Your Weekly Source for the Newest Releases to Blu-Ray

What could be better than a young Nicole Kidman in classics 80’s era flickdom? Well, lots… but, we’re talking apples and oranges here. BMX BANDITS is only one of the schlocky titles to go Blu this week, the other is Roger Corman’s SHARKTOPUS, a modern schlockterpiece that was spawned from the recent giant mutant killer animal revival on DVD and the SyFy Channel. If you sit on the serious/schlock fence, perhaps you’ll appreciate the emergence of the HARRY POTTER franchise finally conjuring itself onto Blu. If your tastes are a bit more refined, I would suggest one of Criterion’s new Blu titles: Louis Malle’s AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS — set during WWII, about a French boarding school run by priests and a friendship that could risk the entire school’s safety; or, Edward Yang’s YI YI — a story about a family and their efforts to understand the meaning of life. Finally, I highly recomend the recently released 2010 Academy Award-winning THE FIGHTER starring Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg as the real-life boxing brothers Dickey and Micky Ward.

Blu-Ray for Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

1. ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY (2004)
2. Louis Malle’s AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS: Criterion Collection (1987)
3. Andy Lau in BATTLE OF THE WARRIORS (2006)
4. Get splattered with BLOOD (2009)
5. Nicole Kidman in BMX BANDITS (1983)
6. Academy Award-winner Christian Bale in THE FIGHTER (2010)
7. HARRY POTTER & THE SORCERER’S STONE (2001)
8. HARRY POTTER & THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (2002)
9. HARRY POTTER & THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (2004)
10. HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE (2005)
11. HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (2007)
12. HARRY POTTER & THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (2009)
13. Clint Eastwood’s HEREAFTER (2010)
14. Roger Corman presents SHARKTOPUS (2010)
15. Jason Bateman makes THE SWITCH (2010)
16. THE WILDEST DREAM: CONQUEST OF EVEREST (2011)
17. YI YI: Criterion Collection (2000)

DVD for Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

1. The Asylum’s BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES (2011)
2. BE MY TEACHER (2011)
3. BLOOD (2009)
4. BMX BANDITS (1983)
5. BOATHOUSE DETECTIVES (2010)
6. FREESTYLE (2010)
7. GAMERA VS. ZIGRA/GAMERA: THE SUPER MONSTER – Double Feature
   
8. HEREAFTER (2010)
9. HIDDEN LOVE (2009)
10. INTERPLANETARY (2008)
11. NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS (2009)
12. RHYME AND PUNISHMENT (2009)
13. SHADOW (2009)
14. SHARKTOPUS (2010)
15. A SHINE OF RAINBOWS (2009)
16. SPOONER (2009)
17. STEP OFF
18. SUGAR BOXX (2009)
19. THE SWITCH (2010)
20. URGENCY (2010)
21. WASTE LAND (2010)