Displaying items by tag: Bluray
Basic Instinct 4K is coming on 6/14 in the UK, plus Universal’s Land announced, and new Disney Movie Club animated Blu-rays
We’re starting things off with another new Blu-ray review here at The Bits today: Tim has offered his thoughts on Jack Hill’s Switchblade Sisters (1975), as soon-to-be-released on the format by our friends at Arrow Video. You’ll find that here.
In announcement news today, the big update is that StudoCanal has finally revealed that their Basic Instinct 4K Ultra HD release will happen in the UK on 6/14. There’s a deluxe edition coming to Amazon UK (click here for that) and an exclusive Steelbook edition coming to Zavvi (click here for the US pre-order link and here for the UK link).
Extras on the 4K disc itself will include audio commentary with Camille Paglia, a second commentary with Paul Verhoeven and Jan de Bont, 4 featurettes (Basic Instinct: Sex, Death and Stone, An Unending Story: Scoring Basic Instinct, Blonde Poison: The Making of Basic Instinct, and Cast & Crew Interviews), 3 Storyboard Comparisons (for the Love Scene, Car Chase, and Elevator Murder), and Screen Tests (4 for Sharon Stone and 1 for Jeanne Tripplehorn). The 4K package will also include a 2-disc Blu-ray edition with the same extras. [Read on here...]
- The Courier BD
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Tim Salmons
- 4K Ultra HD
- Basic Instinct 4K
- StudioCanal UK
- Land
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Disney Movie Club
- Switchblade Sisters BD review
- Zavvi US and UK
- Amazon UK
- The Black Cauldron BD
- Valiant BD
- Tom and Jerry: The Movie BD
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- The Warner Archive Collection
- Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House BD
- Escape from Fort Bravo BD
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex BD
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, The Courier, The Daydreamer on Blu-ray, plus Two Evil Eyes on 4k
We’re starting today’s news update here at The Bits with another new disc review. This one features Tim’s thoughts on Alex de la Iglesia’s Perdita Durango (1997), as newly released on 4K Ultra HD from the good people at Severin Films. Sounds like the transfer is pretty terrific, so do give it a look here.
In announcement news today, here’s something welcome: Screen Media will be releasing the forthcoming Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street documentary on Blu-ray and DVD on 7/6. We’ve got what looks like temp art for the title at left and you can pre-order the Blu-ray below.
Lionsgate will release Dominic Cooke’s historical espionage drama The Courier (2020) on 6/1. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, and Rachel Brosnahan. Extras will include the On the Brink: Making The Courier featurette. [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD
- Tim Salmons
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Perdita Durango 4K review
- Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street BD
- The Courier BD
- Above Suspicion BD
- City of Lies BD
- Drunken Master II BD
- Night of the Sicario BD
- Deliver Us from Evil BD
- The Daydreamer BD
- Two Evil Eyes 4K UHD review
- Quick Change BD
- The Pianist: Shout Select BD
- A Strange Is Watching BD
- State and Main: Shout Select BD
Media Play News announces the winners of its Home Entertainment Awards, plus Africa Screams 3D reviewed & more
Afternoon, folks! We hope you all had a lovely weekend.
We’ve got just a very quick update today here at The Bits, as there’s not a ton of news to report on this afternoon.
First though, Tim has turned in a review of a new Blu-ray 3D release from Classic Flix and our friends at the 3-D Film Archive: The Africa Screams: Special Limited Edition, the 1949 Universal comedy featuring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
It’s a great disc, so do check out Tim’s thoughts on it here. [Read on here...]
- House of Wax: Collector's Edition BD
- Chamber of Horrors BD
- Little Big League: Shout Select BD
- Eight Legged Freaks BD
- Brotherhood of the Wolf: Collector's Edition BD
- The Dead Zone: Collector's Edition BD
- Scream Factory
- Shout! Factory
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Tim Salmons
- 4K Ultra HD
- Media Play News Home Entertainment Awards
- Africa Screams BD3D review
- Classic Flix
- The 3D Film Archive
Criterion’s July Blu-ray & DVD slate includes Bringing Up Baby, Deep Cover, Tarkovsky’s Mirror & more
The big news today comes from our friends at The Criterion Collection, who have just announced their July slate of Blu-ray and DVD titles.
That slate is set to include Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror (Spine #1084 – Blu-ray and DVD) and Howard Hawks’ Bringing Up Baby (Spine #1085 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 7/6, followed by Bill Duke’s Deep Cover (Spine #1086 – Blu-ray and DVD) and Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls (Spine #1087 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 7/12, and finally Jacques Deray’s La piscine (Spine #1088 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 7/20. You can read more details on each here at The Criterion Collection website. Our Criterion Spines Project pages here at The Bits have been updated accordingly. You can see the cover art for Mirror at left, and all the rest are below.
Meanwhile, Paramount has added In Harm’s Way, Le Mans, and Bonneville to their June catalog Blu-ray slate (street date 6/29). They’ll also release the Apple TV+ limited series Defending Jacob on DVD only on 7/6. [Read on here...]
