Movie bonus features: iTunes v Blu-ray
Buying movies as digital downloads no longer means forgoing the special features, but you never quite know what you'll get.
July 19, 2014
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Buying movies as digital downloads no longer means forgoing the special features, but you never quite know what you'll get.
Rent It The Movie: Directed by Joel Schumacher in 1990, Flatliners follows five students enrolled in medical school: Nelson (Keifer Sutherland), Doctor Rachel McMannus (Julia Roberts), David Labraccio (Kevin Bacon), Doctor Joe Hurley (William Baldwin), and Randy Steckle (Oliver Platt). They're involved in some unorthodox experiments spearheaded by Nelson in which they will work together to find …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Widely considered to be the movie that put Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg on the map in the United States, 1981's Scanners begins with a scene where a man, seemingly homeless, sits in a food court.
This week's reviews of what's new on Blu-ray and DVD by Matt Brunson (View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what's new on Blu-ray and DVD.) BAD WORDS (2014).… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Martin Ritt's 1961 jazz-infused drama Paris Blues is one of those films that, once you've seen it, you're kind of shocked that people don't talk about it more
To celebrate the release of The LEGO® Movie on Blu-ray 3DT, Blu-rayT, DVD and Digital Download, RTÉ TEN has five DVDs and five Blu-rays to give away.
Highly Recommended Like most Americans, my first exposure to Erik Skjoldbjerg's Insomnia (1997) was via Criterion's 1999 DVD ; through no small coincidence, it was around the time Christopher Nolan's 2002 remake hit theaters (but, for the life of me, I can't remember which one I actually saw first). Either way, I'm glad that both exist and, unlike the wide difference in quality between most …
Redbox, America's destination for new-release entertainment, is celebrating the Blu-ray and DVD release of “The LEGO® Movie” at kiosks nationwide with the Build a Redbox Kiosk Contest and an …
Recommended The Movies: I love early cinema for a lot of reasons: you can see filmmakerscreating the language of film as time goes on, the movies themselvescan be magnificent, and the creativity is often astounding, just toname a few. One of the main things that draws me to the early days offilm is that it's a window on the past.
I have long said that a Criterion Collection release is like a fine bottle of wine, a vintage piece of cinema that should be cherished and savored. With all the remakes, sequels, re-boots, and prequels out there, it is tough to watch an original piece of cinema anymore.