Mamoru Oshii's The Sky Crawlers is a visually, aurally, and intellectually stimulating anime film that looks and sounds splendid on Blu-ray, but its existential themes of immortality and reincarnation lost in a shallow character explorations.
What price ultimate power? The thrilling and groundbreaking cyberpunk anime from Katsuhiro Otomo's manga asks this question and more and does it in a solid 1080p transfer with a reference 192/24 Japanese 5.1 soundtrack on Blu-ray Disc.
Alan Moore's Watchmen series of graphic novels from the 1980's along with Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns is considered one of the seminal works of comics from that decade, helping to redefine the genre. In these days when the term "graphic novel" is thrown around so often, Watchmen still stands as an example of a work that truly deserves that moniker. Weaving together intricate story lines and multiple subplots, including the comic-within-a-comic Tales of the Black Freighter, Watchmen turned the world of "superheroes" inside out, bringing them down to Earth, and read like a combination beat novel and pulp fiction...