By John Corrado Last week, the excellent music documentary The Wrecking Crew was released on Blu-ray.   Told through interviews and archival footage, the film recounts the story of The Wrecking Crew, a group of California studio musicians who anonymously played on some of the most famous albums of all time, helping develop the West Coast Sound and also ushering in producer… Read More Blu-ray Release: The Wrecking Crew

By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures is releasing the recent science fiction film Chappie on Blu-ray.  Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) is a computer engineer in South Africa, who helped launch the world’s first robotic police force.  But when he steals a broken droid and creates a sentient machine, the invention named Chappie (Sharlto Copley) gets hijacked by a violent… Read More Blu-ray Release: Chappie

By John Corrado After being Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing Wild Tales on Blu-ray today.  Directed by Damián Szifron, the Argentinian film weaves together six different stories, involving a doomed flight, a waitress seeking revenge, an extreme case of road rage, the surprising fallout from a parking ticket, the… Read More Blu-ray Release: Wild Tales

By John Corrado Today, Paramount is releasing their recent film Project Almanac on Blu-ray.  When David Raskin (Jonny Weston) discovers blueprints for a time machine left behind by his late father, the teenager develops a way to transport himself and his friends through time, with his sister (Virginia Gardner) filming every step of the way, but… Read More Blu-ray Release: Project Almanac

By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the critically acclaimed documentary Red Army on Blu-ray.  Directed by Gabe Polsky, the film explores how the famed Russian hockey team was used as propaganda for their soviet government, before the players got tired of the regime and fought to leave the country and play in the… Read More Blu-ray Release: Red Army

By John Corrado Today, Disney is releasing their most recent sports drama McFarland on Blu-ray.  Based on a true story, the inspiring film follows determined coach Jim White (Kevin Costner), who moves to the dirt poor small town of McFarland, California with his family, and starts coaching a group of seven struggling high schoolers into… Read More Blu-ray Release: McFarland

By John Corrado Last week, Video Service Corp released What We Do in the Shadows on Blu-ray.  Shot as a mockumentary, the comedy follows Vladislav (Jemaine Clement), Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonny Brugh) and Petyr (Ben Fransham), and the newly transformed Nick (Cori Gonzalez-Macuer), a group of flatmates in New Zealand who happen to be vampires.… Read More Blu-ray Release: What We Do in the Shadows

By John Corrado Last week, Charles Chaplin’s Limelight was released on Blu-ray, as part of the Criterion Collection.  Through one of his most personal and emotional screenplays, the 1952 classic shows the bond that forms between Calvero (Charles Chaplin), a fading clown who is struggling to remain relevant, and Thereza (Claire Bloom), a depressed young ballet… Read More Criterion Release: Limelight

By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the acclaimed Russian drama Leviathan on Blu-ray.  The film takes place in a small coastal town, where Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov) and his wife Lilya (Elena Lyadova) are fighting to save their property from the corrupt mayor (Roman Madyanov), but the arrival of his lawyer (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) leads… Read More Blu-ray Release: Leviathan

By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing Still Alice on Blu-ray.  Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) is a highly intelligent linguistics professor and mother of three, who finds her life turned upside down when she is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, putting a strain on her relationship with husband John (Alec Baldwin) and their freethinking… Read More Blu-ray Release: Still Alice

By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing Mr. Turner on Blu-ray.  Directed by Mike Leigh, the biopic documents the life and affairs of the gruff and anti-social landscape painter Joseph Mallard William Turner (Timothy Spall). Although a bit dry and overlong, and often moving at a slow pace, this is an artistic achievement that… Read More Blu-ray Release: Mr. Turner

By John Corrado Today, Paramount is releasing Selma on Blu-ray.  Directed by Ava DuVernay, the incredibly powerful drama follows Martin Luther King Jr.’s (David Oyelowo) historic civil rights march in 1965, putting pressure on President Lyndon B. Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) to sign the Voting Rights Act. Although nominated for Best Picture, and deservedly winning Best Original… Read More Blu-ray Release: Selma

By John Corrado Last week, Paramount released The Gambler on Blu-ray.  A remake of the 1974 James Caan classic, the film follows Jim Bennet (Mark Wahlberg), a depressed university professor who moonlights as a high stakes gambler and owes money, forcing him to connect with a loan shark (John Goodman), and complicating his relationship to… Read More Blu-ray Release: The Gambler

By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures is releasing The Wedding Ringer on Blu-ray.  Desperate to find a best man for his wedding to the uptight Gretchen Palmer (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting), the socially awkward Doug Harris (Josh Gad) hires the smooth Jimmy Callahan (Kevin Hart), the head of a company that rents out wedding parties to guys in need.… Read More Blu-ray Release: The Wedding Ringer