And Sergei Paradjanov's debut feature Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) makes
its DVD debut this week, available as a single - disc special edition or in a box set with the director's other three feature films.
But on a more personal (and much more self - serving) note, another Seattle fixture made
his DVD debut this week: ME.
Bravo's hit show makes
its DVD debut this week and even though I still can't cook worth a crock pot, I still love watching all the delicious food being prepared by these intense and nervous wrecks on screen.
Not exact matches
Elsewhere on the blog I review Black Orpheus (Criterion) and Orlando (Sony), and also released this
week is L'enfance Nue (Criterion), the
debut feature from French director Maurice Pialat, and this
DVD debut includes Pialat's first film, the 1960 short L'amour existe, and the 1968 documentary Autor de L'enfance nue, among its supplements.
This
week, the longer and, by most accounts, weaker cut hit home video with Image Entertainment's
DVD and Blu - ray
debut of «The Witches of Oz.»
For its 25th anniversary, the former made its Blu - ray
debut this
week in a Blu - ray +
DVD combo pack from MGM and 20th Century Fox.
The Station Agent returns to
DVD this
week, seven and a half years after its home video
debut, not for any Special Edition but for a new, low - priced printing by Miramax library acquirer Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.
The original A Nightmare on Elm Street also gets a Blu - ray
debut this
week, featuring all the supplements from the earlier
DVD «Infinifilm Special Edition» release (two commentary tracks, alternate endings, three documentary featurettes), plus the Blu - ray exclusive interactive «Focus Points» mode, which allows instant access to alternate takes and behind the scenes footage while watching the film.
This
week on home video, superheroes take on the Cold War of the sixties in «X-Men: First Class,» Brian De Palma's modern gangster classic «Scarface»
debuts on Blu - ray and over a dozen TV shows from last season — from «Fringe» to «The Good Wife» to Steve Carell's farewell season of «The Office» — roll out on
DVD just before the new Fall Season launches.
After grossing just over $ 17 thousand in a 17 - theater, one -
week engagement last summer (which did not extend, as is increasingly the case, to a simultaneous On Demand
debut), Violet & Daisy hits retail on Tuesday from distributor Cinedigm in a
DVD and the Blu - ray +
DVD Combo Pack reviewed here.
Two
weeks after Gleeson's Golden Globe nomination was announced and two
weeks before he loses the award probably to The Artist's Jean Dujardin, The Guard makes its U.S. home video
debut on Tuesday on a separate
DVD and Blu - ray, the latter of which we review here.
The focal point of the
DVD's cover art, both in the movie's 2005 home video
debut from Buena Vista Home Entertainment and in next
week's reissue from Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, the new distributor of lesser Miramax titles, is Paul Rudd, who plays the medium - sized but memorable role of Jimmy Rusoff, Angie's boyfriend from the other side of the tracks.
This
week, Criterion brings out editions of four of the greatest, most beautiful and most resonant films every made in newly remastered
DVD editions and Blu - ray
debuts: Three Colors: Blue White Red, the great trilogy from Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Jean Renoir's The Rules Of The Game.
Featuring Yancy Bulter of As the World Turns and Kickass fame, Shark
Week debuts on Blu - ray ™,
DVD and On Demand August 28.
«Maze Runner: The Death Cure,» from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
debuted at No. 1 on the NPD VideoScan First Alert sales chart, which tracks combined
DVD and Blu - ray Disc unit sales, and the dedicated Blu - ray Disc sales chart the
week ended April 28.
Law Abiding Citizen, starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler,
debuted in first place on the
DVD sales and rental charts last
week.
Just in time for the Oscars, the
week that ended March 3 was a big one for new releases: Five newly issued
DVD / Blu - ray Disc titles
debuted among the top 10 home entertainment sellers in the
week leading up to the Academy Awards ceremony.
Two freshly - anointed Oscar winners arrive on home video this
week: Whiplash, which won awards for Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons and for editing, and sound mixing, and Big Hero 6, this year's Best Animated Feature,
debut on Blu - ray,
DVD, and VOD.
This
week, «Tosh.0» makes its
DVD and Blu - ray
debut with a compilation of its first ten episodes titled Hoodies after its host's Season 1 attire.
The new Pirates of the Caribbean movie
debuts on disc this
week week exclusively as a combo pack and will be available a month later as a
DVD - only release.
That went out of print in January 2009, which brings us to the present and this
week's Blu - ray
debuts of both Toy Story movies in separate 2 - disc combo pack (1 Blu - ray disc and 1
DVD, with the respective movie appearing on each format).
Debuting this
week on
DVD, «Murder in Miami» has been described as «a sexy, thrilling ode to the classic De Palma films of the»80s — particularly Body Double.»
Of course, this doesn't qualify as mainstream cinema, certainly not in this unrated 101 - minute director's cut that this
week resurfaced on
DVD and premiered on Blu - ray from Anchor Bay Entertainment alongside an unlikely remake's home video
debut.
The Ratings Game simultaneously made its long overdue
DVD debut and pleasantly surprising Blu - ray
debut this
week from Olive Films, who have branded both releases «Digitally Remastered Special Edition.»
Three
weeks after its digital
debut, Paramount releases Star Trek today in a single - disc
DVD, a two - disc Blu - ray combo pack, this review's subject, a three - disc Blu - ray 3D + Blu - ray +
DVD + Digital Copy, and that same edition in a limited, premium gift set with Starfleet Phaser.
Debuting on
DVD and Blu - ray this
week with the look of a direct - to - video movie, Lightkeepers actually received an Oscar - qualifying one -
week run in Los Angeles last December along with a two -
week engagement in Cape Cod that broke the modest records of one theater on the peninsula before turning up at a couple of 2010 film festivals.
Last
week, Disney confirmed Black Panther's home media
debut on 4K Ultra HD, Blu - ray, Digital HD and
DVD.
Following a new
DVD edition issued in January, Warner gave the film its Blu - ray
debut this
week, just in time for Veteran's Day.
Captain America doesn't come out on
DVD for a
week yet, but this weekend saw the
debut of the release's full accompanying short film A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer, which is great if you're a fan of Agent Coulson.
Finding its way to the
DVD format just a couple of
weeks before another haunted house flick (Cold Creek Manor)
debuts on the big screen, veteran television director Dan Curtis's horror quickie is one of those comfortable relics that doesn't scare so much as mildly chill, offering countless opportunities to shout at the screen without any sort of discernible payoff — until the end, that is, but even that shocker of a conclusion has been telegraphed since at least the midway point of the first act, muffling its surprise.
This
week, Beauty and the Beast makes its Blu - ray
debut in a disc whose contents are comparable to the film's second Criterion Collection
DVD.
This will mark the Sonic Boom TV series»
DVD debut in North America, as the UK has been seeing volume releases of the series with «Sonic Boom Volume 2: Hedgehog Day» releasing this past
week.