Posted in: Contests by Gino Sassani on December 28th, 2019
Toy Story 4 on Blu-ray. It's the franchise that put Pixar on the map. Is it Buzz and Woody's last round-up? It's a touching story with characters we've all grown to love. Now you can add it to your collection thanks to our good friends at Disney.
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Posted in: Contests by Gino Sassani on December 27th, 2019
The Lion King (2019) on Blu-ray. It was one of the most beloved animated features of all time, holding the box office record for decades. Now it's a computer-generated/live-action film. Our friends over at Disney have given us a copy of the new film on Blu-ray so you can enjoy it in high definition.
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Posted in: Contests by Gino Sassani on December 26th, 2019
The 2019 World Series on Blu-ray. The Washington Nationals beat The Astros in a thrilling Game 7. Hey, at least someone in Washington was winning in 2019. This historic 2-disc set includes the official MLB 2019 World Series film along with regular season highlights, clinching moments and even covers the World Series Parade. It's all thanks to our wonderful friends at Shout Factory. So what are you waiting for? Shout!
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Posted in: Contests, Random Fun by Gino Sassani on December 25th, 2019
We wish all of you the best of the season and a wonderful new year full of promise and success.
To help you celebrate we're sending out to you this Christmas song written by G. E. Sassani called Passage.
Posted in: Contests by Gino Sassani on December 25th, 2019
Alita: Battle Angel on Blu from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. It's back. Upcomingdiscs delivers 12 days of contests. Each day a new prize is going to be offered. We kick it all off with Alita: Battle Angel on Blu-ray in HD. It's a bleak future for Alita and her friends but a chance to score an extra gift for you.
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Posted in: The Reel World by Gino Sassani on December 21st, 2019
It was 1978 when it all began. That's when George Lucas and a fairly unknown band of filmmakers and actors introduced us to that galaxy far, far away. We met characters like Han Solo and Princess Leia. We fell in love with droids named R2D2 and C3PO. We booed and hissed at the classic villainy of Darth Vader. And the hero of it all was a young farmer boy who pined for adventure on a backwater planet where nothing exciting ever happened. That's where we met Luke Skywalker, and for three films ending in 1983, we were treated to an epic adventure. This unknown band would become cultural icons, but it was all over after five years of space swashbuckling and good old good versus evil. At some point Lucas made it known that the first Star Wars film was actually the fourth film in a trilogy of trilogies. Star Wars would gain the tag A New Hope, followed by The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi. Of course, while Lucas teased there was a prequel trilogy and a sequel trilogy, we were told not to get our hopes too high. But in the 1990's Lucas felt ambitious, and he delivered on that prequel trilogy with underwhelming result. Surely the rest of the story would remain untold.
Enter The Walt Disney Studios, who had already racked up some success picking up the Marvel franchise. They were looking for something else to sink another $4 billion in. With half in cash and half in Disney stock, Lucas relinquished control of his beloved Lucasfilm and all of the properties it contained, from Industrial Light & Magic to Indiana Jones. But the cornerstone of the film franchises was certainly Star Wars. From that point there was to be no mistake: the final three stories would be told. The Force Awakens directed by JJ Abrams really did give fans a new hope. The film was a wonderful companion to the first three, and we could finally forget about those meddlesome 90's films. Abrams returned the franchise to the organic delights of actual film and teased the decision in the film's first teaser/trailer. I literally cheered when I saw him demonstrate actual film being threaded into a camera. This was the true return of Star Wars. That film was followed by a remarkable spin-off story called Rogue One that told that story from A New Hope of those brave people who lost their lives delivering the plans to that nasty Death Star to the Resistance. It was another wonderful film, and the sky appeared to be the limit.
