong>The Lavender Hill Mob<\/strong><\/em> (1951), and <em><strong>The Man in the White Suit<\/strong><\/em> (also 1951). Be warned that, despite boasting new 4k restorations, early word has it that all three movies are actually sourced from older HD transfers dating back to around 2010 or 2012. This may be a matter of rights owner Studio Canal erroneously supplying the wrong masters, because a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B07RCLSQFX\/panandscathed-20\" rel=\"nofollow\">recent Blu-ray release of <em>Kind Hearts and Coronets<\/em> in the UK<\/a> is said to be much better than the Kino disc. <\/p>\n<p>A label called RLJE Films has scheduled a Blu-ray release for the 1988 cult horror comedy <em><strong>Elvira: Mistress of the Dark<\/strong><\/em>. This comes ahead of news that Arrow Video will also bring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B07HPZRWD8\/panandscathed-20\" rel=\"nofollow\">last year&#8217;s UK Blu-ray edition<\/a> to the U.S. later this year. I don&#8217;t know that source the RLJE copy comes from, but I have to assume that it isn&#8217;t Arrow&#8217;s 4k master. Fans will likely want to wait for the Arrow copy in order to best appreciate star Cassandra Peterson&#8217;s\u2026 uhh\u2026 <em>talents<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Television<\/h2>\n<p>The third season of HBO&#8217;s <em><strong>True Detective<\/strong><\/em> was a big rebound after the disappointing second. I can&#8217;t speak to how the second season of the <em>Big Bang Theory<\/em> spinoff <em><strong>Young Sheldon<\/strong><\/em> fares.<\/p>\n<p>Grab some Scooby Snacks and settle in for a groovy binge as Warner Bros. brings the complete run of classic cartoon <em><strong>Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!<\/strong><\/em> to Blu-ray in a limited edition box set shaped like an old mansion. I expect that a less expensive version in simpler packaging will be released later. <\/p>\n<h2>My $.02<\/h2>\n<p><em>Booksmart<\/em> looks like a fine movie to Netflix someday. I&#8217;m interested in the Ealing comedies but may wait to see whether Kino is able to correct the issue with the video masters. <em>Dogtooth<\/em> will go on my wish list. <\/p>\n<p>Have you booked anything for a purchase this week?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer may not officially end for a couple more weeks according to the calendar, but the week after Labor Day marks the start of the school season for most American kids. 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