Blu-Ray Review Archive: B
Babel
Courtesy of DVD Pacific, Michael Mackenzie has reviewed the HD DVD release of Babel, the third instalment in Alejandro González Iñárritu's loose trilogy of fractured narratives. The film receives an excellent presentation from Paramount.
Babette's Feast (Babettes gæstebud)
This Danish film, winner of the Oscar and BAFTA for Best Foreign-Language Film, comes out on Blu-ray for its twenty-fifth anniversary....
Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call - New Orleans
Can Nicolas Cage make two good films in a row? John reviews the blu-ray of his latest..
Bad Santa
Just in time to deck the boughs, Sony release the antithesis to the festive season. We work out if it's naughty or nice...
Bad Teacher
Bad Santa with a gender twist and a change of profession....
Bait
Sharks in a supermarket!...
Bakumatsu Taiyô-den
Yûzô Kawashima's inventive comedy is highly regarded in its native Japan, but largely overlooked here in the west....
The Ballad of Narayama
Eureka release Shohei Imamura's award winning, unflinching observation of human nature as part of the Masters of Cinema series....
Bambi (Diamond Edition)
Disney's forest-set tale of nature versus man dazzlingly comes to Blu-ray...
Baraka
One of the most visually striking films ever made, shot on Todd-AO 70mm stock, Ron Fricke's travelogue on spirituality benefits from an 8K resolution scan for its Blu-ray presentation. Noel Megahey reviews the UK release from Second Sight.
Baron Blood
Arrow continue their high definition way through Bava's back catalogue. John reviews Baron Blood...
Basic Instinct
Optimum release Paul Verhoeven's erotic thriller onto Blu ray. A tale of two killers and a dance to the death, we decide whether this is modern noir or silly softcore...
Battle Of Wits
Jacob Cheung's epic siege film stars Andy Lau as a mystical strategist. John takes the Metrodome Blu-ray for a spin
Battle Royale
Arrow release a 3 disc edition of the late great Kinji Fukasaku's morality tale......
A Bay of Blood
Arrow unleash Mario Bava's bodycount prototype on BD.......
Beast Stalker
Dante Lam returns to form in this character-driven thriller that pits a tenacious detective, haunted by the accidental shooting of a young girl, against a clinical assassin who has kidnapped the dead girl’s twin sister on the order of an evil gang boss. Currently being distributed in the US by Tai Seng.
Beaufort
Noel Megahey takes a look at Trinity's Blu-ray release of Joseph Cedar's dramatically intense Oscar-nominated account of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
The Bed Sitting Room
Number 1 in your hearts and on the spine, it's the BFI's Flipside release of the Richard Lester-directed "post-bomb" comedy, wherein three years after a sub-three minute war things have gone a bit mad...
Bedevilled
An absorbing combination of drama and horror marks Chul-soo Yang's accomplished debut....
The Belly of an Architect
Peter Greenaway and Blu-ray - a wonderful combination....
Ben-Hur: Ultimate Collector's Edition
The race goes on for Geoff as he reviews Ben-Hur on UK Blu-ray....
Berberian Sound Studio
Toby Jones stars in Peter Strickland's hymn to the art of sound and alienation. John reviews the UK blu-ray......
Lou Reed's Berlin
Noel Megahey updates Gary Couzen's DVD review to look at the specs of the Artificial Eye's Blu-ray release of Julian Schnabel's concert film.
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King
One of the great fantasy serials turned Anime film series finally comes to Blu-ray....
The Beyond
Available in eye-popping HD, John reviews the Arrow blu-ray of Fulci's reviled video nasty......