Displaying items by tag: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
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
Moonage Daydream is coming from Criterion, plus Sudden Death 4K, Turbine’s Knight Rider Blu-ray box & Jodorowsky’s Tron (?!)
Today being a federal holiday here in the States, there’s not a ton of announcement news to report on this afternoon, but we do have a few interesting odds and ends.
First though, a couple more new disc reviews...
Dennis has posted his thoughts on John M. Stahl’s Imitation of Life (1934), which is new on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
And Stephen has taken a look at Louis Malle’s Pretty Baby (1978) on Blu-ray from Paramount via Imprint Films.
Now then... in announcement news today, Neon has confirmed that four of their recent titles—Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness (2022), Brett Morgen’s terrific David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream (2022), Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), and Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman (2021)—are all going to be coming from the Criterion Collection, presumably to Blu-ray and/or 4K Ultra HD. [Read on here...]
- James Cameron
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Turbine Media Group in Germany
- Stephen Bjork
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Paramount
- Universal
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Dennis Seuling
- Neon
- The Criterion Collection
- Imitation of Life BD review
- Pretty Baby BD review
- Imprint Films
- Thelma and Louise 4K
- Pierrot le Fou BD replacement program
- The Price We Pay
- Moonage Daydream
- The Inspection
- B’Twixt Now and Sunrise
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Detective Knight: Independence
- Sudden Death 4K
- The Hell with Heroes
- Cherry 2000
- Miracle Mile
- Steve De Jarnatt
- Knight Rider: The Complete Series: 40th Anniversary Edition BD box set
- Ocean’s Eleven
- Ocean’s Twelve
- Ocean’s Thirteen
- Steven Soderbergh
- Frank Pavich
- Jodorowsky’s Dune
- Midjourney
- This Film Does Not Exist
- AI
- artificial intelligence
- Stable Diffusion
- Jodorowsky’s Tron
- Terry Gilliam
- The Fisher King 4K
The Fabelmans is official for 2/14, plus new Warner 4K catalog titles & street dates, and a Titanic 4K update
We’re rounding out the week here at The Bits with a few more new disc reviews, and some release news as well, including word of new 4K catalog titles, and updates on a title or two that we’ve talked about here previously in recent weeks. But first those reviews...
I’ve posted my thoughts on Wim Wenders’ stunning Wings of Desire (1987) which is now available in 4K Ultra HD from Curzon Film in the UK. The 4K remaster, which was done by the Wim Wenders Foundation, is absolutely stunning. Fans of the film may not realize this, but by the time the film was completed and being shown in theaters back in ‘87, the version we all experienced then was fully six generations away from original camera negative. But now, every inch of this film—save for the little bit of historical and newsreel footage that appears within it—is first-generation right off the negative. And it makes a huge difference, even over the previous Criterion Blu-ray. So if you’re a fan, this 4K release is definitely worth a look.
I’ve also reviewed Jack Ryan: Season Two on 4K Ultra HD, which was released last month on the format by Paramount (along with Season One which we’ve reviewed here). Season Three of the series recently dropped on Amazon Prime and we have word that it’s coming to both Blu-ray and 4K as well later this year.
Also today, Stephen has turned in his thoughts on Adam Rifkin’s The Invisible Maniac on 4K Ultra HD from Vinegar Syndrome.
And we have more reviews on the way as well. I’m personally working on Shout! Factory’s recent WarGames and HBO’s House of the Dragon: Season One, both in 4K Ultra HD. I hope to post those reviews over the weekend or early next week. And the rest of the review team is working on new titles as well, so be sure to watch for them. [Read on here...]
