A great week for Gangster movies in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of May 20th.

Top title is the latest season of True Blood: The Complete Fifth Season from HBO Home Video.

Warner Home Video has quite a collection of titles this week, including the new movie Beautiful Creatures.

Lots of classic crime titles too, with the Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics, along with individual releases for White Heat, The Public Enemy, The Petrified Forest and Little Caesar.

There is also an Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Contemporary edition and a new anniversary edition of National Lampoon’s Vacation.

Great to see Warner re-releasing some of the earlier titles that didn’t get the best initial Blu-ray treatment this month.

Lionsgate Home Entertainment has new titles too with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s The Last Stand and Stand Up Guys out this week.

Jason Statham fans will like his new film Parker from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment this week.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has a couple of key new Anime titles - My Neighbor Totoro and Howl’s Moving Castle.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has the Steven Soderbergh movie Side Effects out this week, and the Criterion Collection has Medium Cool this week.

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The Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of May 13th features some great new releases, including the epic Wachowski sibling movie Cloud Atlas from Warner Home Video.

Showtime Entertainment has the latest Dexter: The Seventh Season on Blu-ray this week.

The Texas Chainsaw 3D remake is also out this week in the Blu-ray 3D format from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has the first of their ‘Mastered in 4K’ series with extended colour gamut, which includes the classic comedy Ghostbusters, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man, Scorcese’s Taxi Driver, Da Vinci Code sequel Angels & Demons, the remake of The Karate Kid and crime comedy The Other Guys.

The Criterion Collection has a couple of classic western’s this week, with Jubal and the original 3:10 to Yuma.

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A ton of new releases in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of the 6th of May.

Top title is the crime thriller Jack Reacher starring Tom Cruise from Paramount Home Entertainment.

MGM Home Entertainment has the classic war film The Great Escape this week.

Warner Home Video has a huge slate of titles this week, including  Fringe: The Complete Fifth Season the full series collection with Fringe: The Complete Series.

Warner also has a huge collection of Steelbook releases this week for their top titles, including Watchmen, Batman , and Batman Returns, and Paramount titles including Gladiator, Chinatown, and Face/Off.

Warner also has a catalog release for An Officer and a Gentleman.

Fox Home Entertainment has the new release Safe Haven this week, along with catalog titles like The Verdict and One Hour Photo.

Also watch for thriller Mama from Universal Studios Home Entertainment, along with catalog releases In the Name of the Father and Hitchcock movies Shadow of a Doubt and Saboteur this week.

Lionsgate Home Entertainment has their first 3D conversion release with Gamer 3D this week.

Indie releases include Upstream Color from New Video DVD, Goddard’s Band of Outsiders from Criterion Collection.

Echo Bridge Home Entertainment has a wide range of Miramax catalog titles this week too, including The Grifters , The Hoax , Fresh , Heaven , and Steven Soderbergh’s Full Frontal.

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I am pleased to announce the winners for April’s Deadball Blu-ray Giveaway.

Michael O of Chula Vista and Darren B from San Jose were the lucky winners of the random draw.

Then Dennis C won in the ‘friends of the site’ category.

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to those who entered and the other friends of the site – I appreciate the support!

If you are interested in helping promote the site to your friend, follow us on Facebook and Like and Share… who knows, you may win a future giveaway!

Of course thanks also to Well Go USA for generously sponsoring the giveaway!

Today is the last day for this month’s Deadball Blu-ray Giveaway courtesy of our friends at Well Go USA.

Up for grabs is the Japanese comedy spatter horror movie Deadball on Blu-ray Disc from Sushi Typhoon and Well Go USA with Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio with English subtitles and a small collection of supplements.

You can see my take on the release from earlier this week in the News Log.

I have a few copies to give away, so as well as the usual entry form I will be offering this disc to the most prolific friends of the site on Facebook.

So Share and Like to improve your chances of winning, though as a Region A disc this one is limited to North America.

To enter the contest, simply head to this page and enter your information.

Feel free to let your friends who might be interested know about the contest and add any additional comments at the end of the form.

Rules – Must be a resident of the United States to enter. One entry per person. Prizewinner must claim prize within 48 hours of notification. Contest closes April 30th at midnight, Pacific Daylight Time.

Thanks and best of luck!

This month we have a Deadball Blu-ray Giveaway courtesy of our friends at Well Go USA.

Up for grabs is the Japanese comedy spatter horror movie Deadball on Blu-ray Disc from Sushi Typhoon and Well Go USA with Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio with English subtitles and a small collection of supplements.

You can see my take on the release from earlier this week in the News Log.

I have a few copies to give away, so as well as the usual entry form I will be offering this disc to the most prolific friends of the site on Facebook.

So Share and Like to improve your chances of winning, though as a Region A disc this one is limited to North America.

To enter the contest, simply head to this page and enter your information.

Feel free to let your friends who might be interested know about the contest and add any additional comments at the end of the form.

Rules – Must be a resident of the United States to enter. One entry per person. Prizewinner must claim prize within 48 hours of notification. Contest closes April 30th at midnight, Pacific Daylight Time.

Thanks and best of luck!

April 9th, 2013 marked the Blu-ray release for the Well Go USA Japanese B movie comedy fantasy horror title Deadball.

The movie was produced by the genre film studio Sushi Typhoon.

Sushi Typhoon was founded with the intent to create low-budget horror, science fiction, and fantasy films and has produced seven movies to date.

Deadball is certainly packed with plenty of splatter and low budget special effects!

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This week’s Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery looks to be mostly dominated by television releases in a quiet week for movie titles.

Stand up comedy wins out with the Comedy Central title Gabriel Iglesias: Aloha Fluffy.

The Criterion Collection has David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch this week, along with the Japanese film Gate of Hell.

BBC Home Video has a big selection this week, including the popular Merlin: The Complete Fifth Season and documentary shows The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, One Life and Great Barrier Reef .

Lionsgate Home Entertainment also has a television release with Boss: Season Two and Image Entertainment has The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Complete First Season.

Watch later in the week for a giveaway of the Japanese comedy horror Deadball from Well Go USA.

Meanwhile Universal Studios Home Entertainment is releasing UltraViolet bundled versions of The Fast and the Furious , Fast & Furious , Fast Five and 2 Fast 2 Furious.

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The Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of April Fools Day is a little on the light weight side.

The top titles this week come from Fox Home Entertainment, with the ‘epic miniseries’ The Bible and catalog releases for That Thing You Do! and Hello Dolly!.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has put together a 6 movie Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray collection – the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One – Avengers Assembled – that also features a new supplemental disc.

On the indie side, look for John Dies at the End from Magnolia Home Entertainment, British crime movie The Sweeney from Entertainment One and the Japanese horror Tormented 3D in the Blu-ray 3D format from Well Go USA.

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More Academy Awards winners in the Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of March 25th 2013.

Top title for the week is Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln from DreamWorks Home Entertainment in a Blu-ray/DVD Combo, though you can also get Lincoln in a 4 disc edition with Digital Copy.

Brad Pitt is a professional enforcer in Killing Them Softly from Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has individual editions for Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III this week.

Look for the IMAX title To the Arctic 3D on Blu-ray 3D from Warner Home Video this week, along with The Terminator Anthology and Veep: The Complete First Season from HBO Home Video.

Speaking of television releases, Paramount Home Entertainment has both Star Trek: Enterprise – Season One and The Borgias: The Second Season new to Blu-ray.

On the classic cinema side of things, watch for Chaplin in Monsieur Verdoux and French film A Man Escaped from Criterion Collection, Little Fugitive from Kino Lorber Incorporated and Panic in the Streets from Fox Home Entertainment this week.

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