EARTHQUAKE (1974) (Scream Factory Collector's Edition Blu-ray Review)

EARTHQUAKE (1974) 

2-Disc Collector's Edition 

Label: Shout Select 
Region Code A
Rating: PG 
Duration: 122 Minutes (Theatrical), 160 Minutes (TV Cut) Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DTS-HD MA 2.1 with Sensurround Audio, 2.0 with Optional English Subtitles 
Video: (Theatrica)1080p HD Widescreen (2.20:1), (TV Cut) Full Frame (1.33:1) 
Director: Mark Robson 
Cast: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Roundtree, Marjoe Gortner, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Victoria Principal 

Earthquake (1974) is one of my favorite of the string of 70's disaster flicks that were all the rage, big-budget movies featuring huge set pieces, all-star casts and lots of carnage. As a kid I would love to watch these films when they aired on TV, back in the days when a big-budget movie debuting on television was a very big deal, usually bolstered by exclusive TV footage and promotions on the the radio stations. 

The plot of Earthquake (1974) is basically various groups of people trying to survive in the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake that devastates Los Angeles, California. The characters we follow are a former pro-footballer (Charlton Heston, Planet of the Apes) whom is cheating on his possessive wife (Ava Gardner, The Sentinel) with a younger widow (Geneviève Bujold, Obsession). Also on the scene are the father (Lorne Green, Battlestar Galactica) of the footballer's wife, good guy L.A. cop (George Kennedy, Strait-Jacket), barfly (Walter Mathau, Charley Varrick), a creepy National Guardsman (Marjoe Gortner, Food of the Gods) and a daredevil motorcycle stuntmen played by Richard Roundtree (Shaft's Big Score). There's loads more cast seen throughout but these are the people that made an impression on me, there are so many threads and faces in this film that really don't add up to much in the end. 

The real star of the film is the city of L.A. in ruins, the epic set pieces and familiar L.A. sights is disarray makes for a fun watch, with fantastic use of matte paintings and miniatures building and cars collapsing a crashing, with the L.A. damn bursting and flooding parts of the city, it's great 70's spectacle-cinema. 

A lot of the first third of the film is getting to know all the characters, some of it is a bit of a bore but it's all in the service of what bits of character building we get here, with Heston being the main guy more or less, and he's not a great guy, but he has an arc at least. The creepiest person in the whole film is Marjoe Gortner as a store clerk with a penchant for stalking an attractive young woman, and when he soldiers up to save the city as part of the National Guard his darker impulses turn even darker. Richard Roundtree is a cool looking stunt rider in his black leathers streaked with yellow lightning, driving around the city saving kids and generally being helpful. 

Earthquake is a fun flick, the 70's were lousy with these sort of bloated disaster films, and this is still one of my favorites, delivering plenty of action, carnage and melodrama, plus we get a cast of Hollywood stars mixing it up with TV regulars and b-movie notables, what's not to love? 

Audio/Video: Earthquake arrives on 2-disc Collector's Edition from Shout Select with a new 2K scan of the theatrical cut, plus a reconstruction of the TV version with an additional 24-min of broadcast footage. The original aspect ratio for the theatrical version is 2.35:1 widescreen, but due to an issue during mastering is presented here in 2.20:1. A disc replacement program has been initiated by Shout Factory, you can go to www.discshipment.com or email info@discshipment.com for more information about that program. Incorrect framing aside I am happy to report that the image looks good, there's a heavy but natural layer of film grain, colors are solid, and the blacks levels look healthy, plus there doesn't look to be any artificial sweetening having been applied. The TV cut of the film is framed in 1.33:1 fullframe, looking much softer when put against the theatrical cut  with heavier grain, white speckling and grit, but it is still very watchable.  

Audio comes by way of English DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1, DTS-HD MA Stereo 2.0 or DTS-HD MA 2.1 with Sensurround for the theatrical cut or of the disaster classic or English DTS-HD MA Mono 1.0 on the TV version, both with optional English subtitles. The surround track offers up a robust presentation that has some good use of the surrounds, during the earthquake we get a nice low-end rumble, though the dialogue seemed a tad low in the mix, so I actually preferred watching it with the 2.0 and 2.1 Sensurround mixes. The TV cut has a mono presentation that is solid but a bit anemic compared to the stereo and surround mixes. 

