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The Marvels, Shout! Studios sets Kathryn Bigelow’s K-19 & more for 4K, plus Trolls Band Together, new KLSC titles, Dragons Down & more
Afternoon, folks! We’re stating the new week here at The Bits with a couple of new disc reviews, including...
Tim’s take on Daniel Attias’ Silver Bullet: Collector’s Edition in 4K Ultra HD, as well as his thoughts on our old friend John Harrison’s Tales from the Darkside: The Movie – Collector’s Edition in 4K Ultra HD, both of them from Scream Factory.
Speaking of Scream, Shout Studios has also begun revealing some of their March catalog titles, which thus far are set to include Jonathan Kaplan’s Over the Edge (1979) on Blu-ray on 3/5, Mick Garris’ The Shining miniseries (1997) on Blu-ray on 3/12, Simon Wincer’s Quigley Down Under (1990) in 4K as a Shout! Select title also on 3/12, and a trio of additional 4K titles on 3/19... Lars Klevberg’s Child’s Play (2019), Kimberly Peirce’s Carrie (2013), and Kathryn Bigelow’s K-19: The Widowmaker (2002).
Meanwhile, the big news today is that Marvel and Disney have officially announced the Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD release of Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels (2023) for release on 2/13, with the Digital release expected on 1/16. Extras will include audio commentary with DaCosta and VFX supervisor Tara DeMarco, 2 featurettes (Entangled and The Production Diaries), 4 deleted scenes, and a gag reel. There will also be a 4K Steelbook edition that’s exclusive to Walmart. Audio on the 4K (a UHD-66 disc) will be Dolby Atmos, with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray. You can see the cover artwork at left and also below.
Also, Universal and DreamWorks Animation have listed the CG-animated Trolls Band Together (2023) for Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K UHD release on 7/1 on Amazon, though that’s probably a placeholder date. Whatever the final street date ends up being, look for a Trolls 3-Movie Collection on Blu-ray and DVD that same day. [Read on here...]
- Shout! Studios
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
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- Tim Salmons
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Silver Bullet 4K review
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Shout Select
- Tales from the Darkside: The Movie 4K review
- Over the Edge
- The Shining (1997)
- Quigley Down Under 4K
- Child's Play (2019) 4K
- Carrie (2013) 4K
- K19: The Widowmaker 4K
- Trolls Band Together
- Rick and Morty: The Complete Seventh Season BD
- Wednesday: The Complete First Season BD
- Sonic Prime: Season 1 BD
- Enough Rope (1963)
- Republic Pictures Horror Collection
- Lady and the Monster (1944)
- The Phantom Speaks (1945)
- The Catman of Paris (1946)
- Valley of the Zombies (1946)
- Scott DeMers
- Dragons Down boardgame
- Hellenica: Story of Greece board game Kickstarter
- Mr B Games
- The Marvels 4K
- Disney
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It’s Going to Be a Very Expensive December for Disc Fans—Shout! & Arrow announce their final disc slates for 2023!
Boy, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover here at The Bits over the next few days! It’s been very busy here around the office these past several days. For one thing, my wife and I have had family staying with us for the weekend. I’ve also finally replaced my defunct Epson 5040UB home theater projector here at The Bits with a brand new JVC DLA-RS1100/NP5, and have spent time installing and calibrating it. (I’ll definitely have more to say about that later this week, though I’ll just note for now that I’m very pleased with the choice.)
But I would like to take this opportunity to thank my good friends John Schuermann (of The Screening Room AV, the fantastic home theater design and equipment retailer well known for their annual Projector Shootouts) and Kris Deering (the outstanding ISF calibrator, formerly of Sound and Vision magazine as well as his own Deep Dive AV) for their help and advice in selecting the RS1100 and getting it up and running. (Your counsel is very much appreciated, my friends!) If you’re ever in the market for home theater hardware or calibration, there’s no better place to start.
Needless to say, while I’ve been occupied with all that, our dedicated team here at The Bits has posted a number of great new disc reviews. So let’s quickly run them all down...
First of all, Stuart has offered his thoughts on Anthony Mann’s A Dandy in Sapic (1968) and Abraham Polonsky’s Force of Evil (1948) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, as well as Suzanna Raes’ documentary Close to Vermeer (2023) on DVD from Kino Lorber.
Dennis has shared his thoughts on Peter Hall’s Three Into Two Won’t Go (1969) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, as well as Luis Valdez’s La Bamba (1987) on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
Stephen has delivered his reviews of Jean Renoir’s legendary classic The Rules of the Game (1939) in 4K Ultra HD from Criterion, along with Jiří Barta’s The Pied Piper (1986) on Blu-ray from Deaf Crocodile (via Vinegar Syndrome), and Ulli Lommel’s The Boogey Man (1980) in 4K UHD from Vinegar Syndrome.
And finally, our hard-working reviews editor Tim Salmons has posted his own take on David Lynch’s Lost Highway (1997) in 4K Ultra HD, also from Criterion.
As always, more new disc reviews are forthcoming all week, so be sure to check back for them.
All right… now let’s move on to the latest release news. And there’s quite a lot of it today. In fact, it’s fair to say that it’s going to be a very expensive Q4 for fans of Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD! [Read on here...]
