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Top New Blu-ray releases for the Week of October 4

By Brenden ⋅ October 4, 2011 ⋅ One comment

This week’s new Blu-ray releases include ‘THE LION KING’, ‘PULP FICTION’, ‘JACKIE BROWN’, ‘SCREAM 4′, ‘THE COMPLETE SCREAM COLLECTION’, ‘SUBMARINE’, ‘AMER’, ‘HARAKIRI’, ‘SALO’, ‘THE WALKING DEAD’, ‘ONG BAK’ and many, many more!

[VIDEO] Funny Pulp Fiction Blu-ray trailer

By Brenden ⋅ August 31, 2011 ⋅ One comment

We, the ticket and Blu-ray buying audience, always appreciate seeing that the studios understand how we feel about their films. With that in mind, it’s nice to see this new video from Lionsgate, which accurately sums up our feelings about the obscenely long wait for Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction to finally make its Blu-ray debut (in stores October 4th.) Check it out! …Continued…

Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown heading to Blu-ray

By Brenden ⋅ August 1, 2011 ⋅ One comment

It’s happening. It’s really happening. The two Tarantino films you never thought you’d see on a domestically released Blu-ray (well, not anytime soon that is) will finally be arriving in stores this coming October. Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction will make their high-def debuts sporting newly remastered transfers complete with lossless audio (format yet to be revealed) and most, if not all, of the previously available special features. Sounds pretty great! …Continued…

The Criterion Collection: Blow Out Blu-ray Disc Review

By Brenden ⋅ May 15, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Blow Out might not be my all time favourite Brian DePalma film but it’s certainly something special. And it’s never looked or sounded better on home video than on this fantastic new Blu-ray disc from Criterion! …Criterion…

Top 10 New Blu-ray releases for the Week of April 26

By Brenden ⋅ April 27, 2011 ⋅ One comment

This weeks new Blu-ray releases include ‘HUMAN PLANET’ from Warner, ‘BLOW OUT’ and ‘FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS’ from Criterion, ‘THE HOLY MOUNTAIN’ and ‘EL TOPO’ from Anchor Bay, ‘THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA’ from Kino, ‘THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME’ from Bandai, ‘EDEN OF THE EAST: THE KING OF EDEN’ from FUNimation and many, many more!

Criterion April Blu-ray titles: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Blow Out, Le Cercle Rouge, more

By Brenden ⋅ January 14, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

From the looks of things, The Criterion Collection will be gracing us with another brilliant slate of Blu-ray discs come April. I’m particularly excited about upgrading my DVD copy of Terry Gilliam‘s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, because, as I feared over a year ago, Universal‘s Blu-ray release of the film just didn’t cut the mustard. I’m expecting great things from this new director approved transfer! Oh yeah, and Blow Out in HD! And more Melville! And Ken Loach! …Continued…

The Taking of Pelham 123 Blu-ray Disc Review

By Brenden ⋅ November 10, 2009 ⋅ One comment

My god, those Scott brothers have got style! Both Ridley and younger brother Tony came up to the world of feature filmmaking from advertising. They know how to be slick. They know how to sell a product. But where the former took the route of the auteur, crafting genre films like Alien and Blade Runner for the thinking-person or art student, the latter used his craft in the camera filter and the quick-cut to bring some of the most visceral action films of the last thirty years to the big screen. It’s this skill that makes Tony Scott’s re-think of The Taking of Pelham 123 so much more than the tense over-the-radio chat of the original. It’s elevated to a beautifully shot, frenetically paced thrill ride. And for the most part, it works. …Continued…