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Mystic River, although it's tough to choose

Saw this two nights ago and wholly agree - a fantastic work of cinema from a distinctive artist. I've gotta agree with Brandon, though, that a Criterion release feels imminent. Mind you, I'm still waiting for the Criterion Fantastic Mr. Fox, so maybe it's not such a sure thing.

Alien Shutter Island The Game The Thin Red Line Scott Pilgrim vs. The World The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher version) Up And I second Taxi Driver and A River Runs Through It - both incredibly film-like transfers.

I enjoyed Brave more on second viewing than the first. The Blu-ray is top notch from picture and sound perspectives. I find the special features a bit lacking, though: specifically, I wish they had included a picture-in-picture commentary like the brilliantly comprehensive one on Up. Those...

Jeffrey Wells' site can be entertaining to read, but I'm not sure I'd trust his opinion on how accurate a presentation is to the director's original intent: for some time now he's been raging about some Blu-ray releases he thinks looked better modified for television rather than their original...

Well this is exciting! The American President has a truely terrible, non-anamorphic transfer on DVD, so I'm glad I can finally upgrade it.

My copy has a closely cropped picture of Harriet Vanger on disc one, and a certain character in a school jacket on disc two (along with the DVD-R for the third disc) - I wonder if we received different art in Canada from the US...

Notice the "serial number" under where DVD-R is printed: MAGDA-32016. This is a reference to an important clue in the movie and the book. Very cool!

It's crazy that the fifth entry in a series could revitalize that franchise so completely, but that's what happened: I'm actually looking forward to Fast Six and Fast Seven now.

Really interesting video with Greg Russell, especially the discussion of re-mixing for the home; thanks for posting it. I liked this a lot theatrically - it delivered bombastically on the promise of the first movie - and am looking forward to checking it out on Blu. Please enter me in the...

Thanks for the review; I'm looking forward to giving this one a spin. It's pretty remarkable how the re-release is tearing up the box office theatrically. Please enter me in the contest - thanks!

Oliver Stone on Platoon Steven Soderbergh and Scott Frank on Out of Sight Ridley Scott's original DVD track for Alien Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader on Taxi Driver (the 1990 laserdisc port to the Blu-ray) I agree that the multitude of tracks on many of David Fincher's films are top...

Thanks for the tip. I'm hoping the Total Recall remake's release in 2012 will prompt a shiny new transfer of the original.

Twentieth Century Fox In America Hoffa The King of Comedy MGM Manhunter The Living Daylights Annie Hall Paramount The Keep The Naked Gun Elizabethtown Warner Brothers Singles The American President Spartan Universal The Underneath Cape Fear...

Total Recall was my biggest disappointment, although maybe I had a defective disc: there were vertical lines running through the picture that looked like poor scaling or something. I gave it away the day after I bought it.

Listened to the "1986" commentary last night, which was fantastic; however, I don't think it was recorded in '86. Scorsese references his "new picture" Goodfellas (released in 1990) several times, and the host cites Scorsese and Schrader's latest collaboration as The Last Temptation of Christ...

David, the supplementary features on this Blu-ray are nearly as compelling as the movie itself. I especially enjoyed the Ruby Skye multi-angle comparison, which really illuminated the many factors that made that pivotal scene work so well. Bravo!