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Top New Blu-ray releases for the Week of January 24

By Brenden ⋅ January 29, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

This week’s new Blu-ray releases include ‘GODZILLA’, ‘THE MOMENT OF TRUTH’, ’50/50′, ‘THE WHISTLEBLOWER’, ‘WINGS’, ‘REAL STEEL’, ‘NOTORIOUS’, ‘REBECCA’, ‘SPELLBOUND’, ‘THE APARTMENT’, ‘ANNIE HALL’, ‘MANHATTAN’ and many, many more!

Top New Blu-ray releases for the Week of January 17

By Brenden ⋅ January 22, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

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!

Criterion April Blu-ray titles: Harold and Maude, Late Spring, The Organizer, Alambrista, Hollis Frampton

By Brenden ⋅ January 15, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

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…

Blu-ray Holiday Gift Guide 2011: Classics

By Brenden ⋅ December 20, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Almost there. We’re less than a week away from Christmas morning and thankfully, I’m almost through my yearly gift guide. This list of classics on Blu represents some of the best and most exciting high-def releases of the past year. Every last one of them would make an ideal gift for the real film fan in your life. …Continued…

Criterion March Blu-ray titles: David Lean directs Noël Coward, Last Temptation of Christ, Letter Never Sent, The War Room, A Night to Remember

By Brenden ⋅ December 16, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

It appears that March will prove to be a landmark month of Criterion Blu-ray releases for me for a couple of reasons – another stacked boxed set of classics making their Blu-ray debuts and one of my favourite films of all time finally receiving its high-def upgrade. …Continued…

Top New Blu-ray releases for the Week of December 13

By Brenden ⋅ December 14, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

This week’s new Blu-ray releases include ‘RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES’, ‘FRIGHT NIGHT (2011)’, ‘FRIGHT NIGHT’, ‘THE DEBT’, ‘RAPTURE’, ‘KUNG FU PANDA 2′, ‘THE ROCKETEER’, ‘MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS’, ‘BRANDED TO KILL’, ‘TOKYO DRIFTER’, ‘VELVET GOLDMINE’, ‘BLACK SHEEP’ and many, many more!

Top New Blu-ray releases for the Week of December 6

By Brenden ⋅ December 11, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

This week’s new Blu-ray releases include ‘À BOUT PORTANT (POINT BLANK)’, ‘THE LADY VANISHES’, ‘A DESIGN FOR LIVING’, ‘THE DEBT’, ‘TORA! TORA! TORA!’, ‘HEAVENLY CREATURES’, ‘THE SIMPSONS: THE FOURTEENTH SEASON’, ‘DRAGON TATTOO TRILOGY: EXTENDED EDITION’, ‘THE HANGOVER: PART II’, ‘MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – EXTREME BLU-RAY TRILOGY’ and many, many more!

Top New Blu-ray releases for the Week of November 22

By Brenden ⋅ November 23, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

This week’s new Blu-ray releases include ‘SUPER 8′, ’12 ANGRY MEN’, ‘RUSHMORE’, ‘COP LAND’, ‘CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND’, ‘THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE’, ‘CONAN THE BARBARIAN’ and many, many more!

Criterion February Blu-ray titles: World on a Wire, Tiny Furniture, Anatomy of a Murder, Vanya on 42nd Street, Three Outlaw Samurai, La Jetée

By Brenden ⋅ November 16, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Well, February looks like another month of killer Blu-ray release from The Criterion Collection, with six titles hitting shops, only one of them an upgrade from DVD (a combo release of Chris Marker‘s exceptional La Jetée and Sans Soleil.) Strangely, there are no commentary tracks to be found on any of these discs – traditionally a signature feature of the Collection. But the titles are out of this world, headlined by a feature-packed Blu-ray edition of Otto Preminger‘s Anatomy of a Murder (wisely sporting original Saul Bass art on the package cover) and Fassbinder‘s long-lost made-for-German-TV sci-fi epic, World on a Wire. Hideo Gosha‘s debut film, the action-packed Three Outlaw Samurai receives a bare-bones release, while up-and-coming auteur Lena Dunham‘s love-it-or-hate-it Tiny Furniture is packaged along with her feature debut, Creative Nonfiction, and four short films. Rounding out the month, Criterion tackles Louis Malle‘s final film Vanya on 42nd Street. …Continued…

Top New Blu-ray releases for the Week of November 15