Blu-ray Picks for the Week of January 12

By brenden ⋅ January 13, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Oh geez. I usually like to pick a top disc release every week. I usually like to be able to recommend a single title for you to pick up, you know, if you’ve got a tight budget, or just want to see the best of the best. But I can’t really do it this week. There are too many brilliant Blu-ray discs out this week! I’ll highlight a few of them but please comb through the whole list. There’s something for everyone here! …Continued…

Blu-ray Picks for the Week of December 15

By brenden ⋅ December 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m a day late getting my Blu-ray picks posted. Sorry ’bout that. Yesterday was pretty packed with news and with the limited time I had, I could only squeeze so many posts in. But here we are now, a little light on titles overall but with some quality Blu-ray discs nonetheless. Guess which boxed set I’m most excited about this week… …Continued…

Blu-ray Picks for the Week of December 1

By brenden ⋅ December 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A day late and still a copy of Terminator Salvation short. The Blu-ray Blog was up and down yesterday, thanks to a flood of traffic from Blu-ray fan and celebrity gossip hound, www.egotastic.com, so it wasn’t possible to get our weekly release list online. Here we are a day later with a collection of titles not quite as numerous as previous weeks but quite vital all the same. …Continued…

Terminator Salvation Blu-ray Preview: Maximum Movie Mode

By brenden ⋅ November 30, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Much like Warner Home Video did with Zach Snyder on the Watchmen: Director’s Cut Blu-ray disc, they’ve talked director McG into putting himself in front of the camera and talking shop, using comparative screens of the film itself, stills, animatics and more to lay bare every facet of Terminator Salvation and how it was created. …Continued…

Terminator Salvation: Win a Ducati Motorcycle Sweepstakes!

By brenden ⋅ November 24, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

I dearly wish this was a contest to win my own personal Moto-Terminator. It goes without saying that I’d have its silicon brain removed and all its robotic killer instincts put at my disposal. And I would promise to use my newfound cybernetic power and speed only for good (and maybe the occasional street race) helping to save the innocent and feed the starving. I would be the ultimate cybernetic superman! While that wish may never come true, we all now have the chance to win the motorcycle the Moto-Terminator was based on - the Ducati Hypermotard 796! …Continued…

Sony confirms Moon Blu-ray Details, January Release Date for US/Canada

By brenden ⋅ November 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Director Duncan Jones‘ information was right on the nose about the January 12th Blu-ray and DVD release date for his film Moon. A date nearly two months after it hits video in the UK. While every other home video news outlet under the sun continued to report an early December release for the film, Jones was adamant that Moon was being held until January in the US and Canada, and urged fans to import the region-free Blu-ray from the UK to keep his sales up over the holiday season. Well, now his fears have been confirmed by Sony. Moon will indeed be on North American store shelves on January 12th. Here are the details: …Continued…

Inglourious Basterds announced and detailed!

By brenden ⋅ October 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

We told you all about the UK edition of Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, hitting shelves on December 7th. Now we’ve got all the details (except the package art) of the virtually-identical North American edition of the film, to see release just over a week later on December 15th. …Continued…

Dead Snow Blu-ray Disc Review

By Stone ⋅ October 23, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

I’ve been lamenting lately the lack of “good ole” zombie movies. It seems everything in the last decade has been about stronger, faster, smarter and angrier zombies and , while I enjoy the hell out of most of them, it feels like a slow degradation of the genre, not an evolution. …Continued…

Inglourious Basterds coming to Blu-ray in the UK

By brenden ⋅ October 16, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is beating its way to Blu-ray in the UK this holiday season. Universal Studios Home Entertainment is getting the film into shops on December 7, long before the Weinstein Company will serve it up to us, here on the other side of the Atlantic. Thank goodness for Amazon.co.uk and the power of importing! Disc details below: …Continued…

Duncan Jones reveals Moon Blu-ray/DVD January Release Date on Twitter

By brenden ⋅ October 12, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Well, we heard about the UK release of Moon on Blu-ray ages ago. But there hasn’t been a peep about it coming to home video in the USA and Canada. Until now!

I follow director Duncan Jones on Twitter. Today he spilled the beans …Continued…

Terminator: Salvation comes to Blu-ray in December

By brenden ⋅ September 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

We told you all about the UK release of Terminator: Salvation ages ago and it’s taken this long to get any info on the US/Canada version. So, here you go! Warner is about to give you another face-load of Bale on December 1st! …Continued…

Duncan Jones’ Moon announced for Blu-ray in the U.K.

By brenden ⋅ August 27, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Ahhhh! It kills me that I missed Moon in the theatres. I mean, there’s no guarantee that I would’ve fallen in love with the film but it certainly has all the ingredients to rank itself up there amongst my fav movies of the year - hard sci-fi, melancholy and a David Bowie connection. Writer/director Duncan Jones is Bowie’s son and, while stretching out into his own medium, Jones’ story finds itself riffing on imagery made popular by his father - that of the lonely astronaut trapped thousands of miles away from home. I’m happy to see that Sony is bringing this to the UK so soon. I only hope we’ll see it on this side of the Atlantic before the new year. Details of the Blu-ray disc release below: …Continued…

This Is Spinal Tap: Limited Marshall Amp Edition features 5 Discs, New Extras, UK Only

By brenden ⋅ August 20, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

What the hell? Did we just get completely hosed, here in North America? Are we not worthy of receiving this completely amazing Limited Edition version of This is Spinal Tap? Urgh…I’m so upset… …Continued…

Lionsgate brings Drag Me To Hell to Blu-ray in the U.K.

