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La Jetee/Sans Soleil: BD Review

The movie that famously inspired Gilliam's 12 Monkeys gets the Criterion Blu-ray treatment....

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It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: BD Review

The madcap 1963 comedy arrives on Blu-ray, but are its goofy gags any funnier in high-def....?

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Love Story: BD Review

Love means never having to say you're sorry... and buying this Ryan O'Neal/Ali McGraw weepy on yet another home theater format....

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The Mill and the Cross: BD Review

Go ahead - step inside this Flemish painting. Rutger Hauer will show you around....

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Disc News Update 02.15

A Lethal Weapon box set, season one of Hell on Wheels, and even a Queen Latifah/Steve Martin comedy get Blu-ray announcements today....

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Disc News Update 02.17

Unless you're a die-hard fan of Being John Malkovich or Putney Swope, Criterion's May announcements are pretty disappointing....

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Puss in Boots: BD Review

Puss in Boots roars like a lion on its gorgeous Blu-ray Disc debut....

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Unforgiven - 20th Anniversary Edition: BD Review

It's still one of the 20th century's most epic westerns, but this 20th Anniversary Edition of Unforgiven is the same Blu-ray you (hopefully) already own....

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Johnny English Reborn: BD Review

Rowan Atkinson's bumbling spy is back for more of the same (only this time with more Gillian Anderson! Yay!)....

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Out of Africa - Universal 100th Anniversary Collector's Series: BD Review

The 1985 Meryl Streep/Robert Redford Oscar favorite gets a Blu-ray double-dip that might actually be worth re-investigating....

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The Last Temptation of Christ:: BD Review

The controversial - and widely acclaimed - Martin Scorsese picture gets some high-definition love from Criterion....

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Monty Python And The Holy Grail: BD Review

"On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place."

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The Lorax: BD Review

While the new version is burning up cinemas, Warner has reissued the original Lorax in high-def....

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The Apartment: BD Review

The Oscar-winning Billy Wilder classic is as witty and charming as ever on its Blu-ray debut....

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The Three Musketeers: BD Review

This Blu-ray allows us to see all the awful dialogue and lifeless action sequences of Paul W.S. Anderson's Alxendre Dumas adpatation in absolutely stunning high-definition quality....

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Corman's World - Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel: BD Review

Hollywood's ultimate B-movie mogul gets his own star-studded career retrospective documentary....

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Casablanca - 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition: BD Review

The beloved Bogart/Bergman romance hits Blu-ray (again) - is this the high-def edition of the classic we've been waiting for, or just another excuse to double-dip....?

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Disc News Update 03.19

Criterion's June Blu-ray lineup will be of particular import to Charlie Chaplin and Spalding Gray fans....

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David Lean Directs Noel Coward: BD Review

The first big Criterion Blu-ray box set of the year is a technical and cultural marvel, though these four David Lean pictures aren't exactly mandatory viewing....

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The Muppets: BD Review

Jason Segel's Muppets franchise reboot is funny and charming enough to melt even the stingiest movie geek's heart....

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A Night to Remember: DVD Review

Criterion offers up a sensationally accomplished DVD edition of a Titanic movie that is so-so at best....

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Hop: BD Review

It may house some top-tier Hollywood voice talent, but this Easter Bunny animated tale basically just lays an egg....

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The Iron Lady: BD Review

Meryl Streep brings Oscar cred to this biopic, but Margaret Thatcher never really comes to life in The Iron Lady....

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Hidden: DVD Review

This scary-hospital horror flick with Sean Clement has a creepy premise, but it never makes good on it....

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MST3K - The Wild World of Batwoman and The Girl in Gold Boots: DVD Review

A pair of campy favorites get updated reissues....

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Eclipse Series 32 - Pearls of the Czech New Wave: DVD Review

A six-film collection of movies made in the swinging Czechoslovakian 1960s? Yeah, we're excited, too....

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Alambrista!: BD Review

"A prime reason ¡Alambrista! was important then - and is now - is because it balanced, deepened, and enriched our national conversation about immigration." - from Charles Ramirez Berg's BD booklet essay

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Disc News Update 04.27

Our week ends with news of high-def bumps for High Noon and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, as well as info on a new single-disc Blu-ray edition of Casablanca....

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Gremlins 2 - The New Batch: BD Review

Hulk Hogan's big line in Gremlins 2: "GREMLINS? IN THIS THEATER? NOW?"....

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Being John Malkovich: BD Review

The brain-bending Spike Jonze curio gets the Criterion high-def treatment. Malkovich Malkovich, Malkovich MALKOVICH!

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A Hollis Frampton Odyssey: BD Review

"Come on, guys! Let's get a keg, some pizza, and a few girls, and... watch four and a half hours of experimental films from the 1960s and 70s...."

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Disc News Update 04.11

Olive Films announces high-def editions of two classic westerns, and HBO readies an August release for the first season of Strike Back....

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Eclipse Series 33 - Up All night With Robert Downey, Sr.: DVD Review

The elusive Putney Swope finally arrives on DVD, and it's three times as weird as you've heard (though somehow it works).....

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Father of the Bride/Father of the Bride Part II: BD Review

It's impossible to hate these Steve Martin/Diane Keaton comedies, but is this high-def edition of the Father of the Bride flicks worth the double-dip....?

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The Lethal Weapon Collection: BD Review

Riggs and Murtaugh blast onto Blu-ray, but is this five-disc set worth the upgrade....?

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Bringing Down the House: BD Review

Larry King is quoted on this BD's cover as saying Bringing Down the House is "one of the funniest films ever". Can that be true....?

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Memorial Day: BD Review

We want to like this James Cromwell war flick - we really do. But....

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Jeff, Who Lives at Home: BD Review

Jason Segel, Ed Helms, and Susan Sarandon go mumblecore in this Duplass Brothers comedy, and the results are dreadful....

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Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows: BD Review

Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law return as our iconic Holmes and Watson, and even if there's a bit of sequelitis suffered here, it still makes for some pretty reliable fun....

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Disc News Update 06.18

Criterion's September slate: Fincher, de Sica, and a double-dose of Marcel Carne....

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21 Jump Street: BD Review

This Channing Tatum/Jonah Hill throwback is way more fun than it should be in high-def....

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The Samurai Trilogy: BD Review

Based on the novel called Japan's Gone With the Wind, The Samurai Trilogy gets a long-awaited high-definition Criterion upgrade. But where are the bonuses....?

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High Noon: BD Review

The Gary Cooper western classic gets a high-def bump, but without its Deluxe Edition DVD bonuses, is it still worth the double-dip....?

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Disc News Update 07.20

Olive Films preps some classic catlog titles for high-def, and Lionsgate unleashes a couple high-profile standard-def announcements....

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Clue: BD Review

Before Battleship, there was this 80s comedy based on the board game of the same name....

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Disc News Update 08.03

Batman, Batman, and more Batman....

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Disc News Update 08.07

"There's no crying in baseball....!"

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The Royal Tenenbaums: BD Review

Wes Anderson gets his fifth Criterion Blu-ray edition with this 2001 ensemble dramedy....

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Full Metal Jacket - 25th Anniversary Edition: BD Review

"You can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps. Do you ladies understand...?"

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Jaws: BD Review

Yes, there's a new edition of Jaws, and yes, you will need to buy it....

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