Posted in: Holiday Gift Guides by Gino Sassani on December 21st, 2019
I think I see your problem. You have this list. It’s a list of people you need/want to buy a Christmas gift for. The trouble is that they’re into home theatre, and you don’t know Star Trek from Star Wars. You couldn’t tell a Wolf Man from a Wolverine. And you always thought that Paranormal Activity was something too kinky to talk about. Fortunately, Upcomingdiscs has come to the rescue every Christmas with our Gift Guide Spotlights. These gift guides ARE NOT paid advertisements. We take no money to publish them. The kinds of things we recommend here are things I would be delighted to find under the tree.
CBS still has the highest rated dramas on television. There have been quite a few good DVD sets from the network in 2019. Here's a look at my recommendations. Part Two will deal with the current hits you can get on DVD this year:
Posted in: Holiday Gift Guides by Gino Sassani on December 21st, 2019
I think I see your problem. You have this list. It’s a list of people you need/want to buy a Christmas gift for. The trouble is that they’re into home theatre, and you don’t know Star Trek from Star Wars. You couldn’t tell a Wolf Man from a Wolverine. And you always thought that Paranormal Activity was something too kinky to talk about. Fortunately, Upcomingdiscs has come to the rescue every Christmas with our Gift Guide Spotlights. These gift guides ARE NOT paid advertisements. We take no money to publish them. The kinds of things we recommend here are things I would be delighted to find under the tree.
Warner Brothers continues to lead the industry with television on Blu-ray. Other studios have experimented with some of their shows but no one puts more TV out in HD than Warner Brothers. Here are some of my favorite titles from 2019. Any of them would look great under the tree this season. We start off with a very special release for DC and Batman fans.
Posted in: Holiday Gift Guides by Gino Sassani on December 20th, 2019
I think I see your problem. You have this list. It’s a list of people you need/want to buy a Christmas gift for. The trouble is that they’re into home theatre, and you don’t know Star Trek from Star Wars. You couldn’t tell a Wolf Man from a Wolverine. And you always thought that Paranormal Activity was something too kinky to talk about. Fortunately, Upcomingdiscs has come to the rescue every Christmas with our Gift Guide Spotlights. These gift guides ARE NOT paid advertisements. We take no money to publish them. The kinds of things we recommend here are things I would be delighted to find under the tree. But now it's too late to go out and get something. Here's a gift you can send in seconds and any movie fan on your list will be grateful. Usually we stick to movies and home theater equipment when we do talk about gifts here at Upcomingdiscs. However, I do keep my eye out for things that might be of special appeal to the film collectors in our audience. If you're at all like me, you've been trying new ways to keep track of your video collection for years. I have stuff on so many formats that it gets pretty tough to find a way to keep it all together and easy to access. Most of the time I used to just work with Works database options and let that be my database. But a few years ago I've finally found a commercial database that does everything I want it to do, and a ton more. I'm talking about Collectorz, and they've been helping to organize my film collection for a few years now. We talked about them last Christmas, and I'm here to talk about them again. This thing rocks and is about as easy to use as anything else I've ever tried. It keeps track of everything you need.
The database works in conjunction with the internet resources like the IMDB. When you enter a film title it automatically searches these various resources for the film you entered. Once it finds the movie it populates all kinds of fields for you. It grabs the cast, year, genre, director, trailers and cover art and so much more all automatically. The information is incorporated into your database and permanently recorded. There's no need to have access to the internet to open up and browse these features once the database is entered. You can even scan the barcode if you have a barcode reader for your computer.
Posted in: Holiday Gift Guides by Gino Sassani on December 20th, 2019
I think I see your problem. You have this list. It’s a list of people you need/want to buy a Christmas gift for. The trouble is that they’re into home theatre, and you don’t know Star Trek from Star Wars. You couldn’t tell a Wolf Man from a Wolverine. And you always thought that Paranormal Activity was something too kinky to talk about. Fortunately, Upcomingdiscs has come to the rescue every Christmas with our Gift Guide Spotlights. These gift guides ARE NOT paid advertisements. We take no money to publish them. The kinds of things we recommend here are things I would be delighted to find under the tree.
We now turn our attention to Mill Creek and a couple of iconic releases coming your way just in time for Christmas:
