The most notable title this week isn’t even on HiDef Blu-ray, but Shout! Factory’s restored and remastered versions of 
all 234 episodes of one of TV’s most enduring sitcoms look better than ever on an upscaling Blu-ray player and a HiDef TV, and you can read more about the 37-disc “Leave it to Beaver: The Complete Series” here.
Here are the top new Blu-ray releases this week:
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1.) Percy Jackson & Olympians: The Lightning Thief (Fox, $39.99 with digital copy) is Fox’s effort to do Harry Potter by way of Greek mythology (even the same director Chris Columbus) aand they do it pretty well with a fairly engaging story involving a modern-day teenaged boy stuck with a series of his mother’s loser boyfriends until he realizes he is a demi-God and stuck in the middle of an epic battle with Potter-like boy and girl buddies.
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— Fun and convincing supporting performance by Pierce Brosnan as a sage centaur
— Interesting and easy game to match your personality to a god.
— Hours of bonus features to appease the most dedicated fan, including enlightening interview with book author Rick (I’m not J.K. Rowling) Riordan who says he created the characters when he ran out of mythology to tell his son at bedtime.
2.) “Hot Tub Time Machine” (Fox, $39.99 with digital copy) is yet another raunchy male buddies road trip/adventure comedy only this time the trip is back to the 1980s where they try to deal with younger versions of themselves, and one of the actors is an otherwise distinguished thespian, John Cusack, who plays the most level-headed of this quartet of loser goofs:
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— Unrated version includes only 90-seconds of added footage, but with all the nudity and raunch in the movie and deleted scenes it’s not like anything new really stands out.
3.) The White Ribbon (Sony, $38.96) is the most recent Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, a mystery thriller involving abused, suppressed and perhaps vengeful children and teenagers of a choir in a small Protestant village in Northern Germany on the eve of World War I.
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— Stunningly vivid black-and-white photography used to great effect.
— Lengthy interviews with director Michael Haneke and Cannes Film Festival event footage with lots of dead spaces, all in French that cannot be substituted for English, but efficient English subtitles.
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4.) Predator Ultimate Hunter Edition (Fox, $29.99) is a nice-looking digitally restored presentation of the movie featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger leading commandos against a killing alien machine-like creature in the jungle.
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— 1 1/2-minute sneak peek at the upcoming “Predators” theatrical film from producer Robert Rodriguez
— Collection of numerous previously released DVD bonus features.
— By Scott Hettrick