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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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Disc News Update 12.13

Today brings early specs for Helen Hunt's latest drama, as well as a 3D high-def edition of Silent Hill: Revelation....

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Disc News Update 12.17

Three catalog titles get announced for Blu-ray today, and we also have early word on a high-def edition of RZA's directorial debut, arriving in February....

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Disc News Update 12.31

The last official announcements of 2012 are for a pair of new indies and two classics both now en route to high-def....

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Trial and Retribution - Set 6: DVD Review

There are some grisly murders that need solving on this Set 6 collection, but Trial and Retribution's best years might be behind it....

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Disc News Update 01.11

This year's Oscars frontrunner gets early high-def specs in today's announcement....

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Disc News Update 01.15

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest gets a Blu-ray release date, and Schindler's List is also announced for high-def....

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Disc News Update 01.22

A new Zac Efron drama and a set of cult-favorite oldies all get high-def specs....

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Waking the Dead - The Complete Season Seven: DVD Review

This latest release of the smash British cold case mystery series is touch and go....

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Above Suspicion - Set 2: DVD Review

There's nothing new about this new set of Above Suspicion episodes, but it will enthrall mystery fans all the same....

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Disc News Update 01.31

James Gandolfini's latest and the bizarre John Dies at the End get high-def specs in today's update....

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