Criterion September, Predator & more 4K news, Uni Monsters, Warner TV, a new So-Cal Jaws exhibit & more
All right, we’ve got a few interesting things for you today...
First up, be sure you check out the reviews we’ve posted over the last couple days. To recap, my take on Sony’s Fury and Universal’s Pacific Rim: Uprising in 4K, plus Tim’s look at A Pistol for Ringo/The Return of Ringo from Arrow and Zombie 4: After Death from Severin. Enjoy!
Also here today, we’ve updated the Release Dates & Artwork section with all kinds of new Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD cover artwork and Amazon.com links. Shopping through our links helps us keep going here at The Bits, so please do (and we appreciate it)!
And we have a couple of 4K Ultra HD title updates for you. First, it looks like 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is releasing the original Predator in 4K on 8/7. Zavvi currently has it available for pre-order in the UK on 8/6, and Amazon US has a new Predator Trilogy Blu-ray box set listed for 8/7, so it’s likely that the 4K disc will be available then as well. Zavvi is also listing a Predator 3-Movie Collection 4K set that would include Predator, Predator 2, and Predators for release that same day. We’ll have to wait and see if Fox announces this officially. [Read on here...]
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Tim Salmons
- Criterion September 2018
- Predator 4K
- Pacific Rim Uprising 4K review
- Fury 4K review
- Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30 Film Collection BD
- Joe Alves Jaws exhibit at the Catalina Island Museum
- A Pistol for Ringo BD review
- Zombie 4: After Death BD review
- Release Dates & Artwork update
- The Criterion Spines Project
- Deadpool 2 4K
- Solo: A Star Wars Story 4K
- The Matrix Trilogy 4K
- Avengers: Infinity War 4K
- 2001: A Space Odyssey 4K
- Ingmar Bergman
- Scenes from a Marriage BD
- A Raisin in the Sun BD
- Cold Water BD
- My Man Godfrey BD
- Andrei Rublev BD
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Olivier Assayas
- Gregory La Cava
- Daniel Petrie
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes: The Complete Series BD
- Sentai Filmworks
- The Muppet Movie
- Overboard
- Breaking In
- Blue Desert
- The Originals: The Fifth and Final Season
- The 100: The Complete Fifth Season
- Warner Archive
- The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Eleventh Season BD
- Warner Bros
- The Star Wars Archives: Episodes IV to VI: 1977 to 1983
- Taschen
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: The Ultimate Trip in Print
I decided that I wanted to do something a little different with today’s My Two Cents column on The Digital Bits, so I thought I’d review a few new and/or recent books that may be of interest to cinephiles, especially those of you who are fans of Stanley Kubrick’s legendary 2001: A Space Odyssey.
As many of you would agree, I’m sure, 2001 is a landmark of filmed science fiction. Based loosely on a short story by visionary author Arthur C. Clarke, it depicts an AI-guided and manned journey through space, first to the Moon and then out to Jupiter, in response to the discovery of an alien artifact on the Moon’s surface, apparently having been buried there millions of years ago.
Not only was Kubrick’s film notable for its realistic depiction of the Moon’s surface fully a year before NASA’s Apollo astronauts actually landed there, it’s been lauded ever since for its realistic approach to depicting future spaceflight technology. Indeed, some of those who contributed designs to the project were actually involved in the space program. [Read on here…]
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Bluray Disc
- BD
- Stanley Kubrick
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Apogee Books
- Taschen
- Reel Art Press
- 2001: The Ultimate Trip in Print
- Frederick I Ordway III
- Harry Lange
- 2001: The Lost Science The Frederick I Ordway III Collection
- 2001: The Lost Science The Scientists Influences & Designs
- 2001: The Heritage and Legacy of the Space Odyssey
- The 2001 File: Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film
- The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 2010: A Scrapbook Odyssey
- Adam K Johnson
- Robert Godwin
- Sir Christopher Frayling
- Piers Bizony
- Jean Marc Deschamps