Here's a look at the latest DVD and Blu-ray Disc releases:
BLU-RAY DISC:
Baby on Board (National Entertainment Media)
Fatal Attraction (Paramount)
Fired Up (Sony)
Gran Torino (Warner)
Indecent Proposal (Paramount)
The International (Sony)
Predator 2 (Fox)
The Siege (Fox)
Time Warp: Season 1 (Image)
Woodstock: Director's Cut (Warner)
DVD:
Baby on Board (National Entertainment Media)
Crossing Over (Weinstein/Genius)
Fired Up (Sony)
Gran Torino (Warner)
The International (Sony)
Jack Lemmon Film Collection (Sony)
Nobel Son (Fox)
Spinning Into Butter (Screen Media)
Strike (Anchor Bay)
Woodstock: Director's Cut (Warner)
TV-on-DVD:
The Cleaner: Season 1 (Paramount)
Father Knows Best: Season 3 (Shout! Factory)
Get Smart: Season 3 (HBO)
Open All Hours: Complete Series (BBC/Warner)
Perry Mason: Season 4, Vol.1 (Paramount)
Reaper: Season 2 (Lionsgate)
The Shield: Season 7 (Fox)
Survivorman: Season 3 (Image)
Time Warp: Season 1 (Image)
Waiting for God: Season 4 (BBC/Warner)
Whose Line Is It Anyway: Best Of (Warner)
HIGHLIGHTS:
Fatal Attraction - Younger fans of this year's Obsessed would do well to check out its inspiration, Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction. Ali Larter can certainly fill out a silk teddy but no one does the psychotic, jilted lover routine better than Glenn Close. As catalog releases go, this Blu-ray from Paramount looks above average with a respectable assortment of SD featurettes and an HD trailer.
Fired Up - Or F.U. as the theatrical posters so eloquently put it. The latest high school sex comedy, Fired Up follows a pair of jocks as they skip football camp to instead spend their time with the ladies at cheerleader camp. Though hardly groundbreaking, I can watch and enjoy anything starring the delightfully-goofy John Michael Higgins (Best in Show). Sony's Blu-ray looks particularly vibrant and well-detailed and is further helped by an assortment of extras, several of which are presented in HD.
Indecent Proposal - Paramount gives Adrian Lyne fans a double treat this week with their Blu-ray releases of both Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal. In lesser hands with an inferior cast, this could easily have been a Cinemax movie of the week. Instead, Robert Redford gives the film a healty dose of gravitas as a millionnaire who offers a financially-strapped David Murphy (Woody Harelson) and his wife Diana (Demi Moore) one million dollars for one, no-questions-asked night of romance with Diana; moral and fiscal dilemmas ensue. Proposal looks merely adequate in this 1080p presentation but it is a step up from what my DVD has offered until now. Extras are limited to a Lyne commentary track.
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