This Week on DVD and Blu-ray: The Darkest Hour, The Iron Lady, Into the Abyss

It’s another slow week for DVD and Blu-ray junkies as there are barely any new releases that are really worth talking about. The alien invasion flick The Darkest Hour is the only major title in stores and was mostly overshadowed by all the other blockbusters back in December (according to reviews, we didn’t miss much). Elsewhere Meryl Streep won an Oscar for her performance as Margaret Thatcher in the otherwise mediocre The Iron Lady and Werner Herzog explores serial killers on death row in his latest documentary Into the Abyss. As for Blu-ray releases, we have the 60th Anniversary Edition of A Streetcar Named Desire, a newly restored edition of George Melies’ A Trip to the Moon, and Josh Becker’s cult classic Thou Shalt Not Kill… Except starring Sam Raimi. What will you be buying or renting this week? Check out the full list of releases after the jump.



  • Schizopolis

    Saw this movie last night. It wasn’t terrible. Special effects were good, but the deaths were straight out of The Phoenix in X3. The CGI still shots of the disasters looked good. Rachael Taylor still can’t act. That’s it, really lol

    It’s worth a rent.