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121. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Legends of the Fall: 30th Anniversary (4K UHD Review)

Based on the 1979 novella of the same name by Jim Harrison, Edward Zwick’s Legends of the Fall is an epic family drama set in the foothills of the Montana Rockies in the early 20th century. U.S. Army Colonel ...

Created on 12 March 2025

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122. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Lord of the Rings, The: The War of the Rohirrim (4K UHD Review)

Despite the box office disappointment that befell the release of 2024’s The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, fans of J.R.R. Tolkien and scholars of his legendarium were no doubt inquisitive ...

Created on 12 March 2025

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123. [BLU-RAY DISC] Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (Region B) (Blu-ray Review)

Quite enjoyable but also very dated, historically inauthentic, and culturally and politically insensitive, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) was an early entry in the vogue of rollicking colonial adventure ...

Created on 12 March 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke has been remastered in 4K, plus Prophecy, Starman, Wacky Races from Warner Archive & the 2025 TSR Projector Shootout!

124. [MY TWO CENTS] Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke has been remastered in 4K, plus Prophecy, Starman, Wacky Races from Warner Archive & the 2025 TSR Projector Shootout!

We’ve got several new disc reviews for you to enjoy here at The Bits today, including... My thoughts on Anthony Harvey’s The Lion in Winter (1968) in 4K Ultra HD from StudioCanal, as well as Wes Ball’s ...

Created on 11 March 2025

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125. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Below (4K UHD Review)

Screenwriter David Twohy didn’t make much of a splash with his overlooked feature film directorial debut The Arrival in 1996—and his arguable real debut, the criminally neglected Grand Tour: Disaster in ...

Created on 11 March 2025

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126. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (4K UHD Review)

Set three to four hundred years after the events of War of the Planet of the Apes (2017), Wes Ball’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes follows the journey of a young chimpanzee named Noa (Owen Teague), ...

Created on 11 March 2025

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127. [BLU-RAY DISC] Lady Is Willing, The (Region B) (Blu-ray Review)

A screwball comedy starring Marlene Dietrich and Fred MacMurray, The Lady Is Willing (1942) has the right ingredients yet almost everything in the picture is just a little off. Hardly the go-to star for ...

Created on 11 March 2025

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128. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Lion in Winter, The (4K UHD Review)

Based on James Goldman’s 1966 stage play of the same name, Anthony Harvey’s film version of The Lion in Winter centers its story on the English king Henry II (played by Peter O’Toole). Having spent his ...

Created on 10 March 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Vinegar Syndrome reveals Brimstone & Treacle in 4K, plus new Red Shirt/Synapse catalog titles, Second Sight’s Blair Witch replacement discs & no Megalopolis from Lionsgate

129. [MY TWO CENTS] Vinegar Syndrome reveals Brimstone & Treacle in 4K, plus new Red Shirt/Synapse catalog titles, Second Sight’s Blair Witch replacement discs & no Megalopolis from Lionsgate

We’re closing out the week here at The Bits with a trio of new disc reviews, including... Tim’s review of Alfred Sole’s Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) in 4K Ultra HD from Arrow Video. Stephen’s review of ...

Created on 07 March 2025

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130. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Hatari! (4K UHD Review)

Clint Eastwood’s White Hunter, Black Heart was an adaption of the novel by Peter Viertel, which was itself loosely based on Viertel’s experiences working on location in Africa for John Huston while making ...

Created on 06 March 2025

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131. [BLU-RAY DISC] Let's Get Lost (Blu-ray Review

A fascinating if not entirely satisfying documentary about Chet Baker (1929-1988), Let’s Get Lost (1988) is two hours of great music as it attempts to explain Baker’s decades-long decline, from one of ...

Created on 06 March 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Dirty Harry, Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, A Knight’s Tale, Flight Risk, The Florida Project & more in 4K, plus a new Andor: S2 trailer & the Home Media Awards!

132. [MY TWO CENTS] Dirty Harry, Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, A Knight’s Tale, Flight Risk, The Florida Project & more in 4K, plus a new Andor: S2 trailer & the Home Media Awards!

We’ve got a new disc review for you all to enjoy today, as well as a much of good announcement news. First the review... Stephen has taken a look at William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980) in 4K Ultra HD from ...

Created on 05 March 2025

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133. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Alice, Sweet Alice (4K UHD Review)

Whether it’s appreciated for its exploration of the facets of Catholicism, its take on how a broken marriage can affect both parents and their children, or its memorable horror sequences, Alice, Sweet ...

Created on 05 March 2025

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134. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Cruising (4K UHD Review)

For good or for ill, Cruising is a document of a bygone era, both in terms of the subject matter and how it was produced, and this set is an exhaustive (and exhausting!) document of that document. It’s ...

Created on 05 March 2025

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135. [MY TWO CENTS] BREAKING: Lionsgate Limited reveals new BASIC INSTINCT and KING OF NEW YORK 4K UHD Steelbooks

Heads up, Bits readers! Our friends at Lionsgate are about to launch two new 4K Ultra HD Steelbook titles on their Lionsgate Limited direct-to-consumer web store: Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct (1992) ...

Created on 04 March 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] 4K title news including Wayne’s World 2, Kingpin, Presence, What Lies Beneath, Coffy, Scent of a Woman, Sky Captain & a 7-film Nightmare on Elm Street box!