- Paramount
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- The Criterion Collection July 2021 slate
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Mirror BD
- Howard Hawks
- Bringing Up Baby BD
- Bill Duke
- Deep Cover BD
- Jacques Deray
- La piscine BD
- Lizzie Borden
- Working Girls BD
- In Harm's Way BD
- Le Mans BD
- Bonneville BD
- In the Line of Fire 4K
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Escape from New York 4K
- Birenblatt Home Video Germany
- Man with a Camera: The Complete Series DVD
- S#!%HOUSE BD
- Speed 4K Zavvi Steelbook exclusive
- Andie the Great
- A Cinderella Story: Starstruck
Flight of the Intruder, Star Trek: Discovery S3, Walking Dead: World Beyond & more, plus Columbia Classics 4K singles
Today’s update is going to be a quick one, but we do have a couple of interesting things to report.
First, CBS and Paramount’s Star Trek: Discovery – Season Three is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com (click here for the link). We don’t have a street date yet, but you can see the cover artwork at left and also below.
Speaking of Paramount, they’ve added a couple more catalog Blu-ray titles to their June slate, including Flight of the Intruder and The General’s Daughter on 6/29. In & Out, The Stepford Wives (2004), and a Ladies Night In 3-Movie Collection (of What Men Want, Nobody’s Fool, and Like a Boss) are also coming on 6/1. And if we’re not mistaken, Flight of the Intruder and The General’s Daughter are new to Blu-ray (as is The Saint, which streets on 5/25).
The BBC series The Watch: Season One is due on Blu-ray and DVD on 6/29. [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Paramount
- The Walking Dead: World Beyond BD
- Star Trek: Discovery Season Three BD
- Flight of The Intruder BD
- CBS
- Gandhi 4K
- Mr Smith Goes to Washington 4K
- Jerry Maguire 4K
- Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing Season 2 BD
- The Watch: Season One BD
- The Umbrella Academy: Season One BD
- The Saint BD
- The General's Daughter BD
Chaos Walking on BD & 4K, plus Wolfwalkers, big changes for Google Play Movies & TV, goodbye Harmony remotes & more
We start today with another Blu-ray review from Tim. This time he’s taken a look at Mei-Chun Chang’s Dynasty (1977 – aka Qian dao wan li zhu), new on Blu-ray 3D from Kino Lorber Studio Classics with an assist by our friends at the 3-D Film Archive. It’s fun little 3D martial arts actioner and well worth checking out if you’re a fan of the Blu-ray 3D format in particular. Don’t miss it.
Now then, Lionsgate has set Minari for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 5/18. Extras will include deleted scenes, a making of featurette, and audio commentary with director Lee Isaac Chung and star Yuh-jung Youn.
The company has also set Endangered Species for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 6/1, with the Digital release expected on 5/28.
And Lionsgate will release Doug Liman’s Chaos Walking on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 5/25. The film stars Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Mads Mikkelsen, and David Oyelowo. We don’t have A/V specs or extras details yet, but it was shot in 6.5K using the Arri Alexa 65, was finished as a native 4K digital intermediate, and it has an Atmos sound mix, so one assumes Lionsgate will go all out on the UHD release. The title is already available for pre-order on Amazon (click here for the link) you can see the cover artwork at left and also below. [Read on here...]
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Tim Salmons
- 4K Ultra HD
- Chaos Walking 4K
- Lionsgate
- Wolfwalkers BD from GKids
- Google Play Movies & TV
- Harmony remotes
- MInari BD
- Dynasty BD 3D review
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- 3D Film Archive
- Senior Moment BD
- William Shatner
- Heartworn Highways BD
- Heartworn Highways Revisited BD
- Cartoon Brew
- The Screening Room AV
- Dead & Buried 4K
- Indiana Jones 4 Movie Collection 4K
- Sony and Kaleidescape deal
Scream & Shout!’s July includes Dead Zone & Brotherhood of the Wolf, plus In the Line of Fire 4K from Sony & more
Welcome to a new week, folks. We’ve got some ground to cover here at The Bits today, so let’s get right to it...
First, we start with a new Blu-ray review from our own Tim Salmons, a look at Paul W.S. Anderson’s Event Horizon (1997) as newly released on disc by our friends at Scream Factory. Do give it a look.
While we’re talking Scream (and Shout! Factory), that’s a perfect place to start with today’s release news. The company has just announced a slate of great Blu-ray and DVD titles for July, including The Pianist: Shout Select (BD), No Man’s Land (BD and DVD), The Night (BD and DVD), House of Wax: Collector’s Edition (BD), and Ernest & Celestine (BD and DVD) on 7/13, followed by A Stranger is Watching (BD), Little Big League: Shout Select (BD), Fire (BD and DVD), and Eight Legged Freaks (BD) on 7/20, and State and Main: Shout Select (BD), The Dead Zone: Collector’s Edition (BD), Chamber of Horrors (BD), and Brotherhood of the Wolf: Collector’s Edition (BD) on 7/27. Extras on all of these are still TBA. You can see the cover art for The Dead Zone at left, with more covers visible below the break. [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD
- Tim Salmons
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Event Horizon BD review
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- The Pianist: Shout Select BD
- The Dead Zone: Collector's Edition BD
- Brotherhood of the Wolf: Collector's Edition BD
- Eight Legged Freaks BD
- Ernest & Celestine BD
- Little Big League: Shout Select BD
- Last Action Hero 4K
- In the Line of Fire 4K
- Greenland 4K in Germany
- The NeverEnding Story 4K in Germany
- Speed 4K
- Doctor X BD
- The Warner Archive Collection Amazon brand store
- Chamber of Horrors BD
- House of Wax: Collector's Edition BD
Tons of new KL Studio Classics Blu-rays, plus Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Godzilla vs. Kong, Raya and the Last Dragon & more in 4K
Okay, we’ve got a pretty good news update for you today here at The Bits.
