With physical disc sales dwindling and studios spending less and less on them, it might be easy for a movie collector to feel a little glum. And cash grabs like The Godfather Blu-ray Collection: Omerta Edition and Buffy the Vampire Slayer 25th Anniversary Edition—which add nothing at all from previous releases—might be making that same movie collector a little angry.

Well, cheer up, because we’ve cooked up a list of noteworthy 4K Blu-ray and standard Blu-ray releases for 2017 that’ll have you making unboxing videos like it’s 2007 all over again. (Please don’t.)

And remember, you’re not alone: your movie friend Christopher Nolan still prefers Blu-ray over Netflix.

Coffee Table Box Sets

4K Box Sets for Geeks

Superhero Movies Old & New

Spielberg vs. Nolan in 4K: Fight!

For the Old Timers

For the Kiddos

2017 Holiday Gift Guide: Blu-ray Gifts for Movie and TV Fans

The summer movie season is upon us, providing a great excuse to sit in an air conditioned room and avoid that brutal summer sun. However, even the best summer movie only lasts a couple of hours, three tops.

When you’re looking for another excuse to stay indoors for a few hours, why not consider our list of the best LEGO sets for summer movies? You can stay inside the air conditioned comfort of your home while completing these LEGO sets, all while reliving the fun of the summer movie blockbuster you just saw. For instance, the Silent Mary (as seen above) from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

These LEGO sets work as collectibles that’ll appeal to fans of different super heroes and different movie subjects several years into the future. You also can have fun now putting them together, following the directions inside the box … or ignore the directions and follow your own creative and artistic aim. Sure, the box says ages 7-14, but you don’t have to have kids to enjoy these fun LEGO sets.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 opened in April in Japan and opened May 5 in the United States to a blockbuster start, having grossed more than $650 million by mid-May. If you’ve seen the movie, we have a couple of LEGO sets that you’re going to enjoy. (And if you haven’t seen the movie, what are you waiting for? Groot isn’t going to get any cuter, after all.)

The LEGO Guardians of the Galaxy Ayesha’s Revenge has been one of the top selling LEGO toys on Amazon in May. It has some fun options, including Yondu, Star-Lord, Ayesha, and Groot figures, along with a laser drill spaceship.

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The 460-piece LEGO Guardians of the Galaxy The Milano vs. The Abilisk kit is an impressive one. The Milano cockpit has room for four minifigures along with a Groot figure. The kit includes figures for Groot, Star-Lord, Gamora, Nebula, and Drax.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

The fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Dead Men Tell No Tales, will appear in U.S. theaters May 26, once again featuring Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow. Captain Sparrow battles a Spanish Navy ghost crew while attempting to find the Trident of Poseidon.

A cool new set of LEGO toys for the Dead Men Tell No Tales movie are the BrickHeadz toys for Captain Sparrow and Captain Armando Salazar. You can follow the directions to create individual characters or combine the two sets for a crazy character mashup.

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Another option for a more traditional LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean set is The Mill, which features 365 pieces, along with a Jack Sparrow figure and a Dead Man’s Chest.

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Wonder Woman

The Wonder Woman movie, set for a June 2 release in the United States, will explore the origins of Wonder Woman, as she leaves Themyscira to try to bring an early end to World War I.

The LEGO Super Heroes DC Wonder Woman Warrior Battle set generated quite a bit of buzz in late March, as its release gave fans a look at the villain Ares for the Wonder Woman movie. No information had been released about Ares up to that point. Beyond Wonder Woman, Steve Trevor, and Ares figures, this LEGO set features a biplane too.

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Another option at a lower price point for a Wonder Woman LEGO set is the Girls Wonder Woman Dorm, which features a mini Wonder Woman figure, a Golden Lasso, and an invisible bike.

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Disney’s Cars 3

The Disney Cars animated franchise will release its third movie on June 16 in the United States. It’s especially popular with young boys … and maybe a few adult boys too. All of the favorite characters are back for Cars 3, including Mater, Sally Carrera, and Lightning McQueen, who must recover from a serious crash in this movie to try to regain his racing abilities.

