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Top 10 New Blu-ray releases for the Week of May 17
This weeks new Blu-ray releases include ‘PALE FLOWER’ and ‘DIABOLIQUE’ from Criterion, ‘THE HUSTLER’ and ‘THE COMMANCHEROS’ from Fox, ‘SOPHIA LOREN AWARD COLLECTION’ from Kino, ‘BEVERLY HILLS COP’ from Paramount, ‘DEEP RED’ from Blue Underground, ‘THE FIVE DEADLY VENOMS’ from Dragon Dynasty/Weinstein and many, many more!
May Blu-ray Catalogue titles from Paramount: Top Gun, The Firm, Le Mans, Beverly Hills Cop
Wow. I had gotten used to Paramount releasing only one, maybe two or three Blu-ray discs a month but May is shaping up to be a wallet-killer from the studio! In addition to the four Western Blu-ray titles we told you about earlier, Paramount will also be unleashing high-def versions of four top films from their catalogue next month: the 25th Anniversary release of Tony Scott‘s Top Gun, The Firm, Le Mans and the always-entertaining Beverly Hills Cop. Perhaps this is a sign of better things to come – the end of the single-Blu-ray-release-a-month era. Perhaps 2011 is the year the studio will make a firm commitment to bring a greater bounty of its titles from years past to Blu. One can only hope. …Continued…
1990 Captain America coming to Blu-ray in New Director’s Cut
I recall being pretty enthusiastic about Albert Pyun‘s Captain America film way back in 1990, produced hot on the heels of Warner‘s hit Batman and riding a wave of superhero-film excitement. I was enthusiastic, that is, until I sat through a screening of it. Urgh. What a low-budget turd. This is a film so bad that no creative editing, no CGI enhancements could possibly improve it. But that’s not what Pyun thinks. According to io9, the director is preparing a brand new Director’s Cut of the film, based on “my own 35 mm CA work picture and temp mix [that] I did before I left [the] picture.” And lucky for us, this new cut of the film will be on Blu-ray in May, just in time to take advantage of Marvel‘s upcoming Captain America: The First Avenger flik due in theatres this summer. …Continued…
Robocop Trilogy Blu-ray Disc Review
Robocop can be many different things to many people – there are those, like me, who worship the original Paul Verhoeven movie as a flat-out brilliant example of filmmaking at its best, there are those who enjoy the entire series as a kitschy remnant of late 80s/early 90s action films and there are those who are just unabashed fans of the character. This new Robocop Trilogy boxed set is a mixed bag at best and clearly not aimed at my demographic. But for those fans clamoring to see their favourite tin-man-with-a-badge take down the bad guys in all three of his cinematic adventures, this set might just do the trick. …Continued…
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