Shout Select offering both the theatrical cut of the film plus the longer running TV broadcast version spread out over a pair of Blu-ray discs, in addition to some quality extras. On disc one we have three vintage audio interviews with Charlton Heston, Lorne Greene and Richard Roundtree running about 13-min. We also get several galleries of still images from deleted scenes, poster and lobby cards, behind-the-scenes, matte paintings, and publicity photos. The first disc is buttoned up with a rough looking theatrical trailer for the film, a TV spot and 4-min of vintage radio spots. 

The second disc contains the longer running 160-min TV cut of the film plus some newly produced extras, first up is a 17-min interview with film music historian Jon Burlingame who looks back at the fantastic score from composer John Williams. There's also a 17-min appreciation of the matte paintings created for the film by Universal's Albert Whitlock by cinematographer Bill Taylor, with some cool comparisons to the painting on their own and how they looked composited into the film. There's also an 11-min look at the development of the Sensurround audio system and it's use in the film by noted sound designer Ben Burtt. The second disc is buttoned-up with the option to view the 24-min of TV scenes by themselves in addition to viewing 9-min of additional TV scenes.

The 2-disc release comes housed in a standard Blu-ray keepcase with a sleeve of artwork featuring the original illustrated movie poster, the reverse side features an image from the film. The slipcover that accompanies this release features the same illustrated image as the wrap, and the pair of Blu-ray discs inside feature purple-tinted images from the film.   

Special Features: 
DISC ONE: Theatrical Cut (122 min)
Special Features:
- NEW 2K scan of the interpositive of the theatrical cut (2.35:1)
- Audio Options: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, 2.1 w/Sensurround audio and 2.0
- Original Theatrical Trailer (3 min)
- Original TV Spot (1 min)
- Original Radio Spots (4 min)
- Vintage audio Interview with Charlton Heston (4 min)
- Vintage audio Interview with Greene (5 min) - Vintage audio Interview with Richard Roundtree (4 min)
- Matte Paintings and Miniatures Gallery (3 min)
- Deleted Scenes Gallery ( 1 min) 
- Behind-the-Scenes Gallery (3 min)
- Matte Paintings and Miniatures Gallery (3 min)
- Posters & Lobby Cards Gallery (9 min)
- Production and Publicity Gallery (9 min)

DISC TWO: Television Cut (160 min) 
NEW 2K scan reconstruction of the TV version, featuring over 20 mins of made-for-broadcast footage (presented in 1.33:1)
- NEW Sounds of Disaster: Ben Burtt talks about SENSURROUND (11 min) HD
- NEW Scoring Disaster: The Music of EARTHQUAKE (17 min) HD
- NEW Painting Disaster: The Matte Art of Albert Whitlock (11 min)
- Isolated TV scenes – Play them without watching the TV version of the film (24 min)
- Additional TV scenes #1 (7 min)
- Additional TV Scene #2 (2 min)

Earthquake (1971) is one of the big-budget disaster flicks that delivers plenty of natural disaster action as well as some silly melodrama. It's all fun stuff, delivering lots of entertainment value as only these star-bloated big-budget carnage flicks could, and Shout Select's 2-disc Collector's Edition likewise is stuffed to the gills with nify extras. 

OBSESSION (1976) (Scream Factory Collector's Edition Blu-ray Review)

OBSESSION (1976) 

Label: Scream Factory
Region Code: A
Rating: PG
Duration: 98 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 & 2.0 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.35:1) 
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow
Obsession opens in 1959 New Orleans where wealthy real estate broker Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson, Spider-Man) is a celebrating his tenth anniversary with lovely wife Elizabeth (Genevieve Bujold, Dead Ringers). It's a grand occasion with a large celebration at their home, an event attended by friends, associates and his business longtime partner Robert La Salle (John Lithgow, Blow Out). After the festivities have ended and every one's departed for the evening the family are settling in for the night when the unthinkable happens, his wife and daughter are kidnapped, leaving behind a ransom note demanding $500,000 cash for their safe return. He contacts the authorities who arrange a sting operation which sadly spins wildly out of control, an ensuing car chase results in the fiery deaths of both mother and child.

