Seth MacFarlane’s day job usually keep him behind the camera, be it as the co-writer, producer, and voice actor on Family Guy and American Dad; the co-writer, director, and voice actor on Ted; or the producer of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. But in the live-action Western comedy A Million Ways To Die In The West — which Universal Home Video have issued on Blu-ray and DVD — he’s not only behind it as the film’s co-writer and director, but he’s in front as well, taking center stage as our hero.
By taking a slightly different approach to the story of Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s 2004 novel All You Need Is Kill, and pairing it with the gritty tenets of such World War II movies as Saving Private Ryan and some dark comedy, the sci-fi action flick Edge Of Tomorrow became one of this past summer’s better movies. But while it didn’t ignite the box office the way it lit up the imaginations of people who saw it, Warner Bros. Home Video have still done a good job presenting this engaging movie as a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, a 3D Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, and on DVD.
Fox Home Video have announced that Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes will be released on Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray, DVD, and in a special Blu-ray boxed set with Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes called Planet Of The Apes: Ceasar’s Warrior Collection on December 2nd.
Whenever you buy a movie on Blu-ray, the most important thing is, of course, the movie itself. The extras are just that: extra. But let’s be honest, we’ve all bought new editions of movie Blu-rays just because it has more extras than are on the version we already own. Which brings me to the Ghost In The Shell 25th Anniversary Edition, which Anchor Bay have released on Blu-ray. While the movie looks better, it has absolutely no extras, not even ones that were on previous Blu-ray editions.
What’s a fan to do?
Warner Home Video have announced that they will release a 10-disc Blu-ray collection of Stanley Kubrick films entitled Stanley Kubrick: The Masterpiece Collection on December 2nd.
While the original Blu-ray of Star Trek Into Darkness had numerous special features, there were actually more that only appeared on special versions of the disc sold at Best Buy, Target, and other retailers. But while you can now get them all, and then some, on the new Blu-ray collection Star Trek The Compendium, which also includes the first Trek flick and its extras, it’s probably not worth the double dip unless you’re such a big Trekker that you don’t mind doubling up.