this week in blu-ray & dvd releases

This Week in Blu-ray / DVD Releases: Silver Linings Playbook, The Guilt Trip, Not Fade Away …

Posted 13 years ago

This week: Silver Linings Playbook is one wily rom-com, Seth Rogan co-stars with up-and-comer Barbra Streisand, and David Chase hits all the right notes with Not Fade Away. ► Even with David O. Russell behind the lens, everything about SILVER...

This Week in Blu-ray / DVD Releases: Gangster Squad, The Impossible, Jurassic Park 3D …

Posted 13 years ago

This week: A great cast fires blanks in Gangster Squad, Naomi Watts ends her slump with The Impossible, and Jurassic Park 3D wastes no time going to Blu-ray. ► Sean Penn overacts the hell out of GANGSTER SQUAD, to the...

This Week in Blu-ray / DVD Releases: Django Unchained, The Haunting in Connecticut 2, Repo Man …

Posted 13 years ago

This week: The greatness of Quentin Tarantino adds another chapter with Django Unchained; Criterion serves up ’80s cult classic Repo Man; and … The Haunting in Connecticut gets a sequel? Really?  ► Despite some horrific violence down the stretch, the...

This Week in Blu-ray / DVD Releases: Boss Season 2, Down the Shore, Father’s Day …

Posted 13 years ago

This week: Kelsey Grammer‘s last day as Boss, the greatness of ’80s Michael J. Fox, and James Gandolfini returns to Jersey.,  ► Starz was so sure of BOSS, it greenlit a second season before the first episode even aired. Which...

This Week in Blu-ray / DVD Releases: John Dies at the End, The Bible, Marvel Universe: Phase One …

Posted 14 years ago

This week: John Dies at the End serves up some crazy; Marvel assembles a new boxed … er, briefcase set; and The Killing tries making amends.  ► Don Coscarelli’s gonzo spirit is the perfect match for JOHN DIES AT THE...

This Week in Blu-ray / DVD Releases: Lincoln, Killing Them Softly, Veep …

Posted 14 years ago

This week: Daniel Day Lewis really is that damn good in Lincoln, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a sponge-worthy vice president, and Brad Pitt reloads for Killing Them Softly.  ► Usually when an actor is a lock for Best Actor, it’s because...

This Week in Blu-ray / DVD Releases: The Hobbit, Zero Dark Thirty, Les Miserables …

Posted 14 years ago

This week: Back to Middle Earth with The Hobbit, Oscar runners-up Les Miserables and Zero Dark Thirty, and the painful hilarity of This is 40. ► There was pretty much zero chance THE HOBBIT could ever live up to the...

This Week in Blu-ray / DVD Releases: Life of Pi, Hitchcock, This Must Be the Place …

Posted 14 years ago

This week: Setting sail with Life of Pi, Anthony Hopkins goes full Alfred for Hitchcock, and a blu-ray for Roger Rabbit’s 25th anniversary ► You can nitpick all you want how much Ang Lee’s Best Director Oscar was the result...

This Week in Blu-ray / DVD Releases: Wreck-It Ralph, Red Dawn, The Bay …

Posted 14 years ago

This week: Wreck-It Ralph wonders where his Oscar is, Barry Levinson makes a scarier movie than Toys, and Red Dawn gets a ridiculous rermake. ►The consensus after last week’s Oscars is that WRECK-IT RALPH wuz robbed. And while there’s no...

This Week in Blu-ray / DVD Releases: The Master, Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Silent Hill: Revelation …

Posted 14 years ago

This week: Making sense of The Master, a stillborn sequel for Silent Hill, and – yes, we can finally say it – the end of Twilight. ► ‘Polarizing’ is the word I hear most often for Paul Thomas Anderson’s THE...