I was going to post my review of this earlier, but I had to watch it twice before I felt I could really describe how nice of a set this is. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition is of course the first time this film has been released in HD, and they did a surprisingly great job with the transfer. Considering that this film came out in 1937, I assumed the Blu-ray would look good but still show a lot of imperfections, just due to how old the masters are. I was wrong.

My wife and I fired this up one night and were blown away by how clear the movie is. By itself, the film is presented in the Fullscreen aspect ration that it was animated in, because Disney didn’t start animating in Widescreen until the 50s. However, they’ve added a cool feature called DisneyView where they fill the remaining sections of the frame with paintings by Toby Bluth. They fit in nicely with the style of the movie and aren’t distracting, so you won’t have to worry about burning in black bars on your expensive Plasma HDTV. This was first used on the Pinnochio Blu-ray that came out last spring.

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Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory has always been one of my favorite movies. I’ve seen it a million times, can quote a good portion of it, and have always loved the music. Oddly enough, I’ve never owned it until now. It was always a movie I caught whenever it was on TV, rented it on weekends, or watched it at my in-laws’ house. That’s not a bad thing though, because the new Blu-ray Book is by far the definitive version of the film to date.

Ever since I made the transition to Blu-ray about a year ago, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory has been a movie I’ve wanted in high definition very bad. I knew the colors and production design would pop off the screen, and I when I popped it in this week, I wasn’t disappointed.

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One word review: Awesome. For the long review, keep reading.

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies is the latest DVD/Blu-ray in the DC Universe animated line, and it is bar far the best they have put out yet (in my opinion, but I haven’t seen Wonder Woman yet). Before I get too deep in the review, let me give you some perspective. I was a very mild comic fan growing up, mainly just reading Wizard magazine and the occasional comic. I had graphic novels and read most of the classics, but was/am in no way a comic authority. Although I’ve always loved the art of Ed McGuinness, I never got around to reading Public Enemies.

That being said, I freaking loved this movie. Warner Bros. was kind enough to send me a copy of the movie on Blu-ray to review, so that’s what I’ll be talking about, but if you’re still into regular DVDs, everything but the HD and a couple extra Justice League episodes will be the same for you.

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In case you haven’t noticed, this year is the 25th Anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Mirage is celebrating by releasing as much stuff for my fellow fanboys and I to buy as possible. We’ve seen the re-release of the classic TMNT action figures, video games, and more, and now we get new box sets of all the TMNT movies.

Warner Bros. sent me a copy of the standard DVD set, which you can pick up here, and that is what I will be reviewing, but remember, the films are also now available in high definition for the first time with the TMNT Blu-ray box set. Our good friend The Retroist reviewed that set a few days ago.

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Awesome announcement today from Warner Brothers. All three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies have been announced for Blu-ray (and standard DVD) release this August! I’m a big blu-ray fan so I was hoping they would at least release the first film in time for the Ninja Turtles’ 25th anniversary, and they aren’t disappointing. Come on August.

[Blu-ray.com via Waner Bros]

Again, the lack of posting here is because I’m working on a handful of exciting announcements that affect this site, and shoudl be annoucned by next week.  Look for tons of TMNT coverage this year to celebrate the 25th Anniversary.