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This week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases are truly some bankruptcy inducing titles. With two truly epic Blu-ray’s from Criterion to talk about, as well as a slew of new releases and catalog titles from various distributors, you’ll have to choose wisely, or perhaps just take out a loan on your house to pay for them all.

I know, I know. Tuesday was days ago, and we’re almost upon Tuesday again, where we’ll see a whole list of new titles. As those who follow me on Twitter know, I had a rather large event happen on Wednesday, which threw a wrench into my blogging plans. Nevertheless, I wanted to get these titles up, as I think they are incredibly important, and should be considered if you’re looking to drop some cash on DVDs and Blu-rays.

Before I get into this week’s new releases, I...

"Director Terrence Malick recommends that The Thin Red Line be played loud."

Outside of the packaging indicating Criterion's high definition transfer of The Thin Red Line was supervised and approved by director Terrence Malick and cinematographer John Toll, the above sentence is the only other contribution Malick makes to this release. Considering Criterion has put together one of the most stunning high definition transfers of one of the most beautiful films out there and on top of that provides a DTS-hd Master Audio 5.1 track I guess we can't ask for much more. Yet, that's exactly what we get, more. Criterion provides hours of brand new bonus material to keep you busy for days. This is one of the best new releases Criterion has put out in 2010 and it's the release fans of this film were hoping for.

Believe it or not, I hadn't seen The Thin Red Line before November of last year.

Here we are, another 15th of the month, another group of amazing releases from the Criterion Collection announced on schedule. Being so obsessively attached to rumors and gossip on Twitter and forums and the like, many of these titles have been hinted at in one form or another.

Way back in March, we got a somewhat obvious clue in the monthly Criterion Collection e-mail newsletter, in the form of a thin, red lion, and after some back and forth as to which movie it was referring to, many came to the conclusion it was in fact Terrance Malick’s The Thin Red Line. Criterion’s recent Blu-ray release of Malick’s Days of Heaven was an incredible production, with a transfer that cannot be beaten. The Thin Red Line was also teased at in a twitter picture post that Criterion sent out back in March, giving further proof to the...