Three years ago, I wrote a comprehensive review of the Blu-ray for Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs the World Blu-ray roughly 18 hours after it arrived on my doorstep. The Blu-ray of his most recent movie arrived a couple of days ago, and I've finished plowing through every last featurette and commentary. The World's End hits Blu-ray in the US two weeks from today.
As always, screengrabs are taken direct from the disc, then resized to 1000pixel width and compressed from PNG to JPG.
Read MoreThis movie is readily available on DVD, but the now-OOP Special Edition carries an indispensible Roger Ebert commentary that is missing from the in-print version. I don't know why this commentary disappeared when the movie was re-issued, but I presume it may have had something to do with licensing terms with the Ebert company. It could have just been Fox Legal not wanting to do some additional paperwork, I don't know.
Knowing it isn't there makes the movie un-purchaseable for me. I bought the "old" version from a local secondhand DVD shop with money that could have gone toward a reasonably-priced new copy.
The Missing Disc looks at movies that are either not available on disc at all, or which exist only in A/V quality and packaging that film fans and scholars find lacking. Every movie should be on Blu-ray, but life isn't fair, and there isn't necessarily enough restoration and remastering money around. This column fights the most reasonable fights possible.
Criterion posted the first four minutes of Roger Ebert's commentary on their Floating Weeds DVD at the beginning of April, which I only noticed when they put a link to this post at the top of their most recent newsletter.