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New Downton Abbey sets, plus Uni Monster Amazon sale, Bill & Ted review & True Lies in HD on StarzEncore
Afternoon folks! Hope you’re all doing well and Happy Rosh Hashanah to those of you who celebrate it.
We’ve got a couple things for you today... first a new Blu-ray review: Our own Tim Salmons has just checked in with his Pick-Ups thoughts on Shout! Factory’s new Shout Select title, Bill & Ted’s Most Excellent Collection, which arrived on disc last Tuesday. Tim would like you to know that the set is most definitely non, non, non, non, non-heinous. Do check out his review here.
Tim has also updated his recent review of Scream Factory’s The Thing: Collector’s Edition on Blu-ray to reflect the updated audio track found on all final product copies now in stores. The track is fixed and sounds great. [Read on here…]
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- Bill Hunt
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- Tim Salmons
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- Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Collection
- The Thing: Collector's Edition
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
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- Star Trek Beyond
- Frankenstein: Complete Legacy Collection
- The Wolf Man: Complete Legacy Collection
- Amazon sale
- Skiptrace
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- David and Bathsheba
- Downton Abbey: The Complete Series
- The Abyss in HD
- True Lies in HD
- StarzEncore
- Miami Vice: The Complete Series BD
- Knight Rider: The Complete Series BD
- Shin Godzilla
- FUNimation
Paramount and Bad Robot give iTunes another exclusive Star Trek commentar–– ah, fuck it
All right, let’s get this over with. Our friends over at Trek Core have learned (and they’re right) something that’s going to infuriate Star Trek fans, and sadly suggests that neither Paramount nor Bad Robot have learned from fan complaints about their previous Star Trek Blu-ray mistakes. As you know, Star Trek Beyond is expected to street on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on 11/1, all with lots of extras... except filmmaker audio commentary. Well, you guessed it... once again, the iTunes Digital download version is going to have an exclusive “enhanced” commentary.
[Editor’s Note: Turns out there’s another Target-exclusive Bonus Disc too. See here: “Bonus blu-ray disc with over 90 minutes of extras including 45 minutes of exclusive content: Get a behind the scenes look at the film’s incredible visual effects, costumes and props. Plus, see how Director Justin Lin and the cast and crew of Star Trek Beyond created the climactic Battle of Yorktown, and more!”]
So... yeah. [Read on here…]
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- Game of Thrones: The Complete Seasons 1 to 6
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- Terrahawks: Volume 2
- The Big Bang Theory: Season Ten
- Outlander; Season Two
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Kubo and the Two Strings & Star Trek: Animated official, plus Eight Days a Week, Bubba Ho-Tep & more
All right, we’ve got two reviews for you today. As expected we’ve got my thoughts on Shout! Factory’s Flight of the Butterflies in 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, which I think is their best release on the format to date. I’ve reviewed the Warner Archive’s Longmire: Complete Seasons 1-4 on Blu-ray this morning too. The DVDs are available from Warner Bros Home Entertainment, the Blu-rays via Warner Archive, and you can stream the series – which is terrific – on Netflix. The new season of Longmire debuts on Netflix tomorrow, so do give it a look. I think you’ll really enjoy it. [Read on here…]
Warner sets Pacific Rim, Great Gatsby & Jupiter Ascending for 4K, plus T.A.M.I Show, Vestron & Curtis Hanson RIP
We’re kicking off the day today with a couple of new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray reviews... my thoughts on Shout! Factory’s recent Rocky Mountain Express, which is terrific, and Wonders of the Arctic, which is also a nice release. It’s fun to watch these 4K titles mastered from IMAX source material. They really look spectacular. Anyway, I may have at least one more review up today as well if you check back later, which would be Shout!’s Flight of the Butterflies in 4K. So do watch for that.
Here at The Bits today, our own Russell Hammond has just updated the Release Dates & Cover Art section with all the latest Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K cover art, as well as Amazon.com pre-order links. As always, anytime you order product from Amazon – literally anything at all – through any of our links, you’re helping to support our work here at The Bits and we really do appreciate it. [Read on here…]
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- CHUD II: Bud the CHUD
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- The Trouble with the Truth Amazon Prime
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Now it’s official: Paramount announces Star Trek Beyond for 11/1, plus Kubo, Oppo 4K & save Film Threat!
All right, the big news today is that we finally have the official word from our contacts at Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment: Star Trek Beyond will arrive on Blu-ray Combo, Blu-ray 3D Combo, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD formats on 11/1, with the Digital HD release due on 10/4. There will also be Star Trek Trilogy Collection on Blu-ray, as well as a number of retail exclusive SKUs (see here, here, here, and here). Audio on the Blu-ray and 4K versions will be English Dolby Atmos. Extras on the Blu-ray versions will include deleted scenes, a gag reel, and 9 behind-the-scenes featurettes (Beyond the Darkness, Enterprise Takedown, Divided and Conquered, A Warped Sense of Revenge, Trekking in the Desert, Exploring Strange New Worlds, New Life, New Civilizations, To Live Long and Prosper, and For Leonard and Anton). You can see the final cover artwork to the left and below. [Read on here…]
Star Trek Beyond now looks set for 11/1, plus Better Call Saul: Season 2, new Vestron & Twilight's October slate
Afternoon, folks. Hope you had a fine weekend. I’m been busy working on new Blu-ray and 4K reviews, the first of which I’m pleased to offer you now...
