Criterion Cast: Off The Shelf

In this special episode of Off The Shelf, Ryan and Brian take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for Tuesday, March 8th 2016.

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Follow-Up

• Chronicles Episode 1
• Brian’s Zatoichi set

News

• Disney: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray Announced
• Criterion UK
• Kino Lorber: Taking of Pelham 123, Deadline USA, Buster Keaton Short Films
• Warner Archive: Hitchcock’s Suspicion (Warner Archive)
• Masters of Cinema: The Last Command (Masters of Cinema)
• Arrow Video: June titles: Return of the Killer Tomatoes, Suture, Ray Harryhausen, Nikkatsu Diamond Guys Volume 2 -also Too late For Tears and Woman on the Run.
• Olive Films: May titles
• Goodbye Gemini, Puppet on a Chain on Screen Archives (Scorpion Releasing)
• Kingdom of the Spiders (Code Red)

Links to Amazon

• Batteries Not Included
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• Coming Home
• The Forbidden Room
• Howard the Duck
• Hogan’s Heroes: The Complete Series
• In The Heart of the Sea
• Jane B. Par Agnès V. / Kung-Fu Master!
• Macbeth
• Paris Belongs to Us
• Peanuts Movie
• Species II
• Species III / Species: The Awakening
• The Tribe
• Victor Frankenstein
• The Vikings
• When Eight Bells Toll
• The Wonders
• Xanadu

Credits

• Ryan Gallagher (Twitter / Website / Wish List)
• Brian Saur (Twitter / Website / Instagram / Wish List)

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Music for the show is from Fatboy Roberts’ Geek Remixed project.

This week on Off The Shelf, Ryan is joined by Brian Saur to take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of October 6th, 2015, and chat about some follow-up and home video news.

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EPISODE LINKS & NOTES

Follow-up

• Shirts
• Warner Archive October line-up
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula Blu-ray controversy

The improvements are easy to see, but so too is the fairly drastic alterations to the framing. As noted, screenshot captures have been selected to match, as identically as possible, the same shot from both versions. Even in shots where there’s absolutely no horizontal or vertical movement in the camera – stills, essentially – there’s a noticeable shift upwards and leftwards.

• X-Files box sets
• Over The Garden Wall

News

• Criterion Flash Sale
• New Roku box
• Nikkatsu Diamond Guys: Vol 1 Blu-ray
• Olive Films Announce November Titles
• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Blu-ray
• Fox Releasing 100 Classics Digitally to Mark 100 Years
• Comin’ At Ya! Coming to 3D Blu-ray in January.
• Shaun The Sheep Movie coming to Blu-ray/Digital HD (U.S.) on 11/24.
• WAC Says Secret Squirrel hopefully next month

New Releases

• American Horror Story: Freak Show
• Atom Ant – The Complete Series
• Bad Man’s River
• Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula Supreme Cinema Series
• Burnt Offerings
• Captain Apache
• Dracula Has Risen From Grave
• Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
• Gravy
• Home Alone Ultimate Collector’s Edition
• Horror Classics, Volume One
• MAGIC MIKE XXL
• Manglehorn
• Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920–1970
• The Mummy
• My Own Private Idaho
• Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special
• People, Places, Things
• Spartacus – Restored Edition
• The Strangeness
• Taste the Blood of Dracula
• We Are Still Here
• When Marnie Was There

EPISODE CREDITS

• Ryan Gallagher (Twitter / Website / Wish List)
• Brian Saur (Twitter / Website / Instagram / Wish L...

This week on Off The Shelf, Ryan is joined by Brian Saur to take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of September 22nd, 2015, and chat about some follow-up and home video news.

