Displaying items by tag: Tim Salmons
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, The Courier, The Daydreamer on Blu-ray, plus Two Evil Eyes on 4k
We’re starting today’s news update here at The Bits with another new disc review. This one features Tim’s thoughts on Alex de la Iglesia’s Perdita Durango (1997), as newly released on 4K Ultra HD from the good people at Severin Films. Sounds like the transfer is pretty terrific, so do give it a look here.
In announcement news today, here’s something welcome: Screen Media will be releasing the forthcoming Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street documentary on Blu-ray and DVD on 7/6. We’ve got what looks like temp art for the title at left and you can pre-order the Blu-ray below.
Lionsgate will release Dominic Cooke’s historical espionage drama The Courier (2020) on 6/1. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, and Rachel Brosnahan. Extras will include the On the Brink: Making The Courier featurette. [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD
- Tim Salmons
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Perdita Durango 4K review
- Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street BD
- The Courier BD
- Above Suspicion BD
- City of Lies BD
- Drunken Master II BD
- Night of the Sicario BD
- Deliver Us from Evil BD
- The Daydreamer BD
- Two Evil Eyes 4K UHD review
- Quick Change BD
- The Pianist: Shout Select BD
- A Strange Is Watching BD
- State and Main: Shout Select BD
Media Play News announces the winners of its Home Entertainment Awards, plus Africa Screams 3D reviewed & more
Afternoon, folks! We hope you all had a lovely weekend.
We’ve got just a very quick update today here at The Bits, as there’s not a ton of news to report on this afternoon.
First though, Tim has turned in a review of a new Blu-ray 3D release from Classic Flix and our friends at the 3-D Film Archive: The Africa Screams: Special Limited Edition, the 1949 Universal comedy featuring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
It’s a great disc, so do check out Tim’s thoughts on it here. [Read on here...]
- House of Wax: Collector's Edition BD
- Chamber of Horrors BD
- Little Big League: Shout Select BD
- Eight Legged Freaks BD
- Brotherhood of the Wolf: Collector's Edition BD
- The Dead Zone: Collector's Edition BD
- Scream Factory
- Shout! Factory
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Tim Salmons
- 4K Ultra HD
- Media Play News Home Entertainment Awards
- Africa Screams BD3D review
- Classic Flix
- The 3D Film Archive
Chaos Walking on BD & 4K, plus Wolfwalkers, big changes for Google Play Movies & TV, goodbye Harmony remotes & more
We start today with another Blu-ray review from Tim. This time he’s taken a look at Mei-Chun Chang’s Dynasty (1977 – aka Qian dao wan li zhu), new on Blu-ray 3D from Kino Lorber Studio Classics with an assist by our friends at the 3-D Film Archive. It’s fun little 3D martial arts actioner and well worth checking out if you’re a fan of the Blu-ray 3D format in particular. Don’t miss it.
Now then, Lionsgate has set Minari for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 5/18. Extras will include deleted scenes, a making of featurette, and audio commentary with director Lee Isaac Chung and star Yuh-jung Youn.
The company has also set Endangered Species for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 6/1, with the Digital release expected on 5/28.
And Lionsgate will release Doug Liman’s Chaos Walking on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 5/25. The film stars Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Mads Mikkelsen, and David Oyelowo. We don’t have A/V specs or extras details yet, but it was shot in 6.5K using the Arri Alexa 65, was finished as a native 4K digital intermediate, and it has an Atmos sound mix, so one assumes Lionsgate will go all out on the UHD release. The title is already available for pre-order on Amazon (click here for the link) you can see the cover artwork at left and also below. [Read on here...]
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Tim Salmons
- 4K Ultra HD
- Chaos Walking 4K
- Lionsgate
- Wolfwalkers BD from GKids
- Google Play Movies & TV
- Harmony remotes
- MInari BD
- Dynasty BD 3D review
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- 3D Film Archive
- Senior Moment BD
- William Shatner
- Heartworn Highways BD
- Heartworn Highways Revisited BD
- Cartoon Brew
- The Screening Room AV
- Dead & Buried 4K
- Indiana Jones 4 Movie Collection 4K
- Sony and Kaleidescape deal
Scream & Shout!’s July includes Dead Zone & Brotherhood of the Wolf, plus In the Line of Fire 4K from Sony & more
Welcome to a new week, folks. We’ve got some ground to cover here at The Bits today, so let’s get right to it...
First, we start with a new Blu-ray review from our own Tim Salmons, a look at Paul W.S. Anderson’s Event Horizon (1997) as newly released on disc by our friends at Scream Factory. Do give it a look.
