Gemini Man, Zombieland: Double Tap & Boyz N The Hood, plus a Joker date & D.C. Fontana, Rest in Peace
We’ve got a lot of ground to cover today and I had to spend the morning at the DMV, so let’s get right to it...
First up, we have a new review from Tim for you today: Alexandre Aja’s Crawl, now available on Blu-ray from Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment.
We’ve also just posted the weekly update of our Release Dates & Artwork section, featuring all the latest Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD cover artwork and Amazon.com pre-order links. Anytime you order literally anything from Amazon after clicking to them through our links (like this one), you’re helping to support our work here at The Bits and we really do appreciate it. Thank you!
Now then, the big news today is that Paramount has just announced the Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD release of Ang Lee’s Gemini Man on 1/14, with the Digital release expected on 12/23. And here’s the surprise: The 4K Ultra HD will present the film in 60fps, as was the case with Sony’s 4K release of Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. [Read on here...]
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- DC Fontana RIP
- Christopher Dennis RIP
- Hollywood Superman
- Spock
- Star Trek
- Gemini Man 4K 60 fps
- Zombieland: Double Tap 4K
- Boyz N The Hood 4K
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Joker 4K
- Bob Furmanek
- Abbott and Costello
- Africa Screams restoration
- 3D Film Archive
- Release Dates & Artwork update
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Tim Salmons
- Crawl BD review
- high frame rate
- David Gerrold
Kubrick’s The Shining coming to 4K, plus Criterion’s August, and the new Forrest Gump BD is remastered
All right, we’ve got a couple things for you today...
First a couple of new Blu-ray reviews... Tim has looked at Cyril Frankel’s The Witches, aka The Devil’s Own (1966) on disc from Hammer Films by way of Scream Factory. Tim’s also reviewed Eddie Adlum’s Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972) from Severin Films.
More reviews are on the way here too; I’m working on Hannibal 4K from Kino, Shout! and GKids’ new Princess Mononoke: Collector’s Edition, and more. So watch for those in the next few days.
The big announcement news today is that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining on 4K Ultra HD on 10/1. [Read on here...]
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Shout! Factory
- Tim Salmons
- The Shining 4K
- A Clockwork Orange 4K
- Forrest Gump: 25th Anniversary Edition remastered
- Criterion August 2019
- Stanley Kubrick
- Leon Vitali
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- The Witches BD review
- Invasion of the Blood Farmers BD review
- The Iron Man Trilogy 4K
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- The Criterion Spines Project
- An Angel at My Table
- The Inland Sea
- Magnificent Obsession
- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
- The Koker Trilogy
- Where Is the Friend's House?
- And Life Goes On
- Through the Olive Trees
- Star Trek
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- What We Left Behind documentary
- The Believers
- Olive Films
- How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
- Gloria Bell
- Norm of the North
Retro Release Day: Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition (2001)
Today’s Retro Release Day title here at The Bits is a favorite of mine personally, as well as a favorite of our readers and classic Star Trek fans overall. It’s the acclaimed 2-disc Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition DVD, released by Paramount Home Entertainment in 2001.
The film was directed by the great Robert Wise, who had previously directed the Best Picture winners West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965), as well as The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), and who was an editor on Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941) at RKO early in his career. Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released in theaters on December 7, 1979 and this year celebrates its 40th anniversary.
As many Trek fans know, Star Trek: The Motion Picture began life as an effort to return the franchise to TV with Star Trek: Phase II, but the box office success of other science fiction films convinced Paramount to try bringing the property to the big screen. The film reunited the entire original series cast, along with newcomers Persis Khambatta and Stephen Collins. The legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith was hired to score the film, which would become among his most iconic and widely-recognized works. [Read on here...]
Still Boldly Going: Celebrating “Star Trek” on its 50th Anniversary
“Star Trek has left a legacy of hope and optimism that humankind has a future. If we cultivate the potential of Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations so that we embrace a universe brimming with the riches of life in all of its forms, then humankind can evolve into something finer and nobler. I think that is what Gene Roddenberry meant when he said that the human adventure is just beginning.” — Bill Kraft, author of Maybe We Need a Letter from God: The Star Trek Stamp
The Digital Bits and History, Legacy & Showmanship are pleased to present this retrospective article commemorating the golden anniversary of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry’s legendary science-fiction television series depicting the voyages of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew of the starship Enterprise.
The memorable television series premiered 50 years ago this week (September 6th, 1966, on CTV in Canada, and September 8th, 1966, on NBC in the United States), and similar to our other Star Trek roundtables (here and here) and classic television retrospectives (here, here, here, and here), The Bits for the occasion has assembled a Q&A with an esteemed group of Treksperts, historians and Star Trek writers who examine the best episodes and offer commentary on the show’s enduring appeal, influence and legacy. [Read on here...]
