Blu-ray Highlights: Week of April 6th, 2014 – Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold
Hobbitses, hobbitses, hobbitses… If you’re a fan of hobbits, or ghosts, or douchebag pop singers, this could be a great Blu-ray week for you! New Releases ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug‘ – Do you...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of April 27th, 2014 – Utterly Laborious
I wish I could say that this week brings some improvement for Blu-ray fans. That sure would be nice, wouldn’t it? Unfortunately, the latest batch of new discs once again offers slim pickings. New...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of May 18th, 2014 – Pomp and Circumstance
At high schools and colleges around the country, late May is graduation season for students. At the movies, however, it’s a season of mass destruction this year. As Godzilla smashes the theatrical box...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of June 15th, 2014 – Welcome to Cloud Cuckoo Land
This week may only bring a small volume of new Blu-ray releases, but packed within the short list of titles are some real standouts. Maybe not everything is awesome, but at least a few things could be....
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of June 22nd, 2014 – I’ve Been Working Like a Dog
You know I work all day, to get you money to buy you things. And it’s worth it just to hear you say, you’re gonna give me… a new Blu-ray! New Releases ‘300: Rise of an Empire‘ – On the one hand, I...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of October 12th, 2014 – Future Tense
Time travel seems to be a major theme on Blu-ray this week. From mutant superheroes to talking dogs, everybody’s zipping back and forth from past to future, or vice versa. New Releases ‘X-Men: Days of...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of November 9th, 2014 – KAPOW! ZWAPP! SPLATT!
Holy high definition, Batman! Heaven and Earth had to get moved to bring one of this week’s new Blu-ray releases to disc. Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na… For decades, the 1960s...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of June 5th, 2016 – Animal Magnetism
A couple of exceptions aside, this May wasn’t the most exciting month for Blu-ray releases. June attempts to make up for that right away with a huge slate of new discs that should have at least a few...
View ArticlePoll: Will You Double-Dip for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ in 3D?
Four months after the initial (2D) Blu-ray was released, caused a brief explosion in disc sales, then subsided and has mostly been forgotten, Disney and Lucasfilm finally announced a release date for a...
View ArticleOff the Shelf: Ghosts of the Abyss
My sons have recently become obsessed with the story of the Titanic. Because they’re still a little young to watch the famous blockbuster about that disaster, which would be too long and too scary for...
View ArticleSteelBook Alert: Incredibles ii v2.0 with 3D
As you may recall, Best Buy announced a couple months ago a Blu-ray SteelBook for Pixar’s Incredibles 2 that had rather perplexing and ugly artwork. Zavvi has finally revealed the art for its competing...
View ArticleSteelBook Alert: One Jump Ahead
To the delight of collectors (if not their wallets), Best Buy has kept busy cranking out SteelBooks for Disney remakes, superhero blockbusters, and even the occasional other type of movie that might...
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