This week’s edition of The Digital Wire has so much Blu-ray and DVD release info coming out of its news-hole only a dam constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers could contain the flood. Soak it all up folks because I’m taking next week off to cover the home video department of Geeks of Doom’s annual Holiday Geek Gift Guide.

Below you’ll find info on several future home video releases complete with technical specs, release dates, and links to pre-order at Amazon. We would greatly appreciate it if you use those links to order because a small percentage of each order helps keep this website running at max power. The cover art for certain titles has yet to be finalized.

Well it has once again come to that time of year when all of us movie geeks go over our list of movies we have seen over the past year and try to make our top ten lists. As I look over my list of movies that I saw in 2013, there have been some good ones (more on that later), along with some I wish I could get my time back (Amour, How I Live Now, and The Great Gatsby just to name a few). According to my list, I have seen 92 new movies in 2013, and by new, I mean anything I have not seen before, for example, I finally got North by Northwest off my list of shame.

Continue reading to see my list.

The nominees were announced this morning for the 2014 Academy Awards, with American Hustle and Gravity leading the pack with 10 Oscar nominations each, including best picture and best director.

The 86th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, which will be held in Los Angeles on March 2, 2014 and broadcast live on ABC, will be hosted by Finding Nemo and upcoming sequel Finding Dory star Ellen DeGeneres, who’s taking on hosting duties for the second time.

You can check out the full list of nominees below now!

Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, stated that “experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” This quote lingered within my thoughts for the majority of the 2013 movie year because there is a remarkable number of films that confirm Huxley’s statement with shocking clarity. During 2013 the majority of characters in cinema experienced a relentless assault of either irrepressible physical violence or emotional turmoil, resulting in each character clinging to their lives, praying that they won’t become defeated. Characters had to either sink or swim. No film provided for them a middle ground that would grant them an easy way out or provide a buoy for them. Characters had to act, and act fast.

In Gravity, becoming disconnected from her partner in the infinite void of space, Dr. Stone had to gain composure quickly or endure an onslaught of debris and isolation. In The Place Beyond the Pines, a cop had to rely on his survival instincts and the ramifications of his decision reverberated throughout generations. In Blue is the Warmest Color, a confused teenage woman, utterly love-sick, discovers the throes and pangs of first love and is left even more confused after the indelible experience. In Dallas Buyers Club, an AIDs victim with a guaranteed death-sentence uses his situation to give hope to thousands of other AIDs victims. And in The Counselor, a man’s experience overwhelms him and he is soon exposed to the most unsavory circumstances that are beyond his control and the most heinous individuals.

Without further hesitance, the best 2013 had to offer.

Given all the hype and marketing going into Alfonso Cuarón‘s Gravity, I was genuinely surprised to see that Mondo didn’t release a poster for the box office smash film near the release date. Well, consider that rectified as the company has put out a full preview of the poster that is due out for release at a random time tomorrow, Tuesday, November 5.

Unlike most Mondo posters that come in two different sets, one regular and the other variant, there will only be one edition of this poster. The poster is priced at $45 and will have an edition of 375. It is sized at 24″x 36″. Hit the jump to see the poster and a small video of how it was made.