Displaying items by tag: Cult Epics
Universal makes Downton Abbey: A New Era official for release on BD, DVD & 4K on 7/5, plus Doctor Strange, Real Genius & Maverick pre-orders
We’ve got two more new disc reviews for you to enjoy this afternoon...
Tim has turned in his thoughts on Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night (1967) in 4K Ultra HD from our friends at Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
Tim has also taken a look at Robert Fuest’s The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) and Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972), which are available in a new Blu-ray double feature also from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
In announcement news today, Universal has officially set Downton Abbey: A New Era for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 7/5. The 4K will include Dolby Atmos audio and Dolby Vision HDR. Extras will include audio commentary with director Simon Curtis, plus 6 featurettes (Good to Be Back, Return to Downton Abbey: The Making of a New Era, A Legendary Character, Creating the Film Within the Film, Spill the Tea (Time), and Her Majesty’s Yacht Britannia). [Read on here...]
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Downton Abbey: A New Era 4K
- Doom 4K
- Tim Salmons
- Good Burger BD
- In the Heat of the Night 4K review
- The Abominable Dr Phines BD review
- Dr Phibes Rises Again BD review
- Cult Epics
- Naked Over the Fence BD
- Madame Claude BD
- The Last Romantic Lover BD
- The Duke BD
- Offseason
- That Dirty Black Bag: Season One
- The Witch 4K
- Summers with Picasso
- Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness 4K
- Top Gun: Maverick 4K
- Real Genius 4K
- 499 BD
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune arrives in theaters & HBO Max, plus Respect, Pirates, KLSC’s December Blu-ray slate & more
Let’s have a quick round-up of Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD release news, and then I must dive back into my own review work over the next several days...
First up, it does indeed appear that Disney is preparing a 4K Ultra HD release of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. I’ve now got multiple retail and industry sources confirming this. However, don’t expect the sequels to be announced anytime soon. It’s possible that the studio is planning to release more films in the series next year if this first one sells well (and possibly promoted by the success of the films in streaming on Disney+) but for now Curse of the Black Pearl seems to be the only film immediately in the offing.
Also, while we’re on the topic of Disney, it seems that the Heat 4K release continues to be in limbo, but is still expected to arrive on the format sometime next year.
Meanwhile, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is definitely shaping up for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD in early January sometime. Info some retailers suggests that the studio is targeting 1/11/22 as the street date. And for those of you who have been waiting, not only does it finally arrive in theaters tomorrow (with sneak peek preview screenings tonight in many US cities), the film premieres IN JUST TWO HOURS in 4K with HDR and Dolby Atmos on HBO Max. So get ready to enjoy a helluva good cinematic experience. [Read on here...]
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 4K
- Cry Macho 4K
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Heat 4K
- Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
- Denis Villeneuve's DUNE
- HBO Max
- Respect
- Nine Days
- The Early Films of Lee Isaac Chung
- Wonder Target exclusive
- Going Berserk
- The Far Country
- Shout! Factory
- Arrow Video
- Lionsgate
- Kino Lorber
- The World of Hans Zimmer BD
- Cult Epics
- Sylvia Kristel
Laugh-In, Pink Panther & More Recent Classic Blu-ray/DVD Releases… plus Busey
Since the earliest days of American television, some programs thereon have become phenoms by lancing through public consciousness at the right time and place in popular culture.
You know the list – The Texaco Star Theater, starring Milton Berle, was the first show to become “must see.” The same moniker could also be used for I Love Lucy or The Honeymooners or The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson or even Saturday Night Live.
While these programs and a few shows like them, say All in the Family, breathed rarefied air, none caused a change in the public stratosphere like a comedy sketch show which started airing on NBC Monday nights in 1967, opposite The Lucy Show and Gunsmoke, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In.
Now, to celebrate Laugh-In’s 50th Anniversary, Time Life Home Video has released Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In: The Complete Series – including every episode from all six seasons along with exclusive new bonus features and a free DVD. That’s 140 episodes on 38 DVDs. [Read on here...]