Cyber Monday deals, Day of the Dolphin, Light at the Edge of the World & lots more new catalog Blu-rays
All right, we’ve got a bunch of title announcements for you today, including many new catalog titles coming to Blu-ray and DVD.
First, don’t forget that there are lots of great Cyber Monday deals to be had on Amazon (via this link) and elsewhere, so if you’re looking for great deals, they’re out there.
On that note, don’t forget that our new Digital Bits T-Shirts are available on sale over at our store on TeePublic (you’ll find that here) starting at just $13. Thanks for supporting us by buying our products!
Now then... Kino Lorber Studio Classics has just set Allan Arkush’s Heartbeeps (1981), Jeremy Kagan’s The Sting II (1983), Rudy DeLuca’s Transylvania 6-5000 (1985), and Ivan Reitman’s Legal Eagles (1986) for Blu-ray and DVD release on 2/11. [Read on here...]
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Shutter Island 4K
- Cyber Monday Deals
- TeePublic
- The Digital Bits TShirt Store
- The Day of the Dolphin
- The Light at the Edge of the World
- Heartbeeps
- The Sting II
- Legal Eagles
- Grand Tour: Disaster in Time
- Arrow Video
- Brain Damage
- The Knight of Shadows
- The Warner Archive Collection
Shutter Island 4K announced, plus Cotton Club Encore on BD (and 4K Digital only)
All right, folks... we’ve got some big news to report today. But first...
Our own Tim Salmons has turned in a review of Arrow Video’s awesome new RoboCop: Limited Edition Blu-ray here at The Bits. The 2-disc set comes loaded with cool extras and it looks like the company has knocked the Paul Verhoeven classic out of the part on disc. So here’s the review and enjoy!
Also, don’t forget... there are all kinds of Amazon Countdown to Black Friday Week deals going on this week, so if you’re doing any kind of shopping from Amazon for almost literally anything this week, we’d appreciate it if you’d click through one of our affiliate links (like this one) first. And thank you! [Read on here...]
New Blu-ray/Ultra HD reviews, plus Pan’s Labyrinth 4K official & Arrow’s new RoboCop: Limited Edition BD
We’ve got more new disc reviews for you today, including...
My thoughts on Marvel’s new Thor and Thor: The Dark World on 4K Ultra HD.
My thoughts on the Disney Movie Club’s exclusive new Blu-ray release of The Black Hole (1979).
Tim’s take on Second Sight Film’s new all-region Blu-ray release of Disney’s Flight of the Navigator (1986).
And Dennis’ thoughts on Universal’s new Blu-ray release of Tate Taylor’s Ma.
Don’t forget that Tim also posted his thoughts on Warner’s Scooby-Doo: Where Are You? – The Complete Series Blu-ray box set on Monday as well. More reviews are in the works. [Read on here...]
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Thor 4K review
- Thor: The Dark World 4K review
- The Black Hole BD review
- Disney Movie Club
- Flight of the Navigator: Limited Edition BD review
- Tim Salmons
- Ma BD review
- Dennis Seuling
- ScoobyDoo Where Are You: The Complete Series BD review
- Pan's Labyrinth 4K
- Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy 4K
- Hot Fuzz 4K
- Shaun of the Dead 4K
- The World's End 4K
- Edgar Wright
- Guillermo del Toro
- RoboCop: Limited Edition
- Arrow Video
- DiabolikDVD
Scooby-Doo: Where Are You? & more new Blu-ray reviews
We certainly hope you’re all enjoying the long Labor Day weekend here in the States. And Happy Monday for the rest of you!
Given the holiday, we’re taking a much needed break today. But we do have a couple of new Blu-ray reviews for you to enjoy...
Tim has just turned in his in-depth thoughts on the long-awaited Scooby-Doo: Where Are You? Complete Series Blu-ray set from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. The package streets tomorrow, and it sounds like it’s pretty good. You can read that review here.
Also, Tim has posted his thoughts on Gary Sherman’s Vice Squad (1982) from Scream Factory, as well as the Akio Jissôji: The Buddhist Trilogy box set from Arrow Academy, both on Blu-ray.
