Displaying items by tag: John Carpenter
Via Vision’s Saw Ultimate 4K set, plus Blue Hawaii, Nope, Titans of Cult’s The Thing, a Highlander 4K update, new Star Trek TV Blu-rays & more
All right, folks. This will be our last post until Wednesday next week, as it’s not only the long Labor Day weekend here in the States but by wife and I are also celebrating our thirty-second wedding anniversary. So we’re going to take a little time to relax here in sweltering-in-a-heatwave Southern California.
But, we’ve got a TON of release news to talk about, as well as a pair of new disc reviews to start things off today...
Stephen has turned in his thoughts on Gaspar Noe’s intriguing and doubly-experimental Lux Aeterna (2019) on Blu-ray from Yellow Veil Pictures via Vinegar Syndrome.
And Tim has posted his thoughts on Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter’s The Kindred (1987), now available in a new Special Edition Blu-ray release from Synapse Films.
And we’ve got lots more disc reviews coming over the weekend and early next week, so be sure to check back for them.
Meanwhile, our friends at Via Vision Entertainment down under are releasing a Saw: The Ultimate Collection 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray set on 11/9 that’s not only comes in an exclusive “reverse bear trap” replica, but is limited to just 1500 copies. The 13-disc set includes Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D: The Final Chapter, Jigsaw, Spiral: From the Book of Saw, plus a Bonus Disc packed with extras. You can see the packaging at left. Be sure to visit their website here for all the details and to pre-order. [Read on here...]
- The Little Rascals: The Complete Collection Centennial Edition BD
- Classic Flix
- Paramount
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Saw: The Ultimate Collection 4K
- Via Vision Entertainment
- Synapse Films
- The Kindred BD review
- Tim Salmons
- Stephen Bjork
- Lux Aeterna BD review
- Vinegar Syndrome
- Nope 4K
- Universal
- Jordan Peele
- John Carpenter
- The Thing 4K
- Titans of Cult
- Elvis
- Blue Hawaii 4K
- ClassixFlix
- StudioCanal
- Highlander 4K
- I The Jury 4K 3D
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 4K
- Elf 4K
- The Polar Express 4K
- A Christmas Story 4K
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Star Trek: Discovery Season Four BD
- Star Trek: Prodigy Season One BD
- CBS
- The Warner Archive Collection
- Mark of the Vampire (1935) BD
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931) BD
- Jack Frost 2: The Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman BD
- At Close Range BD
- Ski Patrol BD
- MVD Rewind Collection
- Mr Mayor: The Complete Series BD
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends DVD
- Ed Edd n Eddy: The Complete Series DVD
- Cobra Kai: Season Four DVD
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Netflix
- Stranger Things 4K
Shout! & Scream Factory bow The Fog, Platoon & Army of Darkness in 4K, plus Trek 4K follow-up, Warner Q4 Ultra HDs & more, plus James Caan RIP
All right, yesterday was a little crazy here at The Bits, what with Paramount finally dropping their long-awaited Star Trek 4K announcement. That deluxe Complete Adventure 4K package for the Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Director’s Edition was unexpected and frankly a fantastic surprise. But it’s worth a quick follow up today just to clarify everything...
The Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition: The Complete Adventure Limited Edition is a 3-disc set here in the States that includes the DE in 4K, a newly-authored 4K of the previously-released Theatrical Cut as well as the Special Longer Version (included via seamless branching), and a Blu-ray full of bonus content that I’m told includes basically everything ever created and released for the film on home video. (I’m awaiting confirmation of the exact contents from the studio.) But it does NOT include a Blu-ray of the DE itself, nor are Blu-rays of the Theatrical and SLV versions included. The DE is available separately on Blu-ray, and obviously the Theatrical Cut Blu-ray was included in the original 4-Movie Collection from last year.
