{"id":77902,"date":"2016-05-23T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=77902"},"modified":"2016-05-31T10:34:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T17:34:18","slug":"bluray-highlights-may-24-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/bluray-highlights-may-24-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray Highlights: Week of May 22nd, 2016 &#8211; Movies, Now More Than Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two best Blu-rays this week are actually reissues of movies previously released on the format. That either speaks toward how badly these titles deserved a do-over, or how uninteresting everything else is.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-730\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_730\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/blog\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_730_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"4b62966ff7\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"730\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_multiple_ans_730\" name=\"poll_multiple_ans_730\" value=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Which Blu-rays Interest You This Week (5\/24\/16)?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-730-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11939\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11939\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11939\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/32636\/54.html\">54: Director's Cut<\/a>' (Lionsgate)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11940\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11940\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11940\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31804\/agentcodybanks.html\">Agent Cody Banks<\/a>' (Olive Films)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11941\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11941\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11941\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31806\/agentcodybanks2destinationlondon.html\">Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London<\/a>' (Olive Films)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11942\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11942\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11942\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30233\/badinfluence.html\">Bad Influence<\/a>' (Shout! Factory)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11943\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11943\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11943\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3463\/burbs.html\">The 'Burbs (Best Buy Exclusive)<\/a>' (Universal)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11944\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11944\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11944\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31317\/busterkeatontheshortscollection19171923.html\">Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection 1917-1923<\/a>' (Kino)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11945\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11945\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11945\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/28579\/callthemidwifeseasonfive.html\">Call the Midwife: Season Five<\/a>' (BBC)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11946\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11946\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11946\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31313\/thechase.html\">The Chase<\/a>' (Kino)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11947\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11947\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11947\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/33124\/thedreamteam.html\">The Dream Team (Best Buy Exclusive).<\/a>' (Universal)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11948\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11948\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11948\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31308\/filmnoirthedarksideofcinema.html\">Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema<\/a>' (Kino)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11949\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11949\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11949\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30277\/thefinesthours.html\">The Finest Hours<\/a>' (Disney)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11950\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11950\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11950\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31810\/frenchpostcards.html\">French Postcards<\/a>' (Olive Films)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11951\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11951\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11951\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30301\/greatexpectations.html\">Great Expectations<\/a>' (Shout! Factory)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11952\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11952\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11952\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/33757\/thegreatoutdoorsbestbuyexclusive.html\">The Great Outdoors (Best Buy Exclusive)<\/a>' (Universal)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11953\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11953\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11953\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30602\/howtobesingle.html\">How to Be Single<\/a>' (Warner Brothers)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11954\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11954\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11954\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31808\/iphigenia.html\">Iphigenia<\/a>' (Olive Films)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11955\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11955\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11955\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30544\/killerdamestwogothicchillersbyemiliopmiraglia.html\">Killer Dames: Two Gothic Chillers by Emilio P. Miraglia<\/a>' (Arrow Video)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11956\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11956\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11956\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31796\/thekingandfourqueens.html\">The King and Four Queens<\/a>' (Olive Films)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11957\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11957\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11957\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30228\/manhuntercollectorsedition.html\">Manhunter: Collector's Edition<\/a>' (Shout! Factory)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11958\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11958\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11958\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/28814\/amarriedwoman.html\">A Married Woman<\/a>' (Cohen Media Group)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11959\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11959\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11959\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3462\/moneypit.html\">The Money Pit (Best Buy Exclusive)<\/a>' (Universal)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11960\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11960\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11960\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/24213\/thepeoplethattimeforgot.html\">The People That Time Forgot<\/a>' (Scorpion