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Raymond Chandler's most famous literary creation – private investigator Philip Marlowe – is reborn as a moral man adrift in a self-obsessed world he doesn't fit into ('70s Los Angeles) in Robert Altman's revisionist take on the genre. It's a wonderful film – one of the director's best – and this BD certainly does it proud. Arrow's AVC 2.35:1 1080p encode excels at replicating the film's desaturated visuals, while the LPCM mono track is as good as you could hope for. The disc also packs in plenty of great extras, including an isolated score, interviews and a 1996 TV documentary about Altman's career.

Since forming in 1981, genre icons Metallica have never shied away from innovation. Yet even devoted fans probably didn't expect them to release a 3D concert movie that mixes show footage with a side-story concerning a young stagehand called Trip (Dane DeHaan), street riots and the destruction of the lighting/sound rig by mysterious forces...

Akira Kurosawa's 1954 epic is long overdue a quality Blu-ray release in the UK. Sadly, this BFI release does little to change matters. Restored by Toho in Japan (with additional work done in the UK to remove further damage), it appears that somewhere along the way someone went a little overboard with the digital noise reduction tools – eliminating much of the native film grain and fine detail. Couple that with the relative lack of extras (a trailer and interview) and connoisseurs are far better off importing Criterion's Region A-locked US set with its more authentic transfer and copious goodies.

Mixing together epic action spectacle and romantic melodrama to tell a story of two World War I fighter pilots in love with the same woman, William Wellman's Wings is in many ways the silent film equivalent of Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor. The difference is that Wellman's film gives us actual characters to root for alongside the astonishing eye-candy – no wonder that it went on to scoop the first ever Academy Award for Best Picture.