New to Blu: December 4 – 10

December 3, 2019 0 Comments

Game of Thrones: The Complete Eighth Season

➢ “If you fancy heading back to Westeros to relive the twists and turns, beheadings and back-stabbings, then you’re in luck. Game of Thrones‘ Blu-ray edition* includes a reunion show with the entire cast, which was recorded live in Belfast, hosted by Conan O’Brien. Then there’s a 30-minute featurette with showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss, who talk through the filming of THAT episode, The Long Night aka the Battle of Winterfell. Plus, watch more features with cast interviews called Duty is the Death of Love all about the final episode, The Iron Throne.” — Digital Spy.

* There’s also a 4K-UHD edition that’s exclusive to JB Hi-Fi.

The Expanse: Season 3

➢ “The Expanse is a fairly bleak show, but good intensive colours are to be sporadically found … Black levels are impressively deep, whether in shadowy corners inside ships or in the deep depths of outer space. Noise is an occasional intruder, as is mild banding, but other source or encode issues are few and far between.” — Blu-ray.com.

➢ “Although the show still looks tremendous in 1080p, it’s even better in UHD [on Amazon Prime Video], particularly since this is easily The Expanse’s best looking series visually, looking like it blew most of its budget with its opening episode’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol-style scaling sequence.” — AVForums.

➢ Also new this week on Blu-ray are Impulse: Season 1, Running With the Devil, Mystify: Michael Hutchence, SeaQuest DSV: The Complete Collection (and as separate seasons), a double-bill of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective/When Nature Calls and: