Let’s start at the top and move on down, shall we? One of the best films of last year hits DVD and Blu-ray today, and that is Darren Aronofsky’s masterpiece The Wrestler. I’ll have a review of the DVD up in the next day or two, but I loved, loved, loved this film. And as much as I liked Sean Penn’s performance in Milk, I still think Mickey Rourke deserved the Academy Award more.
And it is Mickey Rourke and great performances that lead us to our next pick of the day. Sin City on Blu-ray. I’ve had a chance to take a look at the disc first hand and I have to say it gets my highest recommendation for Blu-ray purchase. I’ll have a more complete review of the features up tomorrow.
Frost/Nixon is next. I’m not usually the biggest Ron Howard fan, he’s a poor mans Spielberg and his movies tend to range from crap (Da Vinci Code) to pretty good (Willow) but they never transcend barriers greater than that. This is certainly in his top tier of films, though and definitely worth watching at least once.
After that, we have the Adult Swim cartoon Squidbillies, Vol. 2. I’ve seen a few episodes on the television and it seemed hilarious.
Though I haven’t watched any Battlestar Galactica yet, I will make sure that Caprica is on the list today. Please, don’t tell me anything about it as I’ll get there someday, I’m sure.
Another one I’m excited to check out is Wolverine and the X-Men: Heroes Return Trilogy. I’ve been hearing great things about this cartoon series and I want to see some of it for myself. (Which reminds me, have you entered the X-Men DVD contest?)
Another release I’m quite excited for (based on very solid recommendations and the frequent mentions in that Raiders story conference) is the Blu-ray, Criterion Collection release of Wages of Fear. This film is supposed to be great and I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
Arctic Tale came out on Blu-ray today. You can read my review of the disc here.
The last two films on the list are the Blu-ray releases of X-Men and X2. If I have to tell you why you should have these two movies on Blu-ray, then you should stop buying movies now.