And Dennis rounds things out with his thoughts on A Dog’s Journey on Blu-ray from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
So enjoy those and we’ll be back tomorrow with our regular news update and more. Stay tuned!
-Bill Hunt
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Apollo 11 4K is coming to the UK (and probably to the States too, eventually), plus Wizard of Oz 4K
We’ve got a little bit of news for you today, as well as some new Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD reviews...
First, I’ve just posted a review of Jon Favreau’s original Iron Man in 4K Ultra HD, from Marvel (distributed by Paramount and now Disney). For you guys, I bit the bullet and picked up a copy myself. The new Atmos mix is pretty great, but the 4K image quality is a bit disappointing. Click here for the details. The title streets today.
And Tim has just posted his thoughts on Gordon Hessler’s Scream and Scream Again from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, as well as Riccardo Freda’s Double Face from Arrow Video, both on regular Blu-ray. [Read on here...]
- Hellboy 4K
- Shadow 4K
- Tim Salmons
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Apollo 11 4K
- Dogwoof
- Iron Man 4K review
- Paramount
- Marvel
- Marvel Cinematic Universe 4K
- Walt Disney Studios
- Scream and Scream Again BD review
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Arrow Video
- Double Face BD review
- The Wizard of Oz: 80th Anniversary Edition 4K
- AppleTV
- iTunes
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
Daybreakers 4K, upcoming street dates, a new Stanley Kubrick Collection, Shout!’s Space: 1999 5.1 update & more
All right, we’ve got more interesting news for you today...
But first, Tim Salmons has posted some new Blu-ray reviews here at the site (yesterday and this afternoon), including his own thoughts on Weird Science from Arrow Video and Quartermass and the Pit from Scream Factory, as well as Dennis’ take on Michael Radford’s 1984 from the Criterion Collection.
We’ve also updated the Release Dates & Artwork section with all the latest Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K cover artwork and Amazon.com pre-order links. As always, anytime you order literally anything from Amazon after clicking through one of our links, you’re helping to support our work here at The Bits and we really do appreciate it.
And tomorrow morning, be sure to watch for a new History, Legacy and Showmanship column from Michael Coate here at The Bits, this one honoring the recent 30th anniversary of the James Bond film License to Kill. [Read on here...]
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Scream Factory
- Release Dates & Artwork update
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- Weird Science BD review
- Arrow Video
- Quartermass and the Pit BD review
- 1984 BD review
- Criterion
- Michael Coate
- History Legacy & Showmanship
- License to Kill 30th anniversary
- Daybreakers 4K
- Men in Black International 4K
- SpiderMan: Far From Home 4K
- 007: The Daniel Craig Collection 4K
- Aladdin (2019) 4K
- Toy Story 4 4K
- Scarface 4K
- American Gangster 4K
- Yesterday 4K
- Stanley Kubrick Collection (2019)
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Network Distributing
- Monty Python's Flying Circus: 50th Anniversary BD
- Shout! Factory
- Space: 1999 51 audio statement
Alien 4K pre-orders, one week until Criterion Channel launches, WonderCon panels & RIP Agnès Varda
We’ve got a quick Friday post for you guys today...
First up, we have a new review for you. Tim has checked out Arrow Video’s Blood Hunger: The Films of José Larraz – Limited Edition Blu-ray box set. It includes Whirlpool (1970), Vampyres (1974), and The Coming of Sin (1978). Enjoy!
We’re going to be back on Monday with more reviews, as well as a new History, Legacy & Showmanship column from our own Michael Coate, celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Wachowski’s The Matrix. So be sure to check back for that.
By the way, we’ve updated our 4K Ultra HD Release List here at The Bits to reflect the fact that Ridley Scott’s Alien: 40th Anniversary Edition is FINALLY available for pre-order on Amazon.com (and–holy shit–for just $15!). [Read on here...]
Captain America: Civil War/Winter Soldier 4K, 13 Hours 4K, Twilight, Arrow, Chasing the Moon & more
All right, we’ve got more reviews for you to enjoy today, including...