Releasing)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11961\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11961\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11961\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30638\/theplayercriterion.html\">The Player<\/a>' (Criterion)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11962\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11962\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11962\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31802\/theprivateaffairsofbelami.html\">The Private Affairs of Bel Ami<\/a>' (Olive Films)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11963\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11963\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11963\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31158\/privatelessons.html\">Private Lessons<\/a>' (Cinema Epoch)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11964\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11964\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11964\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/33540\/ranmaset1.html\">Ranma \u00bd: Set 1<\/a>' (Warner Brothers)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11965\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11965\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11965\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/33543\/ranmaset2.html\">Ranma \u00bd: Set 2<\/a>' (Warner Brothers)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11966\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11966\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11966\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/33544\/ranmaset3.html\">Ranma \u00bd: Set 3<\/a>' (Warner Brothers)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11967\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11967\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11967\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/33546\/ranmaset4.html\">Ranma \u00bd: Set 4<\/a>' (Warner Brothers)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11968\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11968\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11968\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/33548\/ranmaset5.html\">Ranma \u00bd: Set 5<\/a>' (Warner Brothers)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11969\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11969\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11969\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/33549\/ranmaset6.html\">Ranma \u00bd: Set 6<\/a>' (Warner Brothers)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11970\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11970\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11970\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/33550\/ranmaset7.html\">Ranma \u00bd: Set 7<\/a>' (Warner Brothers)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11971\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11971\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11971\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31800\/richkids.html\">Rich Kids<\/a>' (Olive Films)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11972\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11972\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11972\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/32639\/riseofthelegend.html\">Rise of the Legend<\/a>' (Well Go USA)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11973\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11973\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11973\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/30836\/risen.html\">Risen<\/a>' (Sony)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11974\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11974\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11974\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/ultrahd.highdefdigest.com\/32607\/risen4k.html\">Risen \u2013 Ultra HD Blu-ray<\/a>' (Sony)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11975\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11975\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11975\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31068\/seraphoftheendvampirereignssnonepart1.html\">Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign: Ssn One Part 1<\/a>' (FUNimation)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11976\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11976\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11976\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31070\/seraphoftheendvampirereignssnonepart1limitededition.html\">Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign: Ssn One Part 1 Limited Edition<\/a>' (FUNimation)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11977\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11977\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11977\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/33760\/shirobakocollection2.html\">Shirobako Collection 2<\/a>' (Section 23)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11978\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11978\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11978\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/33134\/subject0shatteredmemories.html\">Subject 0: Shattered Memories<\/a>' (SGL Entertainment)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11979\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11979\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11979\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31798\/thesumofus.html\">The Sum of Us<\/a>' (Olive Films)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11980\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11980\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11980\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31061\/tokyoghoulvaseasontwo.html\">Tokyo Ghoul Va - Season Two<\/a>' (FUNimation)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11981\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11981\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11981\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31063\/tokyoghoulvaseasontwolimitededition.html\">Tokyo Ghoul Va: Season Two Limited Edition<\/a>' (FUNimation)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11982\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11982\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11982\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31812\/thewhoopeeboys.html\">The Whoopee Boys<\/a>' (Olive Films)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11983\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11983\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11983\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/31794\/zapped.html\">Zapped!<\/a>' (Olive Films)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11984\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11984\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11984\">'<a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/32692\/zoolanderno2themagnumedition.html\">Zoolander No. 2: The Magnum Edition<\/a>' (Paramount)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11985\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11985\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11985\">Other (Tell us in the Comments)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-11986\" name=\"poll_730\" value=\"11986\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-11986\">Nothing for me this week<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(730);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(730); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-730-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n<h2>New Releases<\/h2>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>Zoolander 2<\/strong>&#8216; \u2013 The original &#8216;Zoolander&#8217; had precisely one funny scene, involving a bunch of bimbo male models throwing a &#8220;gasoline fight.