Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 8th, 2013 – To Timidly Go Where Other...
It’s time to trek through the stars once again. This week’s high-def releases bring us a curious mix of intrepid space explorers and supernatural serial killers. Read all about them in today’s Blu-ray...
View ArticleA New Business Model for Home Theater 3D?
Recent defections by former 3D content providers like ESPN and the BBC paint a dreary picture for 3D content in the home. However, to conclude that home 3D is dead ignores some important facts, and now...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of September 29th, 2013 – I’ll Tell You a Tale of...
As September draws to a close, the first Blu-ray slate for the new month brings us two great family classics refreshed and (some would say needlessly) converted to 3D, plus a newer 3D animated film...
View ArticleFull Metal Jackets: I’ll Get You, My Pretty
In another recent post here, I lamented about the frustration that SteelBook and metal case collectors face when foreign retailers with exclusive product refuse to ship to the buyer’s country. Almost...
View ArticleFull Metal Jackets: Kaiju Attack!
Any movie about giant robots ought to be an obvious candidate for the SteelBook treatment on Blu-ray. It seemed fairly inevitable, therefore, that director Guillermo del Toro’s rock-’em/sock-’em robots...
View ArticleNow Playing: Disney’s ‘Frozen’ Fairy Tale
For some reason, Disney has tried to disguise its princess fairy tale musicals in recent years. After ‘The Princess and the Frog‘ failed to match the success of the blockbuster princess flicks of the...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of December 1st, 2013 – Scotty Doesn’t Know
We hope that all of our readers had a pleasant and safe holiday break, assuming that you were fortunate enough to get one. Did you do anything fun? I really needed a few days off to take care of some...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of December 8th, 2013 – A Spoonful of Sugar
As we continue our charge towards Christmas, it should come as no surprise that this week’s new Blu-ray releases put a major focus on movies that appeal to children and parents. I suppose I’ll be in...
View ArticleMid-Week Poll: How Will You See ‘The Desolation of Smaug’?
This time a year ago, ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ opened amid a firestorm of debate – not just about its content and quality (which divided many viewers), but about the High Frame Rate 48 fps...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of December 15th, 2013 – Hi-Yo, Silver! Away!
This week marks the last big push for new Blu-ray releases before the Christmas holiday. If our readers have been good boys and girls, we might just have a last-minute gift to offer you. Read this post...
View ArticleNow Playing: Legen… Wait For It…
Renny Harlin’s ‘The Legend of Hercules’ is the first of two 3D Hercules movies coming out this year. After seeing this one, it’s difficult to remember that Harlin actually directed fun movies like...
View ArticleFull Metal Jackets: Walking in a Winter Wonderland
Fans of Disney’s new animated hit ‘Frozen’ have a couple of good reasons to consider importing the upcoming Blu-ray release from abroad rather than buying domestically. Not only will UK retailer Zavvi...
View ArticleNow Playing: It, Frankly Stinks
It’s been quite a while since the monster from Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ shuffled across screens in a Hollywood horror yarn. A decent reboot for the character might actually be worth offering a...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of January 26th, 2014 – On Top of Spaghetti, All...
January winds down with a new slate of Blu-ray releases that span the age ranges from a kids’ flick to a comedy for old folks, with plenty in between. How many of these movies are actually worth...
View ArticleNow Playing: Oh Where Do We Begin, the Rubble or Our Sins?
For years, Paul W.S. Anderson has been dismissed as “that other Paul Anderson.” Fair enough. When you share a name with the best director of your generation and your highest profile works are...
View ArticleNow Playing: Historical Tragedy – in 3D!
It’s an odd time for 3D movies. The eye-poking, HDTV-busting format has already tired out audiences as quickly as it did when Hollywood launched the 3D trend the first two times in the 1950s and ’80s....
View ArticleNow Playing: Butlerless, Shirtless and Remorseless
Zack Snyder’s ‘300‘ has not aged well. The ode to CGI-assisted color correction and blood-soaked homoeroticism is no longer a technical marvel. Gerard Butler burned away all of his shouty Scotsman...
View ArticlePoll: Will Glasses-Free 3D Finally Interest You in 3D?
Once the great shining hope of both Hollywood and the consumer electronics industry, 3D on home video has largely failed to capture the interest of the public. Sales of both 3D TVs and 3D Blu-ray discs...
View ArticleEven James Cameron Downplays 3D
As a follow-up to yesterday’s poll about the fading fortunes of 3D video, it appears that even famed 3D enthusiast James Cameron is now willing to admit that the format has lost some of its luster....
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of May 18th, 2014 – Pomp and Circumstance
At high schools and colleges around the country, late May is graduation season for students. At the movies, however, it’s a season of mass destruction this year. As Godzilla smashes the theatrical box...
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