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Tim Salmons
- Stuart Galbraith IV
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Dennis Seuling
- Stephen Bjork
- John Schuermann
- The Screening Room AV
- Deep Dive AV
- Kris Deering
- Sound and Vision
- JVC DLA RS100 NP5 projector
- A Dandy in Aspic BD review
- Force of Evil BD review
- Close to Vermeer DVD review
- Three Into Two Won't Go BD review
- La Bamba BD review
- The Rules of the Game 4K review
- The Pied Piper BD review
- The Boogey Man 4K review
- Projector Shootout
- Lost Highway 4K review
- The Criterion Collection
- Vinegar Syndrome
- Kino Lorber
- The Way We Were 4K
- JFK 4K
- Oliver Stone
- GKids
- Arrow Video
- Shout! Studios
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- The Kill Room 4K
- Point Break (1991) 4K
- Showdown at the Grand
- Weird: The Al Yankovic Story 4K
- The Ring Collection 4K
- The Dead Zone 4K
- Masaaki Yuasa: Five Films
- Shaw Brothers Classics: Volume Four
- The Man in the Iron Mask 4K
- Last Man Standing
- The Day of the Locust
- Child's Play Collection 4K
- Savage Guns: Four Classic Westerns Volume 3
- The Warriors 4K
- Walter Hill
- Kathryn Bigelow
Monster Squad 4K, plus For All Mankind on US Blu-ray, Justified: City Primeval, Young Guns, Blue Steel, a massive Doctor Who box set & more!
We’ve got a bunch of great title announcement news and “revels” to report today, so let’s get right to it...
First up, our friends at Kino Lorber Studio Classics have just revealed on their social media that they’re working on a new 4K Ultra HD release of Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad (1987)! And we have street date: Look for it to arrive on 11/28, complete with a new 4K scan of the original camera negative with Dolby Vision HDR on a UHD-100 disc. The 3-disc set will also include the film remastered in 1080p HD on Blu-ray (which will also be available separately) and you’ll get a bonus disc with the Wolfman’s Got Nards (2018) documentary. Plus the set will include a ton of legacy special features. You can see the 4K cover artwork at left.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has also just revealed the Region A/US Blu-ray release of Ron Moore and Apple TV+’s fantastic alternate/near future science fiction series For All Mankind: Season One. Look for that to street on 11/14. Unfortunately, no 4K Ultra HD release is currently planned. Also, the cover artwork leaves a lot to be desired; it’s identical to the key art used on Dazzler’s UK release (which we reviewed here) but it shares nothing in common with the show’s actual logo or promotional artwork, causing a number of fans we’ve heard from to say it looks like a bootleg. In any case, it’s a great series—one of my favorites actually, along with Apple TV’s Foundation—and it’s great to finally have a legit US Blu-ray option. You can see the cover (with the Amazon pre-order link) below the break.
Sony has also just set FX’s Justified: City Primeval – Season One for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 11/14. And we’ve got that cover artwork for you below as well. [Read on here...]
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Foundation
- AppleTV+
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Warner Bros Discovery Home Entertainment
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio 4K
- The Red Balloon and Other Stories: Five Films by Albert Lamorisse
- The Criterion Collection
- Criterion's December 2023 slate
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Lionsgate Home Entertainment
- For All Mankind: Season One BD
- The Monster Squad (1987) 4K
- Justified: City Primeval BD
- Gran Turismo 4K
- Blue Beetle 4K
- DC Studios
- Office Christmas Party 4K
- Duel 4K
- Steven Spielberg
- Jurassic World: The Ultimate Collection 4K
- The Twilight Saga 4K
- Best Buy exclusive 4K Steelbook
- Young Guns 4K
- Blue Steel BD
- Vestron Video Collector's Series
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Fred Dekker
- BBC Home Entertainment
- Doctor Who: New Who Limited Collector’s Edition BD
- Cutthroat Island 4K
- StudioCanal
- Raro Video
- The Conformist BD
- Renny Harlin
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Neill Blomkamp
- Wolfman’s Got Nards
The Green Mile, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Hurt Locker & The Hitcher in 4K, plus Ordinary People on Blu-ray & more
Wednesday afternoon here at The Bits brings new disc reviews and more release news as well...
First, Tim has posted his thoughts on Michael Felsher’s excellent new documentary After Effects: Memories of Pittsburgh Filmmaking, now available on Limited Edition Blu-ray from his own new label, Red Shirt Video. Sounds like it’s a pretty terrific release so do check it out.
By the way, after you enjoy that, here’s a link to an interview I did way back in 2005 (on the original Bits website) with writer/director John Harrison about Effects and his work with Romero and other Pittsburgh filmmakers. (Just pardon the messy formatting.)
Also this afternoon, Stephen has posted reviews of William Beaudine’s The Old Fashioned Way (1934) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, as well as Sarah Smith, Jean-Philippe Vine, and Octavio E. Rodriguez’s Ron’s Gone Wrong in 4K Ultra HD from 20th Century Studios.
More reviews are forthcoming in the days ahead, including several that I’m working on, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for them. [Read on here...]
- Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City 4K
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Tim Salmons
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Stephen Bjork
- The Green Mile 4K
- Frank Darabont
- The Hurt Locker 4K
- The Hitcher 4K
- Rutger Hauer
- Second Sight Films
- Lionsgate
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Stephen King
- Ordinary People: Paramount Presents BD
- Robert Redford
- Michael Felsher
- Red Shirt Video
- After Effects: Memories of Pittsburgh Filmmaking BD review
- The Old Fashioned Way BD review
- Ron's Gone Wrong 4K review
- John Harrison
- George Romero
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Billy Wilder
- The Apartment 4K
- CES 2022
- Last Night in Soho 4K
- Kaleidescape
- Terra 6 movie server
- Strato C player