User blog:Ceauntay/This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: April 26, 2011

Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush: Part 1 (Critierion Collection)

I will begin reviewing this most popular movie in the Jane Hoop Elementary film franchise to date - And the end of the film franchise has just begun. It's very own midnight release is yet to be held this Friday at midnight giving it a midnight release party, and fans are set to stay up late to bring home the film on DVD & Blu Ray Combo Pack.

After their friend's death, Danny and his friends are into the final journey to defeat and destroy Catwoman from taking over the world once and for all, where they are prepared for a epic giant final battle of good vs. evil.

Blow Out (Criterion Collection) I will hopefully have my review of this one finished tomorrow around noon — before my screening of Hobo with a Shotgun — but I will say right now this is a title worthy of your consideration. The best and obvious comparisons are Antonioni's Blow Up and Coppola's The Conversation, at least in terms of genre. I had never seen this film before and the opening sequence had me completely baffled and as it moves forward the way it turns into just as much a film about filmmaking as it is a paranoid thriller is quite exciting, but more on that soon enough… As far as features are concerned there's a solid hour-long interview with Noah Baumbach interviewing director Brian De Palma and I loved the inclusion of De Palma's Murder a la Mod, an early experimental film he made in the mid-'60s that is truly experimental and fascinating for that reason alone. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Criterion Collection) Criterion has ushered their massive two-disc DVD edition onto Blu-ray and I was tempted several times to buy the two-disc edition for the longest time even though I don't particularly like this film. Suffice to say, I'm excited to finally dig into it and not for the film, but for the features. I'm primarily interested in the commentaries, one of which is with Gilliam, another with Depp, Del Toro and one of the film's producers and the third with Hunter S. Thompson himself. Then there's a short documentary centered on Thompson and much more, including art from the great Ralph Steadman. To be quite honest, it's frustrating I've been too busy to have not already listened to the Thompson commentary.