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MVD Rewind is bringing Hardware Wars to Blu-ray, plus new KLSC titles, School Daze 4K, watch Bill talking physical media on Midnight’s Edge & more
We’ve got a trio of new disc reviews to round out the week today, including...
My thoughts on David Anspaugh’s Rudy (1993) which streets in 4K Ultra HD from Sony next Tuesday (11/14), featuring not only the original Theatrical Version but also a new Director’s Cut that’s 13 minutes longer.
Stephen’s take on Chuck Russell’s 1988 remake of The Blob in 4K UHD from Shout! and Scream Factory.
And Dennis’ take on Ron Winston’s The Gamblers (1970) on Blu-ray from VCI Entertainment.
More reviews are on the way, including my own look at Billy Wilder’s Stalag 17 (1953) in 4K from Kino Lorber Studio Classics. So be sure to watch for those soon.
Also today, over on our Patreon we’ve kicked off an in-depth poll asking our supporters what video, audio, special features, and packaging options 4K Ultra HD fans value most on their catalog titles on the format. The poll will remain open until next Friday (11/17) at Noon Pacific, so if you sign up as a supporter between now and then, you can weigh in with your picks. And we’ll share the results here on the website.
We’re going to run these kind of polls regularly on Patreon, both for our own edification and also to provide that information to studio sources who might ask for it, so this is a great chance to make your opinions heard. [Read on here...]
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- CBS Home Entertainment
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Stephen Bjork
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Back the Bits
- Rudy 4K Steelbook review
- The Blob (1988) 4K review
- The Gamblers BD review
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Spike Lee
- School Daze 4K
- VCI Entertainment
- Dennis Seuling
- 4K catalog features poll on Patreon
- Eric Wilkinson
- MVD Rewind Collection
- Hardware Wars (1978) BD
- Ernie Fosselius
- The Outside Man
- Has Anybody Seen My Gal
- The Road to Hong Kong
- To Hell with Heroes
- Split Image
- Special Ops: Lioness
- Five Nights at Freddy's 4K
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Adult Swim
- Rick and Morty: The Complete Seventh Season BD
- Love Actually 4K
- Titanic 4K
- Bill on Midnight's Edge YouTube webcast
New Warner Archive Blu-ray titles, plus Questor Tapes, Oldboy 4K, and a brief Titanic Ultra HD update
We’ve got some interesting release news for you today, as well as updates on forthcoming 4K catalog titles we’ve been tracking for a while, and of course more new disc reviews. So let’s get to the latter first...
Our own Stephen Bjork has posted his in-depth review of Loki: The Complete First Season in 4K Ultra HD Steelbook from Marvel Studios and Disney. The short version is that the studio really does seem to have done this title right, in terms of AV quality, which bodes well for forthcoming Disney+ streaming series in 4K UHD.
Stephen has also turned in a look at Barry Levinson’s Rain Man (1988) in 4K Ultra HD from the MVD Marquee Collection.
And Stuart has delivered his take on Kino Lorber Studio Classic’s Audie Murphy Collection II on Blu-ray, which features Sierra (1950), Kansas Raiders (1950), and Destry (1954).
In terms of new release news, we’re hearing from retail sources that Universal’s forthcoming Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD release of David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist: Believer (2023) will arrive in stores on 12/19.
Lionsgate has also delayed their 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray release of Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (1963) from 9/26 to 10/24. Adjust your plans accordingly. [Read on here...]
- Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice: Volume 2 BD
- Umbrella Entertainment
- The Warner Archive Collection
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Stuart Galbraith IV
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Stephen Bjork
- Loki: The Complete First Season 4K review
- Rain Man 4K review
- Audie Murphy Collection BD review
- The Exorcist: Believer 4K
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Contempt 4K
- Lionsgate
- Young Guns 4K
- James Cameron
- Titanic 4K
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
- 20th Century Studios
- The Abyss 4K
- True Lies 4K
- Aliens 4K
- Super Mario Bros (1993) 4K
- Arrow Video
- Enter the Video Store: Empire of Screams BD
- The Questor Tapes BD
- Gene Roddenberry
- Odds Against Tomorrow
- I for Icarus
- Mille Milliards de Dollars
- The Ballad of Little Joe
- The Conformist BD
- Raro Video
- The Devil Doll (1936)
- Tod Browning
- Mad City (1997)
- Double Trouble (1967)
- Dance Fools Dance (1931)
- In Love and War (1996)
- Oldboy 4K
- Decal
- Neon
- Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
- VCI Entertainment
- The Retirement Plan
- Spider Verse 2 Movie Collection
- Rapa Nui (1994)
- The Last Voyage of the Demeter
- The Hill (2023)
- Congress (2013)
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham announced, plus The Green Hornet on Blu-ray, The Legend of 1900 in 4K & more
All right, we have several more new disc reviews for you to close out the week today, and a bit more release news as well...
To start, Tim has turned in his thoughts on Paul Schrader’s Cat People (1982) in 4K Ultra HD from Scream Factory.
He’s also reviewed Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness (1990) in 4K Ultra HD in both wide-release Amaray and Steelbook packaging, also from Scream Factory.
Stephen has taken a look at Yugo Sakamoto’s Baby Assassins (2021) on Blu-ray from Well Go USA Entertainment, as well as Jack Cardiff’s The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, and also Sergio Bergonzelli’s Blood Delirium (1988) on Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome.
And Dennis has offered his thoughts on Rick Rosenthal’s Distant Thunder (1988) on Blu-ray from Paramount via Imprint Films.
All of these tiles are worth a look, and as always more reviews are forthcoming in the days ahead. [Read on here...]
- Tim Salmons
- Stephen Bjork
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Paramount
- Dennis Seuling
- Vinegar Syndrome
- Scream Factory
- Well Go USA Entertainment
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Imprint Films
- Cat People 4K review
- Army of Darkness 4K review
- Distant Thunder BD review
- Baby Assassins BD review
- The Girl on a Motorcycle BD review
- Blood Delirium BD review
- Warner Bros Discovery Home Entertainment
- DC
- Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham 4K
- The Green Hornet serial BD
- VCI Entertainment
- Giuseppe Tornatore
- Koch Media
- Plaion Pictures
- Ennio: The Maestro 4K
- The Legend of 1900 4K
- House Quadrilogy 4K
- Michael Coate
- History Legacy & Showmanship
Bones and All, Prey for the Devil, Jackie Chan: Volume 1 & more, plus updates on To Live and Die in LA & Once Upon a Time in the West in 4K
Today’s My Two Cents update begins as always with more new disc reviews...
Tim and I have taken a look at Kino Lorber Studio Classics’ new 4K Ultra HD upgrade of the classic Joseph Sargent heist thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), which stars Robert Shaw and Walter Matthau. Among other things, it’s a great New York City movie and if you’ve ever wondered where director Quentin Tarantino got the idea for his character names in Reservoir Dogs, look no further.
Also today, we’ve gone in-depth on Via Vision’s new Dirty Dancing: Limited Edition Steelbook 4K Ultra HD release, which takes Lionsgate’s already fine remastering work on the title and adds a few more extras via their own exclusive bonus Blu-ray Disc.
And Tim has also reviewed Bob Clark’s Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things: 50th Anniversary Edition in 4K Ultra HD from VCI Entertainment, which includes a new 4K scan and remaster but only Standard Dynamic Range, as well as Nico Mastorakis’s Nightmare at Noon (1988) on Blu-ray from our friends at Arrow Video.
More reviews are on the way tomorrow and beyond, so be sure to watch for them. [Read on here...]
- 20th Century Fox
- Tim Salmons
- Paramount
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bones and All BD
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Warner Bros
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 4K review
- Via Vision
- Dirty Dancing: Limited Edition Steelbook 4K review
- VCI Entertainment
- Nightmare at Noon BD review
- Arrow Video
- Prey for the Devil 4K
- Lionsgate
- Warm Bodies Best Buy 4K Steelbook
- Detective Knight: Redemption BD
- To the End
- The Prince of Egypt 4K
- Shout! Factory
- The Jackie Chan Collection: Volume 1 BD
- The Return of Tanya Tucker
- Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted DVD
- To Live and Die in LA 4K
- William Friedkin
- Sergio Leone
- Once Upon a Time in the West 4K
- Say Anything
- The Magnificent Seven 4K
- Three Colors Trilogy 4K
- The Remains of the Day 4K
Shout!’s October slate includes Bill & Ted, more Halloween films & Return of the Living Dead in 4K, plus RIP Nichelle Nichols
All right, we’ve got some great catalog 4K Ultra HD news to report today, but first we have one more new review...