We’re waiting for specific Cars 3 LEGO sets to appear, but the most comprehensive LEGO set available for the Cars franchise currently is the Ultimate Race Set. It has a big price tag, but it includes two car launchers as well as Lightning McQueen, Max Schnell, and Raoul CaRoule cars.

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Plenty of the Cars LEGO sets are LEGO Juniors, aimed at ages 4-7. One of the best is the Thunder Hollow Crazy 8 Race kit, which includes Lightning McQueen and Cruz Ramirez cars, along with a Miss Fritter road sign and movable barriers and floodlights.

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Transformers: The Last Knight

The latest film in the Transformers franchise — Transformers: The Last Knight — opens June 21 in the United States. It will feature the beginning of a war between the human race and the Transformers. Although LEGO toys aren’t offered for the Transformers franchise, you can purchase Kre-O toys, which are plastic brick toys similar to LEGOs. Kre-Os are manufactured in South Korea, and Hasbro markets these toys.

If you’re looking for a good introductory Transformers Kre-O toy, the Kre-O Transformers Galvatron Factory Battle playset is a nice option. It offers 388 pieces and allows for creation of a few different robots, including Bumblebee and Optimus Prime.

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The 560-piece Kre-O Transformers Destruction Site Devastator Set provides you with plenty of flexibility, as you can create one large robot, any of four vehicles, or any of four average sized robots.

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Spider-Man: Homecoming

Spider-Man: Homecoming, which will have a July 7 release in the United States, introduces us to Peter Parker’s attempts to balance his life as a high school student, while also fighting crime as Spider-Man. We haven’t seen any new LEGO sets for Homecoming yet, but there are still plenty of cool sets featuring the webslinger.

The LEGO Spider-Man Web Warriors Ultimate Bridge Building Kit is a detailed LEGO set featuring Spider-Man’s web prison inside a bridge with a movable roadway and a trap door. This set has more than 1,000 pieces.

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If you’re looking for a LEGO set for a younger child, the LEGO Juniors Spider-Man Hideout includes Spider-Man’s helicopter and Green Goblin’s air glider.

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12 Awesome LEGO Sets for 2017 Summer Movies

For decades, perhaps even centuries, comic-book fans have gathered around dimly-lit basements to discuss the unanswerable questions. For them, the standard ones like “What is the sound of one-hand clapping,” or “If a tree falls in the forest…” are too easy. They seek only the questions that really matter, the ones that poke at the deep shadowy crevices of the human experience. Questions like the one posed in the new Ben Affleck movie…

Who would win in a fight between Batman and Superman?

(Although the bigger question is, what happened to the S in “vs.”?)

Luckily, this question does have an answer. It’s Batman. Batman would win. Batman has won. They’ve fought each other about a dozen times in the comics, and Batman usually wins. Brains over braun, kids. Hell, even Batman’s feeble, elderly butler Alfred has kicked Superman’s sorry ass.

If you disagree, we can take this to the comments section.

Still, even I’ll admit, there’s enough ambiguity in the question to support an entire movie and possibly birth to a new franchise or two. Hence this year’s big Spring blockbuster, Batman v Superman.

With a release date of March 20*, Batman v Superman is generating a lot of buzz, though not enough to get DC executives to stop biting their nails. Still, in the dry season between Deadpool and Captain America: Civil War, we have to watch something.

So, we present your primer for the 4th-most-anticipated comic book movie of the first half of 2016. Here’s everything you need to know:

Superman

Did you see how many people Superman killed at the end of his last movie, Man of Steel? Yeah, me neither, but according to DC fans, it was a lot. Enough, even, to spark a Man of Steel controversy that fuels the beginning of Batman v Superman.

Man of Steel‘s final epic battle between Superman and General Zod took place in downtown Metropolis. What happened was exactly what you’d expect would happen when two near-omnipotent aliens battle unrestrained in a crowded, collateral-filled metropolis.

So here’s the important thing you gotta understand about Superman in general, but particularly before the new movie: The man of steel has a heart of gold. Superman’s defining characteristic isn’t so much his great powers, it’s his great compassion. Like a boy scout with an AK-47, Superman just wants to help people and uses everything in his power to do so.

This is relevant because, as fan theories suggest, the reason Batman v Superman isn’t a one-punch, 15-second movie is because Superman pulls his punches with Batman. He doesn’t want to hurt him.

