This week brings one of the Spring’s hit movies, and one of last year’s sneakily successful TV shows along side some classic catalog titles from Disney and one of Mel Brook’s last good films. Not a bad week for DVD and Blu-ray.
This week on DVD/Blu-ray: A SXSW spotlight on a musical legend; the Blu-ray debut of a 1996 lesbian crime caper from the directors of “Cloud Atlas”; an oddball Sundance comedy; an indie that chronicles U2’s rise to greatness via the agony of two aspiring rockers; and a sexy period romp starring “Cosmopolis” star Robert Pattinson. Â #1. “Marley” This SXSW biopic, which came out this year on 4/20 …
The first time I ever came across Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, I only saw the second half. I figured it was some Platoon rip off or one of those Nam Movies like Hamburger Hill or Casualties of Wars
Illumination Films has released a Blu-ray/DVD combo set for its animated  Dr. Seuss adaptation. read more
“Hunger Games” DVD/Blu-ray countdown alert: There are less than two weeks to wait before we can all bring home the year’s best book-to-movie adaptation thus far. And while it would be nice if the August 18 release date would come a little sooner, the clever folks at Lionsgate Home Entertainment helped increase excitement levels by
Why must the beloved Hobbit novel be stretched over three films? Must all of Hollywood be so greedy
A foreign film from the 1930s leads these Blu-ray upgrades and DVD debuts of vintage favorites.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Aug. 3 Detention This high school comedy morphs into a slasher movie, then morphs into a time-traveling/body-switching/world’s-about-to-end science fiction story.
Friends with Kids is one of the best films to hit the home market in recent weeks, writes Arthur J Pais.