My take on James Wan’s Aquaman in 4K Ultra HD from Warner.
Dennis’ review of Dan Bush’s The Vault on Blu-ray from FilmRise.
And Chase’s look at Robert Zemeckis’ I Wanna Hold Your Hand on Blu-ray from Criterion.
More reviews are in the works for tomorrow and Friday, so be sure to check back for them.
Meanwhile, we have some new title news and announcements to report today as well...
We’ve now confirmed the 4/23 release of Captain America: Civil War and Captain America: The Winter Soldier on 4K Ultra HD from Disney. [Read on here...]
- War and Peace (1966) BD
- La vie de Jésus
- Bruno Dumont
- A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
- John Cameron Mitchell
- L’humanité
- Swing Time
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Sergei Bondarchuck's War and Peace restoration
- Disney
- 4K Ultra HD
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- The Criterion Collection
- Captain America: Civil War 4K
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier 4K
- 13 Soldiers 4K
- Twilight Time
- Arrow Video
- Chasing the Moon BD
Waterworld & Crimson Peak: Limited Editions from Arrow, plus new 4K UHDs, Kevin Smith & Sony’s Alpha
All right, before I get started today, I wanted to post a quick personal note to say thank you for all the kind words and messages after my post last week. I’ve really appreciated them.
We’re going to check back tomorrow with a TON of new Blu-ray and 4K reviews (including Disney and Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp), but I wanted to check in with an update this afternoon.
First up, we’ve updated The 4K Ultra HD Release List here at The Bits with Amazon pre-order links for all three of Lionsgate’s Rambo 4K titles, including First Blood, Rambo: First Blood, Part II, and Rambo III. Click on the cover art below for those.
Also Image and RLJ Entertainment has set Arizona for 4K UHD release in addition to Blu-ray and DVD on 10/16.
Paramount is releasing a Mission: Impossible – 6 Movie Collection on both 4K UHD and Blu-ray the same day that Mission: Impossible – Fallout streets on both formats (12/4). [Read on here...]
- Rambo III 4K
- Rambo: First Blood Part II 4K
- First Blood 4K
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Alpha BD
- Kevin Smith: Silent But Deadly
- Arrow Video
- Waterworld: TwoDisc Limited Edition BD
- Crimson Peak: TwoDisc Limited Edition BD
- Arizona 4K
- How to Train Your Dragon 4K
- How to Train Your Dragon 2 4K
- Release Dates & Artwork update
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- We the Marines 4K
- The Little Stranger
Big Lebowski 4K, Spy Who Dumped Me, Star Trek: Discovery – Season One preorders & more
All right, we’re closing out the week with just a couple of items for you…
First up, we’ve posted a trio of new reviews for you including Tim’s look at Stuart Gordon’s Dagon from Umbrella Entertainment, David’s take on Harry Levin’s Genghis Khan (1965) from Twilight Time, and Dennis’ thoughts on Dark Crimes from Lionsgate, all three on Blu-ray.
We now have official final cover artwork for Universal’s The Big Lebowski on 4K Ultra HD. It’s due on 10/16 and it will feature a native 4K scan of the film with DTS-X object based audio. It will also include the previous Blu-ray edition, with all its extras, and a digital copy. You can pre-order it now on Amazon by clicking on the artwork below.
Side note about Universal… the company appears to be reissuing a whole bunch of catalog titles on Blu-ray throughout the month of October. Deep catalog stuff. So if you’ve missed any titles, you’ll probably find that a new edition is coming then. [Read on here...]
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- The Big Lebowski 4K
- Star Trek: Discovery Season One BD
- Dagon BD review
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- Genghis Khan BD review
- Dark Crimes BD review
- David Steigman
- The Spy Who Dumped Me 4K
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Art School Confidential
- Take It Out in Trade
- Ed Wood
- The Wizard of Gore
- Arrow Video
- Torso
- Deadbeat at Dawn
- 12 Monkeys
- Schlock
- Wolfcop
- The Interpreter
- Cut and Run
- The Ice Harvest
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Westworld Season Two: The Door