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Top 5 New Blu-ray releases for the Week of May 3

By Brenden ⋅ May 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

This weeks new Blu-ray releases include ‘THE GREEN HORNET’ from Sony, ‘SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT’ and ‘FAT GIRL’ from Criterion, ‘TWELVE O’CLOCK HIGH’ and ‘ALL THE RIGHT MOVES’ from Fox/MGM and many, many more!

Top 5 New Blu-ray releases for the Week of April 5

By Brenden ⋅ April 5, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

This weeks new Blu-ray releases include ‘TAXI DRIVER’ from Sony, ‘TRON: LEGACY’ and ‘TRON: THE ORIGINAL CLASSIC’ from Disney, ‘A. I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE’ from Paramount, ‘FIDDLER ON THE ROOF’ from MGM/Fox, ‘THE CHRONICLE OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER’ from Fox, ‘FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST BROTHERHOOD: PART 4′ from FUNimation and many, many more!

[VIDEO] Das Boot: The Director’s Cut Blu-ray trailer

By Brenden ⋅ April 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Sony is releasing Wolfgang Petersen‘s masterpiece, the claustrophobic, German-language submarine drama Das Boot in a newly remastered, 2-Disc Blu-ray edition this June 7th. Both the original theatrical and Director’s cuts will be present along with hours of special features, including the newly produced retrospective doc ‘Wolfgang Petersen-Back To The Boat‘. …Continued…

Top 5 New Blu-ray releases for the Week of March 22

By Brenden ⋅ March 22, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

This week’s new Blu-ray releases include ‘THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK’ from The Criterion Collection, ‘STAND BY ME’, ‘HOW DO YOU KNOW’ and ‘THE TOURIST’ from Sony, ‘OUR HOSPITALITY’ from Kino Lorber and many, many more!

Sylvain Chomet’s animated The Illusionist (L’illusionniste) officially announced on Blu-ray

By Brenden ⋅ March 14, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

There’s still no sign of Sylvain Chomet‘s Les Triplettes de Belleville making it’s way to Blu-ray on this side of the Atlantic but, just as we told you a couple of weeks ago, Sony has officially scheduled his follow-up film, The Illusionist (L’illusionniste) for a May 10th home video release date. …Continued…

Sylvain Chomet’s animated The Illusionist coming to Blu-ray in May?

By Brenden ⋅ March 4, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Amazon has listed a pre-order for Sylvain Chomet‘s brilliant animated film, The Illusionist, based on an unfilmed script by famed director Jacques Tati. The US page doesn’t include any details of the release outside of the suggested price but the Canadian page reveals that Sony plans to have the disc in stores on May 10. Two questions now remain – what special features will be included on the disc and when will we see Chomet’s Les Triplettes de Belleville on Blu-ray? UK and French releases might provide some clues. …Continued…

Top 5 New Blu-ray releases for the Week of February 22

By Brenden ⋅ February 23, 2011 ⋅ One comment

This weeks new Blu-ray releases include ‘GET LOW’ from Sony, ‘FISH TANK’, ‘SENSO’ and ‘SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS’ from Criterion, ‘ALL-STAR SUPERMAN’ from Warner, ‘MEGAMIND’ from Paramount, ‘BIRDEMIC’ from Severin, ‘FLCL’ from FUNimation and many, many more!

[UPDATED] Taxi Driver Blu-ray announced, includes Criterion commentary track

By Brenden ⋅ February 14, 2011 ⋅ One comment

It looks like my hope that the special Sony/Criterion relationship that allowed for the BSS Story boxed set to exist has indeed born fruit! Sony has announced today that it’s April 5th release of the Taxi Driver restoration on Blu-ray will actually include Criterion’s classic laserdisc commentary track by director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader! …Continued…

Top 5 New Blu-ray releases for the Week of February 8

By Brenden ⋅ February 8, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Weeks like this kind of tear me up inside. You see, I’m often torn between whether to present a Top 5 list that represents my personal feelings about the Blu-ray discs being released or whether to outline the most popular new titles of the week. I know…first-world problems. …Continued…

Taxi Driver 4K Restoration on Blu-ray in April

By Brenden ⋅ January 28, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

There have been a fair number of classic and very important films announced for release on Blu-ray this year already, though we’re only twenty-eight days into 2011. And despite the fact that there has been no official announcement yet in North America it has become clear in the last couple of days that Martin Scorsese‘s Taxi Driver will, at long last, be making its way to Blu this coming April. …Continued…