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Top 10 New Blu-ray releases for the Week of June 7

By Brenden ⋅ June 7, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

This weeks new Blu-ray releases include ‘SUPERMAN: THE MOTION PICTURE ANTHOLOGY’, ‘THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES’, ‘THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING’, ‘GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD KNIGHTS’ and a host of double-movie packs from Warner, ‘TRUE GRIT’ (2010) from Paramount, ‘ANOTHER YEAR’ from Sony, ‘THE STUNT MAN’ from Severin, ‘ROBIN OF SHERWOOD: SET 1′ from Acorn and many, many more!

Top 10 New Blu-ray releases for the Week of March 29

By Brenden ⋅ March 29, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

This weeks new Blu-ray releases include ‘THE TEN COMMANDMENTS’ from Paramount, ‘THE MIKADO’ and ‘TOPSY TURVY’ from The Criterion Collection, ‘BLACK SWAN’ from Fox, ‘TANGLED’ from Disney, ‘KING OF KINGS’ and ‘SOYLENT GREEN’ from Warner, ‘TREME’ from Warner and HBO, ‘INFERNO’ from Blue Underground, ‘FAIR GAME’ from eOne and Summit, ‘DOGTOOTH’ from Kino, ‘EVANGELION 2.22′ from FUNimation and many, many more!

The Criterion Collection: Topsy Turvy Blu-ray Disc Review

By Brenden ⋅ March 28, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Mike Leigh‘s Topsy Turvy represents something of a departure from his usual, modern style of storytelling. With nineteenth century manners and speech patterns in hand, Leigh delivers a touching cinematic love-letter to the creative partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan, presented here in a gorgeous new Blu-ray edition from The Criterion Collection. …Continued…

Criterion announces March Blu-ray titles: Au revoir les enfants, Yi Yi, The Times of Harvey Milk, Topsy-Turvy, The Mikado

By Brenden ⋅ December 17, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

My love affair with The Criterion Collection will continue, unabated into March, as the label issues another incredible slate of films on Blu-ray! This batch includes a further round of older spine-numbers (previously issued titles on DVD) like Louis Malle’s Au revoir les enfants and Edward Yang’s Yi Yi as well as films new to the Collection such as Mike Leigh’s Topsy-Turvy and the film adaptation of the Gilbert & Sullivan stage play it dramatizes, The Mikado. Full details below: …Continued…

[VIDEO] Fox Blu-ray Demo features Alien Anthology, Sound of Music, Moulin Rouge and more!

By Brenden ⋅ October 22, 2010 ⋅ One comment

If you’re reading The Blu-ray Blog, you most likely don’t need to be sold on the benefits of the technology. And if you follow us at all, you most likely don’t need to be sold any further on Fox‘s amazing slate of recent and upcoming releases on the format. We’ve published a crap-ton of articles on the Alien Anthology, The Sound of Music: 45th Anniversary Edition, Moulin Rouge and The Rocky Horror Picture Show Blu-ray discs. Having just received them a couple of days ago, I can personally speak to the outstanding quality of the Moulin Rouge and Rocky Horror releases on the format. I’m simply blown away by the high-standard of the transfers, extras and packaging of these discs and can easily place them amongst the finest of the year. …Continued…

Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet officially announced for release on Blu-ray

By Brenden ⋅ August 27, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

We got a peek at these releases last week in the form of a couple of trailers promoting the UK releases of Baz Luhrmann‘s Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet on Blu-ray disc. Now we’ve got the official North American release details for the titles and they look absolutely grand! …Continued…

[VIDEO] Moulin Rouge Blu-ray Trailer

By Brenden ⋅ August 18, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

Much like we debuted Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show Blu-ray set by trailer last month, before the official press release hit the news-wire, we’re very fortunate to get a glimpse at their upcoming Moulin Rouge Blu-ray via YouTube video! …Continued…

Blu-ray Picks for the Week of February 2

By Brenden ⋅ February 2, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

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…

Gangs of New York Remastered Blu-ray Screenshot Comparison

By Brenden ⋅ January 31, 2010 ⋅ One comment

I was elated when I heard the announcement of the new, remastered edition of Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York Blu-ray but there remained the question of how much of an improvement that disc would be over the original, brutally flawed release. Well now, thanks to the AVS Forum’s Xylon we have the answer. Check out these screenshot comparisons for proof! …Continued…

Gangs of New York gets Remastered, Re-Released on Blu-ray

By Brenden ⋅ January 7, 2010 ⋅ One comment

At long last, one of the most reviled Blu-ray discs unleashed on the unsuspecting consumer can be chucked in the bucket, removed from your library forever and replaced with this sparkling new remaster! Yes ladies and gentlemen, we’re about to get that version of Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York that we’ve all been waiting for! The one that doesn’t look like dirty videotape! The one that doesn’t suck! The Gangs of our dreams! …Continued…