New Blu: Time Bandits, Back-Up Plan
One of the all-time funniest and one of biggest recent comedies top the list of new Blu-ray releases this week, along with two other notable movies: . 1.) “Time Bandits” (Image, 17.98) is one of Terry Gilliam’s best films alongside “Brazil,” and his most successful since it appealed to all ages, yet carried his trademark [...]
Upcoming “Office” via last season Blu-ray
Viewers of “The Office” will be able to watch new episodes this fall via the Blu-ray edition of Season Six being released Sept. 7. Universal Studios Home Entertainment is using the BD-Live Web-connected feature of Blu-ray to allow fans to access new episodes immediately after they are broadcast without having to set a DVR or [...]
Piranha 3D vs Piranha BD
You can watch “Piranha 3D” in theaters and/or the original “Piranha” on Blu-ray Disc at home this weekend. The good news is that you will have a good time either way. Both are so over-the-top and preposterous that despite the buckets of blood and body parts — or because of it — they are simply [...]
Camp Rock 2 on Blu-ray 9/7
A special edition of “Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam,” will premiere on Blu-ray four days after the sequel movie musical starring the Jonas Brothers debuts on The Disney Channel. “Camp Rock 2 The Final Jam: Extended Edition,” featuring two additional songs, “Walking in My Shoes” and “Different Summers,” will be released on Blu-ray Tuesday, [...]
New Blu: Last Song, Nanny McPhee, Hamlet
One of the all-time funniest and one of biggest recent comedies top the list of new Blu-ray releases this week, along with two other notable movies: . 1.) “The Last Song“ (Disney, 39.99) is nothing more and nothing less than anyone should expect from a romance based on a Nicholas Sparks novel — he even [...]
New Blu: Doc?, Date, Sarcasm, Joneses
One of the all-time funniest and one of biggest recent comedies top the list of new Blu-ray releases this week, along with two other notable movies: . 1.) “What’s Up, Doc?” (Warner, 24.98) set out to be an homage by director Peter Bogdanovich to the screwball comedies of the 1930s-1940s, specifically “Bringing Up Baby,” but [...]
Rocky Horror in HiDef Blu-ray Oct. 19
Dr. Frank-N-Furter will celebrate his 35th with the first Blu-ray Disc release of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” on Oct. 19 for $39.99. It will be the first time the pioneering transvestite with a cult following at midnight screenings in the 1970s will be seen doing the “Time Warp” in a newly-restored HiDef transfer and [...]
New Blu: Breakfast, After, Peach, Wimpy
A good mix of classic reissues and new thrillers and comedies on Hi-Def Blu-ray Disc this week, the most notable of which are the following: . 1.) “The Breakfast Club” 25th Anniversary Edition (Universal, 26.98) is one of those movies I can watch a zillion times, surely one of John Hughes’ best, if not the [...]
Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” October 26
Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1957 World War I 88-minute black-and-white film “Paths of Glory,” starring Kirk Douglas, is getting the Criterion Collection treatment for a HiDef Blu-ray Disc release on Oct. 26 ($39.95). Among the extras in Criterion’s special edition of the story of a French colonel who goes head-to-head with the army’s ruthless top brass [...]
Alien Anthology Blu-ray Oct. 26
All four “Alien” movies will be released on Blu-ray Disc Oct. 26 with more than 60 hours of bonus features and more than 12,000 images in Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment’s six-disc “Alien Anthology” set ($139 in the U.S.). The bonus material will also be accessible in a new “MU-TH-UR Mode” interactive access feature to [...]
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