The specific titles include John Schlesinger’s Day of the Locust (1974) on Blu-ray (UK only) and Kazuhiko Yamaguchi’s Wandering Ginza Butterfly Collection (1972) on Blu-ray (US, UK, Canada) on 4/6-7, John Woo’s The Killer (1989) on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray (UK only) on 4/20, The Pang Brothers’ The Eye (2002) on 4K Ultra HD (US, UK, Canada) on 4/21, and Joe Dante’s Innerspace (1987) on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray (US, UK, Canada) and Paul W.S. Anderson’s Solider (1998) on 4K Ultra HD (US, UK, Canada) both on 4/28.
It’s worth nothing that both Innerspace and Soldier are part of the slate of deep catalog titles recently licensed from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment, which is great to see.
You can read more on all of these here, and here’s a look at the cover art…
By the way, the US titles are all available for pre-order on Amazon, and I’ve included the links on each of the titles (click on those above).
Also today, Kino Lorber Studio Classics has set Craig R. Baxley’s Stone Cold (1991) for 4K Ultra HD release on 4/21.
Deaf Crocodile has set Bill Plympton’s Hair High (2004) for release on Blu-ray on 4/21, along with Marcell Jankovics’ Song of the Miraculous Hind (2002).
And Dark Sky Films has set the John Alan Schwartz’s notorious Faces of Death (1978) for Blu-ray release on 3/5. If you know, you know (and most of you Gen X cinephiles probably know).
Finally today, we have some very sad news to report: The great Canadian American actress Catherine O’Hara has died. A veteran of the legendary SCTV, O’Hara’s tremendous body of work includes such film classics as After Hours (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), and Home Alone (1990), multiple Christopher Guest films including Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006), and voice work in such animated titles as The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Frankenweenie (2012), and Elemental (2023). She also appeared on TV series including Six Feet Under, The Studio, and The Last of Us. But it's certainly for her work on the wonderful Schitt’s Creek (2015-2020) that fans probably know her best, especially younger viewers. O’Hara was, by all accounts, one of the kindest and most liked people in the entertainment industry. She passed away today—far too soon—after a brief illness. She was just 71. And she will be dearly missed. You can read more here.
That’s all for this week. See you back here on Monday.
Stay tuned…
- Bill Hunt
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