Displaying items by tag: Speed Racer (1967)

All right, let’s get a little routine site business out of the way first this afternoon…

Our final new disc review of 2025 is Dennis’ look at Iain Softley’s K-Pax (2001) on Blu-ray from our friends at Imprint Films and Via Vision.

Also, we’ve just posted an update of the Release Dates & Cover Artwork section here at The Bits with all the latest Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD cover artwork and Amazon.com pre-order links.

As always, anytime you order literally anything from Amazon after clicking to them through one of our links, you’re helping to support our work here at the site and we appreciate it!

Now then… today is the final day of 2025, so tonight humans the world over will celebrate New Year’s Eve.

With that in mind, I wanted to give you readers one last exclusive for this year—one last piece of 4K Ultra HD catalog news to get you all excited for what’s to come on the format in 2026. So here it is…

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment is finally bringing the Wachowskis’ Speed Racer (2008) to 4K Ultra HD in the coming year! [Read on here...]

Today’s update is a quick one, but we’re starting with more new disc reviews...

Tim has posted his thoughts on Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015) in 4K Ultra HD from Arrow Video, as well as Hanna-Barbera’s Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (1988) on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection.

And Dennis has reviewed Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People (1969) on Blu-ray, also from the Warner Archive Collection.

In announcement news today, Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment has just made Albert Magnoli’s Purple Rain (1984) official for release in physical 4K Ultra HD and 4K Digital on 6/25 (SRP $33.99 for the disc). As expected, the disc will include audio commentary by Magnoli, Robert Cavallo, and Donald E. Thorin, 3 featurettes (First Avenue: The Road to Pop Royalty, Purple Rain Backstage Pass: Behind the Scenes, and Riffs, Ruffles and a Revolution: The Impact and Influence of Purple Rain), the MTV Premiere Party Original Broadcast, a gallery of Prince movie trailers, and 8 music videos for songs from the film. [Read on here...]