So, going into Batman v Superman, we have to consider both the ending of Man of Steel, and Superman’s superhuman power of the feels. We’ll probably see a lot of guilt, and maybe some internal conflict over whether or not to literally punch Batman’s nuts off.

Batman

You don’t know who Batman is?

…

Get out.

Wonder Woman

Even if you haven’t been following the last ten years of DC vs. Marvel movie wars, the subtitle “Dawn of Justice” is condescendingly blunt enough — this movie sets up the Justice League.

The Justice League is DC’s version of Marvel’s Avengers. In the comics, the Justice League came first, and Avengers was Marvel blatantly and shamelessly copying someone else’s idea to make a few extra bucks off stupid children. Ironically, today’s stupid children will grow up thinking the opposite, thanks to the movies.

You can’t have a Justice League with just Superman and Batman, and no one wants Green Lantern to return. So, DC is bringing in their other A-team member, who they wisely waited to pull out until the D-point in the game.

Wonder Woman is a respectable feminist icon, no less a equal to great men like Batman and Superman, but with a vagina. In Wonder Woman comics, the hapless man gets himself into trouble and she bursts in to save the day (or, if it’s a hapless woman, she empowers them to save themselves).

Wonder Woman is an Amazon, which is a race of women warriors the Greek goddesses created from the souls of all women ever murdered by men… so yeah.

Aside from superhuman strength and tactical prowess, Wonder Woman’s also got some super-cute accessories! Her Aegis of Athena (bulletproof bracelets) can shield her from most blows, while her Lasso of Truth forces those ensnared to tell the truth.

It’ll be interesting to see how Batman v Superman introduces her into the DC universe. But it’ll be even more interesting to see whether or not DC turns its back on 50 years of female empowerment to turn her into a one-dimensional “hot, bad-ass chick.”

Aquaman

Aquaman’s in this movie! If you haven’t seen the film pictures, take a moment to laugh at that.

The thing you to understand about Aquaman is that he’s a huge joke. At least to fans. Again, if you disagree, let’s take it up in the comments.

So, here’s a guy who’s superpower is telepathically talking to fish, and he’s hanging out with Greek goddesses, aliens that shoot lasers from their eyes, and the world’s greatest detective who dresses in all black. Let’s put it this way: when divvying up chores at the Hall of Justice, Aquaman somehow always gets “clean the bathroom.”

But… and this is a big but… in Batman v Superman, Aquaman looks f-ing badass! I never thought I’d say that. Played by Khal Drago, the character has finally been given the makeover he’s needed his entire life. My younger self would be ashamed to know that Aquaman the part I’m looking forward to most.

Lex Luthor

Smart. Rich. Evil. He’s often referred to as the smartest human in the DC universe. There’s not much about Lex Luthor that a lifetime of cop dramas hasn’t already taught you. Rich businessmen like to kill for money, but they need to be smart about it. Multiply that by 1000, understand that “killing” means destroying entire cities, and you have Lex Luthor.

As for his involvement in Batman v Superman, you know as much as I do from the previews. He’s probably behind pitting Batman and Superman against each other for his own selfish, money-related motives.

Doomsday

If you don’t know who Doomsday is, it means I’m old. In the 90s, Doomsday was a big deal when he first appeared because he killed Superman!! Everyone was like, “You can’t kill Superman. No one can.” But then this alien with his weird piercings came and was like, “Oh yeah? I bet I could probably kill him.”

In the comics, Doomsday is a Kryptonian monster who was killed, reborn, and killed again over and over for thousands of years, each time becoming stronger. When you were a little kid and you imagined the worst, scariest monster of all time, that monster you imagined would have pooped their pants at the sight of Doomsday.

And he freaking killed Superman. Let that sink in.

The Normals Involved in Batman v Superman

Director – Zack Snyder.  Snyder made one really successful comic book movie, 300, that undermined the critically-acclaimed comic at every turn, and was homoerotic enough to attract the girlfriends of guys who like to punch things. Snyder continued riding that horse for years, and successfully managed to destroy even more critically-acclaimed comics like Watchmen. But, his movies keep the money flowing in, so Warner Bros. hires him every time they need to ruin a critically-acclaimed comic.