- Curzon Film
- 12 Angry Men (1957) 4K
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- The Fabelmans
- Universal
- Paramount
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
- Wings of Desire 4K review
- Stephen Bjork
- Jack Ryan: Season Two 4K review
- The Invisible Maniac 4K review
- Wargames 4K
- House of the Dragon: The Complete First Season 4K
- Steven Spielberg
- Mill Creek Entertainment
- Turbine Media Group in Germany
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4K
- From Beyond 4K
- Vinegar Syndrome
- Stuart Gordon
- Tobe Hooper
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- The Departed 4K
- Martin Scorsese
- Harold Ramis
- National Lampoon's Vacation 4K
- Cool Hand Luke 4K
- The Maltese Falcon 4K
- Rebel Without a Cause 4K
- Titanic 4K
- James Cameron
- Sidekicks 4K
Disney bows Mickey & Minnie: 10 Classic Shorts – Vol. 1, plus Confess Fletch, new KLSC/Curzon 4K titles & more
The big news today is that Walt Disney Animation Studios has just officially announced the first title in Disney’s planned 100th anniversary celebration this year. Mickey & Minnie: 10 Classic Shorts – Volume 1 will arrive on Blu-ray/DVD Combo on 2/7. Unfortunately, we don’t have the complete list of shorts yet (it wasn’t included in the press release—we have requested the details) but we do know this much:
“Included is the iconic Steamboat Willie, the first cartoon with synchronized sound, in which the character of Mickey Mouse was first introduced as a deckhand on a riverboat commanded by the tyrannical Captain Pete. Also included are Brave Little Tailor, featuring Mickey as a medieval tailor given a daunting task. In Mickey’s Delayed Date, the tardy mouse relies on his faithful pup Pluto to get him to a dance with Minnie. Hawaiian Holiday finds Mickey and his pals vacationing on a beautiful island. Then along with friends, Mickey and Minnie glide through a romantic date on a frozen river in On Ice. And catch five more delightful stories in this legacy collection.”
[Editor’s Update: Here are the other 5 shorts included in this release: Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip, Figaro and Frankie, Bath Day, Thru the Mirror, and The Little Whirlwind.]
You can see the cover artwork above-left. [Read on here...]
- Best Buy exclusive Steelbook 4K
- Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Mickey & Minnie: 10 Classic Shorts Volume 1 BD
- Steamboat Willie
- Walt Disney Studios 100th Anniversary
- Disney 100
- Brave Little Tailor
- Mickey Mouse
- Chicago: 20th Anniversary Edition
- Paramount
- Confess Fletch
- Women Talking
- Universal
- The Fabelmans
- The Serpent Queen
- Lionsgate
- John Wick Trilogy: Stash Book Collection Steelbook Box Set
- Doctor Who: William Hartnell Complete Season Two
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- 12 Angry Men (1957) 4K
- Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 4K
- Imprint Films
- Severin Films
- The Five Days 4K
- Dario Argento
- King Kong Lives (1976)
- Umbrella Entertainment
- Curzon Film
- Three Colors Trilogy 4K
- The Double Life of Veronique 4K
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
Rocky: The Knockout Collection is official for 2/28, plus Final Dragonslayer 4K & Blu-ray cover artwork is here
We’ve got another new disc review for you this morning...
Tim has taken a look at Peter Medak’s The Changeling (1980) on 4K Ultra HD from the good people of Severin Films.
And we have update on a few titles we’ve been talking about in recent days here at The Bits as well..
First, let’s talk Rocky in 4K Ultra HD... we’ve now learned that the first four films will be available in single-film 4K UHD Steelbooks at Best Buy, while other retailers will carry the 4-film Rocky: The Knockout Collection 4K Ultra HD box set on 2/28. This set will include Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, and Rocky IV in both the original theatrical cut and Stallone’s new Rocky vs. Drago: The Ultimate Director’s Cut. You can see the cover artwork at left. [Read on here...]
- MGM
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Rocky IV 4K
- Rocky III 4K
- Rocky II 4K
- Rocky 4K
- Paramount
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Tim Salmons
- Rocky: The Knockout Collection 4K
- The Changeling 4K review
- Severin Films
- Rocky vs Drago: The Ultimate Director’s Cut
- The Making of Rocky vs Drago: Keep Punching
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- The Glass Web 3D BD
- The 3D Film Archive
- The Slayer of All Dragons
- Rocky V
- Rocky Balboa
- Sylvester Stallone
A Titanic 4K update, plus The Fabelmans, Station Eleven, Aim for the Ace!, The Young Ones, Castle of the Living Dead, King Kong (1976), Face/Off & more!
