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20th Century Studios sets The Creator for BD & 4K on 12/12, plus Sony’s Equalizer 3, Shout’s January slate & welcome Celluloid Dreams!
All right, I certainly hope you all had a lovely weekend. We’ve got some great new disc reviews for you to enjoy today, as well as some terrific release news.
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Now then, let’s get to those reviews...
First, I’ve posted my thoughts on Apple TV’s For All Mankind: Season One, which is new on Blu-ray from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, as well as For All Mankind: Season Two, which was released on Region B Blu-ray by Dazzler a few months ago. This is shaping up to be one of the great science fiction series, one that’s worthy of the legacy and spirit of optimism about the future that we all loved about classic Star Trek. It’s well worth your time.
Also, Dennis has turned in his thoughts on Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection, a disc that includes Browning’s Freaks (1932), The Unknown (1927), and The Mystic (1925).
And Stuart has delivered his take on Dan M. Kinem and Levi Peretic’s Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector (2013) on Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome.
Note that I’m also working on a review of Sony’s new Rudy 4K Ultra HD Steelbook release, which is pretty great. More on that here soon. [Read on here...]
- DVD Review
- Celluloid Dreams
- Lucas Henkel
- Guido Henkel
- Street Girls
- Funeral Home
- Thinner
- Jennifer 8
- Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia BD
- St Ives
- Telefon
- Forced Vengeance
- Shout January 2024 slate
- Scream Factory
- Shout! Factory
- IMAXenhanced
- The Equalizer: 3Movie Collection 4K
- The Equalizer 3 4K
- Antoine Fuqua
- Gareth Edwards
- The Creator (2023) 4K
- 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment
- Barnes and Noble 50% Criterion sale
- The Criterion Collection
- Vinegar Syndrome
- Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector BD review
- Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers BD review
- Dazzler Media
- For All Mankind: Season Two BD review
- For All Mankind: Season One BD review
- Dennis Seuling
- Stuart Galbraith IV
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Back the Bits
- Rudy 4K Steelbook
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Criterion’s October slate includes The Others & Videodrome in 4K, plus Dio: Dreamers Never Die, For All Mankind: Season 3 & Manny Coto RIP
We’re kicking off the new week today with three more disc reviews from The Bits review team, including...
Tim’s thoughts on Martin Brest’s Midnight Run (1988) in 4K Ultra HD from Shout! Factory via their Shout Select line.
Stephen’s take on Mizuho Nishikubo’s animated Giovanni’s Island (2014) on Blu-ray from GKids.
And Dennis’ look at John Cromwell’s Caged (1950) on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection.
More reviews are forthcoming all this week, so be sure to check back every day for them.
Now then, the big release news today is that the Criterion Collection has just announced its October Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD slate, which includes five great new titles. [Read on here...]
- Dennis Seuling
- Tim Salmons
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Stephen Bjork
- Midnight Run 4K review
- Giovanni's Island BD review
- GKids
- Shout! Factory
- Warner Archive Collection
- Caged BD review
- The Criterion Collection's October 2023 slate
- Nicolas Roeg
- Don't Look Now 4K
- David Cronenberg
- Videodrome 4K
- Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers BD
- The Others 4K
- Dimension Films
- Nanny BD
- Alejandro Amenabar
- Nikyatu Jusu
- 20th Century Studios
- The Creator
- Gareth Edwards
- Manny Coto RIP
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- Dio: Dreamers Never Die 4K
- Mercury Studios
- Ronnie James Dio
- No Hard Feelings
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Dazzler Media
- For All Mankind: Season Three BD
- 24
- Dr Giggles
- Odyssey 5
Sony reveals So I Married an Axe Murder 4K, plus Imprint’s August Blu-ray slate has Film Focus box sets on Jennifer Connelly, Jessica Lange & more
We’ve got three more new disc reviews for you today...
First, I’ve taken a look at Apple TV’s For All Mankind: Season One, as released on Region B Blu-ray in the UK by Dazzler Media. This is one of my favorite series—and alternate history of NASA’s space program in a world where the Soviets beat America to the Moon in the 1960s, co-created by Ron Moore of Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Outlander, which starts as a Mad Men-like period drama and gradually moved into the territory of science fiction with each new season. Dazzler’s release is the only place you can get the series on physical media, and I’ll be reviewing Season Two on Blu-ray shortly as well.