Fifteen years later Michael is still deeply distraught over the deaths of his beloved family, blaming himself in part for going to the authorities. He regularly visits a grand monument he's erected in their memory on a lucrative parcel of land which has remained undeveloped, to the chagrin of his business partner. Robert convinces Michael to accompany him on a business trip to Florence, Italy where their firm is brokering a real estate deal with a group of wealthy Italians. While there Robert attempts to distract Michael from his mourning with women and wine, but it has little affect on him. We learn that Florence is where Michael met his late wife, years earlier at a historic church. He makes a day trip to that church, there he is quite startled to meet a young woman named Sandy (Bujold) who is the spitting image of his dead wife, it's uncanny. Michael immediately begins courting the young woman, becoming completely obsessed with her, at one point training her to walk like his late wife. If you've seen Hitchcock's Vertigo this will be very familiar territory, De Palma makes no efforts to disguise the film as anything other than a love letter to Hitchcock's body of work, that film in particular. It's a whirlwind romance with the pair falling deeply in love with each other, despite Sandy being young enough to be his daughter. Michael whisks Sandy away back to New Orleans with the intention of marrying her as soon as possible.

Settling into the house Sandy becomes more intimately aware of the circumstances behind the deaths of Michael's late wife and daughter, realizing how truly similar in appearance she is to his wife after viewing a portrait of the woman hanging in the home, and to the startled response of the housekeeper greeting her at the door. At the same time Michael's obsession is becoming worrisome to friends and business partner, they call in his psychiatrist whom it seems Michael have not seen in some time, and the encounter it's deeply unsettling for him, it's pretty obvious that he is lost in a fantasy world. Angered by his partner's meddling he sells his share of the business and severs ties with pretty much everyone, at the same time he is haunted by dreams of Elizabeth and Sandy merging into the same person, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, with his sanity is crumbling in the process. 

At the height of this confusion Sandy is kidnapped and Michael discovers a ransom note demanding $500,000, it seems history is repeating itself. Determined to not to make the same mistakes again Michael does not reach out to the police, leading to a truly twisted finale featuring Michael reliving the events from fifteen years earlier culminating in a series of reveals and betrayals that are disturbing on several different levels.

As the deeply troubled yet sympathetic widow Cliff Robertson sells the character's anguish and mental deterioration well, with Genevieve Bujold also turning in a solid performance, both anchor the films tragic love story with subtle performances. In only his second film John Lithgow is pretty great as the deceitful business partner, though he's clearly too young to play the part convincingly in my opinion, but he's great. 

For a thriller with such a deeply fucked-up finale the film is steeped in a lot of romantic melodrama, at tragic tale of grief and forbidden love, which is immeasurably enhanced by the score from Bernard Hermann (Vertigo), a sweeping, lush score that really stands out. The film has a lyrical lensing, the soft focus cinematography and gorgeous gliding camera movements from cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) really set a tone for the film. I found myself entranced with it, though I would say it does have a slow-burning pace which could throw off certain viewers looking for something more psycho-sexual or feverishly pulpy from De Palma along the lines of Dressed To Kill and Body Double, but stay with it, it's a well-crafted thriller that's evocative of a bygone era with a dizzying twist that won't disappoint thrill seekers. 

Audio/Video: Obsession (1976)was previously issues on region-free Blu-ray from Arrow Video, this new region A locked Blu-ray from Scream Factory looks to be the same transfer to my eyes. Presented in 1080p HD and framed in 2.35:1 widescreen the film's grain is nicely managed, with the soft focus cinematography having a slightly gauzy effect that adds a dreamy quality to the film but doesn't translate into the sharpest looking HD image. However, the fine detail looks good in context, and the colors looks natural, a bit muted, but a transfer that nonetheless is sure to please.

Audio options include English DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0 Mono with optional English subtitles. It's nice to have Bernard Herman's lush score in lossless surround sound, it's a powerfully dramatic presentation, some might say overpowering at times, but in a good way. The 5.1 gives the film some breathing room but I had no issues with the original mono audio either, both are clean and dynamic, with good depth and fidelity.

