Blu-ray Highlights: Week of March 25th, 2018 – Let the Hate Flow Through You!
The most divisive movie of 2017 comes home to disc this week so that everyone can commence arguing about its merits (or lack thereof) all over again. In the words of Darth Vader:...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of April 15th, 2018 – Stop the Presses!
This week’s Blu-ray releases land on the same date as the annual tax deadline here in the United States. Assuming that you’re all paid up and have any money left, the light release slate should go...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of April 22nd, 2018 – Mazes and Monsters
Wow! If you buy a Blu-ray this week, you might just find a cure for death! Click here for the secret Big Pharma doesn’t want you to know. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Maze Runner: The Death Cure‘ – The YA...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of May 6th, 2018 – Young, Wild & Free
Hey everyone, get excited. That record-breaking big hit movie that everybody loved comes out on Blu-ray next week! This week though… Ehhhhhhhh… New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Fifty Shades Freed‘ – It’s the...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of May 13th, 2018 – Sixty Percent of the Time, It...
Here we go. It’s been nearly two months since a blockbuster movie people might actually be excited about hit Blu-ray. Of course, it’s another Marvel superhero flick, because that’s pretty much all...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of May 20th, 2018 – Movie… Two Words… Sounds Like…
We don’t have any new mega-hits on par with last week’s ‘Black Panther’ arriving on Blu-ray this week, but a couple of classic blockbusters get upgraded to Ultra HD. That is, if calling a 25-year-old...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of May 27th, 2018 – Adorned with Garlands
On this rather slow holiday week, new Blu-rays are headlined by a movie that almost didn’t get released at all. New Releases ‘Annihilation‘ – Writer/director Alex Garland follows up his acclaimed ‘Ex...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of June 10th, 2018 – Raiding the Coffers
Why studios keep spending tons of money to make movies based on video games when so few of them have been successful is one of those mysteries of Hollywood that may never make sense. Nevertheless, they...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of June 17th, 2018 – Gee, the Traffic Is Terrific
What happens when you make a sequel to a movie that was only marginally successful or well-liked the first time around, and strip away the few features that made it at all interesting? We find out in...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of June 24th, 2018 – Endless Acrimony
This week brings us an odd assortment of new Blu-rays. The lengthy list of discs is heavy on back catalog releases with almost no new movies of significance. Tom Cruise fans get quite a bounty, though....
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of July 1st, 2018 – A Cock and Bull Story
As I see it, this slow holiday week doesn’t offer many interesting new Blu-ray releases to spend money on. However, coinciding with the latest Barnes & Noble Criterion Collection sale (which I’ll...
View ArticlePoll: Which Blu-rays Will You Buy in the July 2018 Criterion Sale?
The Barnes & Noble summer Criterion Collection sale started a little early this year, and consequently I wasn’t ready for it at all. Forgive my lateness, but here’s our semi-annual update to help...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of July 8th, 2018 – Hush Hush, Keep It Down Now…
New to Blu-ray this week is a blockbuster thriller that had audiences shouting from the rooftops this past spring. Unfortunately, those viewers failed to learn anything from the movie and were promptly...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of July 15th, 2018 – I Love Dogs
One of the few movies I saw (and loved) at the theater this year comes out on Blu-ray this week. Though I have no doubt it will be an excellent disc in all technical respects, I’m left torn about...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of July 22nd, 2018 – Insert Coin to Play
Virtually every iconic movie from the 1980s get released on Blu-ray and Ultra HD this week, all conveniently condensed into a single 140-minute package and given a glossy CGI sheen. Also available for...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of August 12th, 2018 – Beyond the Infinite
That small Blu-ray drought we experienced the last couple of weeks ends in spectacular fashion with a surge of new disc releases, including the biggest movie of the year. New Releases (Blu-ray)...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of August 19th, 2018 – $@%!#&
You thought you got all the Marvel superheroes you could take last week? One of the few who’s not (yet) part of the Avengers team follows right on their heels to both Blu-ray and Ultra HD. New Releases...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of August 26th, 2018 – You’re It
Weeks like this are exhausting. I spent hours cleaning up our site’s Blu-ray disc listings for the huge volume of releases this week, and then putting together the poll and writing summaries of notable...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of September 2nd, 2018 – It Runs in the Family
We return from the Labor Day break and start September off with the Blu-ray debuts for a couple of the most buzzed-about movies of the year – a horror flick and a documentary that happen to present two...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of September 9th, 2018 – Behind the 8 Ball
Two years after the Ghostbusters fiasco, the latest attempt to reboot a previously male-dominated franchise with an all-female cast was met with a little less virulent misogynistic outrage (though...
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