Co-writer – David S. Goyer. Goyer astonished comic fans with his artful scripts for Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, but then pissed us all off by making sexist comments about She-Hulk and calling comic fans all virgins. Way to bite the hand the feeds, Goyer.

Co-writer – Chris Terrio. Not much is known about Terrio, but his resume includes Argo and an adaptation Shakespeare’s Richard II, so there’s hope.

* March 20 to commemorate the 1,343rd anniversary of the day Emperor Tenmu assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne in Japan, obviously.

Everything You Need to Know about Batman v Superman

It is truly the golden age of comic book cinema. Since 2000, nearly 50 major motion pictures have been based on superhero characters, including some very highly praised blockbusters like Spider-Man (2002), The Dark Knight (2008), Iron Man (2008), The Avengers (2012) and some less than well-received adaptations like Catwoman (2004), Punisher: War Zone (2008), The Spirit (2008) and Jonah Hex (2010).

But the pantheon of comic book superheroes is nearly as limitless as the stars, and as comic book movies mature into a second decade of computer-generated dominance at the cineplex, as-yet-untapped characters will need to step in to satisfy the audience’s hunger for more adaptations.

It’s become something of a parlor game in comic book and movie circles to speculate which superhero will get green-lit for their own big-budget treatment on the silver screen.

Here’s our list of 12 comic book superheroes (plus one bonus superhero) that we think deserve to be in the next big comic book movie. While some of these characters are household names and some are known only to comic book fans, they would all make for great movies.

#12 Alpha Flight

A movie version of Alpha Flight would delight the true comic book diehards. Essentially the Canadian version of The Avengers, Alpha Flight features a cool collection of superheroes, particularly the aptly named Puck and Sasquatch.

#11 Concrete

Back in the 1990s, Bill Murray was attached to star as this unusual Dark Horse superhero. Today’s CG effects would certainly do this award-winning character justice.

#10 Doctor Strange

The supernatural Doctor Strange would seem to be a great fit for today’s effects-laden summer blockbusters even if he’s not a well-known name beyond comic fans. Doc Strange is rumored to launch as a standalone movie as early as 2015.

#9 Luke Cage

Also known as Power Man, Luke Cage has frequently been targeted for cinematic adaption for a decade. This product of the 1970s has a raw, everyman quality distinguishing him from other superhero characters, which could give a movie version more depth and human interest.

#8 X-Factor

While the name of the movie may need to be changed to avoid confusion with the TV show, this spin-off of the X-Men seems like a natural extension of the ever-growing X-Men movie universe (seven in all if you include 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past).

#7 Nightwing

Nightwing is sometimes Robin and sometimes not, but he seamlessly inhabits both Superman and Batman’s worlds and could be a vehicle to keep those iconic characters in play. The aesthetic of Nightwing also fits in with Christopher Nolan’s movie world (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, anyone?).

#6 Aquaman (and Namor the Sub-Mariner)

True, DC’s Aquaman (left) is one of the most well-known superheroes to not get a full-fledged movie treatment, but really, that other aquatic superhero dude, Marvel’s Namor the Sub-Mariner (right), is way cooler. Unfortunately, nobody (who doesn’t read comics) knows who the Sub-Mariner is.

#5 Captain Marvel

Part of the problem is there are like 17 different Captain Marvels, which confuses everyone. However, the latest Captain Marvel (formerly Ms. Marvel) sports one of the cooler superhero outfits. That alone deserves some screen time.

#4 The Flash

Since his short-lived series in the 1990s, The Flash hasn’t seen much screen time, but he has a lot of fans, even if all he can do is run really fast. And, yes, he is slightly faster than Superman. So there.

#3 Batman Beyond

Basically Batman in the future. In 2039, an old Bruce Wayne passes on the mantle of Batman to a young kid named Terry McGinnis. A Batman movie with sci-fi elements could be another blockbuster.

#2 Black Panther

Kind of shocking that Black Panther hasn’t gotten his own major motion picture yet, although rumors abound that Marvel is developing it for release as early as 2014.

#1 Wonder Woman

Absolutely, unbelievably shocking that Wonder Woman hasn’t gotten her own major motion picture yet, but then you can probably thank the horrific Catwoman and Elektra for that.

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