The Blu-ray box set deal of the week over at Amazon this is the The Ultimate Matrix Collection on Blu-ray for only $25.49 (that’s 61% off the list price of $64.98).

Note, this sale is valid through, Saturday, January 28, 2012, until 11:59PM PST while supplies last.

This Blu-ray edition features all three Matrix films — The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions — in high definition, along with The Animatrix presented in 1080p for the first time.

There’s 35 hours’ worth of bonus material in this set pertaining to the making of the trilogy, the music, stunts, effects, deleted scenes, commentaries, and much more, including the companion piece “The Matrix Revisited.” There’s also a digital copy of The Matrix [...]

Belle De Jour
DVD | Blu-ray
Directed by Luis Bunuel
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Genevieve Page
The Criterion Collection
Release date: January 17, 2012

When digging through the history of film, very few filmmakers had quite the career of one Luis Bunuel. The surrealist icon first started in the short film medium (giving the world classics like Un Chien Andalou) only to get behind some of the most intriguing pictures of his generation, none of the cult auteur’s canon may be quite as beloved as his fantastical Belle De Jour.

Featuring Bunuel’s patented themes of human desire and pleasure, Belle feels like the physical manifestation of each and every single aspect of the surrealist belief structure, all in the guise of one of the most beautiful and complex pieces of narrative from one of film’s most interesting directors [...]

First released overseas more than a decade, the futuristic Japanese survivalist action-drama Battle Royale is finally coming to DVD and Blu-ray for the first time in the United States. Distributor Anchor Bay Entertainment has even cut a brand new trailer to promote the release. You can watch it here below.

The film is based on a popular manga and is set in a time where overpopulation and an unstable economy forces the Japanese government to institute the Battle Royale Act, whereupon one class of students will be taken each year against their will to a small island and forced to fight for their lives. [...]

The Gold Box deal of the day today over at Amazon today is the Farscape: The Complete Series box set on DVD for only $44.99 (that’s 70% off the list price of $149.95) and Blu-ray for only $68.99 (that’s 65% off the list price of $199.95).

Note, this deal is valid only for today, Wednesday, January 18, 2012, until 11:59pm PST while supplies last.

The 26-disc DVD set and 20-disc Blu-ray set both contain all 88 episodes of the sci-fi series Farscape, along with over 15 hours of bonus features like audio commentaries, featurettes, deleted scenes, and behind-the-scenes footage. Also, on the Blu-ray set, there’s an all-new documentary titled Memories of Moya: An Epic Journey, which features new interviews with the cast and creators [...]

Much like the brain-craving zombies that rise from the grave to torment its main characters, The Return of the Living Dead will never die. The 1985 horror-comedy was spawned from nearly a decade of half-starts, costly lawsuits, and clashing personalities and went on to become one of the most genre films of all time.

For a forthcoming Blu-ray release of the movie in the United Kingdom, DVD distributor Severin Films, the U.S.-based company that has spread its own brand of digital Trioxin over long-buried cult classics such as the original Inglorious Bastards and Richard Stanley’s scorched earth sci-fi horror epic Hardware, has produced a trio of brand new retrospective featurettes looking back at the film’s tortured script development and the creation of its brilliant visual effects and headbanging punk rock soundtrack [...]

Right now, Amazon is offering up the Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Blu-ray box set for only $27.99 (that’s 57% off the list price of $64.98).

This is the Three-Disc 40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo box set, which contains the 1971 film starring Gene Wilder on both DVD and Blu-ray, along with bonus features like commentary and an interview with author Roald Dahl, as well as collectibles [...]

Right now, Amazon is selling the Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection Blu-ray Edition for only $48.99 (that’s 51% off the list price of $99.99), while the DVD is $41.99 (that’s 34% off the list price of $63.98).

Also, the Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy Blu-ray Edition is only $22.55 (that’s 66% off the list price of $65.99), while the DVD is only $11.97!!! (that’s 70% off the list price of $39.98).

Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection contains the first six movies of the Star Trek film series, all of which star the cast from the original 1960s television series: The Motion Picture, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier, and The Undiscovered Country. Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy contains movies 2, 3, and 4: The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, and The Voyage Home [...]

The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption, the latest direct-to-video sequel to the 2002 prequel to The Mummy Returns that featured Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in his first lead role in a film, is set to hit store shelves this week and Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released several preview clips from the film.

You can watch all six videos, including a trailer and a behind-the-scenes clip, here below [...]

Now that all three seasons of the original run of Gene Roddenberry‘s sci-fi television classic Star Trek are available on Blu-ray, it’s time for Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal determined crew of the Enterprise-D to take its continuing mission into the realm of high definition. Star Trek: The Next Generation is coming to Blu-ray in 2012, just in time for the show’s 25th anniversary, beginning with a sampler disc called Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Next Level that will feature several popular episodes. You can check out a trailer for the restoration along with the cover art of the sampler release here below [...]

Fright Night
Blu-ray 3D | Blu-ray | DVD
DIRECTED BY: Craig Gillespie
WRITTEN BY: Marti Noxon
STARRING: Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Imogen Poots, David Tennant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Toni Collette
DreamWorks Pictures
RELEASE DATE: December 13, 2011

By now we should all be familiar with the drill: whether we like it or hate it, Hollywood will and is remaking everything they can get their hands on, and that’s because people pay lots and lots of money to see them. So, knowing that, we might as well at least remain open to the possibility that every now and again a remake will be done properly (the Coen’s True Grit, for example) and in-turn, be worth our time and our money. [...]

