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Disc News Digest: 2014-03-21

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April 1

Fargo is reissued on Blu-ray with a newly-remastered transfer and needlepoint cover art.

May 6

Sony is releasing four post-1990 Godzilla double feature Blu-rays just in time for Garth Edwards's revival of the franchise. Each movie is on its own Blu-ray disc. All movies include their original trailers, with the only other extras being a featurette on Tokyo S.O.S. and a behind-the-scenes featurette on Final Wars. The movies as they're paired:

  • Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) + Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth (1992)
  • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) + Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)
  • Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995) + Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
  • Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) + Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)

May 13

Special ID, starring the incomparable Donnie Yen as a deep-cover cop on the inside of a gang. Wait until you see what he does with the chain wallet you see on the poster.

Spike Jonze's Her. Blu-ray featurettes include all of the following (DVD only has the boldface one):

  • The Untitled Rick Howard Project
  • How Do You Share Your Life with Somebody
  • Her: Love in the Modern Age

Orange is the New Black: Season 1 comes to 3-disc Blu-ray and 4-disc DVD with the following features:

  • “New Kid on the Cell Block” featurette
  • “Mother Hen: Red Runs the Coup” featurette
  • “It’s Tribal” featurette
  • “Prison Rules” featurette
  • Gag Reel
  • Episode Commentary “I Wasn't Ready” with Producers Jenji Kohan, Tara Herrmann and Mark Burley
  • Episode Commentary “Can't Fix Crazy” with Producers Jenji Kohan, Tara Herrmann and Mark Burley

June 10

The Spike Lee Joint Collection (Volumes 1 & 2) drop on Blu-ray. Volume 1 includes The 25th Hour and He Got Game. Volume 2 includes Summer of Sam and Miracle at St. Anna. According to the studio, each movie is on its own separate disc.

All four movies retain all previous DVD extras and add newly-recorded commentary tracks with Spike Lee and a cohort as follows:

  • The 25th Hour: Spike Lee and actor Edward Norton
  • He Got Game: Spike Lee and actor Ray Allen
  • Summer of Sam: Spike Lee and actor John Leguizamo
  • Miracle at St. Anna's: Spike Lee and screenwriter James McBride

March-April

Fox Cinema Archives is releasing another wave after wave of MOD DVD oldies starting this week. They star everyone from Cesar Romero to Linda Darnell (playing a version of herself in Star Dust) to Spencer Tracy to Adam West to Natalie Wood:

March 18

  • Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
  • Esther and the King (1960)
  • Dante’s Inferno (1935)

March 25

  • Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
  • I’d Climb The Highest Mountain (1951)

April 1

  • The Gay Deception (1935)
  • Bachelor Flat (1961)
  • The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971)

April 8

  • The Pleasure Seekers (1964)
  • Footlight Serenade (1942)

April 15

  • Marry The Boss’s Daughter (1941)
  • Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
  • That Other Woman (1942)

April 22

  • Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)
  • Star Dust (1940)
  • Decline and Fall of A Bird Watcher (1968)

April 25

  • Kentucky (1938)
  • Forever Amber (1947)

 

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