Recent content by Moises

So anecdotally, I do a sort of annual wander-around of retail stores to survey the changing landscape, from how things are merchandised to what places seem to be cutting back, and so on. Chain-wide, Target stores pulled all their 4K/Blu/DVD some weeks back...due to simple re-merchandising of...

can confirm that the mysterious "Target Exclusive" version of Spirited Away Live On Stage is the exact same packaging and art...with a folded reversible poster tucked inside the slipcover. Mystery solved!

A warning: I redeemed the digital copy code for Batman:TAS, and Vudu gave it to me in...SD. Vudu doesn’t carry it in HD (yet?). iTunes carries it in HD, but the code only redeems on Vudu. I’m a disc fiend like everyone here, but I really looked to that redemption as a nice perk, being able to...

Inside Llewyn Davis is it for me this week. Glad to see the Coens enter the Criterion Collection in the "New Modern" (DVD and later) Era of their releases.

With Lauzirika being so consistently involved on Ridley Scott releases, I feel like a more apt comparison might be to his work on Bay's Pain and Gain, which was completely barebones and then double-dipped the same calendar year. Now, Pain and Gain was nowhere near the awards contender that "Best...

The Image Revolution and Bitter Rice are it for me this week. I wish I could say I'm getting The Martian, but I'm pretty firmly convinced that there's a "bigger" release of The Martian planned for later in the year. This release lacks any of the sort of heft I expect from recent Ridley Scott...

Anyone have any idea on Target's "30 minutes of additional content" exclusive? The reason I ask is that Walmart has the exact same "round tin" edition in-store, only visibly different than the Target one (which itself doesn't detail what those 30 minutes are, even on the back cover!) by lacking...

An addition for the roundup! Under-the-radar due to a no-name distributor, but Miyazaki's directorial debut Lupin the 3rd: Castle of Cagliostro: Collector's Edition is available on Blu-ray for $14.99 each at Amazon and Best Buy (who apparently seem to actually stock it in stores!). The DVD...

I seriously, seriously doubt that. It's been very successful and profitable for WB in general, and even with the recent layoffs, merging their web-store infrastructure just seems like cost-savings.

I've actually spent the better part of this year investing in and researching the wide swath of "retailer exclusives" that've started to troublingly trend toward "off-disc" extras, which retailers have locked to their respective streaming services (STID's Best Buy extras on CinemaNow, Captain...

I can confirm that the advertised EXCLUSIVE BONUS CONTENT on the Target release of Captain America 2 is neither on the disc (same disc as all retail copies), nor is it included in your Target Ticket library when you redeem it there as instructed. Doesn't show up on Marvel.com or Disney Movies...

It seems more and more like TV product is getting pushed back into junk food commoditization. There are prestige things like CBS has done on Blu-ray, but the last wave of Fox seasons (LOUIE, BOB'S BURGERS, etc) were all MoD DVDs with zero extras and no companion Blu-ray releases. I don't know...

They sent me the DVD discs in paper sleeves, which arrived Saturday. I'm just plowing through the commentaries as I work, getting closer to the featurettes and so on that I assume are all lumped at the end. They are getting really cagey about any review material for Marvel-specific stuff. I'm...

The movie chopped out hunks of the play. See it live with a non-Hollywood cast (like with most plays) and you'll be shocked at how different an experience it can be.

Agreed. I would add THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY (a recent WAC title), STAGECOACH, NAKED KISS and SHOCK CORRIDOR, myriad Chaplin films, and the sadly-OOP LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, among many, many others. A Blu-ray release can make remastering and restoration possible for titles that have...