Scream Factory exceed the Arrow release by including new extras, but also carry-over the 2001 documentary 'Obsession Revisited' doc, featuring interviews with Brian De Palma, writer Paul Schrader, actors Cliff Robertson and Genevieve Bujold, cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, editor Paul Hirsch and producer George Litto. De Palma right off the top tells of the film's origins beginning with screenwriter Schrader and himself seeing Hitchcock's Vertigo and immediately wanting to do something similar, he also speaks about the difference in opinion between the two about the film's ending which led to Schrader disowning the film. 

Onto the new stuff we get a new commentary from Douglas Keesey, author if 'Brian De Palma’s Split-Screen: A Life in Film', plus new interviews with both producer George Litto, and editor Paul Hirsh, both of whom are candid and fun. During his 26-min interview Litto speaks about his career trajectory from musician to agent, to  producer, his collaborations with De Palma, and the making of this film. He speaks about the casting of the film, a few differences in opinion with De Palma, including he wanting John Williams to score the film while De Palma was pushing for Bernard Hermann, and his dislike for the tanning make-up used by Robertson, and how writer Paul Schrader was not a fan of the third act changes made to his script by De Palma. Hirsch speaks for 21-min about his career, going from architecture student to film editor, his experience editing the film, how actor Cliff Robertson would only shoot in profile from one side and how that caused some editing issues, and how composer Bernard Hermann blew up on him over a simple misunderstanding during the final mic of the movie, comparing it to a scene from a Dostoevsky novel. He also says that this film is one of his personal favorites of the eleven he did with De Palma, allowing him to work both Hermann and Zsigmond. He also speaks about how Roberston would play tricks with his co-star Bujold, delaying his lines and walking away from her during close-ups to draw here eyeline, and how the incest angle was softened through some clever editing on his part. 

The disc is buttoned-up with trailers, radio spots and a still gallery of promo images, lobby cards, stills, pressbooks, soundtrack sleeves, and various movie posters. The single-disc release comes housed in a standard Blu-ray keepcase with reversible sleeve of artwork, one side featuring the original poster artwork, plus a new illustration by the WBYK collaborative (Sonny Day & Biddy Maroney), who also did the artwork for the IFC Midnight Blu-ray release of Antibirth. I don't love it, but I wasn't a huge fan of the new Dude Designs illustration that Arrow used on their release either, but that's why we have the original artwork option, the new one here looks more like De Palma's Sisters by way of The Fury in a strange way, not capturing the feel of this film in particular in my opinion. 

For the sake of comparison, what Arrow brought to the table with their release that's missing from this one are two of Brian De Palma short student films; Woton's Wake (1962) and The Responsive Eye (1966). The Arrow edition also include a window boxed slipcase with four reversible artwork options, plus a massive 110-page collector's booklet containing with an appreciation from author Brad Steven's, plus Paul Schrader's original screenplay, originally titled Deja Vu which includes unfilmed sequences, including a completely different and unused third act, plus a foldout reversible poster. 

Special Features:
- NEW audio commentary with author Douglas Keesey (Brian De Palma’s Split-Screen: A Life in Film)
- NEW Producing Obsession – an interview with producer George Litto (26 min) HD 
- NEW Editing Obsession – an interview with editor Paul Hirsh (21 min) HD 
- Obsession Revised – vintage featurette featuring interviews with director Brian De Palma, Cliff Robertson and Genevieve Bujold (38 min) HD 
- Theatrical Trailer (2 min) HD 
- Radio Spots (1 min) HD 
- Still Gallery

Obsession (1976) is not as lurid or deliciously pulpy as either Dressed To Kill or Body Double, but it's a dark melodramatic thriller that's up to it's elbows in Hitchcockian devotion, and it has one heck of a satisfyingly disturbed shocker of an ending. This was still early still in his career, so it isn't quite the Brian De Palma of legend came to know, but the pieces are there and beginning to come to fruition, that's for sure. The new Blu-ray from Scream Factory is fantastic, the A/V is a draw when compared to the Arrow release, but the new extras make this the more desirable of the pair in my opinion, so buy it with condidence.  