Also, Dennis has reviewed Mike Hodges’ I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (2003) and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha (1993) on Blu-ray from Imprint Films and Via Vision in Australia.
Speaking of Imprint Films, the company has just unveiled its August Blu-ray slate, which is set to include the following... Film Focus: Jennifer Connelly—which includes Career Opportunities (1991), Waking the Dead (2000), and House of Sand and Fog (2003)—Film Focus: Jessica Lange—which includes Frances (1982), Crimes of the Heart (1986), Music Box (1989), and Losing Isaiah (1995)—Alan Rudolph’s Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), Karen Moncrieff’s Blue Car (2002), and Steven Zaillian’s Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993). [Read on here...]
- Fast X
- Audie Murphy Collection II
- A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
- Nevada Smith (1966)
- Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
- Blue Car (2002)
- Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
- Losing Isaiah (1995)
- Music Box (1989)
- Crimes of the Heart (1986)
- Frances (1982)
- Film Focus: Jessica Lange
- House of Sand and Fog (2003)
- Waking the Dead (2000)
- Career Opportunities (1991)
- Film Focus: Jennifer Connelly
- Ron Moore
- Apple TV+
- Dennis Seuling
- Via Vision
- Imprint Films
- Little Buddha BD review
- I'll Sleep When I'm Dead BD review
- For All Mankind: Season One BD review
- Dazzler Media
- So I Married an Axe Murderer 4K
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Cocaine Bear comes to disc, plus For All Mankind on Blu-ray in the UK only, TMNT (2014) on 4K, Warner Archive news & more
All right, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover today. We have several new disc reviews—at least one from each member of the Bits review team—and plenty of announcement news for you as well. First, those reviews...
First, I’ve posted my review of John Huston’s first film, The Maltese Falcon (1941), in a beautiful new 4K Ultra HD restoration from Warner Bros.
Stephen has reviewed Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead (1980) in 4K Ultra HD from Cauldon Films.
Dennis has turned in his thoughts on Jim McBride’s Breathless (1983) in Blu-ray from Fun City Editions via Vinegar Syndrome.
Stuart has offered his thoughts on Joseph McGrath’s The Bliss of Miss Blossom (1968) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, as well as Sam Woods’s Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939) on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection.
And Tim rounds things out with his reviews of William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist III (1990) in 4K Ultra HD from Scream Factory, as well as Tope Hoper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) in 4K Ultra HD from Turbine Medien in Germany.
More new reviews are on the way as well in the coming days, so be sure to keep checking back for them. [Read on here...]
- Enter the Video Store: Empire of Screams box set
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Stephen Bjork
- Stuart Galbraith IV
- The Warner Archive Collection
- Arrow Video June 2023 slate
- Dennis Seuling
- Tim Salmons
- Dazzler Media
- For All Mankind on BD in the UK
- Apple TV+
- The Maltese Falcon 4K review
- City of the Living Dead 4K review
- Breathless BD review
- The Bliss of Miss Blossom BD review
- Goodbye Mr Chips BD review
- Texas Chain Saw Massacre 4K review
- Turbine Media
- Vinegar Syndrome
- Scream Factory
- Cauldron Films
- Fun City Editions
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Cocaine Bear
- Universal
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) 4K
- The War of the Worlds (1953) 4K
- The Freak Brothers
- Fear the Walking Dead
- Maximum Overdrive
- Jesus Revolution
- Sanity
- Cutthroat Island 4K
- Cross of Iron 4K
- Battlestar Galactica 4K
Planes Trains & Automobiles, Coraline, Silent Running, WarGames & LOTS more 4K Ultra HD news, plus Arrow, Imprint & Shout! bow December BD slates!
We’re starting things off this week with several more new disc reviews and LOTS of announcement news! First up, those reviews...
Stephen has taken an in-depth look at John Carpenter’s supernatural horror classic The Fog (1980) in 4K Ultra HD from Scream Factory, and we have separate reviews for both the wide-release Collector’s Edition and the Steelbook version as well.
Stephen has also offered his thoughts on Taika Waititi’s latest MCU installment, Thor: Love and Thunder, in 4K Ultra HD from Marvel and Disney.
Meanwhile, Dennis has turned in his take on a pair of classic films on Blu-ray, including Sydney Salkow’s Twice Told Tales (1963) starring Vincent Price from Kino Lorber Studio Classics and also John Cromwell’s Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) from the Warner Archive Collection.