To be 100% clear, the Special Longer Version is ONLY going to be available in The Complete Adventure package, and producer David C. Fein has said that it’s a genuine limited edition. Much like Sony’s recent Ghostbusters: Ultimate Collection, it’s very likely to sell out in pre-orders, and it’s NOT going to be re-released. So if you were planning to wait for Black Friday to pick it up at a discount, or you’re expecting some future “ultimate” 4K box that includes the TNG films as well all The Complete Adventure content, you’re likely to be disappointed. The new 4K disc with both the Theatrical Cut and the Special Longer Version on it is exclusive to this set and when they’re gone, they’re gone. Be sure to plan accordingly.
[Editor’s Note: It appears that the UK version of this set MAY be a 5-disc set, which includes the Blu-rays of The Director’s Edition and the Theatrical Cut. And its discs should be all-region.] [Read on here...]
- Theatrical Cut
- Special Longer Version
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture The Director’s Edition The Complete Adventure 4K box set
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture The Director's Edition 4K
- Scream Factory
- Shout! Factory
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- The Fog 4K
- John Carpenter
- Sam Raimi
- Army of Darkness 4K
- Evil Dead (2013) 4K
- James Caan RIP
- Elf 4K
- Casablanca 4K
- The Lost Boys 4K
- Poltergeist 4K
- The Funhouse 4K
- Old Henry 4K
- Warrior 4K Steelbook
- War of the Worlds (1953) 4K
- When Worlds Collide (1951) 4K
- George Pal
- Crawl 4K
- Batman: The Long Halloween Deluxe Edition 4K
- The Duke BD
- I Know What You Did Last Summer 4K
- Platoon 4K
- Cool World BD
Shout! & Scream Factory’s May slate includes Escape from New York, Candyman (1992) & Lifeforce in 4K, plus Trekkies: 25th & more!
We’ve got a quick early news update for you here at The Bits this morning featuring a major new disc review and some great breaking title announcement news as well. First the review...
Tim has just weighed in with his thoughts on John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London: Limited Edition in 4K Ultra HD from our friends at Arrow Video.
Sounds like it’s a loaded package, with best-ever image and sound quality for this film, so if you’re a fan you won’t want to miss it.
Now then, we’ve learned that Shout! and Scream Factory are just about to announce their May Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD slate, and it includes a trio of great and much-loved catalog titles in 4K Ultra HD. [Read on here...]
- Tim Salmons
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Scream Factory
- Shout Factory
- An American Werewolf in London: Limited Edition 4K review
- Arrow Video
- Escape from New York 4K US release
- Lifeforce 4K
- Candyman (1992) 4K
- Trekkies: 25th Anniversary Edition BD
- Roger Nygard
- John Landis
- John Carpenter
- Brian De Palma
- Femme Fatale BD
- The Ghost and the Darkness BD
- The Message 4K
- Lion of the Desert 4K
- Shout! Factory May 2022 slate
- Scream Factory May 2022 slate
New 4K/BD reviews, They Live 4K, Blade 4K, Chernobyl 4K, new KL Studio Classics titles & a DUNE trailer
All right, it’s been a busy week here at The Bits so far and we’ve got a lot of ground to cover today.
First of all, sorry for the lack of daily updates. The reason is three-fold. First, we’ve been working on reviews here at the website—more on that in a moment. Second, we had 110° heat here in SoCal this past weekend, with which our AC could not keep up. That meant my home theater was close to 90°, which made reviewing unpleasant, plus there was the danger of power outages. The good news is that we’ve made up for it since the heat broke—again, more on that in a moment. (The bad news is that our skies this afternoon are an unnatural shade of apocalyptic yellow-orange due to the California wildfires, but that’s neither here nor there.) The third reason is more complicated.
We’ve been hearing from many of our readers based in the Netherlands that you’re unable to see The Bits website. The cause of this is that—apparently—a very large portion of the Internet’s DDoS attacks and cyber shenanigans either come from, or are routed through—Netherlands IP addresses. So our server team is working on a solution to block the riff-raff while allowing the rest of you actual readers to see the site. Please be patient while we sort it all out. Unfortunately, this kind of thing seems perfectly in keeping with the whole 2020 milieu. [Read on here...]
