Continuing on with Blu-ray news that’s totally blowing my mind, the Japanese arm of Bandai Visual has revealed that they’re planning to unleash a massive Blu-ray boxed set of the original Macross series! This show, in the guise of the first third of the Robotech saga, as we saw it here in North America back in the ’80s, was instrumental in shaping my love for anime, the giant robot genre and for serial storytelling in general. I don’t think it’s too far fetched to say that some aspect of the story, the design or the legacy of the series is present in my life on an everyday basis (aside from the fact that I’m perpetually gazing at the three large character models I have sitting above my television.) The news that all 36 of the series’ original episodes will be available on Blu-ray this May is throwing me into something of a fit. ...Continued...
This week’s new Blu-ray releases include 'THE IDES OF MARCH', 'REDLINE', 'FIRST SQUAD: THE MOMENT OF TRUTH', 'BELLE DE JOUR', 'TRAFFIC', 'DEAD POETS SOCIETY', 'GOOD MORNING VIETNAM', 'GANTZ II: PERFECT ANSWER', 'LICENSE TO DRIVE' and many, many more!
Can you believe this? To this day, I have yet to see a single film in the Twilight series. It's true. So the trailer above means very little to me. Nor does the release of the Blu-ray disc of the penultimate film, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1. It'll be on store shelves in a few weeks, which I take to mean that the final installment of the series will be hitting cinemas shortly thereafter. At this point, I think I'm just going to wait 'till this whole things is wrapped up before I dive in and experience sparkling vampires for myself. ...Continued...
Wow, this last month has just rocketed by. It feels like I was just posting about Criterion‘s March titles a few days ago and here we are already, talking about this funky line-up of releases for April. I hate to say it, but I’m not that familiar with this batch (see what happens when you don’t go to film school, kids?) but that actually makes me all the more anxious to sink my teeth into them. I love a new discovery! ...Continued...
Anchor Bay looks to be on a roll with their Japanese imports early in this new year, following up this coming week's awesome Redline release with a 4-disc Battle Royale: The Complete Collection Blu-ray set in March. The boxed set includes several flavours of the original along with the sequel and a ton of bonus goodies. ...Continued...
More great news! Paramount has announced that they're finally ready to unleash Polanski's finest film on Blu-ray. Chinatown, one of my favourite films of all time and possibly the best and most influential modern noir, makes its HD debut this coming April 3rd, complete with "a new high definition transfer" and a surprisingly robust set of special features that includes a three part documentary and a commentary track by screenwriter Robert Towne and - wait for it - David Fincher?! ...Continued...
This has been a stunning week of Blu-ray news (most of which I’ll get to posting in due time), all released surrounding the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The news that walloped me the hardest is that 2012 will be the year that Universal will finally offer up select titles from it’s beloved collection of monster films in new, restored Blu-ray releases!! That’s right, the gods of monsters and the gods of HD have, at long last, seen fit to allow me to own the original 1930s Dracula and Frankenstein films in glorious 1080p! ...Continued...
This is the news that we James Bond fans have been waiting for – MGM and Fox are finally preparing to unleash the ultimate Blu-ray collection of all 22 Bond films at some point in 2012. That’s right, no firm date has been announced at this point, though retail rumours point to a late-September/early-October release ...Continued...
It's that time of year again! Whether you're taking advantage of holiday Blu-ray deals for yourself or adding to the collections of friends and family, you can't avoid picking up a few new discs this month. ...Continued...