There’s still a good deal of shopping yet to be done in 2013 — c’mon Black Friday and Cyber Monday! — but DVD/Blu-ray specialty house Shout! Factory is already looking forward to next year with several releases announced for January. The big attraction is Paul Schrader’s 1982 cult classic ‘Cat People,’ arriving Jan
Though relatively gore-less when compared to the movies that followed in its wake, John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween,’ newly re-released in Anchor Bay’s ‘Halloween: 35th Anniversary Edition,’ occupies a major place of honor in the pantheon of slasher flicks. It wasn’t the first, following in the footsteps of movies such as ‘Psycho’ and ‘Peeping Tom,’ but the…
With ‘The Wizard of Oz’ making its gorgeous Blu-ray debut nearly five years ago as part of its 70th anniversary celebration, Warner Bros. had to come up with a new way to mark (and market) next year’s 75th anniversary. The solution?
When you think “Japan†and “swords,†your first thought…heck, your first handful of thoughts, will almost certainly be some combination of Kurosawa films and actor Toshiro Mifune. Slightly less well-known in the West is actor Shintaro Katsu as Zatoichi, the blind masseur/gambler/swordsman of 19th-century Japan
While anime isn’t really a major focus of this blog, sometimes news comes across that is far too important to ignore: ‘Cowboy Bebop’ is making its Blu-ray debut and ‘Akira’ is getting a 25th-anniversary Blu-ray, both courtesy of anime distributor Funimation. Though only 26 episodes were made, 1998′s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ is still beloved far and..
How great must your release schedule for a given month be when masterworks such as Bergman’s ‘Wild Strawberries’ and the Harold Lloyd-starring ‘Safety Last’ aren’t the biggest names on the list? For arthouse/niche distributor Criterion, that’s the case when it releases ‘Shoah,’ the 11-years-in-the-making oral history of the Holocaust, on DVD and Blu – ray on June..
CBS has released a full trailer for the upcoming standalone Blu-ray release of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Best of Both Worlds’ (April 30). Arriving the same day as the complete Blu-ray ‘Star Trek: TNG – The Third Season,’ BoBW edits both episodes of the two-parter — the Season 3 finale and Season…