While we’re talking Scream (and Shout! Factory), that’s a perfect place to start with today’s release news. The company has just announced a slate of great Blu-ray and DVD titles for July, including The Pianist: Shout Select (BD), No Man’s Land (BD and DVD), The Night (BD and DVD), House of Wax: Collector’s Edition (BD), and Ernest & Celestine (BD and DVD) on 7/13, followed by A Stranger is Watching (BD), Little Big League: Shout Select (BD), Fire (BD and DVD), and Eight Legged Freaks (BD) on 7/20, and State and Main: Shout Select (BD), The Dead Zone: Collector’s Edition (BD), Chamber of Horrors (BD), and Brotherhood of the Wolf: Collector’s Edition (BD) on 7/27. Extras on all of these are still TBA. You can see the cover art for The Dead Zone at left, with more covers visible below the break. [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD
- Tim Salmons
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Event Horizon BD review
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- The Pianist: Shout Select BD
- The Dead Zone: Collector's Edition BD
- Brotherhood of the Wolf: Collector's Edition BD
- Eight Legged Freaks BD
- Ernest & Celestine BD
- Little Big League: Shout Select BD
- Last Action Hero 4K
- In the Line of Fire 4K
- Greenland 4K in Germany
- The NeverEnding Story 4K in Germany
- Speed 4K
- Doctor X BD
- The Warner Archive Collection Amazon brand store
- Chamber of Horrors BD
- House of Wax: Collector's Edition BD
Tons of new KL Studio Classics Blu-rays, plus Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Godzilla vs. Kong, Raya and the Last Dragon & more in 4K
Okay, we’ve got a pretty good news update for you today here at The Bits.
First though, another new Blu-ray review...
Following up on yesterday’s review, Tim has posted his thoughts on Marty Feldman’s In God We Trust (1980), also newly available on disc from our friends over at Kino Lorber Studio Classics. And it sounds like the title has another great commentary by Alan Spencer, so it’s well worth you time to check the disc out.
Speaking of Kino Lorber Studio Classics, the company continues to prove its great worth to classic cinephiles with a new slate of nine Mae West films coming on Blu-ray on 6/29, including Night After Night (1932), I’m No Angel (1933), She Done Him Wrong (1933), Belle of the Nineties (1934), Goin’ to Town (1935), Go West Young Man (1936), Klondike Annie (1936), Every Day’s a Holiday (1937), and My Little Chickadee (1940). [Read on here...]
Smokey and the Bandit 4K, plus Cool World, Revenge of the Shogun Women in 3D, Zavvi buys Arrow Films & more
We start things off today here at The Bits with a pair of new Blu-ray Disc reviews...
Tim has taken a look at Marty Feldman’s The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), new on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics. It comes with a terrific audio commentary by our friend Alan Spencer—the longtime writer, executive producer of TV’s Sledge Hammer, and personal friend of Feldman—that’s worth the purchase price of the disc all by itself. Don’t miss it.
Also, Dennis has offered his thoughts on Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll (1956) on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection. Do give that a look as well.
Speaking of the Warner Archive Collection, we want to take a moment to remind everyone that even though WB Shop has officially closed, Warner Archive Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K titles can now be purchased from their brand store on Amazon.com (click here for that). Warner Archive has just revealed more new upcoming titles (see our post yesterday) and we have word that they’ll have new titles through the end of 2021 at least. It’s likely that the label will continue indefinitely, just run by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment itself, rather than its former, dedicated team. [Read on here...]
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Arrow Video
- Smokey and the Bandit 4K
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Lionsgate
- 4K Ultra HD
- Tim Salmons
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Dennis Seuling
- The Last Remake of Beau Geste BD review
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Marty Feldman
- Alan Spencer audio commentary
- Baby Doll BD review
- WB Shop
- The Warner Archive Collection
- Elia Kazan
- Nobody 4K
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: 50th Anniversary 4K
- Space Jam: 25th Anniversary 4K
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Ralph Bakshi
- Cool World BD
- Take This Job and Shove It
- 3D Film Archive
- Bob Furmanek
- Revenge of the Shogun Women BD 3D Kickstarter
- Above Suspicion
- The Umbrella Academy: Season One BD
- Netflix Original
- Supernatural: The Complete Series BD
- Zavvi purchases Arrow Films
- Years of Lead BD
- Major Dundee BD
It’s official: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment confirms that WB Shop has closed for good (it’s not an April Fool’s joke)
Today being April Fool’s Day, I wasn’t originally planning on having any kind of a news update here at The Digital Bits, simply because it’s just too easy for people to question the accuracy of anything you post on 4/1.
And honestly, given some of the nuttier news posts one sees around the Internet and on social media on April Fool’s, you can’t really blame people for being confused.
