This Week’s Best Bet
Joel and Ethan Coen’s career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with “Blood Simple” (1984), a razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous thought. Actor M. Emmet Walsh looms over the proceedings as a slippery private eye with a yellow suit, a cowboy hat, and no moral compass,
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From TV to Disc:
“Magnum P.I.: The Final Season” (2023) is a five-disc set with all 20 episode. Thomas Magnum returns in the final season as Hawaii’s favorite detective, and takes on exciting new cases with his partner, Juliet Higgins, and friends Rick and TC. Whether they’re taking down Hawaii’s most dangerous criminals, solving impossible cases or just throwing back a few mai tais after work, the team has never been tighter – and the adventure has never been bigger.
From Paramount.
CAV Distributing Corp announced today that the following releases, originally scheduled for Tuesday, January 9, have been delayed:
Curse of the Dog God is now scheduled for January 23
The Inferno is now scheduled for January 23
Dard Divorce is now scheduled for January 30
BloodRayne is now scheduled for February 6
All DVDs and Blu-rays are screened on a reference system consisting of an Oppo BDP-83 Blu-ray Disc Player w/SACD & DVD-Audio, a Rotel RSX-972 Surround Sound Receiver, and Phase Technology 1.1 (front), 33.1 (center), and 50 (rear) speakers, and Power 10 subwoofer.