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EPISODE LINKS & NOTES

Follow-up

• December Criterion Announcements
• Thunderbean Update

News

• Warner Archive: Twice Upon A Time on September 29th
• Arrow USA: What Have You Done To Solange?
• Masters Of Cinema: Day Of The Outlaw, December 7th
• Sony: Better Call Saul / You Can’t Take It With You
• Kino Lorber Studio Classics: The Black Sleep / Donovan’s Brain
• Vinegar Syndrome Dilemma
• Oscilloscope’s new web store

New Releases

• The American Dreamer
• Arrow: Season 3
• Beginning Or The End
• Black Caesar
• Breaker Morant
• Busting
• Destructors
• Deuces Wild
• Dirty Work
• Doctor Who: Dark Water/Death in Heaven 3D
• Dog Day Afternoon 40th Anniversary
• Fatal Instinct
• Flash: Season 1
• For Us the Living: Medgar Evers Story
• Gumby: Complete 50’s Series
• Hoodlum Saint
• Hitler: The Last Ten Days
• In the Name of My Daughter
• The Indian in the Cupboard
• Invisible Monster
• Lucky Night
• Madhouse
• Mannequin (Delayed to 11/3)
• Mannequin on the Move
• Mighty Quinn
• Mister Johnson
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Please Believe Me
• Prick Up Your Ears
• Requiescant
• Results
• R...

This week on Off The Shelf, Ryan is joined by Brian Saur to take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of September 8th, 2015, and chat about some follow-up and home video news.

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EPISODE LINKS & NOTES

Follow-up

• Masters Of Cinema: Shane aspect ratio
• Jacques Rivette Collection

News

• Monkees Box Set
• Bray Studios Kickstarter
• We’re Back: A Dinosaur Story on Blu-ray
• Arrow Video Sale
• New Olive October titles
• Kino – The Mask 3D (1961)

New Releases

September 1st

• Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters Collection
• BackCountry
• Dark Star: H.R. Gigers World
• Good Kill
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume 1
• Peter Pan – Starring Mary Martin
• Robot Carnival
• Star Wars Rebels: Complete Season 1

September 8th

• 10 to Midnight
• The Age Of Adaline
• Angst
• At Close Range
• Over the Garden Wall
• Defiance
• Dressed to Kill
• The Editor
• Emperor of the North
• Epic of Everest
• Fat City
• Gotham: Season 1
• Honey Pot
• Hornets’ Nest
• Morituris: Legions Of The Dead
• Shocker
• Society
• Vigilante Force

EPISODE CREDITS

• Ryan Gallagher (Twitter / Website / Wish List)
• Brian Saur (Twitter / Website / Instagram / Wish List)

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Music for the show is from Fatboy Roberts’ Geek Remixed project.

In this episode of Off The Shelf, Ryan and Brian take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016.

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Follow-Up

• Twilight Time Quantity Updates: Used Cars and Center of the Earth
• Ryan is out of space, but still buying box sets! (Buyers remorse vs unwatched stuff)
• Hertzfeldt Kickstarter Arrivals

News

• Star Trek: Digital Bits News (Animated Series on Blu-ray, Khan UHD)
• Kino Lorber: Fathom, Star Slammer, Modesty Blaise, Gold (1934)
• Code Red: House on the Edge of the Park, Truck Stop Women, Hot Moves ...bucket list fever!
• Scorpion: The Rift (from the director of Pieces)
• Blue Underground: Circus of Fear/5 Golden Dragons & The Shape of Things to Come

Misc Links

• Larry Karaszewski on After The Fox
• Night of the Comet vinyl Kickstarter

Links to Amazon

• After the Fox
• Bandits
• Black Mama, White Mama
• The Black Sleep
• Breaker! Breaker!
• A Brighter Summer Day
• Clean Slate
• Disturbing Behavior
• Donovan’s Brain
• Freaks And Geeks: The Complete Series
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
• Kill Me Again
• Ken Russell’s View of the Planets
• Michael Collins
• Making the Grade
• My Summer Story
• Trip
• Undertow
• The War Between Men and Women

Credits

• Ryan Gallagher (Twitter / Website / Wish List)
• Brian Saur (Twitter / Website / Instagram / Wish List)

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Music for the show is from Fatboy Roberts’ Geek Remixed project.