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Disc News Update 02.02

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy gets a high-def release date, and we have early word on Fox Blu-ray editions of Shame and The Descendants....

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Disc News Update 02.04-02.05

Hints of high-profile Disney animated Blu-rays on the horizons, plus full specs for the new Jason Reitman/Charlize Theron comedy Young Adult on BD in March....

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Disc News Update 02.07

Today we have news of a Three Musketeers Blu-ray release, as well as high-def upgrades for a trio of Warner catalog titles.....

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Waking the Dead - The Complete Season Six: DVD Review

No zombies here - only often-compelling British murder mysteries....

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Matlock - The Seventh Season: DVD Review

Yes, we received an early copy of Matlock: The Seventh Season for review. Ladies, restrain yourselves - form a single file line....

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Take Shelter: DVD Review

You might want to move your home theater setup into your panic room for this Michael Shannon/Jessica Chastain freak-out apocalypse drama....

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Disc News Update 02.13

Info on high-def editions of Oscar-bound The Artist, the new Cronenberg drama, and details on an extensive bonus slate for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo on Blu-ray....

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Disc News Update 02.14

Halle Berry wrestles sharks, Gary Oldman plays a game of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and it looks like The Wizard of Oz is going out of print....

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George Gently - Series 1: BD Review

The first - and perhaps best - George Gently episodes get high-def treatments from Acorn Media. Prepare to waste some time in front of the telly....

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Disc News Update 02.22

We have final specs for Fox's BD release of Shame, plus news of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and the Ken Burns documentary The War both headed to high-definition....

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Disc News Update 02.23

The Glenn Close Oscar nominee Albert Nobbs and some shark movie featuring Halle Berry in a bikini are among today's Blu-ray announcements....

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Midsomer Murders - Set 19: BD Review

Barnaby and Jones don't exactly set the high-def world on fire with this Blu-ray debut of the hit mystery show, but this Set 19 collection nevertheless contains some of the series' best crime tales to date....

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Disc News Update 03.06

A King Vidor classic and the new Man on a Ledge both head toward Blu-ray, and wait - is that a naked Zorro....?

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Disc News Update 03.07

Tom Cruise as a bartender, Tom Cruise as a pool shark, and some Hunger Games news that doesn't involve Tom Cruise at all....

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Above Suspicion - Set 1: DVD Review

A murder mystery TV-on-DVD box set that again proves the enigmatic and powerful merits of Mr. Ciaran Hinds....

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Disc News Update 03.30

Sailors, Tuskegee airmen, Chariots of Fire, and even word on the new Robocop reboot in today's announcements....

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The Brief - Complete Collection: DVD Review

This British import starring Alan Davies is long on courtroom drama but short on dramatic character development....

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Disc News Update 04.06

The maligned sci-fi flick John Carter gets early high-def specs today, and we also bring news of a new HBO drama, a long-lost Michael Curtiz western, and an Oscar-winning Tom Cruise/Oliver Stone flick going Blu....

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Disc News Update 04.17

Criterion's July announcements are its worst in months....

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Single-Handed - Set 2: DVD Review

Elderly recluses, arsonists, and homicidal teenagers - all in a day's work for Irish detective Jack Driscoll....

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Murdoch Mysteries - Season 1: BD Review

Accidental electrocutions, bizarre crop circles, state-of-the-art 19th century forensic science - it's all in a day's work for the Murdoch Mysteries team, whose debut season is now available in high-def....

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Flashpoint - The Fourth Season: DVD Review

The Canadian Strategic Response Unit crime drama returns to DVD for its penultimate season....

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The Commander - Set 2: DVD Review

This Amanda Burton import is a solid collection of crime dramas, but you'd better brace yourself before you press play....

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Disc News Update 04.18

Today's annoucnements involve John Mellencamp and Anna Paquin joining Ewan McGregor for some Salmon Fishing...

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Henning Mankell's Wallander: DVD Review

This new edition of the hit Swedish crime drama definitely fills the Dragon Tattoo void....

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Monroe - Series 1: DVD Review

This James Nesbitt medical drama is absolutely nothing new, but seriously entertaining throughout....

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Murdoch Mysteries - Season 4: BD Review

Murdoch builds a sonar device? What could possibly be more exciting than that....?!

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Damages - The Complete Fourth Season: DVD Review

This latest TV-on-DVD set of Damages proves one thing: never trust John Goodman....

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Disc News Update 07.18

Mia Farrow and a bad, bad baby head Criterion's list of October DVD/Blu-ray releases....

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Scandal - The Ccomplete First Season: DVD Review

Paris from Gilmore Girls returns to TV with this tale of a PR super-squad that can handle all the gossipy controversy you can throw at them....

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Trial and Retribution - Set 5: DVD Review

The David Hayman/Victoria Smurfit crime drama import sees a new standard-def set hit shelves....

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Law & Order: Criminal Intent - The Seventh Year: DVD Review

It may be Law & Order lite, but this new box set of Criminal Intent still delivers the goods....

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The Horse Whisperer: BD Review

The underrated Robert Redford/Kristin Scott Thomas drama gets a stallion of a high-def release....

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Disc News Update 08.02

Honest Abe gets ready to hunt sparkly vampires....

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Disc News Update 08.13

Really? A sequel to A Christmas Story....?

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Weekend: BD Review

Criterion's newest IFC Blu-ray release is wonderfully shot, full of bonus features, and sad as hell....

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Disc News Update 08.28

Vince Vaughn's The Watch and a few indies get high-def announcements today....

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Disc News Update 08.31

August comes to an end with announcements of a new Wrong Turn and another Pixar shorts collection both headed to high-def....

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Disc News Update 09.04

Steven Seagal and Steve Austin in the same movie - can the format handle it....?

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The Costume Drama Classic Collection: DVD Review

Acorn's big summer DVD box set will make anyone with a crush on Colin Firth blush with excitement....

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The Mentalist - The Complete Fourth Season: DVD Review

This new Mentalist edition is not the most impressive TV-on-DVD set you'll ever see, but there's nevertheless some excellent programming here....

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NCIS - The Ninth Season: DVD Review

TV's number one crime drama proves its moxie on this Ninth Season set, even without a bump to high-def....

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The Rookies - The Complete Second Season: DVD Review

This old school Aaron Spelling cop drama holds up surprisingly well as a TV-on-DVD throwback....

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In the Mood For Love: BD Review

This Wong Kar-wai drama is perhaps the most astoundingly gorgeous (and boring) movie made in the last twenty years....

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Grimm - Season One: BD Review

It's like Columbo, only with things that go bump in the night. Really...?

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Sunday Bloody Sunday: BD Review

The Oscar-nominated Peter Finch/Glenda Jackson romantic drama proves that it was way ahead of its time on this Criterion Blu-ray edition...

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Injustice: DVD Review

This new British import crime drama from the mind behind Foyle's War fails to connect....

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Disc News Update 11.16

A Kazan masterwork gets some high-def love, but overall, it's another lackluster month of announcements from Criterion....

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Disc News Update 11.19

A few Fox Oscar-winners and a new Orlando Bloom drama are among today's announcements....

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Kidnap & Ransom - Complete Series 1 and 2: DVD Review

This hostage crisis TV drama has moments of greatness, but doesn't completely make a case for itself....

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