New Blu-ray and DVD Releases: February 15, 2011
Rank the week of February 15th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best movies ever made:
Unstoppable (DVD and Blu-ray | PG-13 | 2010)
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Rank it amongst the best action movies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #1915
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Director Tony Scott’s Runaway Train thriller starring Denzel Washington, Rosario Dawson and Chris Pine.
Waiting for ‘Superman’ (DVD and Blu-ray | PG | 2010)
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Rank it amongst the best documentaries of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #4977
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A critique on the American public school system. Spoiler: It’s messed up…
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (DVD and Blu-ray | R | 2010)
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Rank it amongst the best romantic movies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #6390
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The latest from Woody Allen. It stars Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts, Anthony Hopkins and Freida Pinto. It also has what I’m willing to call the worst movie trailer I’ve ever seen:
Summer Wars (DVD and Blu-ray | PG | 2009)
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Rank it amongst the best anime movies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #6553
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I typically ignore anime but Summer Wars looks pretty cool.
Synopsis from Amazon: Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He s good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has until the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiancé at her family reunion. Things only get stranger from there. A late-night email containing a cryptic mathematic riddle leads to the unleashing of a rogue AI intent on using the virtual word of OZ to destroy the real world, literarily. As Armageddon looms on the horizon, Kenji and his new family set aside their differences and band together to save the worlds they inhabit in this near-perfect blend of social satire and science fiction.
Game of Death (DVD and Blu-ray | NR | 2010)
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Rank it amongst the best action thrillers of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: Just Added
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Starring Wesley Snipes and Zoe Bell.
The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (DVD and Blu-ray | NR | 2009)
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Rank it amongst the best horror comedies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #19520
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Classics and Re-releases on Blu-ray and DVD
All the President’s Men (Blu-ray | PG | 1976)
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Rank it amongst the best political drama movies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #188
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They just don’t make ’em like this anymore. All the President’s Men is the pinnacle of the amazing streak of paranoid thrillers that came out during the 70s.
The Stranger (Blu-ray | NR | 1946)
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Rank it amongst the best detective movies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #5503
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Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson and secret post-WWII Nazis in Connecticut. That’s pretty much my description for the perfect movie.
Kansas City Confidential (Blu-ray | NR | 1952)
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Rank it amongst the best film noir of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #8809
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Some of the best Noir ever made.
Rain Man (Blu-ray | R | 1988)
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Rank it amongst the best family dramas of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #215
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I have a press release for this disc that calls Rain Man a “Cult Classic.” I’m pretty sure Rain Man’s just a “classic” right? People have been on its side since it was released. I don’t think you can call the highest grossing movie of any year a cult classic.
Network (Blu-ray | R | 1976)
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Rank it amongst the best black comedies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #133
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Starring William Holden and Faye Dunaway.
Chaplin (Blu-ray | PG-13 | 1992)
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Rank it amongst the best biopics of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #958
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Starring Robert Downey Jr as the great Charlie Chaplin.
Last Tango in Paris (Blu-ray | NR | 1972)
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Rank it amongst the best erotic movies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #1271
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Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando.
Moonstruck (Blu-ray | PG | 1987)
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Rank it amongst the best romantic comedies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #1171
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Starring Nicolas Cage and Cher.
Hoodwinked! (Blu-ray | PG | 2005)
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Rank it amongst the best animated movies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #2571
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A surprisingly decent flick. It’s the story of Little Red Riding Hood but as if the events took place in Kurosawa’s Rashomon.
