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ray debut of «Strangers on a Train.»)
For Vinegar Syndrome's Blu -
ray debut of Psycho Cop Returns, their presentation has been scanned and restored in 2K from 35 mm vault elements in the movie's original, uncensored, and director - approved form.
Aladdin: Diamond Edition (Disney, Blu - ray + DVD)-- It's a whole new world for the 1992 Disney animated classic in the Blu -
ray debut of the film, freshly remastered for its high - definition incarnation with bright, vivid color.
Stalingrad (Synapse, Blu - ray) presents the Blu -
ray debut of the complete 2003 3 - part documentary on the devastating World War II battle that lasted over 6 months and took 4 million casualties.
Disney's Blu -
ray debut of Pretty Woman looks pretty good, so to speak.
A couple days late to post, but I take a gander at Julian Schnabel's Miral and the Blu -
ray debut of Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas «sex - saturated Original Sin in my latest home video column over at ShockYa, as well as a movie for those who view both belts and nuanced plots as their mortal enemies.
The Blu -
ray debut of Walk the Line features a video transfer that's a beaut: rich in color, deep in blacks and dimension, and sharply detailed.
The film received a top - to - bottom digital restoration, which premiered at Berlin before Sony's Blu -
ray debut of the modern classic.
Official Premise: Celebrate the 25th anniversary of a Disney classic with the stunning Blu -
ray debut of Oliver And Company, featuring perfect picture and sound.
«Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures» (Paramount), a five disc set with the Blu -
ray debut of the original trilogy, is the definitive home video incarnation of the pulp adventure series starring Harrison Ford as globetrotting, whip - cracking, devil - may - carearcheologist - turned - adventurer Indiana Jones.
Previously released on DVD by Paramount, Olive offers a DVD upgrade and the Blu -
ray debut of the film.
The Blu -
ray debut of «Blue Velvet» (MGM) features a newly remastered edition of the film, but it also features a unique peak into the creative process of Lynch with a collection of recently rediscovered deleted scenes: 50 minutes of visions, both lovely and horrible, human and hellish.
Also new this week is the Blu -
ray debut of two classic animated features from Studio Ghibli.
LOS ANGELES, CA, February 21st, 2013 — Severin Films today announced the May 7th Blu -
ray debut of Jim VanBebber's legendary, award - winning indie THE MANSON FAMILY on the 10th anniversary of its original release.
So this year I missed two of the most celebrated TV on disc releases of the year: the decades - in - the - making Batman: The Complete Television Series (Warner, Blu - ray, DVD, Digital HD) and the Blu -
ray debut of Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery (Paramount, Blu - ray).
Along with the Blu -
ray debut of one of Brian De Palma's most polarizing films, the two - disc set includes what is being called a «Director's Cut» but was actually edited by Peet Gelderblom, a commercial filmmaker and critic from The Netherlands, to reorder the film to De Palma's original plan.
Twilight Time gives the Blu -
ray debut of this film more original supplements than any previous release from the label.
For the Blu -
ray debut of «Snatch,» Sony has brought over most of the bonus features from the two - disc special edition DVD — including an audio commentary with director Guy Ritchie and producer Matthew Vaughn, deleted scenes, and a making - of featurette — as well as some exclusive extras found only on BD - Live.
Over at ShockYa, for my latest DVD / Blu - ray column, I take a look at X-Men: First Class and January Jones» ample cleavage, full - season sets of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Glee, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, the Blu -
ray debut of the Coen brothers» Blood Simple, a documentary on the United States» rather tortured relationship with Cuba, and more.
«Heavy Traffic»: Blu -
ray debut of writer - director Ralph Bakshi's 1973 animated movie about a cartoonist struggling to make it in inner - city New York.
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.»
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).
Not exact matches
Sixteen months after the blockbuster's
debut, director Todd Phillips has one
of this year's most anticipated movies in the forthcoming buddy road comedy Due Date, all three leads have moved past their vaguely familiar stage to a reasonable degree
of stardom, the savvily - greenlit The Hangover 2 has begun shooting, and Warner Home Video has just reissued the film in Extreme Edition DVD and Blu -
ray sets.
The Blu -
ray debut features all the supplements
of that release: three commentary tracks (one by director Terry Gilliam, one by stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, and one by producer Laila Nabulsi and author Hunter S. Thompson), deleted scenes with commentary by Gilliam, the 1978 BBC «Omnibus» documentary «Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood» (with Hunter S. Thompson and artist Ralph Steadman), the ten - minute featurette «Hunter Goes to Hollywood,» an audio documentary on the controversy over the screenplay credit, a survey
of the marketing campaign, selections from the correspondence between Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson (read on camera by Depp), an excerpt from the 1996 audio CD «Fear and Loathing» starring Maury Chaykin, Jim Jarmusch, Harry Dean Stanton, and Glenne Headly, background notes on Oscar Zeta Acosta (the real life activist and attorney who inspired the character
of Dr. Gonzo), and galleries
of storyboards, stills, and Ralph Steadman art.
Jellyfish Eyes (Criterion, Blu -
ray, DVD), the
debut feature from visual artist Takashi Murakami, is a fantasy
of childhood innocence and fantastical creatures come to life as playmates in a post-Fukushima world.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment is using the September 17 release date to co-promote the
debut of NBC's Grimm: Season 2 alongside A&E's Bates Motel: Season 1 on Blu -
ray and DVD.