Welcome back from the holiday, Bits readers! We hope and trust that each of you were able to enjoy a great celebration with your family and friends.
Sarah and I have my mother staying here over the holidays, so we’ve been cooking up a storm, enjoying some great food, and watching lots of movies. I also just finished watching the season finale of HBO’s His Dark Materials—more on that in a moment—and I’ve started in on the new season of Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime. I still need to check out Avatar: The Way of Water at my local IMAX theater, but I’ll get to that soon enough.
We’ve got a new contribution from each member of the Bits reviewing team for you today, including...
Dennis’ look at Robert Mandel’s School Ties (1992) on Blu-ray from Imprint Films and Via Vision.
Stephen’s take on James Whale’s By Candlelight (1933) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
My thoughts on the new single-film 4K Ultra HD SKU of Wilson Yip’s Ip Man (2008) from Well Go USA.
And last, but certainly not least, Tim’s in-depth take on Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners: Ultimate Edition (1996) on 4K Ultra HD from our friends at Turbine Media in Germany! This is a pretty spectacular box set release, and Tim will tell you all about it in his review, so you definitely don’t want to miss it. [Read on here...]
- Stephen Bjork
- Dennis Seuling
- Paramount
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Tim Salmons
- Titanic 4K Ultra HD
- Station Eleven 4K
- The Fabelmans
- Aim for the Ace!
- The Young Ones
- Castle of the Living Dead
- King Kong (1976) 4K
- Face/Off 4K
- James Cameron
- School Ties BD review
- By Candlelight BD review
- Ip Man 4K review
- The Frighteners 4K review
- Turbine Media
- Via Vision
- Imprint Films
- Steven Spielberg
- Devotion
- Rain Man 4K
- Universal
- Crunchyroll
- Discotek Media
- MVD
- Severin Films
- Attack on Titan
- Wim Wenders
- Curzon Film UK
- Faraway So Close! BD
- HBO
- His Dark Materials
- Little Miss Marker
- The Crusades
- Making Mr Right
- Secret Admirer
- Double Crossbones
- Counsellor at Law
- I for Icarus
- The Experts
- Gene Roddenberry
- The Questor Tapes
The Way We Were & Dragonslayer are confirmed for 4K disc, plus Grand Tour: Disaster in Time, Road House, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. & more!
Today’s post is going to be a quick one here at The Bits, but as always we have a few more new disc reviews, and some more good disc release news as well. First the reviews...
Dennis has posted his thoughts on Robert Benton’s Twilight (1998) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
And Stephen has offered his take on León Klimovsky’s The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971) in 4K Ultra HD from our friends at Vinegar Syndrome.
Now to the news... Kino Lorber Studio Classics will release Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai (1947) on Blu-ray on 1/31. The company has also set Alexander Hall’s Little Miss Marker (1934) and David Greenwalt’s Secret Admirer (1985) for release on Blu-ray on 3/7. Also announced as “coming soon” to Blu-ray from the company are Rouben Mamoulian’s High, Wide and Handsome (1937) and Dave Thomas’ The Experts (1989).
Cult Epics has set Martin Koolhoven’s AmnesiA (2001) for release on Blu-ray on 4/11/23.
ClassicFlix will release Victor Saville’s The Long Wait (1954) on 4K Ultra HD on 3/21/23. [Read on here...]
- Mildred Pierce 4K
- Inland Empire
- Criterion March 2023 slate
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Paramount
- Dragonslayer 4K
- Twilight BD review
- Dennis Seuling
- Stephen Bjork
- The Werewolf vs the Vampire Woman 4K review
- Little Miss Marker
- Secret Admirer
- High Wide and Handsome
- The Experts
- AmnesiA
- The Long Wait 4K
- ClassicFlix
- Road House 4K
- Vinegar Syndrome
- Mill Creek Entertainment
- SciFi from the Vault: 4 Classic Films BD
- Thrillers from the Vault: 8 Classic Horror Films BD
- The Lady from Shanghai BD
- The Grand Tour: Disaster in Time BD
- Timescape BD
- David Twohy
- Unearthed Films
- The Way We Were: 50th Anniversary Edition 4K
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Sydney Pollack
- Three Days of the Condor
- The Quiet Man
- John Ford
- The Running Man BD
- Just Another Girl on the IRT
- Paramount Presents
Criterion’s March includes Lynch’s Inland Empire, plus Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 4K from Dark Sky, new Warner Archive Blu-ray titles & more
We’ve got some breaking release news to cover today here at The Bits, so let’s get right to it...
