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Star Wars Trilogy Hitting Blu-ray September 27th According to Amazon
Stan Horaczek  |  Jan 20, 2011  | 

We managed to catch the trailer for the upcoming release of the Star Wars saga on Blu-ray out at CES. During the presentation, which was put on by Panasonic, they marched out an Amazon exec to announce that pre-orders were going live, but there was still no release date to be had.

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Blu-ray Disc Review: Salt
 |  Feb 21, 2011  | 
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Sony
Movie •• Picture ••• Sound ••• Extras •••

Coming across like a Bourne wannabe that also steals a lot from Bond, Salt tells of Soviet sleeper spies attempting to assassinate the Russian president, blow up the world, and generally keep

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Blu-ray Disc Review: Metropolis
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Feb 23, 2011  | 
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Kino
Movie ••••Picture •••½ Sound •••• Extras ••½

H.G.

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Blu-ray Disc Review: Modern Times
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Feb 23, 2011  | 
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The Criterion Collection
Movie ••••Picture ••••Sound •••½ Extras ••••½

The producers of René Clair’s 1931 À nous la liberté sued Charlie Chaplin over the similarities between that film and Chaplin’s 1936 Modern Tim

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Blu-ray Disc Review: Knight and Day
Marc Horowitz  |  Feb 25, 2011  | 
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20th Century Fox
Movie ••½ Picture •••Sound ••••Extras ••½

Start with Tom Cruise as an International Superspy, Killer-Smile Division. Toss in a generous portion of Cameron Diaz as a hot and surprisingly capable Girl Next Door.

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Blu-ray Disc Review: Despicable Me
Rad Bennett  |  Feb 25, 2011  | 
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Universal
Movie •••• Picture ••••½Sound ••••½Extras ••••

 The dictionary defines a “minion” as an underling. Despicable Me has turned Minions into superstars.

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Blu-ray Disc Review: The Town
Marc Horowitz  |  Feb 25, 2011  | 
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Warner
Movie •••• Picture •••½ Sound •••• Extras ••••

As he did in the superior Gone Baby Gone, director Ben Affleck (who also stars this time) takes great pains in The Town to get blue-collar Boston right — from the accents to t

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Blu-ray Disc Review: Sherlock: Season 1
Mike Mettler  |  Feb 25, 2011  | 
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BBC/Warner
Movie ••••½ Picture ••••½ Sound •••½ Extras •••½

“The game is on!” So flows the contemporary parlance of Sherlock Holmes, brilliantly re-imagined as the world’s only consulting detective in modern-day

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Blu-ray Disc Review: The Special Relationship
Rad Bennett  |  Feb 25, 2011  | 
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HBO
Movie •••½ Picture •••• Sound •••• Extras ½

The titular relationship is that between the U.S. and the U.K., and it also refers to the working rapport of their leaders.

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Lord of the Rings Extended Blu-ray Goes Up for Pre-Order
Stan Horaczek  |  Mar 09, 2011  | 

The other trilogy has already been available on Blu-ray for some time, but it seems the release of the extended Lord of the Rings trilogy is finally almost upon us. Amazon is currently taking pre-orders for $90.

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Review: "Mad Men" Season 4
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 29, 2011  | 

"Who is Don Draper?" That’s the opening line—and the crux—of Mad Men’s Season 4 arc, something that show creator Matthew Weiner confirms multiple times over the course his welcome appearance this three-disc Lionsgate Blu-ray set’s commentary tracks.

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Review: "Mad Men" Season 4 Page 2
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 29, 2011  | 

"Who is Don Draper?" That's the opening line-and the crux-of Mad Men's Season 4 arc, something that show creator Matthew Weiner confirms multiple times over the course his welcome appearance this three-disc Lionsgate Blu-ray set's commentary tracks.

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The Social Network comes to Blu-ray
Josef Krebs  |  Mar 31, 2011  | 

The Social Network opens with a conversation between Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend (Rooney Mara), and it's the perfect setup for a movie about a certain form of Internet interaction.

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Tron's Screen Gem
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Apr 03, 2011  | 

First with the just-released Diamond Edition of its 1942 classic, Bambi, and now with Tron: Legacy, Disney is including a Blu-ray bonus called Disney Second Screen. After downloading an app to your iPad or laptop computer, you enable the program in the disc's menu. The iPad/laptop now plays special features to coincide with your viewing of the Blu-ray on TV.

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Rush’s Fountain of Surround, Part 2: Moving Predictions
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 05, 2011  | 

“It’s a timeless record with so much detail,” says surround-sound remix guru Richard Chycki about Rush’s 1981 masterpiece, Moving Pictures. “I’m glad you’ve clued into all of the nuances.” Chycki is referring to what I said to him last week about the PCM 5.1 and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mixes he did for MP’s 30th anniversary reissue. Today marks the release of the CD+DVD version, something certainly worth getting if you’re not equipped for Blu-ray — but the much preferred Holy Grail CD+BD version won’t be out until May 3.

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