Top 10 Blu-ray Releases of the Week
By Arlen Schweiger
A gem from Akira Kurosawa along with several Criterion Collection releases mark this week's Blu-ray arrivals.

Valentine’s Day has come and gone—did you watch any of our 15 favorite romance flicks on Blu-ray?—and we’re getting into the winter doldrums. Without a theme for Hollywood studios to latch onto this week, the Blu-ray releases are a tad weak.

However, the true movie buff will be delighted, because in has stepped the Criterion Collection to offer a handful of releases while the big boys take a break.

With titles like Hunger and Revanche, we’re not saying these will be name films that you’re going to run out and buy ... but Criterion has become well known for its phenomenal restoration process of audio and video and great packaging to accompany its Blu-ray releases.



Ran
Legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan, influenced by betrayal, greed and the thirst for power.

Dirty Harry Collection
Clint Eastwood’s famed ‘Dirty Harry’ Callahan in this box set featuring ‘Dirty Harry’, ‘Magnum Force’, ‘The Enforcer’, ‘Sudden Impact’ and ‘The Dead Pool’.

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