But when the Warner Archive Collection announced on Twitter and Facebook last night (right before Midnight Pacific time, mind you) that there was now a new Warner Archive “brand store” on Amazon.com—and a quick visit to the former WB Shop website revealed that it was no longer there—a LOT of people thought it was a joke. And I figured it required a reaction. [Read on here...]
Lionsgate to release Saw in 4K on 5/4, plus Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal is coming to Blu-ray & DVD on 6/1
All right, this is just a very quick update this evening to bring you some breaking release news nuggets...
First though, our own Tim Salmons has just posted his thoughts on Andrew J. Kuehn’s Terror in the Isles (1984) on Blu-ray from Scream Factory, a Universal clip showcase featuring footage from a host of modern and classic horror films. You’ll find that here.
Now then... in announcement news, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has just officially announced Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: The Complete First Season for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 6/1.
This is interesting, because the first half of the season aired on Adult Swim way back in October 2019. Then, the season’s remaining episodes finally aired in October of 2020. Word is the show has been renewed for a second season as well, though no release date for this has yet been announced. [Read on here...]
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Tim Salmons
- 4K Ultra HD
- Lionsgate
- Saw 4K
- Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal BD
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 4K
- Smokey and the Bandit 4K
- Arrow Video
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Terror in the Isles BD review
- Scream Factory
- Ken Burns
- Hemingway BD
- Encounter of the Spooky Kind BD
- Eureka
Mommie Dearest, Last Train from Gun Hill & a Ferris Bueller Steelbook from Paramount, plus word of more 4K catalog & new announcements
We’re starting the week off with another new Blu-ray review. Tim has taken a look at Richard E. Cunha’s Giant from the Unknown (1958), a Astor Pictures monster flick featuring make-up work by the great Jack Pierce. It’s now available on Blu-ray from the folks at The Film Detective.
Speaking of which, The Film Detective has also announced a new Blu-ray edition of Lesley Selander’s Flight to Mars (1951) on 7/20.
The film has apparently been remastered from a new 4K scan, and will feature new documentary shorts by Ballyhoo Films.
In other announcement news today, Paramount has revealed a pair of new Paramount Presents Blu-ray titles, including Mommie Dearest on 6/1 (newly-restored from a 4K transfer in honor of the film’s 40th anniversary) and Last Train from Gun Hill on 6/15. Mommie Dearest will feature a new audio commentary by American drag queen Hedda Lettuce and a new Filmmaker Focus: Biographer Justin Bozung on director Frank Perry, in addition to legacy extras. [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD
- Tim Salmons
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Last Train from Gun Hill: Paramount Presents BD
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off Steelbook
- Giant from the Unknown BD review
- Flight to Mars BD
- Pretty in Pink Steelbook
- Some Kind of Wonderful Steelbook
- MVD Rewind Collection
- The Little Rascals: The ClassicFlix Restorations Volume 2 BD
- Indicator Films
- Tremors 4K standard edition
- Galaxy Quest 4K
- Tommy Boy 4K
- San Diego Comic Con returns in November 2021
- Mommie Dearest: Paramount Presents BD
Disney makes Jan de Bont’s Speed official for 4K on 5/4, plus Raya and the Last Dragon, Nomadland & Final Countdown 4K delayed
We have some good breaking release news to cover today here at The Bits. First though, we’ve got more new disc reviews for you...
And I’ve just posted my thoughts on Andrew Niccol’s neo-noir, science fiction classic GATTACA (1997), which is coming next week on 4K Ultra HD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The film looks and sounds every bit as good as you’d hope, so don’t miss it.
Now then, the big news today is that Disney has officially confirmed the much-anticipated 4K Ultra HD release of director Jan de Bont’s Speed (1994) on 5/4. Mastered from a recent 4K scan, the disc will include a new Dolby Atmos sound mix along with high dynamic range in HDR10 format. [Editor’s Note: Disney’s press materials now suggest that only the Digital 4K will have Atmos. We’ve asked the studio for official confirmation and will post an update here when we hear back.]
Perhaps most interestingly, it appears that at least some of the extras from Fox’s 2002 Five Star Collection DVD are being carried over—many of these were omitted from the previous Fox Blu-ray release. [Read on here...]
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Tim Salmons
- 4K Ultra HD
- Speed 4K
- Raya and the Last Dragon 4K
- Nomadland BD
- The Final Countdown 4K
- Jan de Bont
- Walt Disney Home Entertainment
- 20th Century Fox
- 20th Century Studios
- Speed: Five Star Collection DVD
- Blue Underground
- Play Misty for Me BD review
- GATTACA 4K review
- Zack Snyder's Justice League tonight on HBO Max
- Godzilla (2014) 4K