Blu-Ray Releases for 23rd September 2008

There are quite a few high profile releases this week, but without a doubt the most eagerly awaited is Sex and the City. Yeah right… It is of course The Godfather Collection which comes to BD in an all new “Coppola Restoration” which offers a hugely improved transfer of all three movies in the series. The set of four discs which is fairly reasonably priced at Amazon at $61.95 offers a raft of extras on the fourth disc including many new features in HD plus all of the extras from the previous dvd releases. This set is not out until October 27th in the UK so it’s definitely worth importing as this release is region-free.

As for the other regions this week, the UK has nothing much of note on new release. France always seems to have a couple of exclusives and this week they get The Good Shepherd and my tip for this week – La Haine. I cannot reccomend this hard-hitting film highly enough and it comes with a killer soundtrack, so check it out.

Here are this week’s US releases in full, courtesy as always of High Def Digest.

• Animalia: Welcome to the Kingdom (Porchlight)
• Blow (New Line)
• Cirque du Soleil: Corteo (Sony)
• Deception (Fox)
• The Godfather Collection (Paramount)
• Halford: Live Insurrection – Remastered (Metal God)
• L.A. Confidential (Warner)
• Leatherheads (Universal)
• Madagascar (DreamWorks)
• Re-Cycle (Image)
• Run Fatboy Run (Universal)
• Sex and the City (New Line)
• Shrek the Third (Paramount)