Here are my thoughts on Universal’s new Frankenstein: Complete Legacy Collection and The Wolf Man: Complete Legacy Collection, which streeted last week and are now available. Both are good upgrades of the previous DVD box sets of the same name, but the value proposition for each is a little complicated. I should note that in order to review these sets, I had to purchase them at my own expense. Universal chose not to make them available for review. Meanwhile, I’m working on additional reviews for posting later and tomorrow, so stay tuned for those. [Read on here…]
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- Star Trek Beyond
- Better Call Saul: Season Two
- Frankenstein: Complete Legacy Collection
- The Wolf Man: Complete Legacy Collection
- Vestron Video Collector's Series
- Return of the Living Dead 3
- CHUD II: Bud the CHUD
- Wild Oats
- Doomwatch
- Invisible Ghost
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Twilight Time October slate
- Criterion
- The Tree of Wooden Clogs
- Boxcar Bertha
- The Chase
- Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
- Runaway Train
- The Train: Encore Edition
Independence Day: Resurgence on 10/18, plus Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 4K, 1492 on Blu, Star Trek: Animated date & more!
We’ve got a short post for you today, but it has some good stuff in it...
For starters, we’ve got a new review for you this afternoon, thanks to our own Tim Salmons, featuring Stars’ new Ash vs Evil Dead: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray Disc. The title arrives in stores tomorrow, and it’s pretty damn good. Do give it a look.
The big announcement news today is that 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has just officially set Independence Day: Resurgence for release on Blu-ray Combo, Blu-ray 3D Combo, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on 10/18, with the Digital HD version expected on 9/27. [Read on here…]
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- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
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- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Independence Day: Resurgence 4K
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 4K
- 1492: The Conquest of Paradise
- Star Trek Beyond
- Star Trek: The Animated Series
- Tim Salmons
- Ash vs Evil Season: The Complete First Season
- Biggles: Adventures in Time
- Western Union
- Loophole
- Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders
- The MiddleEarth: Ultimate Collectors' Edition box set
- $800 Middle Earth box set
Warcraft official for BD, BD3D & 4K on 9/27, plus Everest 4K, Bates Motel: S4, Arrow’s Dark Water & more
We’re starting the day off with a pair of new Blu-ray reviews from our own Jim Hemphill, who takes a look at Ivan Passer’s Cutter’s Way (1981) and Fred Zinnemann’s The Member of the Wedding (1952), both now available on BD from Twilight Time. Enjoy!
The big announcement news today is that Universal Studios Home Entertainment has just officially set the Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release of Warcraft for 9/27, with the Digital HD release expected on 9/13. [Read on here…]
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
- Grimm: The Complete Fifth Season
- The Venture Bros: Season Six
- Star Trek Beyond
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- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
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- Kino Lorber
- Warcraft 4K
- Everest 4K
- Bates Motel: Season Four
- Dark Water
- Mr Deeds Goes to Town: 80th Anniversary Edition
The Abyss coming in 2017 at last, plus Aliens: 30th, Star Trek Beyond, Steven King’s It, new Scream & more!
We’re kicking things off this week with an early morning Monday post to deliver all of the breaking Blu-ray news out of Comic-Con in San Diego this past weekend.
First though, our own Tim Salmons has begun a new week of Pick-Ups reviews with a look at Synapse Films’ new Just Desserts: The Making of Creepshow – Special Edition Blu-ray, which arrived in stored on 7/12. It sounds like an outstanding documentary look behind the scenes on the making of the film, with a ton of great extras, so do give it a look. [Read on here…]
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- Scream Factory
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- The Digital Bits
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- The Abyss in 2017
- Aliens: 30th Anniversary Edition
- XMen: Apocalypse
- Star Trek Beyond
- Speed Racer
- Mach GoGoGo
- Ghost in the Shell: Innocence
- Transformers: The Movie
- Bubba HoTep
- Willard
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- Black Christmas
- Shout! Factory
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- Rabid
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- Slumber Party Massacre II & III
- The House That Screamed
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- Dead Ringers
- Manhattan Baby
- To Live and Die in LA
- The Venture Bros: Season Six
- Steven King's It
- An American Werewolf in London: Restored Edition
- Preacher: The Complete First Season
- Grimm: The Complete Fifth Season
- The BFG
- Finding Dory
- The Legend of Tarzan
- The Secret Life of Pets
- Me Before You
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
- The Shallows
- The Conjuring 2
- Ghostbusters 2016
- Central Intelligence
- Kamikaze '89
- Tim Salmons
- Pick Ups
Star Trek Beyond (non-spoiler) review, plus DVD panel at Comic-Con tonight!
All right, it’s been a crazy few days here at The Bits, so I’m just going to post a quick update today.
First up, I was down at San Diego Comic-Con last night for the premiere of Star Trek Beyond. Paramount put on a great event, and I really quite liked the film. It’s definitely better than Star Trek Into Darkness, and it’s very different in tone to either of the first two films. Think of it this way: It’s the biggest, most action-filled episode of The Original Series you’ve ever seen, for all the good and bad that implies. The key thing is that it’s fun. It has a decent (and novel) sci-fi concept for a change, the action is imaginative, all of the cast gets involved, and there are a ton of great character moments. Karl Urban’s Bones gets his biggest part yet and he really makes the most of it. [Read on here…]
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- Trilogia de Guillermo Del Toro
- Game of Thrones: The Complete Sixth Season
- Now You See Me 2
- Free State of Jones
- The Nice Guys
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- Highlander: 30th Anniversary Edition
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