This week on Blu-ray (March 9)
Digital Home’s top pick on Blu-ray this week is “Up in the Air”, a comedy-drama film starring George Clooney as Ryan Bingham, a man who makes his living traveling to workplaces around the United States and conducting employee layoffs for bosses too cowardly to do it themselves.
The movie was co-written and directed by Canadian born Jason Reitman who previously directed “Thank-you for Smoking” and “Juno.”
This week on Blu-ray (March 2)
Digital Home’s top pick on Blu-ray this week is “Where the Wild Things Are”, Spike Jonze’s heartfelt adaptation of the classic children’s book by Maurice Sendak.
The film centers around a lonely 9-year-old boy named Max (Records) who sails away to an island inhabited by creatures known as the “wild things,” who declare Max their king.
This week on Blu-ray (Feb 23rd)
This week is a slow week for Blu-ray releases with Digital Home unable to find any new release movie to recommend to our readers.
The one notable Blu-ray release that Digital Home readers may consider is season one of “Nurse Jackie”, a Showtime television comedy starring Edie Falco as title character Jackie Peyton, a “flawed” emergency room nurse at All Saints’ Hospital in New York City.
Sony’s first standalone 3D-Ready Blu-ray player ships in March
At CES in January, Sony unveiled its 2010 Blu-ray disc player line-up which included the entry level Sony BDP-S370, the mid-level BDP-S570 and the Blu-ray 3D capable BDP-S770.
Last week, the firm announced one more new Blu-ray player; the BDP-S470 which Sony says will be its first stand-alone Blu-ray 3D-ready player.
This week on Blu-ray (Feb 15)
Digital Home’s top pick on Blu-ray this week is “Black Dynamite”, a comedy spoof of blaxploitation films of the 1970s which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
Michael Jai White plays Black Dynamite, a former CIA agent who is called back into action after “the Man” kills his brother, fills black orphanages with heroin, and floods the street with bad malt liquor.
This Week on Blu-ray (Feb 8th)
Digital Home’s top pick on Blu-ray this week is “A Serious Man”, a black comedy film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen who are best known for such films as O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, No Country for Old Men, Barton Fink, Fargo and Burn after Reading.
Set in 1967, the movie tells the story of Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a small university, who has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him.
This Week in Blu-ray (Feb 1st)
Digital Home’s top pick on Blu-ray this week is “Zombieland”, a comedy film from Columbia Pictures which stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin as survivors of a zombie apocalypse.
Together they take an extended road trip in an attempt to find a sanctuary free from zombies, following a set of “rules” designed to keep them alive where others have failed, killing zombies in a variety of creative ways while trying to “enjoy the little things” in a ruined world.
Oppo releases BDP-80 Blu-ray player
OPPO Digital, makers of highly acclaimed DVD and Blu-ray players, announced today the release of it’s new BDP-80 Blu-ray Disc player.
First announced last December, the BDP-80 is a universal Blu-ray player that supports BD Profile 2.0 (BD-Live and BonusView), DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, Super Audio CD (SACD), HDCD, CD and other popular media formats such as AVCHD, MKV video files, digital photos and music.