Final Destination 5
Blu-ray | DVD
DIRECTED BY: Steven Quale
WRITTEN BY: Eric Heisserer
STARRING: Nicholas D’Agosto, Emma Bell, Miles Fisher, Arlen Escarpeta, David Koechner, Tony Todd, Courtney B. Vance, P.J. Byrne, Ellen Wroe, Jacqueline MacInnes-Wood
Warner Brothers
RELEASE DATE: December 27, 2011

The last time we had a brush with death was in 2010′s The Final Destination. As it turned out, that installment in the horror movie franchise was by far the worst of them all with horrible acting, nonsensical situations, soap opera-level acting, and just an all-around unlikable final product. And that’s coming from someone who very much enjoyed the previous installments in the series for what they are: gruesomely fun guilty pleasures. [...]

There are far worse movies in the world than “Manos”: The Hands of Fate, the only film in the history of cinema made by an El Paso, TX fertilizer kingpin on a budget of $19,000 with a hand-cranked camera and a cast of hippie freaks and suicidal acid heads. But “Manos” remains the popular choice among fans of both Skid Row filmmaking and Mystery Science Theater 3000, the show that brought Hal Warren‘s obscure abortion of a horror flick back into the public eye. You can read my review of the recent DVD release of the MST3K version here [...]

The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is the Pirates of the Caribbean Four-Movie Collection Blu-ray box set for only $76.49 (that’s 55% off the list price of $169.99).

This 15-disc Blu-ray set contains all four Pirates movies starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow:

Curse of the Black Pearl [2 Discs: BD + Digital Copy]
Dead Man’s Chest [2 Discs: Disc BD + Digital Copy]
At World’s End [2 Discs: BD + Digital Copy]
On Stranger Tides [Blu-ray 3D + 2-Disc BD + BD Bonus Disc + DVD + Digital Copy]

In the Pirates of the Caribbean Four-Movie Collection set, the discs — which, along with the movies, include previously released bonus features, as well as an all-new disc of material — are housed in a replica Pirate’s Chest inside a case designed with the franchise’s iconic skull on it. There’s also a collectible map from At World’s End [...]

The Blu-ray box set deal over at Amazon is Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray for only $39.99 (down 50% from the list price of $79.99).

This 5-disc Blu-ray set includes all five Planet Of The Apes movies — Planet Of The Apes (the original 1968 version starring Charlton Heston and those damn dirty apes), Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, Escape From The Planet Of The Apes, Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes, and Battle For The Planet Of The Apes, along with a host of bonus features with new features in high definition and a 200-page hardbound oversized book [...]

The Three Colors Trilogy
Blue, White, Red
DVD | Blu-ray
Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring Julie Delpy, Juliette Binoche, Irene Jacob
The Criterion Collection
Release date: November 15, 2011

Star Wars. Spider-Man. X-Men. When it comes to trilogies, the mind starts off thinking of the biggest of big summer tentpole blockbusters. However, when one must consider what is truly the greatest collection of interconnected narratives that cinema has to offer, this writer thinks the conversation starts and stops with something, a bit more minute.

From the thinking man’s auteur Krzysztof Kieslowski, Blue, White, and Red, better known as the Three Colors Trilogy, is simply the greatest threesome of films ever put to cellouloid. And the newly released Criterion Collection Blu-ray box set of this epic masterpiece is just the type of release a classic like this sucker needs, and deserves [...]

Right now, Amazon is offering a $10 credit with the purchase of Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy on Blu-Ray.

Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy contains all three Jurassic Park movies — Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III — along with tons of bonus features including those new to this release like the six-part documentary Return to Jurassic Park.

Design For Living
DVD | Blu-ray
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Starring Gary Cooper, Frederic March, Miriam Hopkins
The Criterion Collection
Release date: December 6, 2011

Now this is what this writer calls a change of pace.

Just a month following the release of what may be the company’s most important and dense release to date, The Three Colors Trilogy, the geniuses over at The Criterion Collection have come back with their sole new addition for the month of December, and it’s about as far from the meditative triptych of masterful art cinema as a single uproarious comedy could be [...]

The Blu-ray box set deal over at Amazon is the Toy Story Ultimate Toy Box Collection Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Combo Edition for $49.99 (that’s 50% off the list price of $100).

This 10-disc Blu-ray Combo box set contains all three Disney/Pixar animated Toy Story films — Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3 — in collectible packaging. The sert also includes the movies on DVD, as well as digital copies for each, along with tons of bonus features [...]

Doctor Who Series 6
DVD | Blu-Ray
Starring Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston, Stuart Milligan, Suranne Jones, James Corden
Written by Steven Moffat, Stephen Thompson, Neil Gaiman, Matthew Graham, Mark Gatiss, Tom McRae, Toby Whithouse, Gareth Roberts
Directed by Toby Haynes, Jeremy Webb, Richard Clark, Julian Simpson, Peter Hoar, Richard Senor, Nick Hurran, Steve Hughes
BBC
Release Date: November 22, 2011

The sixth season of the new generation of Doctor Who is propelled by showrunner Steven Moffat into a web of timey wimey twists and turns, chock full of revelations and unveiled secrets of key characters: specifically fan favorite River Song. The series begins with a disastrous development for the Doctor, witnessed by his companions — and sets the tone for the rest of the season [...]

When it comes to anticipated home entertainment releases, very few have the hype of Game Of Thrones.

Having become one of the most popular TV shows of the new year, one would expect a DVD and Blu-ray release for Season 1 to be as epic as the subject matter. And those of you who plan on buying this monster will not be disappointed [...]