I spent some time this weekend looking at Stanley Kubrick’s landmark war film Paths of Glory (1957) thanks to a fine new 4K Ultra HD release from our friends at Kino Lorber Studio Classics. For the first time, the image has been scanned from the original camera negative in native 4K—Criterion’s 2010 Blu-ray release was only a 2K scan of a fine-grain master positive—so this is unquestionably the best the film has ever looked at home. It’s a beautiful presentation and not to be missed by Kubrick fans and cinephiles.
All right, now for that catalog news... VCI Entertainment has set Bob Clark’s Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things (1972) for release on 4K Ultra HD on 10/11 as a new 50th Anniversary Edition. The release will include a new video introduction and Q&A with actor Alan Ormsby, along with a new 90-minute documentary on Clark’s horror films called Dreaming of Death. You’ll get lots of legacy special features as well. And you can see the cover artwork below the break. [Read on here...]
- Shout! Factory
- Wargames 4K
- Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Scream Factory
- Paths of Glory 4K review
- Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things 4K
- Army of Darkness: Collector’s Edition 4K
- Bad Santa 2 BD
- Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure 4K
- The Return of the Living Dead 4K
- When Marnie Was Here BD
- Ocean Waves BD
- Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers 4K
- Halloween: H20 4K
- Halloween: Resurrection 4K
- The Halloween 4K Collection (19942002) 4K
- VCI Entertainment
- Fargo 4K
- Wargames 4K
- Imprint Films
- The Beast BD
- Ballyhoo Motion Pictures
- Nanawatai!: Inside The Beast
- Star Wars: Andor trailer
- Nichelle Nichols RIP
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- NASA
- Disney+
- Lucasfilm
Dirty Dancing 4K goes wide, plus Event Horizon, Alex Garland’s Men, Tenebrae 4K from Synapse, Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things & more
We have three more new Blu-ray reviews for you to enjoy today, starting with Stephen’s take on Daisuke Miyazaki’s Videophobia (2019) from Vinegar Syndrome.
Dennis has turned in his thoughts on Ulu Grosbard’s Straight Time (1978) on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection.
And Dennis has also reviewed Patricia Birch’s Grease 2: 40th Anniversary Edition in the form of a new Blu-ray Steelbook from Paramount.
In announcement news today, Paramount has finally made their 8/9 4K Ultra HD Steelbook release of Event Horizon (1997) official. The title will include both Dolby Vision and HDR10 high dynamic range, 5.1 Dolby TrueHD audio, and the following extras: Commentary by director Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt, the 5-part The Making of Event Horizon documentary, The Point of No Return featurette with director commentary, The Unseen Event Horizon featurette, Secrets (deleted and extended scenes with director’s commentary), the theatrical trailer, and a video trailer. [Read on here...]
- Stephen Bjork
- Dennis Seuling
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Videophobia BD review
- Straight Time BD review
- Grease 2: 40th Anniversary Edition BD review
- Dirty Dancing 4K
- Men BD
- Alex Garland
- Child's Play 4K
- Child's Play 2 4K
- Child's Play 3 4K
- Scream Factory
- Synapse Films
- VCI Entertainment
- Vinegar Syndrome
- Dario Argento’s Tenebrae 4K
- Unsane
- Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things: 50th Anniversary Edition BD
- Rain: 90th Anniversary Edition BD
- The Bob’s Burgers Movie 4K
- Lucifer: The Sixth & Final Season DVD
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula 4K Steelbook
Criterion’s January slate includes Godard, Lumet, Cukor & Almodóvar, plus new BD/4K street dates
We’ve got a quick update for you today, to report that Criterion has just announced their January 2020 Blu-ray and DVD titles.