FilmStruck, Preacher: S1, Vikings: S4V1, Mr. Deeds: 80th, Matinee (Reg B), Roddenberry Vault & much more
We’ve got three new Blu-ray reviews for you all to check out today, starting with Tim’s look at The Film Movement’s new Dementia 13, one of the first films directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It was also produced by Roger Corman. Do check it out. Also, I’ve turned in in-depth reviews of Criterion’s new Blu-ray edition of Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, as well as the first entry in Shout! Factory’s new Shout Selects line, The Adventure of Buckaroo Bandai Across the 8th Dimension. Both titles are well worth your time and money, so do give them a look. [Read on here…]
- Tim Salmons
- Preacher: The Complete First Season
- Shout! Factory
- Bluray Disc
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- BD
- Bluray
- FUNimation
- Shout Factory Selects
- Criterion
- Dr Strangelove
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
- The Film Detective
- Dementia 13
- Mr Deeds Goes to Town: 80th Anniversary Edition
- Vikings: Season Four Volume One
- Matinee Arrow Video UK Region B
- The Roddenberry Vault
- Star Trek
- Release Dates & Artwork
- Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
- DTS: X on Paramount BDs
- Terminator 2 3D
- The Criterion Collection
- FilmStruck
- The Criterion Channel
- TCM Classic Movies
Paramount officially sets Star Trek (2009) & Star Trek Into Darkness for 4K Ultra HD release on 6/14
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All right, we’ve got one more big bit of 4K UHD news for you.
As we first revealed a few weeks go, Paramount has just officially announced the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness on 6/14.
Both titles will include new 4K UHD transfers with High Dynamic Range and Dolby Atmos soundtracks. Each will be a 3-disc combo pack including a 4K UHD disc, 2 Blu-ray Discs (a movie disc and a special features disc), and digital copy. You can see the cover artwork below... [Read on here…]
Scream plans on Raising Cain, plus new Agnes Varda BDs, SlySoft goes under & stunning Trek news
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We begin today with Tim’s last Pick-Ups Blu-ray review for this week: A look at Scream Factory’s The Curse/The Curse II: The Bite. Together, these two Z-grade flix were damn near enough to finally break our man’s sanity and send him into a late night reviewing rage (a genuine occupational hazard in this profession). Do check it out. LOL.
Meanwhile, Scream Factory has revealed that it’s working on Brian DePalma’s Raising Cain: Collector’s Edition, due on Blu-ray 6/28, along with a new Blu-ray edition of The Crush on 6/21. [Read on here…]
Ultra HD BD players/discs arriving now, plus 3DTV declared “dead” by IB Times & good Star Wars/Trek news
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First things first today: We’re hearing from readers that Samsung’s UBD‑K8500 UHD Blu-ray player is now starting to appear for sale on retailer shelves – including Best Buy – in at least some places around the country. Additionally, Best Buy employees are suggesting in-store that the first UHD Blu-ray titles will start to become available tomorrow (2/11), probably from Lionsgate but maybe also from Fox.
Meanwhile, I’ve now received word from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment that the studio’s first round of UHD Blu-ray titles, including The Martian, Kingsman, Exodus, and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, will officially be available starting on Sunday 2/14 at Best Buy stores. Note, however, that it’s possible some stores will begin selling them earlier, or that some stores will not have their stock in yet by then. [Read on here…]
Blu-ray News – Outlander: Season One “Ultimate”, Joe Dirt 2, new Star Trek TV series for 2017 & more
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Okay... we’re starting a new week with a new Tim Salmons column, featuring this year’s Halloween Hangover “leftovers”. Each day this week, Tim will be posting another Blu-ray review – just a few good titles that either came in too late to be part of the regular Hangover, or that didn’t make the cut for one reason or another. Today’s is a look at Twilight Time’s Count Yorga, Vampire. Do check it out. [Read on here…]
Blu-ray News – Better Call Saul: S1, plus Bill’s Axanar podcast, Twice Upon a Time & Michael Coate celebrates Goodfellas’ 25th
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All right, sorry about the lack of a daily column yesterday. A friend of Sarah and me had a family emergency and needed some help, so that took up a portion of the day on Sunday and Monday. In any case, I’m going to do a couple updates today to catch up.
First things first: Our own Michael Coate posted a new History, Legacy and Showmanship column yesterday, featuring a look back at Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas on the occasion of the film’s 25th anniversary. The column features a roundtable interview with film historians Robert Casillo, Leighton Grist, and Glenn Kenny. If you haven’t already checked it out, I think you’ll really enjoy it. [Read on here…]
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