Compounding that bad decision is the final downside to this release, that for Fox a Blu -
ray combo pack
debut is reason to discontinue all DVD editions, effectively making that documentary rare and all other extras (besides the trailer) unplayable to DVD viewers who don't already own one
of the movie's packed past editions and don't wish to bother with the secondhand market.
THE BLU -
RAY DISC by Bill Chambers Punch - Drunk Love makes a rather auspicious Blu - ray debut as part of the Criterion Collection in a 2.39:1, 1080p transfer supervised by writer - director Paul Thomas Anders
RAY DISC by Bill Chambers Punch - Drunk Love makes a rather auspicious Blu -
ray debut as part of the Criterion Collection in a 2.39:1, 1080p transfer supervised by writer - director Paul Thomas Anders
ray debut as part
of the Criterion Collection in a 2.39:1, 1080p transfer supervised by writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson.
The Blu -
ray for the first season
of the hit vampire series, which
debuted last July on the cable network, will be released in anticipation
of the show's upcoming second season, which will begin on Sunday, July 12.
The TRANSFORMERS: Revenge
of the Fallen Blu -
ray and DVD
debut will be supported by one
of the largest marketing and promotional campaigns in Paramount Home Entertainment's history.
One
of the early entries in the late - 20th - century resurgence
of the Disney animated feature (following 1989's The Little Mermaid and 1991's Beauty and the Beast), Aladdin finally makes its long - awaited Blu -
ray debut in a digital transfer that's every bit as eye - popping as what played theaters over 20 years ago.
The Private Affairs
of Bel Ami makes a presentable Blu -
ray debut that many will consider worth the long wait.
This week, four films from the second half
of his career
debut on Blu -
ray.
The film has won the Prize
of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was also nominated for the festival's Palm d'Or Cannes and now it's making its DVD and Blu -
ray debut March 12.
Among the other
debuting titles, Blu -
ray accounted for 83 %
of unit sales for «Thor: Ragnarok,» which saw 11 %
of its total come from UHD Blu -
ray.
Josh Trank's superhero flick «Chronicle» hits DVD and Blu -
ray today and in honor
of the home video
debut, MTV has posted the test footage Trank shot to get the film made.
The massive hit sequel is now available on digital HD ahead
of its Blu -
ray / On Demand
debut, which comes on March 6.
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.
The studios has
debuted the box art for the Blu -
ray remix
of Bryan Singer's time - traveling mutant epic.
Its
debut on Blu -
ray this week reminds us that there are still great and wholesome stories to be told about love, friendship, and the unshakable bonds
of family, all surrounded by an adorable but klutzy bear.
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.
Even at a time when sales
of catalog titles on physical media appear to be the slowest they've been since the advent
of DVD, you can't question the wisdom
of Universal Studios Home Entertainment revisiting this perennial bestseller once more, this time in a remastered 30th Anniversary Edition Blu -
ray + Digital HD release five years after its Blu -
ray debut.
In celebration
of its 60th anniversary (hardly an important milestone, but one that sounds impressive nonetheless), the studio has spared no expense for the film's Blu -
ray debut, which boasts a new 4k high definition video transfer that looks amazing.
With the big Universal Hitchcock «Masterpiece» box set bumped a month to the end
of October, a pair
of Warner Hitchcock Blu -
ray debuts now arrive ahead
of the set: Dial M For Murder 3D (Warner), which includes a standard Blu -
ray version, and Strangers on a Train (Warner), one
of Hitch's greatest films.
Featuring some
of Sinatra's finest work in front
of the camera, the collection includes a trio
of musicals («Anchors Aweigh,» «On the Town» and «Guys and Dolls») and two
of the best crime movies
of the era («Ocean's 11» and «Robin and the 7 Hoods»), three
of which have been newly re-mastered for their Blu -
ray debut.
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 Gam
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 Gam
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 Gam
Of The Game.
Dillinger (Arrow, Blu -
ray + DVD), the 1973 gangster film and directorial
debut of John Milius, plays on that image
of the gentleman gangster who courted the public and the press while he robbed banks across the American Midwest.
Featuring Yancy Bulter
of As the World Turns and Kickass fame, Shark Week
debuts on Blu -
ray ™, DVD and On Demand August 28.
New York Stories recently made its Blu -
ray debut among a handful
of other not quite household Disney properties in general retail.
Home Video Notes: Pitch Perfect 2 Release Date: 22 September 2015 Pitch Perfect 2 releases to home video (Blu -
ray / DVD / Digital Copy) with the following extras: - Never Before Seen Treblemakers Performance - The Making
of the Riff - Off - Das Sound Machine Finale Breakdown - Snoop in the House - Green Bay Rap - Line - Aca-Rama - The World Championships
of A Cappella - An Aca - Love Story: Bumper and Fat Amy - Elizabeth Banks» Directorial
Debut - Legacy: Hailee Steinfeld - Aca - Camp - Residual Heat Internship Universal Pictures is also releasing on the same day, Pitch Perfect Aca - Amazing 2 Movie Set — a package including Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2.