&#8221; But the movie was the first major comedy released after the 9\/11 tragedy and people really needed a mindless laugh to distract them from the miserable state of the world. The film made decent money at the time but was quickly forgotten afterwards \u2013 by everyone except writer\/director\/star Ben Stiller, anyway. Still hanging onto that past glory, he brought the original cast back together for a sequel 15 years later. This is not a thing anyone wanted. Curiously, it seems that Stiller and the studio couldn&#8217;t even figure out what to call the movie. It&#8217;s titled &#8216;Zoolander 2&#8217; on screen but &#8216;Zoolander No. 2&#8217; in most of the marketing materials. From the accounts of most people who bothered to see it, it&#8217;s a big, stinky number-two all right. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>How to Be Single<\/strong>&#8216; \u2013 Rebel Wilson, Dakota Johnson, Leslie Mann and Alison Brie headline an overstuffed rom-com that looks so painfully generic I&#8217;m surprised Garry Marshall didn&#8217;t direct it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>The Finest Hours<\/strong>&#8216; \u2013 Chris Pine better hope that this summer&#8217;s new &#8216;Star Trek&#8217; sequel is another hit, because he has yet to find any success outside that franchise. In this attempt, he trades captaining a starship for captaining a Coast Guard boat through a daring rescue mission during a terrible blizzard in 1952. Loosely based on a true story, the movie is said to have pretty impressive action set-pieces but pretty bad everything else. From the trailers, the photography appears to be 100% teal with no other colors used at all. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>Risen<\/strong>&#8216; \u2013 Joseph Fiennes is Roman military tribune tasked with locating Jesus&#8217; missing corpse in that brief window between the Passion of the Christ and Easter. From the director of &#8216;Waterworld&#8217;, the movie was marketed as though it were &#8216;Passion 2: Return of the Christ&#8217; but is reportedly much closer to amateurish faith-based productions like &#8216;Fireproof&#8217; and &#8216;Courageous&#8217;. Phil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/risen-movie-review\/\">called it<\/a> &#8220;church basement Christploitation.&#8221; Ouch. Also available in UHD so you can see the shoddy production values in extra clarity.<\/p>\n<h2>Catalog Titles<\/h2>\n<p>Way back in 1993, the Criterion Collection issued a very nice Laserdisc edition of Robert Altman&#8217;s biting-the-hand-that-feeds-him Hollywood satire &#8216;<strong>The Player<\/strong>&#8216;. Unfortunately, the label lost the rights to the title for most of the DVD and Blu-ray era. Warner Bros. put out an adequate if unexceptional Blu-ray in 2010. With another six years passed, the studio has finally loosened its grip on some of its properties and allowed Criterion to license Altman&#8217;s film again. The Criterion edition sports a newly remastered video transfer and a superior selection of bonus features. <\/p>\n<p>Although overshadowed in popular culture by &#8216;The Silence of the Lambs&#8217;, its crappy sequels, and (more recently) the &#8216;Hannibal&#8217; TV series, many fans will argue that Michael Mann&#8217;s superlative serial killer thriller &#8216;<strong>Manhunter<\/strong>&#8216; is still the best Hannibal Lecter movie (even if the film changes the spelling of the character&#8217;s name to &#8220;Lektor&#8221; for no particular reason). The picture appeared on Blu-ray as a bare-bones disc from MGM back in 2009 as part of &#8216;The Hannibal Lecter Collection&#8217;, bundled with &#8216;Lambs&#8217; and Ridley Scott&#8217;s &#8216;Hannibal&#8217;. That same disc was later repackaged as a standalone copy. The new <em>Collector&#8217;s Edition<\/em> from Shout! Factory offers both the original theatrical cut (allegedly\u2026 Michael Mann has a frustrating habit of making changes to the movie every time he looks at it) and the inferior &#8220;Director&#8217;s Cut.&#8221; Due to limitations in the available source material, the latter is cobbled together from a mix of high-definition footage (from the theatrical cut transfer) and standard-definition footage for the added scenes. Also included is a pretty impressive selection of new supplements. <\/p>\n<p>Rob Lowe may be firmly entrenched as a TV star today, but in the late 1980s his career was in freefall following his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2016\/01\/rob-lowe-oscars-snow-white-joke\" rel=\"nofollow\">Oscar telecast musical debacle<\/a> and his sex scandal. The 1990 erotic thriller &#8216;<strong>Bad Influence<\/strong>&#8216; was the first stage in his comeback. While not a box office success, the film playfully toyed with Lowe&#8217;s image as a naughty bad boy and showed that he had a sense of humor about his own failings. Certainly no great lost masterpiece, it&#8217;s essentially a formulaic B-movie thriller, but it&#8217;s slickly put together by future &#8216;L.A. Confidential&#8217; director Curtis Hanson and has one really suspenseful and blackly-comic set-piece in the middle. A few years ago, I caught a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/vudu-bad-influence\">streaming version of this on VUDU<\/a> that looked pretty lousy. I&#8217;d hope that the Blu-ray has a better transfer, though I&#8217;ll admit that I&#8217;m not really inclined to buy this movie in any case.<\/p>\n<p>After the failure of his disco nightclub drama &#8216;<strong>54<\/strong>&#8216; (set in the infamous Studio 54), director Mark Christopher claimed that studio interference forced to him hack out the core of the movie. He later held private screenings of a bootleg cut that reportedly added about 45 minutes of new footage, reinstating a significant storyline in which Ryan Phillippe&#8217;s lead character was revealed to be bisexual. The Amazon listing claims that the new &#8220;Director&#8217;s Cut&#8221; Blu-ray has a 103-minute run time, which (if accurate) appears to be a compromise that&#8217;s about 10 minutes longer than the old theatrical version. Whether any of this really makes the widely-panned movie worthwhile now is unknown to me.<\/p>\n<p>Best Buy stores have an exclusive window on several star-driven comedies from the 1980s, including Tom Hanks in &#8216;<strong>The Money Pit<\/strong>&#8216; and &#8216;<strong>The &#8216;Burbs<\/strong>&#8216;, Dan Aykroyd and John Candy in &#8216;<strong>The Great Outdoors<\/strong>&#8216;, and Michael Keaton in &#8216;<strong>The Dream Team<\/strong>&#8216;. <\/p>\n<p>Also dredged up from the 1980s is the Scott Baio classic &#8216;<strong>Zapped!<\/strong>&#8216;, in which the former Chachi and future Charles in Charge plays a high schooler who gets telekinetic abilities following a failed science experiment. The only part of this movie I remember at all is a scene where he uses his power to rip off a girl&#8217;s clothes from across the room \u2013 which at the time was considered hilariously ribald but today clearly marks him as a sex predator.  <\/p>\n<p>Finally, it seems that the Cohen Film Archive&#8217;s release of the 1964 Jean-Luc Godard infidelity drama &#8216;<strong>A Married Woman<\/strong>&#8216; (which I first mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/bluray-highlights-mar-15-2016\/\">back in March<\/a>) was delayed to this week. <\/p>\n<h2>My $.02<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently working on a review of &#8216;The Player&#8217;. (Short version: It&#8217;s a very worthy upgrade.) The new copy of &#8216;Manhunter&#8217; is also a must-buy.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy &#8216;The Money Pit&#8217; and &#8216;Bad Influence&#8217;, but not enough that I need to own them. I know that &#8216;The &#8216;Burbs&#8217; has a cult audience, but I never got into it.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s on your docket 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>The two best Blu-rays this week are actually reissues of movies previously released on the format. 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