Top 10 Blu-ray Releases of the Week
By Arlen Schweiger
Bull Durham, Elvis and Charlie's Angels are among the highlights.

A little while back when we picked out 20 Best Sports Movies on Blu-ray, there was a glaring omission that we noted, because it wasn’t scheduled to arrive on Blu-ray until August 3. Well, it’s August 3 today, and now we can breathe a little easier knowing that one of the funniest movies of all-time—sports or non-sports—is out in high-def: Bull Durham.

Before Costner got carried away with doing a combination of sports movies and underwhelming epic films, he starred in Bull Durham. It was perfect for him, Susan Sarandon and pre-big star Tim Robbins. You’d be hard-pressed to find a wittier movie script, and with the transfer to Blu-ray should be as fresh today as it was when it was released in 1988.

Another iconic movie of the 80s, The Breakfast Club, also gets the high-definition treatment this week in its 25th anniversary year. It may look a little dated at this point, but at least you get to hear Simple Minds in uncompressed audio on the soundtrack.

We've rounded up our Top 10 Blu-ray releases of the week.



Bull Durham
Baseball season gets off to a rocky start when the Durham Bulls’ new catcher, “Crash” Davis, punches out the cocky young pitcher, “Nuke” LaLoosh, he’s just been hired to train. Then sexy Annie Savoy informs both men that each season she chooses one player to share her bed - and Nuke and Crash are this year’s “draft picks.”

Road to Perdition
Twelve-year-old Michael Sullivan Jr is curious about what his father does for a living, and one night decides to hide in his car as he goes off to work. It soon transpires that the elder Sullivan is a hitman for the mob, and when young Michael witnesses a killing carried out by the gangster boss’ son Connor, it starts off a chain of events which will mark Michael’s life forever.

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