Tag: Blu-Ray
Terminal Velocity on Blu-ray
After its release in 1991, Point Break seemed to take on a life of its own, leaving a lasting legacy as it etched itself a place in our collective cultural memory. Directly, it inspired Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg in the writing of their comic-action homage Hot Fuzz (2007) and spawned the popular, touring stage [...]
Accident Blu-ray Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of FilmMonthly’s Accident Giveaway: James Thompson, IL Daniel Morrell, MA Marguerite Core, CA We’re giving away 3 Blu-ray copies of the Hong Kong thriller, Accident, available on Blu-ray and DVD from Shout! Factory on June 12, 2012. You want one? All you have to do to enter is send us an email [...]
Chronicle
The superhero film, Chronicle (2012), plays into a stylistic trend in filmmaking that The Blair Witch Project popularized in 1999. I’m referring of course to the “found footage” film, which subsists under the pretense that the footage comprising a fiction film’s narrative was filmed by the characters themselves using their own cameras. This style lends [...]
Shogun Assassin Blu-Ray Boxed Set
Shogun Assassin is a film that was embedded in my mind before my own eyes could see it. 1995′s Hip Hop classic “Liquid Swords” was released by Wu-Tang Clan member, The GZA and used samples from the cult film released in 1980. While the other members used other various clips from kung fu movies, the [...]
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
As film critics, we’re constantly asked to defend our tastes. “What makes this good?” or “Why should I bother watching that?” Especially coming from a film school background, there’s this constant demand to defend your taste in movies as some sort of cinematic marvel. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas is not that. It doesn’t [...]
Fernando Di Leo: The Italian Crime Collection
This 4-disc, Blu-ray set collects four of the grittiest, ass-kickingest damn gangster movies ever made. These bullet-ridden Italian thrillers spawned from writer/director Fernando Di Leo, who had previously co-written the first two films in the Dollars Trilogy (albeit work for which he went uncredited). Without any reservations I can proclaim this the first must-own release [...]
Sid & Nancy: Collector’s Edition
Making its way to Blu-ray for the 25th Anniversary of its release, Alex Cox’s masterpiece, Sid & Nancy, proves itself to be every bit the powerhouse drama it was 25 years ago, only now in pristine 1080p HD. This emotionally stirring drama relates the real-life romance between Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and groupie-turned-girlfriend-turned-manager Nancy [...]
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Worthwhile prequels are rare, in film or any other medium for that matter. Typically, filmmakers’ efforts at crafting prequels result in over-explanatory, pandering, cinematic tragedies. Just look at Dumb and Dumberer, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, or Star Wars: Episode I-III. As such, the prospect of a Planet of the Apes prequel, especially after [...]
Yu Yu Hakusho: Season Four on Blu-ray
It’s time to retire the last of those standard definition DVDs as Funimation releases the final installment of their four-volume, definitive release of the anime classic Yu Yu Hakusho. For these releases, the series has been fully restored from the original film elements, and Funimation has pulls out all the stops for Season Four, which [...]
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Cave of Forgotten Dreams marks perhaps the single most important film of legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog’s oeuvre, historically-speaking. This exclusive filmed record of the cave paintings in Chauvet Cave, France, not only captures some of the most inaccessible cave art in the world on film for film-going audiences to see, but does so in [...]
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