The Dark Knight Blu-ray
REVIEW: WARNER Street: Dec. 9 Prebook: now > The Dark Knight looks brilliant in high-def.
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Wanted Blu-ray
UNIVERSAL Street: Dec. 2 Prebook: now > Wanted’s action is kicked into high gear in Blu-ray. Curving bullets pop off the screen and explode out of the speakers in Universal’s Blu-ray version of Wanted. The clear picture and pounding sound enhances the high-paced action of the graphic novel adaptation.
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Hancock Blu-ray
REVIEW: SONY Street: Nov. 25 Prebook: now > Blu-ray gets inside Hancock with feature-length PIP.
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WALL-E 3-Disc Blu-ray
DISNEY Street: Nov. 18 Prebook: now > Three-disc set offers much more than awesome picture and sound. DVDs of Pixar movies set a standard for high quality, and Disney has stayed the course on Blu-ray with WALL-E. The movie looks and sounds great, with crisp video, saturated colors and all the robots’ pips and beeps clear in the speakers.
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army Blu-ray
UNIVERSAL Street: Nov. 11 Prebook: now > Monsters have never looked better than in this Blu-ray. Guillermo del Toro’s stunning imagination shines in beautiful, saturated colors and booming sound in the Blu-ray version of Hellboy II. One of Hollywood’s most DVD-friendly directors, Del Toro is all over this set, in introductions on both discs and throughout the extras.
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Sleeping Beauty Platinum Edition Blu-ray
DISNEY Street: Oct. 7 Prebook: now > The restored classic is packaged with hours of entertaining, innovative features. Disney is celebrating the 50th anniversary of this animated classic in style, with its high-definition debut and as the inaugural title for the studio’s BD Live features.
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Iron Man Ultimate Two-Disc Edition Blu-ray
PARAMOUNT Street: Sept. 30 Prebook: now > Comic book hero is bigger than life in high-def. Visual effects movies such as Iron Man are perfect for high-definition screening, and this invincible superhero delivers, with his metallic red and gold suit shining and repulsor ray explosions bursting out of the subwoofers.
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Baraka Blu-ray
MPI Street: Oct. 28 Prebook: Sept. 22 > Baraka vividly shows what high-def picture and sound is all about. MPI has lovingly restored this hypnotic documentary from filmmaker Ron Fricke, who also helmed the Imax film Chronos and was cinematographer on the revolutionary Koyaanisqatsi. Baraka takes its influence from the Koyaanisqatsi trilogy, combining stunning visuals with haunting music.
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Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: Collector’s Edition Blu-ray
DISNEY Street: Aug. 26 Prebook: now > High-def brings out every clay-animated detail of this seasonal classic. Jack Skellington, Sally and Oogie Boogie come even more alive in Disney’s Blu-ray version of The Nightmare Before Christmas. The hollows of Jack’s eyes are blacker and Christmas Town sparkles more in high-definition, while the screams of innocent children attacked by th...
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Transformers Blu-ray
PARAMOUNT Street: Sept. 2 Prebook: now > Michael Bay’s Transformers shine on Blu-ray. Bumblebee, Optimus Prime and Megatron are all the more shiny and intimidating in the Blu-ray version of Michael Bay’s adaptation of the ’80s cartoon franchise. The explosions and sound of metal on metal as the Transformers battle us and then each other give sub-woofers a good workout.
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Doomsday Blu-ray
UNIVERSAL Street: July 29 Prebook: now > Doomsday sounds grosser than ever on Blu-ray. There’s no doubt about it—Doomsday is gross, especially when the baddies burn one of the goodies alive and start carving him up for dinner. Blu-ray amplifies the grossness, boosting the wet squelch as bodies are run over and heads are chopped off (which happens quite a lot).
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OPINION: Learning from the past
Samantha Clark is managing editor of VB (smclark@reedbusiness.com). JULY 11 | Warner’s Blu-ray promotion is reminiscent of DVD’s early days
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GREEN REPORT: Sustainable stores make more green
Going green not only is good for the soul, it can be good for the wallet. Dan Butler, VP of retail operations for the National Retail Federation, says that research done by the group's Sustainable Retailing Consortium suggests that environmentally friendly choices often bring down costs while boosting both consumer and employee loyalty.
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The Spiderwick Chronicles Blu-Ray
PARAMOUNT Street: June 24 Prebook: now > Family fantasy is bright and fun on Blu-ray. Fairies come alive in brilliant color in the high-definition version of The Spiderwick Chronicles. Indeed, the pinks and blues of the sprites and the bright red of their berries jump off the screen. Paramount stuffed a lot of extras into its first day-and-date DVD and Blu-ray new release, though none of th...
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Persepolis Blu-ray
SONY Street: June 24 Prebook: now > The story is the biggest asset for this black-and-white animated Blu-ray disc. A mostly black-and-white movie animated simply with hand-drawn characters might not be the best showcase for Blu-ray, but it’s not how this movie looks that will draw in audiences.
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Step Into Liquid Blu-ray
LIONSGATE Street: June 24 Prebook: now > Surfing documentary should make a splash on high-def. This film’s stunning footage of huge curling waves sadly lacks the crispness and color saturation of other Blu-ray releases, with grain dotting many scenes. Perhaps this was by choice, but it’s a shame the film’s amazing shots (filmed in Super 16mm and 24P HD video) are not more ...
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Jumper Blu-ray
FOX Street: June 10 Prebook: now > Sci-fi actioner should leap off shelves. Director Doug Liman says he didn’t want to make a “special effects movie” in the documentary Doug Liman’s Jumper: Uncensored, which is included on this disc. We hate to tell him, but this is a special effects movie.
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