Anchor Bay looks to be on a roll with their Japanese imports early in this new year, following up this coming week’s awesome Redline release with a 4-disc Battle Royale: The Complete Collection Blu-ray set in March. The boxed set includes several flavours of the original along with the sequel and a ton of bonus goodies. …Continued…
It’s the last week of September and probably the finest looking for Blu-ray releases. We might not be seeing the glut of titles from weeks past but the discs hitting the shops today are some of the best you’ll see all year, including some essential catalogue titles and one of the biggest blockbuster hits of [...]
God help me but I’m going to be completely broke by the end of this year if this keeps up. I’m sorry to sing the same song over and over again but Criterion proves month after month that they can read my mind, choosing some of my favourite films to bring to Blu-ray. And this batch of announcements, all due out this coming September is no exception. From Godard to Malick, Donen to Oshima – these are all incredible movies and I need to own them all on Blu-ray! Details below: …Continued…
When the Ultimate Force of Four Blu-ray set arrived at my door, I was already familiar with two of the films – Zhang Yimou’s gorgeous 2002 opus, Hero and Jackie Chan’s astounding The Legend of Drunken Master, originally released in China as Drunken Master II in 1994, edited and released in North America in 2000. I wasn’t expecting much from Iron Monkey and wasn’t sure what Zatoichi would be like. I can happily say, after spending hours with the set over the last few days, that all four of these films are gems. What an amazing surprise! I just wish I had been half as enamoured with their presentation on Blu-ray disc. …Continued…