Machete coming to Blu-ray in January

I’ve heard tell that Robert Rodriguez’ Machete was best left as a trailer. I’m not so sure about that. But I can’t argue that the concept (and superstar killer, Danny Trejo) does indeed make for great clip-age. I didn’t get a chance to see the film in theatres but I’m pretty stoked to check it out on this upcoming Blu-ray from Fox. The press release the studio sent me was pretty lite on the details so I’m assuming we’ll learn more about the disc as we draw nearer to its release. Expect to see the usual Rodriguez supplements tacked onto the BD – commentary, 10-Minute film school – as well as a host of featurettes. …Continued…

Top 5 New Blu-ray releases for the Week of September 7

All right, this week is completely out of control! I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many quality titles released at one time. Especially by a single studio! Warner Home Video must be trying their best to set a record here! They alone have something like twelve or thirteen titles newly available today. Have the holidays come early or something? Crap. I can’t afford all these discs… …Continued…

Stardust Blu-ray Disc Review

I’ve been waiting three years to see Stardust. After missing my chance to catch it in the theatre, I held out for an eventual release of the film on Blu-ray – a release I was beginning to feel might never come to pass. After all this time, years spent avoiding the film on DVD, HD-DVD and cable, I’ve finally been able to see Stardust on Blu-ray. And let me tell you, it was worth the wait! …Continued…

Paramount finally bringing Stardust to Blu-ray

I’ve been waiting for Stardust to be released on Blu-ray for what seems like an age. I was so upset to have missed out on seeing it in the cinema but dead set against picking it up on home video at the time it was initially released. You see, it was only released on DVD and HD-DVD. And, though I had yet to purchase my PS3, I knew it was in the cards for me. I was already a Blu-ray guy, way back then. So, it’s with great relief to me that Paramount has finally given in and announced the impending release of Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess’ Stardust. It better live up to all my pent up expectations…or else! …Continued…

The Godfather: Part II Blu-ray Disc Review

I have strong feelings about The Godfather: Part II and I’m not sure where to start talking about them.

First, I guess I want to address the popular opinion that it’s a better film than its predecessor. It is not. It is inferior in many ways; the story is at times confusing and unnecessarily convoluted for the sake of adding ‘intrigue’; the characters behave insincerely, their actions often in service to the movement of the plot rather than their own hearts, and the ending is weak and unsatisfying. …Continued…

Goodfellas (20th Anniversary Edition) Blu-ray Disc Review

Goodfellas is twenty years old? Get the f*$& outta here! There’s no denying that this is one of the finest mob movies, if not one of the finest films that has ever been made. And the new Blu-ray from Warner, celebrates the anniversary with a new silk suit and haircut but, sadly the mobster inside remains the same. Um…by that, I mean that this is the same disc they released three years ago in a new package. …Continued…

Goodfellas: 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Disc Details, Package Art

We’ve finally got some details on Warner Home Video’s upcoming Goodfellas: 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Disc set. Not only do I love this film but I love the idea that we’re getting a new edition of it packaged in a digibook along with a whole host of additional special features. I fear, however, that Disc-1 of the 2-disc set, the one with the feature on it, will just be a re-purposing of the previously available release. If that’s the case, we may have to wait until a possible 25th Anniversary Blu-ray edition of the film to get an audio upgrade from the 2007 lossy Dolby Digital to a lossless soundtrack. …Continued…

Goodfellas 20th Anniversary Blu-ray coming in February

You might remember that I picked Goodfellas as one of my Top 8 Blu-ray Discs to get Dad for Father’s Day this year. I had to. It’s one of those films that my father will watch over and over and over again. Clearly it plays well to the over-50-with-adult-children set. Hell, it plays well to damn-near everybody! What a perfect film. And now it’s getting a new edition to celebrate its 20th Anniversary. …Continued…

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Blu-ray Disc Review

I remember exactly when Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was released. It was 1994 and after the success of Coppola’s Dracula, the excitement brought on by the thought of another “literary” approach to one of my favourite monsters-on-film was almost more than I could bare. It would be an understatement to say that Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of the famous novel was anything but a letdown for me. Though, this most recent viewing on Sony’s new Blu-ray disc has me reconsidering my original take on the film. …Continued…