New to Blu-ray January 24, 2012
This week sees the release of several of last falls bigger financial or critical hits; the Rock’em Sock’em Robots film, a cancer ‘comedy’, and a horror film that hits Blu-ray surprisingly quickly. As far as catalog releases go there are films from Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, and films starring the late, great Richard Pryor available for the first time ever in HD plus a monster movie classic gets the royal treatment from the Criterion Collection.
New Releases
Real Steel- Two releases both featuring the same extras, the only differences between the releases is one comes with a Digital Copy. Read my review HERE.
- Real Steel
(Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Copy)
- Real Steel
(Blu-ray and DVD)
- Four Featurettes
- Countdown to the Fight: The Charlie Kenton Story, Sugar Ray Leonard: Cornerman’s Champ, Making of Metal Valley, Building the Bots
- Deleted Scenes
- Bloopers
50/50
- Audio Commentary with actor Seth Rogan, producers Ben Karlin and Evan Goldberg, writer Will Reiser, and director Jonathon Levine.
- Deleted Scenes
- Assorted Featurettes
Paranormal Activity 3
- Blu-ray, DVD, and UltraViolet Digital Copy
- Features the Theatrical and Unrated Cut
Catalog Releases
Woody Allen Films- As with all Allen films there are no special features of any kind but that should matter to fans that have been eagerly waiting for two of his most classic films.
Alfred Hitchcock Films- Three classic Hitchcock films are finally upgraded to HD.
- Rebecca
- Commentary by Richard Schickel
- Isolated musical track
- Making of…, Screen tests, Hitchcock interviews, Theatrical Trailers, and more.
- Notorious
- Commentary by Film Professor Rick Jewell
- Commentary by Film Professor Drew Casper
- Isolated musical track
- Assorted Featurettes
- Spellbound
- Commentary by Film Historian Thomas Schatz and Charles Ramirez Berg
- Isolated musical track
- 1948 radio version of Spellbound directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Assorted Featurettes
Godzilla
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary by David Kalat (A Critical History and Filmography of Toho’s Godzilla Series)
- New high-definition digital restoration of Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, Terry Morse’s 1956 reworking of the original, starring Raymond Burr
- Audio commentary for Godzilla: King of the Monsters! by Kalat
- New interviews with actor Akira Takarada (Hideto Ogata), Godzilla performer Haruo Nakajima, and effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai Interview with legendary Godzilla score composer Akira Ifukube
- Featurette detailing Godzilla’s photographic effects
- New interview with Japanese-film critic Tadao Sato
- The Unluckiest Dragon, an illustrated audio essay featuring historian Greg Pflugfelder describing the tragic fate of the fishing vessel Daigo fukuryu maru, a real-life event that inspired Godzilla
- Theatrical trailers
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- A booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman
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To date, the Calgary Expo is the only event in the world scheduled to host such a gathering in 2012. It is also the fist time the entire original cast has appeared as a group at a convention in over two decades.
Sir Patrick Stewart (Captain Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Commander William Riker), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Denise Crosby (Security Chief Tasha Yar), LeVar Burton (Chief of Engineering Geordi La Forge), Gates McFadden (Chief Medical Officer Beverly Crusher), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf) and Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) will all be Guests of Honour during the Calgary Expo. The cast will be meeting fans for autographs, individual and group photos (fees vary for each Media Guest), and participating in specially-grouped panels and discussions over the course of the weekend. Calgary Expo hours are Friday 3 PM to 8 PM, Saturday 10 PM to 7 PM, and Sunday 10 AM to 5 PM MST, April 27-29, 2012.
In addition, the full cast will also take the stage for a special once-in-a-lifetime reunion event, Star Trek® TNG EXPOsed, on the evening of Saturday, April28, at the Stampede Corral, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Doors open at 6 PM MST and the program will begin at 7 PM MST. Nearly 5,000 seats will be available for this event, with prices ranging from $40 – $125 (CDN). NOTE: Box office sales for the Star Trek®TNG EXPOsed, will begin at 10 AM MST (-7 GMT), on Saturday, February 18, 2012 via http://www.tickemaster.com.The live evening event will open with host Emily Expo (the Calgary Expo’s mascot), and includes entertainment by local musicians Johnny Summers Little Big Band, special moderators.