By brenden ⋅ August 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Drag Me To Hell was such a fun film! It was the spirit of the old Evil Dead-era Sam Raimi come out to play with horror cinema once again. It was also a superb experience for me because I felt it had the spirit of my pal Andy B’s webcomic, Raising Hell (go and read it over at Transmission-X comics now!) I really wish I could have seen this with him in the theatre. Luckily, it looks like we might get another chance for a viewing shortly. Lionsgate is getting off its mark and bringing it to home video sooner, rather than later if this Amazon listing is any indication. Sadly, we don’t have any hint of it over on this side of the Atlantic as yet but we do have this great package art from the upcoming UK release. Drag Me To Hell hits Blu-ray in the UK on October 26th and has a suggested retail price of £24.99. Expect more details and a US/Canada announcement soon. …Continued…

Masters of Cinema announce F.W. Murnau’s silent Sunrise for Blu-ray in the UK

By brenden ⋅ August 13, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Hey, you North American readers! Ever heard of the UK home video label Eureka? How about their Masters of Cinema series of DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Well, they’re kind of like the Criterion Collection for Region 2 (or Region B, if you’re talking Blu-ray) and they’re amazing. If you take a look at their list of titles, you’ll actually find that their catalogue is a good combination of Criterion and Kino titles, augmented with a selection of brilliant Asian cinema and European favourites. …Continued…

Terminator: Salvation Blu-ray announced, detailed for UK release

By brenden ⋅ July 15, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

I missed this one in the cinema. And to be honest, I didn’t really care. The trailers weren’t really doing it for me. I’m not a big Bale fan. And McG is synonymous with celluloid pablum. But you know what? I sort of regret not checking it out now. I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s just because I’ve remembered how much I dig films about robots on a killing spree. Either way, I’m glad to see that Terminator: Salvation is on the Blu-ray horizon. …Continued…

EINS! ZWEI! DIE! Zombie Film Fest Darling ‘Dead Snow’ comes to Blu-ray in the UK

By brenden ⋅ July 6, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Ok, I guess it’s officially Zombie day here on the The Blu-ray Blog, what with the Shaun of the Dead story and the Living Dead at Manchester Morgue announcement. Let’s add one more title then, shall we: the blood soaked, foot dragging, Heil Hitler-ing zombie-fest from Norway, Dead Snow.

I can’t wait to see this. It’s playing over the next few weeks here in Montreal at the Fantasia Film Festival. It’s been a big hit at every fest it’s played at, making a critical ‘killing’ (sorry) at Sundance. And now it’s on it’s way to Blu-ray. But only in the UK. Figures… …Continued…

Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz come to Blu-ray in September

By brenden ⋅ July 5, 2009 ⋅ One comment

I’ve been a fan of SImon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s Spaced series for a long time. It’s a TV show about some of my favourite things - comics, videogames and zombies. Yeah, I’m a nerd. So, when their debut film Shaun of the Dead first came to the cinema, I was super-excited. I’m happy to say that I wasn’t let down by the film in the least. It’s so much fun to watch and crafted in the spirit of Spaced. In fact, it could almost play as a sequel of sorts.

Hot Fuzz, on the other hand, while also a lot of fun, left me a little cold. Ah, well. Can’t win ‘em all. I’ll be happy to give it another chance on Blu-ray in September, when both films will be released. …Continued…

[VIDEO] Blu-ray Wish List: Animated Transformers: The Movie (1986)

By brenden ⋅ June 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Why the hell don’t we have this movie on Blu-ray yet?! Urrrr…

All right. Let me explain. Transformers: the Movie, the animated giant-robot extravaganza that shaped my youth, came out in 1986. You know the film. The one with that song that goes, “YOU GOT THE TOUCH. YOU GOT THE POWER!” Yeah. That one. In the last number of years, the film has arrived in the home video market on DVD, in a variety of versions. Some full screen, attempting to show the full animated frame but looking way too loose, compositionally. Some widescreen, attempting to replicate the matted cinematic presentation (where movie theatres chop off the top and bottom of the picture - really, it happens ALL the time!) but looking way too tightly composed. Each version suffered additional problems in colour fidelity and compression. It seems that no studio, no release is able to get Transformers: the Movie quite right. …Continued…

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Blu-ray Released Individually in UK. Early Review reveals Inaccurate Subtitles

By brenden ⋅ June 24, 2009 ⋅ One comment

As The Blu-ray Blog reported earlier, if you live in North America and you want to own Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on Blu-ray, you’ll have to buy Sony’s weird “Trilogy” box-set. If you live in the UK, however (or if you’re into importing your discs from, say, Amazon.co.uk) you’re in luck. You Ang Lee and martial arts fans can get Crouching Tiger in an individual release, available July 6th!

DVDActive got themselves a copy of the UK disc and gave it a pretty glowing review: …Continued…