It’s another Tuesday so it’s New Release time!!! Last week was very little, but this week has some interesting titles.

Doomsday Unrated

I had high expectations for this as I enjoyed “Dog Soldiers” and think “Descent” is just amazing. This would’ve played better as part as Tarantino’s “Grindhouse”, as is, it’s just a melting pot of ideas that don’t work. All the best parts of this movie has been copied from far better movies, like “Excalibur”, “Road Warrior”, and anything by John Carpenter.

Extras:
-audio commentary
-3 featurettes



Dark City

Sweet, it’s on Blu Ray! Man, this is one great sci-fi film, unfortunately Alex Proyas followed this up with a weak one in “I, Robot”, but at least he has given us this. New special edition too, wahoo!

Extras:
-audio commentaries
-additional footage



Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

Stoner comedy tackles some political ideas. I skipped it, but I know Donny wanted to see it. Look for a review soon!

Extras:
- Unable to get information as of this writing



Inglorious Bastards

**DVD PICK OF THE WEEK** No, this isn’t the long rumored Tarantino film he has promised, but this is the original of this rarely seen war film. Has a decent cult film cast and is jam packed with cool extras. Seek it!

Extras:
-original CD soundtrack
-audio commentary
-Quentin Tarantino interview the director
-documentary



Shine a Light

The new Marty Scorsese documentary on the Stones. Scorsese’s documentary side goes largely overlooked but he’s equally as good within this genre as he is in narrative features. Not as good as “Gimme Shelter” or anything Scorsese has done in the documentary world, but worth a look. Also on Blu Ray.

Extras:
-featurette
-4 music videos



Masters of Horror: Complete Season 2

Anchor Bay released these all separately but this gathers them all in one cool-ass packaging-a human skull!! For whatever flaws some have criticized this series, but I for one would take them over its watered-down sister on NBC, “Fear Itself”.



Look for these catalogue titles making a Blu Ray appearance: “Top Gun”, “Beowulf”, the Jack Ryan films, “Lost Boys”, the direct-to-DVD sequel “Lost Boys II: The Tribe”, “Stargate: Continuum” and the above titles on Blu. What a week for BD!

Also this week is the great documentary “Surfwise”, the highly regarded arthouse film “The Band’s Visit”, the barely seen martial arts film “Never Back Down”, and some TV. Not too bad to close out July. Come back next week for the start of August and keep it here for reviews too!!!