DEAD RINGERS (1988) (Scream Factory Blu-ray Review)

DEAD RINGERS (1988) 

2-Disc Collector's Edition 

Label: Scream Factory
Region Code: A
Rating: R
Duration: 115 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 with Optional English SDH Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1) I (1.66:1)
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Barbara Gordon, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske. Jeremy Irons, Shirley Douglas, Stephen Lack

Cronenberg's Dead Ringers (1988) begins with identical twins Elliot and Beverly Mantle as youth walking the neighborhood streets of Toronto, they're having a discussion, each is fascinated by the reproductive process and to that end they approach a young neighbor girl who's sitting on her porch with the proposition of having sex in the name of science, shocked by what they've asked she tells them to kindly fuck off. Years later we catch up with the Mantle twins at medical school where they pioneer new techniques in gynecology and fertility, but their methods are met with skepticism by their professors. After graduating they open a successful clinic in Toronto that specializes in female infertility. We soon discover that the twins have developed a few weird proclivities in the years since they first propositioned that neighborhood girl for scientific-sex. 

Beverly is the more shy and inward of the twins, he's the pure science guy, the researcher. Elliot is the more outgoing, he's the public face of the clinic, the one who schmoozes with the financiers, and usually the one who gets the girl. As twins the brothers have a deep-rooted connection with each other, they are two sides of the same coin, they live in the same apartment, they share everything ...even women. 

Elliot makes a habit of bedding the more attractive women who come to the clinic with fertility issues, but he is shallow and grows weary of the women quickly, to that end he and Beverly switch places, with the shy guy stepping in for Elliot, continuing to have sex with the women, who are none the wiser, despite the fact that the twins are quite different in nature, if not in appearance. 

Enter Hollywood actress Claire Niveau who comes to the clinic in hopes of curing her infertility. The twins are fascinated when they discover that she has a "trifurcated cervix", a rare cervical mutation which prohibits her from ever having a child of her own. The actress is a bit of a weirdo, a dramatic Hollywood actress type, she's dramatic, a pill-popper with and has a healthy sex-drive, jumping into bed with suave Elliot almost immediately. Per the usual he grows tired of her and sends in his reluctant brother Bev to carry-on with her in the bedroom. 

The nicer of the pair begins to fall in love with Claire, to have genuine feelings for her, something he has never experienced before. This distraction causes a divide in the usually inseparable Mantle twins, Elliot becomes increasingly disturbed by his twins infatuation with her, while Bev himself becomes addicted to pills, spiralling into disturbing nosedive of madness, paranoia and dangerous medical delusion. 

Jeremy Irons is a wonderful actor and I think this is his best performance, the nuance he brings to the dual-role is creepy, the twins are almost identical but he infuses each one with tiny details that make them each their own subtly-different character, each has a unique facial expressions, their demeanor and the way they walk, he is full-on committed to the roles. Also figuring into the story is Elliot's assistant, the ginger-haired Cary (Heidi von Palleske), a friend with benefits who flirts with the idea of a threesome with the Mantle twins, adding yet another creepy layer to the proceedings. 

The movie is more reality based than any of Cronenberg's movies up to this point, though it is no less disturbing or weird, in fact I think this might be his weirdest film in my opinion. As poor Beverly succumbs to a cycle of drugs and depression he begins to imagine that Claire is cheating on him, he secludes himself for long periods of time, self-prescribing a maddening array of drugs, imagining that the women who come to the clinic have mutated lady bits that require him to create new and bizarre surgical tool, instruments that look like metallic clawed insect fingers, nightmare stuff. Eventually his delusions derail the clinic when he has a psychotic episode during a fertility procedure, which nearly kills a woman. As Beverly slips away Elliot comes up with an ill-fated plan to load himself up on drugs until the two are in sync once again, with tragic results. 

Cronenberg's cold and clinical style suits the material very well, more so than any of his other movies in my opinion, but Irons brings a depth of emotion to the dual role, and like I said, I think this is his finest performance, aided by some very fine motion-controlled camera work and deft use of a body double. The story is heart-wrenching, the conclusion of this one is one of the most tragic and saddening of them all, I think this one is a hidden Cronenberg classic worth seeking out. 