First though, another new Blu-ray review...
Following up on yesterday’s review, Tim has posted his thoughts on Marty Feldman’s In God We Trust (1980), also newly available on disc from our friends over at Kino Lorber Studio Classics. And it sounds like the title has another great commentary by Alan Spencer, so it’s well worth you time to check the disc out.
Speaking of Kino Lorber Studio Classics, the company continues to prove its great worth to classic cinephiles with a new slate of nine Mae West films coming on Blu-ray on 6/29, including Night After Night (1932), I’m No Angel (1933), She Done Him Wrong (1933), Belle of the Nineties (1934), Goin’ to Town (1935), Go West Young Man (1936), Klondike Annie (1936), Every Day’s a Holiday (1937), and My Little Chickadee (1940). [Read on here...]
Smokey and the Bandit 4K, plus Cool World, Revenge of the Shogun Women in 3D, Zavvi buys Arrow Films & more
We start things off today here at The Bits with a pair of new Blu-ray Disc reviews...
Tim has taken a look at Marty Feldman’s The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), new on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics. It comes with a terrific audio commentary by our friend Alan Spencer—the longtime writer, executive producer of TV’s Sledge Hammer, and personal friend of Feldman—that’s worth the purchase price of the disc all by itself. Don’t miss it.
Also, Dennis has offered his thoughts on Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll (1956) on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection. Do give that a look as well.
Speaking of the Warner Archive Collection, we want to take a moment to remind everyone that even though WB Shop has officially closed, Warner Archive Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K titles can now be purchased from their brand store on Amazon.com (click here for that). Warner Archive has just revealed more new upcoming titles (see our post yesterday) and we have word that they’ll have new titles through the end of 2021 at least. It’s likely that the label will continue indefinitely, just run by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment itself, rather than its former, dedicated team. [Read on here...]
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Arrow Video
- Smokey and the Bandit 4K
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Lionsgate
- 4K Ultra HD
- Tim Salmons
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Dennis Seuling
- The Last Remake of Beau Geste BD review
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Marty Feldman
- Alan Spencer audio commentary
- Baby Doll BD review
- WB Shop
- The Warner Archive Collection
- Elia Kazan
- Nobody 4K
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: 50th Anniversary 4K
- Space Jam: 25th Anniversary 4K
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Ralph Bakshi
- Cool World BD
- Take This Job and Shove It
- 3D Film Archive
- Bob Furmanek
- Revenge of the Shogun Women BD 3D Kickstarter
- Above Suspicion
- The Umbrella Academy: Season One BD
- Netflix Original
- Supernatural: The Complete Series BD
- Zavvi purchases Arrow Films
- Years of Lead BD
- Major Dundee BD
The Legend of Drunken Master from Warner Archive, plus Island at the Top of the World on Disney+, a Soviet Lord of the Rings & more!
We’ve got some interesting news to report here at The Bits today...
First, the Warner Archive Collection has announced a number of new Blu-ray releases that are coming soon from the label, including Drunken Master II (1994 – aka The Legend of Drunken Master) starring Jackie Chan (mastered from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative), The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex (1939), They Won’t Believe Me (1947), The Yearling (1946), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Escape from Fort Bravo (1953), and Athena (1954). Street dates are TBA.
Arrow Video has announced its June release slate, which is set to include Dario Argento’s The Bird with the Crystal Plumage in 4K Ultra HD, as well as Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, Masumura Yasuzo’s Irezumi, Jill Gevargizian’s The Stylist, and a 5-film box set of Italian crime films called Years of Lead that includes Like Rabid Dogs, Savage Three, No, The Case is Happily Resolved, and Colt 38: Special Squad. [Read on here...]
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- The Warner Archive Collection
- Drunken Master II BD
- The Legend of Drunken Master BD
- Arrow Video June BD and 4K slate
- Willy's Wonderland
- Dracula 90th anniversary
- Island at the Top of the World on Disney+
- Soviet Lord of the Rings
- Roman Kroitor
- Kaleidescape discount promotion with Sony Electronics
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex BD
- They Won’t Believe Me BD
- The Yearling BD
- Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House BD
- Escape from Fort Bravo BD
- Athena BD
- Major Dundee BD
- Irezumi BD
- The Stylist BD
- Years of Lead BD box set
- Italian crime dramas
- Media Play News
- Home Entertainment Awards voting