Blu-ray Alert: May Highlights

A BBC re-make of a sci-fi classic that TV2 screened in SD will bow next month on Blu-ray.

The Day of the Triffids miniseries will be released on May 5, along with Blu-ray editions of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Amelia, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Nine, Old Dogs, the first two Garfield movies and a slew of  back catalogue must-haves: a collector’s edition of Stardust, Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Atonement, Pride & Prejudice and Apollo 13.

Sherlock Holmes, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and Spread are due a week later, and the animated 9 and Devil May Cry Collection on May 13.

Scheduled for May 19 are season two of True Blood, The Fourth Kind, The Haunting in Connecticut, Astroboy, Tombstone and Armageddon, with two more classics slated for the next day, Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Emperor, along with Dorian Gray, Fifty Dead Men Walking and It’s Complicated.