- Back the Bits
- Dennis Seuling
- Tim Salmons
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- John Carpenter
- They Live 4K
- Chernobyl 4K
- Blade 4K
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Spartacus 4K review
- Beetlejuice 4K review
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 4K review
- The Goonies 4K review
- Birds of Prey 4K review
- The Wind Rises BD review
- Death on the Nile BD review
- The Beast Must Die BD review
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus: The Complete Series BD
- Network
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century feature film BD
- The Croods 4K
- Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE trailer
New announcements from Arrow Video and Kino Lorber, plus a look at the new Africa Screams restoration & more
We’re kicking things off today with a new Blu-ray review from Dennis...
He’s taken a look at Jon Avnet’s Three Christs (2017) now on disc from IFC Films and Shout! Factory. The film stars Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage, Bradley Whitford, and Walton Goggins. Do give it a look.
Meanwhile today, Arrow Video US has announced its June 2020 Blu-ray slate, which is set to include François Reichenbach’s American as Seen by a Frenchman on 6/2, Harley Cokeliss’ Dream Demon and Tomu Uchida’s The Mad Fox on 6/23, and a new Limited Edition of Sergio Corbucci’s Django on 6/30.
From Arrow’s announcement: “The film is presented here in an exclusive new restoration with a wealth of extras including the newly restored bonus feature Texas Adios, which also stars Franco Nero, and was released as Django 2 in several territories.” [Read on here...]
Twilight in 4K, plus Halloween 4K official, Maximum Overdrive details, Black Sails: Complete, Exorcist II & more
We’ve got three more Blu-rays for you today, including...
Tim’s look at Stewart Raffill’s Mac and Me: Collector’s Edition (1988) from Shout! Factory.
David Steigman’s take on Albert Pynn’s Blast (1997) from MVD.
I’m also working on several new 4K Ultra HD reviews, which should start appearing later this afternoon, so do check back for those.
In announcement news, we have details on Liongate’s next Vestron Video Collector’s Series Blu-ray title, Maximum Overdrive. [Read on here...]
- Studio Canal
- John Carpenter
- Shout! Factory
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Vestron Video Collector's Series
- Maximum Overdrive BD
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- David Steigman
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Halloween 4K
- Twilight 4K
- Black Sails: The Complete Series
- Exorcist II: The Heretic
- Blast BD review
- Mac and Me BD review
- Smashing Time BD review
- Bright Lights Big City BD
- The Bride BD
- 2001: A Space Odyssey 4K
- Air Force One 4K
M:I – Fallout details, plus Maximum Overdrive: Vestron, Eighth Grade, GKids’ Fireworks & much more
We’re kicking off the week with a pair of new Blu-ray reviews...
Both are worth a look, so check out the reviews and give them a shot.
Now then... in announcement news, we have a couple interesting things for you... [Read on here...]
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- David Steigman
- Dennis Seuling
- Tim Salmons
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Talking Blu with The Digital Bits YouTube webcast
- The Tingler BD review
- The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez BD review
- Mission: Impossible Fallout 4K
- Die Hard 30th Anniversary BD
- Maximum Overdrive BD
- Vestron Video Collector's Series
- The Chamber
- Eighth Grade
- The Gingerbread Man
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Scream Factory
- Shout! Factory
- Fireworks anime
- GKids
- The REC Collection
- What Keeps You Alive
- Your Name
- Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich 4K
- Superman: The Movie 4K
- The Fog 4K
- Invasion Los Angeles 4K
- John Carpenter
- Studio Canal
- Mark A Altman
- So Say We All: Battlestar Galactica book
- Midnight's Edge
- They Live 4K
Of Unknown Origin, Trading Places, Coming to America, Counselor, Corbucci’s Great Silence, Solo trailer & more
We’re kicking off the new week with a new Blu-ray review and some announcement news too. First up, that review...