Audio/Video: Dead Ringers (1988) arrives on 2-disc Blu-ray from Scream Factory with two distinct viewing options, which is appropriate, right? On disc one we have the original theatrical framing in 1.78:1 widescreen, this is probably the same master as used by Warner for their 2005 DVD. Looking perfectly acceptable, but on disc two we have the good stuff, a new 2K scan of the movie done by Scream Factory and framed in the director's preferred aspect ratio of 1.66:1 widescreen leaving some slight black bars on the side of the screen, which is normal cropping for this framing, I think we also lose some slight information at the top and bottom of the screen. I don't mind the re-framing, particularly since it is the director's preferred ratio, but I like that we have both options available on the disc. 

The new 2K transfer looks superior to the theatrical framing to my eyes, skin tones look slightly warmer, grain is better managed, the image is a bit crisper, but not overly so. I was sort of surprised by the lack of depth to the image at times, this is not an eye-popper of an HD image, but it is certainly the best I have seen it look on home video. There were also moments of wobble that I noticed from time to time, not sure if these are inherent to the source or some of weird telecine wobble. 

Both versions of the movie come with choice of DTS-HD MA 2.0 or Surround 5.1 mixes, while I usually prefer the stereo mixes but I do love the surround mix, as noted earlier Cronenberg can be a bit cold and detached filmmaker at times, but Howard Shore's score along with Irons phenomenal performance give this some nice emotional weight. Audio is crisp and clean, well-balanced with some nice depth to the sound field, optional English subtitles are included on both discs.

On disc one we have the option to view the film with the original Jeremy Iron commentary from the 2006 Warner release, or with a new commentary from writer William Beard, author of The Artist As Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg who offers a detailed analysis of the movie in comparison to Cronenberg's body of work. Sadly, despite trying, Scream Factory were unable to license the director's commentary from Criterion, so hang on to that coveted out-of-print DVD (or laserdisc) if you have it. 

Onto the video extras we have four new interviews exclusive to this release, a 19-min interview with Heidi Von Palleske, a 24-min interview with actor/artists Stephen Lack, and a 19-min interview with special effects artist Gordon Smith who goes into some nice detail about how some of the effects were achieved back in the day before digital, including showing off some props not used in the final movie for various reason, he's a character and it's a fun watch. The last of the new interviews is a 13-min one with director of photography Peter Suschitzky who remembers Cronenberg as a tasteful, technical, and visionary collaborator. 

Disc two is zipped up with vintage interviews with Jeremy Irons, director/co-writer David Cronenberg, producer Marc Boyman and co-writer Norman Snider which are carry-overs from the Warner DVD. There are also a cool vintage behind-the-scenes video, and a trailer for the movie which includes footage of the motion-control process used to portray both brothers in the same shot. 

Special Features:
DISC 1 (1.78:1 version)
- NEW Audio Commentary with writer William Beard, author of The Artist As Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg
- Audio Commentary with actor Jeremy Irons
DISC 2
- NEW 2K scan at the director’s preferred aspect ratio (1.66:1)
- NEW Carey’s Story – an interviews with Heidi Von Palleske (19 mins)HD
- NEW Working Artist – an interview with Stephen Lack (24 mins)HD
- NEW Connecting Tissues – an interview with special effects artist Gordon Smith (19 mins)HD
- NEW Double Vision - an interview with director of photography Peter Suschitzky (12 mins)HD
- Vintage interviews with Jeremy Irons, director/co-writer David Cronenberg, producer Marc Boyman and co-writer Norman Snider (17 mins)HD
- Vintage Behind the Scenes Featurette (7 minutes)HD 
- Theatrical Trailer (2 Mins) HD 

I had sort of forgotten what a creepy and fascinating movie Dead Ringers (1988) is, a disturbing and emotionally complex story anchored by Jeremy Irons' tour de force performance in a demanding dual role. This is a weird one - which should be no surprise to lovers of Cronenberg, I do hope that this Blu-ray brings the movie a new audience who may have missed it previously, its been hard to find for a few years now, glad to see it arrive on Blu-ray with a new 2K scan and some cool extras. Highly recommended, now can we please get Crash (1996) on Blu-ray, next?