And Tim has delivered a look at Warner and DC’s long-awaited Deluxe Edition of the animated Batman: The Long Halloween (2021) as well as Random Space Media’s import 4K/Blu-ray 3D double feature of Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017).
As always, more reviews are on the way for tomorrow and all this week, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for them. [Read on here...]
- The Warner Archive Collection
- Imprint Films
- Tim Salmons
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Paramount
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Dennis Seuling
- Stephen Bjork
- The Fog 4K review
- Thor: Love and Thunder 4K review
- Twice Told Tales BD review
- Batman: The Long Halloween 4K review
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois BD review
- Jumanji: The Next Level 4K review
- Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 4K review
- Planes Trains and Automobiles 4K
- Coraline 4K
- ParaNorman 4K
- Laika
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Operation Seawolf BD
- Black Christmas 4K
- Carrie 4K
- Wargames 4K
- A Walk to Remember BD
- Goodbye Don Glees! BD
- Arrow Video
- The Croupier 4K
- Silent Running 4K
- The Leech BD
- Nightmare at Noon
- Videodrome 4K
- Ju On: The Grudge BD
- The Limey 4K
- Pulp Fiction 4K
- Halloween Ends 4K
- Black Adam 4K
- Rocky 4K
- Rocky II 4K
- Sylvester Stallone
- Rocky III 4K
- Rocky IV 4K
- Rocky V 4K
- Rocky Balboa 4K
- Training Day 4K
- Magic Mike's Last Dance 4K
- Shazam! Fury of the Gods 4K
- The Flash 4K
- Barbie 4K
- Meg 2: The Trench 4K
- Blue Beatle 4K
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- The Killer Elite BD
- The Eagle Has Landed BD
- Burn! BD
- Fear Is the Key BD
- Pork Chop Hill BD
- A Rage to Live BD
- For All Mankind
- Dazzler Media
- 5 25 77 BD
Paramount sets TOP GUN: MAVERICK for disc on 11/1 & Digital next week on 8/23, plus For All Mankind: S1 on UK Blu-ray, Shawscope: Volume 2 & more!
All right, we have big release news to report today, but first we’ve got three more new disc reviews for you all to enjoy…
Stephen has given an in-depth look at Dario Argento’s Tenebrae in 4K Ultra HD, as newly released in a terrific and loaded special edition package from our friends at Synapse Films. If you’re a fan of Argento, the gaillo genre, or this film in particular, this is a great package that you’re not going to want to miss.
Stephen has also taken a look at an under-appreciated Soviet classic by director Alexandr Ptushko, a filmmaker considered by many to be the Russian George Pal… Sampo (1959) new on Blu-ray from Deaf Crocodile and Vinegar Syndrome. This is an interesting piece of cinema that also deserves a look.
Last but not least, Dennis has offered his thoughts on Graham Mason’s Inspector Ike (2020), which presents itself as a “lost 70s telefilm” and detective story spoof, a-la The Naked Gun. That’s available on Blu-ray from Factory 25 via Vinegar Syndrome, so be sure to check it out.
Now then, the biggest box office hit of the year… and what is likely to be the biggest home media title of the year as well… has finally been made official: Paramount Home Entertainment will release Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 11/1 (a date that our sources have been suggesting for a few weeks now). But here’s the real surprise: The Digital release will drop next Tuesday on 8/23! [Read on here...]
- Dennis Seuling
- Stephen Bjork
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Tom Cruise
- Top Gun: Maverick 4K
- For All Mankind: Season One UK BD
- Shawscope: Volume Two BD box set
- Arrow Video
- Tenebrae 4K review
- Sampo BD review
- Alexandr Ptushko
- Synapse Films
- Vinegar Syndrome
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Top Gun: 2Movie Collection
- The Limey Steelbook 4K
- Lionsgate Home Entertainment
- Disney+
- The Nightmare Before Christmas 4K
- Tim Burton
- Red Dragon 4K
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Brett Ratner
- Shaw Brothers
- Dazzler Media
- George Romero
- The Amusement Park BD
- RLJE Films
- Shudder
- The Flash: The Complete Eighth Season BD
- DC
- The Screening Room A/V
- 2022 TSR Laser Projector Shootout
- Colorado Springs
- John Schuermann
- Kris Deering