Our own Tim Salmons has checked in with his thoughts on Scream Factory’s new Limited Edition Steelbook Blu-ray release of John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13. Do check it out and watch for more reviews tomorrow.
Speaking of Scream Factory, the company has officially announced the extras you’ll find on their Of Unknown Origin Blu-ray on 5/22. Look for a new 2K scan from the interpositive, 3 new featurettes (The Origins of Unknown Origin, That Rat Movie, and Hey, Weren’t You in Scanners?), audio commentary director George P. Cosmatos and actor Peter Weller, theatrical trailers, and a still gallery.
In announcement news today, Paramount has revealed that they’re re-releasing Trading Places on Blu-ray on 6/12 in honor of its 35th anniversary. The same day, they’re also re-issuing Coming to America on the format in honor of its 30th anniversary. All the legacy extras will carry over and this time the discs will include a Digital Copy as well. [Read on here...]
- Lionsgate
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- 4K Ultra HD Bluray
- Tim Salmons
- Assault on Precinct 13: Collector's Edition Steelbook BD review
- Of Unknown Origin
- Scream Factory
- The Counselor
- Ridley Scott
- Solo: A Star Wars Story new trailer
- Coming to America: 30th Anniversary Edition
- Trading Places: 35th Anniversary Edition
- Peter Rabbit 4K
- Wacky Races: Start Your Engines DVD
- Winchester
- Flower
- Sergio Corbucci
- The Great Silence
- Vampires
- Ghosts of Mars
- John Carpenter
- Ai Weiwei
- Human Flow
- The Humanity Bureau
- Acorn
- Terminator Genisys 4K
Shout Selects delivers Buckaroo Banzai, plus Elstree 1976, Samsung’s UBD-K8500 is UHD Premium & MUCH more
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All right... yesterday’s editorial column on the new 4K Ultra HD format was a lot of work as you can imagine, but I’ve been very gratified at the positive reaction to it. If you missed it, you can find it here. I’m going to have more 4K coverage and reviews soon, but I’m just trying to balance it all out with the regular Blu-ray news and whatnot.
On that score, we have a pair of new Blu-ray reviews for you to check out today, including Tim Salmons’ thoughts on The Zero Boys from Arrow Video, as well as Jim Hemphill’s take on In the French Style from Twilight Time. Both titles are now available and are well worth a look.
Also today, in case you missed it when we posted it earlier this week, our own Mario Boucher has delivered a great new Inside Cinema column on the subject of “Duelity” in modern cinema. I think you’ll find it well worth a read, so do check it out here. [Read on here…]
- Ultra HD Bluray
- Bluray Disc
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- BD
- Bluray
- Shout Selects
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Elstree 1976
- Samsung UBDK8500
- Ultra HD Premium
- Only Yesterday
- The Magicians: Season One
- Red Sonja: Queen of Plagues
- Just Desserts: The Making of Creepshow
- Supergirl: Season One
- Kino Lorber
- Labyrinth
- Nighthawks
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Elvis
- John Carpenter
- Midnight Run
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
- Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Collection
- Roadhouse
- Star Wars Day
- Michael Coate
- History Legacy & Showmanship
- Mario Boucher
- Duelity
- Star Wars
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Return of the Jedi
- Inside Cinema
- Jim Hemphill
- In the French Style
- Tim Salmons
- The Zero Boys
- Arrow Video
- Twilight Time
Pick-Ups for the Week of April 11, 2016
Welcome to a new edition of Pick-Ups!
Thanks for joining me. This week I’m going to catch up on some horror/sci-fi/comedy releases that we’ve missed along the way.
It should be an interesting lot of titles to check out.
As usual, we’ll be rolling each review out one at a time all week, so be sure to check back for new ones. [Read on here…]
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