Paramount is good about releasing classics on Blu-ray from time to time, and their latest batch offers one of the greatest films of all time, and an entertaining minor work by a master director. Chinatown is Roman Polanski’s masterpiece. It stars Jack Nicholson as a private dick assigned to find out about an affair that uncovers statewide corruption in California. Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief offers Cary Grant and Grace Kelly on the Riviera in beautiful Vista-vision. Both are definitely worth checking out on Blu-ray (if not purchased immediately) and our reviews of both follow after the jump.

While you’re busy counting the hours until your family leaves, be thankful that they’re not really that bad in actuality. Sure they take up a lot of space, bring ungodly smells into your house and embarrass you at every possible turn. Things could be worse. The history of cinema is full of some of the most horrid, base, and downright nasty families ever dreamed up. These families will shoot you in the back as soon as serve you a piece of pecan pie. Hit the jump and consider yourself lucky that you’re not a member of Collider’s Top 5 Worst Movie Families. If you missed any of our previous “Thankgiving Top 5″ articles, click here.

I love the noir genre.  It’s probably my favorite just ahead of westerns.  I love the stark cinematography, the world-weary cynicism and lost causes of the protagonists, and the pulpy accessibility of the stories with the thoughtful subtext simmering underneath.   While we’re bound to get one or two westerns a year, film noir—at least in its classic sense—seems to have disappeared.  I’ve always been puzzled by its absence because great noir doesn’t just transport us to another time, but another world.  Rockstar and Team Bondi’s L.A. Noire not only gives a modern audience a return to the genre, but actually sets them inside the world and lets them traverse a stunning recreation of 1940s Los Angeles.  However, while the aesthetic and the individual crimes scream “noir”, your rigid protagonist Cole Phelps lacks complexity, and the game leaves you wondering why another character wasn’t the lead instead.  The game also employs a questionable interrogation mode, which tries to make use of groundbreaking facial capture technology, but remains stuck in roundabout logic and a little too much guesswork.  But no game is going to let you live noir like L.A. Noire and it’s a case worth working.

We’ve previously highlighted the incredible posters David O’Daniel does for the Castro Theater in San Francisco.  O’Daniel has now released a new set of posters and they’re just as impressive.  His new set includes The Dark Knight, Chinatown, Se7en, Breakfast at Tiffanys, La Boheme, The Princess Bride, The Lady Vanishes, and The 39 Steps.  All of the posters are limited editions, measure 18″ x 24″, and cost $35 (plus $9 shipping domestic or $15 international).  Note that there is only one shipping charge no matter how many posters you buy.

Hit the jump to check out all of these fantastic posters.

For a few years now, “Last Exit to Nowhere” has had the market cornered in hardcore movie-geek shirts.  Oh, there are plenty of stores that will provide you with a shirt with the name of your favorite movie on it, but that’s for other people.  We die-hards want shirts that identify us and each other as those in the know and able to recognize the in-joke the moment we see it.  That’s why “Last Exit” offers up such great shirts like “WGON TV” (Dawn of the Dead), “NWA” (Hot Fuzz), or “Hotel Earle” (Barton Fink) just to name a few.

But now another site (also based in the UK) is offering up some stiff competition.  “Wake Up…Time to Die” has a great selection of shirts in the same vein so if you want folks to know about “J.J. Gittes & Associates” or that you too are now in possession of a machine-gun (have fun wearing that one through airport security), this is the place to start shopping.

Hit the jump to take a look at just a few of the great shirts you’re going to want to add to your closet as soon as you have a steady paycheck again.