This week’s new Blu-ray releases include ‘RIO’ from FOX, ‘CONAN THE BARBARIAN’ and ‘CONAN THE DESTROYER’ from Universal, ‘THE NAME OF THE ROSE’, ‘SLEEPERS’ and ‘EASTBOUND & DOWN’ from Warner, ‘STAKE LAND’ from eOne, ‘THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN’ from MGM/Fox, ‘FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF’ and ‘BETTER OFF DEAD’ from Paramount and many, many more!
It’s not a particularly overwhelming week in terms of sheer numbers of discs hitting the shops but damn, are there ever some amazing new titles coming out today, including a Blu-ray that could potentially be one of the best releases of the year! You read that right, it’s only the second week of 2011 and we may already have one of the best Blu-ray discs of the year on our hands. And it’s not even from Criterion!! …Continued…
Sony isn’t wasting any time bringing their Facebook drama The Social Network to Blu-ray, announcing it for a January 11th release. The David Fincher film comes to Blu in a fairly robust 2-disc “Collector’s Edition” that should make fans and film lovers happy. …Continued…
If you don’t like a zombie movie, we can’t be friends. Slap an “…of the Dead” suffix on just about any film title and I’m there! Whether it’s high-grade Hollywood fare or low-rent, B-movie imports made on a shoestring and shipped over from Italy, I’ll watch just about anything with a staggering, lurching undead brain-eater in it. Joining the ranks of the best zombie action captured on celluloid is Sony’s recent Zombieland, a truly excellent adventure/teen-romance/zombie film captured on a truly excellent, feature packed Blu-ray! …Continued…
Okay, this is just ridiculous. I can’t afford all of these discs in one week! I had no idea that February would be such a big release month. I thought March was going to be my bank-breaker and that I’d have another month to save up for the big titles but this week is going to make me reevaluate. …Continued…
Another gem I missed out on in the theatres. I can’t wait to see me some Zombieland on Blu-ray but I’m baffled at how that Jesse Eisenberg gets himself in two films, back to back that are titled something-land: first Adventureland and now Zombieland! It almost feels like this might be a sequel. Now that would be cool! …Continued…