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The Innkeepers coming to Blu-ray
I really, really enjoyed Ti West’s House of the Devil, mostly for its throwback style of filmmaking. I’m pretty excited to check out his latest film, The Innkeepers, which has received a lot of great notices when it’s screened at festivals over the last year. …Continued….
The Wicker Tree Blu-ray coming in April
Robin Hardy’s 2011 follow up to his brilliant 1973 film The Wicker Man has been announced for release on Blu-ray. Anchor Bay has revealed that The Wicker Tree will make it’s high-def debut on April 24th. I’m a big fan of the original and, as such, super excited to see this sort-of-not-really-sequel film, despite the mixed reviews it received when playing festivals last year. Sadly, there’s no news, as yet, about a Blu-ray release for The Wicker Man (Optimum has been teasing a UK release for a few years but, to my knowledge, nothing has materialized.) Guess I’ll have to hang on to my 2-disc, wooden-box packaged limited edition DVD set a little longer. …Continued…
The Adventures of Tintin Blu-ray announced and detailed
Hot damn, these holiday releases are hitting Blu-ray faster than I can catch them in theatres. I must be mistaken, but doesn’t it seem like The Adventures of Tintin only just came out a few weeks ago? I was really looking forward to seeing this trip to the uncanny valley on the big screen but this news makes me think I might be too late, yet again. Sigh. Nevertheless, the animated Spielberg/Jackson co-production is now scheduled to hit Blu-ray on March 13 in a couple of high-def varieties – the two-disc Blu-ray/DVD edition and the slightly-pricier three-disc 3D/Blu-ray/DVD edition. …Continued…
Criterion May Blu-ray titles: Being John Malkovich, La haine, Certified Copy, Summer Interlude, Summer with Monika
Criterion’s lineup of titles to be released in May has been revealed and it’s a doozy! In addition to two more Bergman films making their high-def debut and a long-awaited upgrade of Mathieu Kassovitz’s La haine, the studio has unveiled that it’ll be releasing Spike Jonze’s groundbreaking Being John Malkovich as well as the brilliant Certified Copy, Abbas Kiarostami’s first dramatic feature to be shot outside of his native Iran. …Continued…
Top New Blu-ray releases for the Week of February 14
This week’s new Blu-ray releases include ‘TAKE SHELTER’, ‘TINY FURNITURE’, ‘THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI’, ‘THE RUM DIARY’, ‘ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT’, ‘ROBIN OF SHERWOOD: SET 2′, ‘THE DEAD’ and many, many more!
The Criterion Collection: Tiny Furniture Blu-ray Disc Review
Tiny Furniture is something all together new. It’s so much more than the spawn of new-media and do-it-yourself filmmaking. Or the ‘mumblecore’ scene. It transcends its origins and influences and marks the beginning of something new and powerful – raw, honest, digital filmmaking with an eye toward narrative, design and composition. It’s a remarkable and worthy, yet controversial addition to The Criterion Collection. …Continued…
Robin of Sherwood: Set 2 Blu-ray Disc Review
The Robin of Sherwood series on Blu-ray is continued and concluded with this second exceptional boxed set of discs from Acorn Media. …Continued…
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) coming to Blu-ray in March
Here’s another of this winter’s gems that I’ve almost let slip by me. Though David Fincher‘s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo adaptation has now been announced to arrive on Blu-ray on March 20th, I’m happy to say that the film is still playing in theatres here in Montreal, giving me one last shot at seeing it on the big screen before it’s forever relegated to the overflowing shelves of my home video library. …Continued…
Top New Blu-ray releases for the Week of February 7
This week’s new Blu-ray releases include ‘LA JETÉE/SANS SOLEIL’, ‘LADY AND THE TRAMP’, ‘LOVE STORY’, ‘THE HOUR’, ‘THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL’, ‘DOWNTON ABBEY: SEASON 2′, ‘THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1′ and many, many more!
The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall Blu-ray Disc Review
It’s not quite the Universal Monsters version of the story that I fell in love with as a child, but Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical version of the Phantom of the Opera does hold some limited appeal to monster fans like me. And this new Blu-ray presentation of the 25th Anniversary concert of the popular show is bound to please not only devout fans of the musical but also the most critical of home video fanatic. …Continued…
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