Face it: Nobody wants to stock the New Release shelf on New Year’s Day. We’ll pair some of this week’s lackluster new releases with more exciting related ones coming next Tuesday …
An Affair to
Remember
(2Oth Century Fox)
Supposedly, LionsGate re-released its old Cary Grant Collection yesterday, but real Grantoholics will be watching for a 50th-anniversary edition of An Affair to Remember — along with Affair-worshipper Nora Ephron’s breakthrough comedy When Harry Met Sally — next Tuesday.
The Rock
(Blu-Ray)
(Buena Vista)
Sure, we loved the trigger-happy sales pitch of this year’s Shoot ’Em Up (New Line). But if it didn’t quite deliver what it advertised, there’s always Buena Vista’s Blu-ray editions of the Master Bay’s Nicolas Cage shoot-em-ups: Con Air and (the vastly superior) The Rock, which explode onto retail shelves next week.
Resident Evil
Trilogy
(Blu-Ray)
(Sony)
I can’t claim to have any desire to see this testament to the marketing power of video games. For those who do, the films’ onslaught of digitally manipulated pixels is showcased in a new Blu-ray set.
The Up Series
(First Run Features)
Lastly, cinephiles who haven’t yet seen Michael Apted’s revelatory Up Series are in luck: First Run Features has updated its excellent box to include the seventh film in the ongoing documentary saga. •
This article appears in Jan 2-8, 2008.