They include: George Cukor’s Holiday (Spine #1009 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 1/7, Sidney Lumet’s The Fugitive Kind (Spine #515 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 1/14, Jean-Luc Godard’s Le petit soldat (Spine #1010 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 1/21, and Sidney Lumet’s Fail Safe (Spine #1111 – Blu-ray and DVD) and Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother (Spine #1012 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 1/28.
We’ve updated our Criterion Spines Project page here at The Bits to include them, and you can read more about each title on the Criterion website. You can also see the cover artwork below. [Read on here...]
- Shout! Factory
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 4K
- The Joker
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- 4K Ultra HD
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- The Criterion Collection
- Holiday
- The Fugitive Kind
- Le petit soldat
- Fail Safe
- All About My Mother
- George Cukor
- Pedro Almodovar
- Sidney Lumet
- JeanLuc Godard
- The Criterion Spines Project
- Brother Can You Spare a Dime? DVD review
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XII DVD review
- Robin Williams: Comic Genius DVD review
- Time Life
- VCI Entertainment
Criterion reveals its November slate, plus Shaft (2019), Deadwood: The Movie & Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
All right, folks... we have some release news for you this afternoon.
The big release news today is that the Criterion Collection has announced their November Blu-ray and DVD slate, which is set to include Greg Mottola’s The Daytrippers (Spine #1001 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 11/12, Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Betty Blue (Spine #1002 – Blu-ray and DVD) and Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War (Spine #1005 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 11/19, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve (Spine #1003 – Blu-ray and DVD) and Irving Rapper’s Now, Voyager (Spine #1004 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 11/26. [Read on here...]
- Deadwood: The Movie
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Shout! Factory
- Stand by Me 4K review
- Criterion November 2019 slate
- All About Eve BD
- The Daytrippers BD
- Betty Blue BD
- Now Voyager BD
- Cold War BD
- Greg Mottola
- Jean Jacques Beineix
- Irving Rapper
- Joseph L Mankiewicz
- Pawel Pawlikowski
- Shaft (2019) BD
- Prophecy
- Dracula (1979)
- The Fan
- Road Games
- The Devil Rides Out
- The Blob (1988)
- The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas
- Rock ’n’ Roll High School: 40th Anniversary Edition
- The Nutty Professor: Collector’s Edition
- Private School
- MST3K: Season Twelve
- Jungle Queen
- The Phantom Creeps
- VCI Entertainment
- The Red Rider
- The Roaring West
- Mysterious Mr M
- The Dark Eyes of London
- The Human Monster
- Power of Grayskull
- ScoobyDoo Where Are You: The Complete Series BD
RIP Burt Reynolds, plus Recent Releases on Blu-ray & DVD
(As I am writing this month’s column, word spread that the world had lost Nick Redman, a man of incomparable vision and love of classic films. He was a friend of mine and this entire website. I’ll write more next time.)
Maybe it was the mustache. Or the unscripted quips. Or the genteel Southern manner.
Or just maybe it was that laugh, a bombastic cackle delivered by one comfortable in his own skin – inviting his audience gut bust with him, as though they were all in a private joke.
That’s our Burt. And he’s, unbelievably, gone. [Read on here...]
Warner celebrates Hanna-Barbera’s 60th with a Diamond Collection DVD rebrand, plus Chuck, Black Sails: S4 & more
Here at the site today, Tim’s got another new Blu-ray review for you: A look at The Lawnmower Man: Collector’s Edition from Scream Factory. The disc includes both versions of the film plus some very nice extras, so do give it a look.
In announcement news today, Warner Bros Home Entertainment has just unveiled their new Hanna-Barbera Diamond Collection line of DVD and digital releases, set to include a wave of “over 70 seasons of the most popular animated titles of the 50s, 60s and 70s, many of which have not been released on DVD and digital until now.” Some of these rebranded DVD packages have been available previously, including the likes of The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, and Yogi Bear, with more set to come through December of this year. All of this is being done to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera’s iconic animation studio. The WB press release doesn’t really indicate what may be coming that hasn’t yet been released, but I guess we’ll have to watch for announcements in the months ahead. [Read on here…]