Criterion has just announced their new March 2023 titles, and fans of David Lynch should be very pleased. The slate includes a 4K upgrade of Michael Curtiz’s classic noir Mildred Pierce (Spine #860 – 4K + Blu-ray Combo) on 3/7, John Woo’s Last Hurrah for Chivalry (Spine #1174 – Blu-ray only) on 3/14, David Lynch’s long awaited remaster of Inland Empire (Spine #1175 – Blu-ray only) on 3/21, and Joan Micklin Silver’s Chilly Scenes of Winter (Spine #1176 – Blu-ray only) on 3/28.
We’ve been hoping for an actual 4K UHD release of Lynch’s Inland Empire, but like so many of the other Criterion titles that have been remastered in 4K yet released on Blu-ray first (only to be upgraded later), we suspect that an Ultra HD edition will come in time.
Also coming to 4K Ultra HD from Dark Sky Films on 2/28 is Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre, with Dolby Vision HDR, Dolby Atmos audio, and a new documentary called The Legacy of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre. [Read on here...]
- Dragonslayer 4K
- Paramount
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Sergio Leone
- Once Upon a Time in the West 4K
- Criterion March 2023 slate
- David Lynch
- Inland Empire
- Mildred Pierce 4K
- Dark Sky Films
- Tobe Hooper
- Texas Chain Saw Massacre 4K
- The Warner Archive Collection
- Chilly Scenes of Winter
- Last Hurrah for Chivalry
- John Woo
- Arsène Lupin Collection
- Silent Avant Garde
- Our Dancing Daughters
- Rancho Notorious
- Wife vs Secretary
- The Long Long Trailer
- Goodbye Mr Chips
- Till
Strange World, The Fabelmans, Crimes of the Future, The Adventures of Batman & updates on Dragonslayer & Once Upon a Time in the West in 4K
We start with two more new disc reviews today (and there might be one more from me later this evening, but it should certainly be up by tomorrow morning)...
Tim has reviewed Crane Wilbur’s The Bat (1959), which is available in a fine new Blu-ray edition from our friends at The Film Detective.
And Dennis has offered his thoughts on Lynne Littman’s Testament (1983), a post-apocalyptic drama from PBS’ American Playhouse and Paramount Pictures that includes William Devane, Jane Alexander, Kevin Costner, Rebecca De Mornay, and Lukas Haas. That’s new on Blu-ray from the good folks at Imprint Films.
Now then, the big announcement news today is that Disney has just officially set Don Hall and Qui Nguyen’s animated Strange World for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 2/14. Look for the Digital and Disney+ streaming release to happen on 12/23. Audio will be Dolby Atmos on the 4K and DTS-HD MA on Blu-ray, as always. Extras will include 4 featurettes (Anatomy of a Scene: Creating A Strange World, Strange Science, Creature Feature, and The Hidden Secrets of Strange World), outtakes, and 4 deleted scenes (The Ballad of Jaeger Clade, Lightning Lynx, Funerals and Promises, and Ethan and Searcher). You can see the cover artwork at left and also below. [Read on here...]
- Once Upon a Time in the West 4K
- Sergio Leone
- Arrow Video
- Warner Bros
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Paramount
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- Disney
- Strange World 4K
- Steven Spielberg
- The Fabelmans 4K
- David Cronenberg
- Crimes of the Future 4K
- The Adventures of Batman BD
- Dragonslayer 4K
- The Film Detective
- The Bat BD review
- Imprint Films
- Testament BD review
- Tar BD
- Legion of Super Heroes 4K
- DC
- The Adventures of Batman: The Complete Collection BD
- Filmmation
- The Dunwich Horror BD
- Heat (1986)
- If I Had a Million
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