136. [MY TWO CENTS] 4K title news including Wayne’s World 2, Kingpin, Presence, What Lies Beneath, Coffy, Scent of a Woman, Sky Captain & a 7-film Nightmare on Elm Street box!

We’ve got some great announcement news to report here at The Digital Bits today, at the start of a new week... First of all, our friends at Kino Lorber Studio Classics have begun announcing new 4K Ultra ...

Created on 03 March 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Arrow’s May has Andromeda Strain in 4K, plus Vice Squad & Prophecy from KLSC, Synapse’s Blue Sunshine, new Second Sight titles & Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds on Blu-ray!

137. [MY TWO CENTS] Arrow’s May has Andromeda Strain in 4K, plus Vice Squad & Prophecy from KLSC, Synapse’s Blue Sunshine, new Second Sight titles & Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds on Blu-ray!

We have two more new disc reviews for you today here at The Bits... Stuart’s look at A Man Called Shenandoah: The Complete Series (1965-66) on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection. And Dennis and ...

Created on 28 February 2025

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138. [BLU-RAY DISC] Man Called Shenandoah, A: The Complete Series (Blu-ray Review)

One of the very last half-hour television Westerns, and one of the very last in black-and-white, A Man Called Shenandoah was virtually doomed from the start, opposite the popular Andy Griffith Show. It’s ...

Created on 28 February 2025

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139. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Cronos (4K UHD Review)

Vampire films have always been a favorite of viewers who enjoy an excursion into macabre territory, from 1922’s Nosferatu to its current remake. Neither dead nor alive, the vampire lurks in an in-between ...

Created on 28 February 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] New Kino Lorber tiles including Vice Squad 4K, Crack in the World & Wonderdogs!, plus Pink Floyd at Pompeii, Becoming Led Zeppelin & Rest in Peace, Gene Hackman

140. [MY TWO CENTS] New Kino Lorber tiles including Vice Squad 4K, Crack in the World & Wonderdogs!, plus Pink Floyd at Pompeii, Becoming Led Zeppelin & Rest in Peace, Gene Hackman

We’ve got a bunch of new disc reviews up this week for your reading enjoyment here at The Bits, including... My thoughts on Milos Forman’s Amadeus: Theatrical Cut (1984) in 4K Ultra HD from Warner Bros. ...

Created on 27 February 2025

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141. [BLU-RAY DISC] Gabriel Over the White House (Blu-ray Review)

Downright bizarre, the pre-Code Gabriel Over the White House (1933) is one of the strangest films ever produced during the classical Hollywood era. A political drama-cum-religious film ultimately advocating ...

Created on 27 February 2025

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142. [BLU-RAY DISC] Houseboat (Blu-ray Review)

Cary Grant and Sophia Loren epitomized “Movie Star” in the 1950s and 60s, when their careers were at their peak. It was inevitable that they would be teamed. They co-starred in The Pride and the Passion ...

Created on 27 February 2025

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143. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Amadeus: Theatrical Cut (4K UHD Review)

Based on Peter Shaffer’s 1979 stage play of the same name—and loosely inspired by Alexander Pushkin’s older play Mozart and Salieri (1830)—Miloš Forman’s Best Picture-winning Amadeus (1984) is an epic ...

Created on 26 February 2025

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144. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Project A Collection, The (4K UHD Review)

Jackie Chan’s brand of action comedy stunt extravaganzas were off to the races with the release of Project A in 1983. He had been in a number of martial arts films with comedy bents and even directed a ...

Created on 26 February 2025

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145. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Little Women (1994): 30th Anniversary (4K UHD Review)

Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women has been adapted eight times so far for the big and small screen, with two miniseries and Greta Gerwig’s 2019 adaptation just in the past seven years. For ...

Created on 26 February 2025

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146. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Gladiator II (Steelbook) (4K UHD Review)

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II tells the story of young Lucius Verus Aurelius (Paul Mescal), the grandson of the late emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) and, unknown to Lucius himself, the illegitimate ...

Created on 25 February 2025

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147. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Mexico Trilogy, The: El Mariachi, Desperado, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico (4K UHD Review)

One of the more interesting aspects of Robert Rodriguez’s Mexico films from the 1990s and into the early 2000s is how ingrained they are in that era, mostly in their styles and sensibilities. El Mariachi ...

Created on 25 February 2025

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148. [BLU-RAY DISC] Last Stand at Saber River (Blu-ray Review)

Made-for-TV movies had their heyday in the 1970s, well before HBO and, later, video dominated home entertainment, but the genre continued in limited form in subsequent decades. Last Stand at Saber River ...

Created on 25 February 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] More Eastwood 4K updates, plus an Abbott & Costello Horror Collection in Ultra HD, new Eureka Blu-ray titles, the Andor: S2 trailer drops at last & more!

149. [MY TWO CENTS] More Eastwood 4K updates, plus an Abbott & Costello Horror Collection in Ultra HD, new Eureka Blu-ray titles, the Andor: S2 trailer drops at last & more!

We’ve got several new 4K and Blu-ray reviews for you all to enjoy today, including... Stephen’s exhaustive and in-depth take on David Fincher’s Panic Room (2002) in 4K Steelbook from Sony Pictures Home ...

Created on 24 February 2025

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150. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Panic Room: Steelbook (4K UHD Review)

There’s a single shot in David Fincher’s Panic Room that defines the film as a whole. It’s the moment when Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) has just gone to bed in her new four-story brownstone on the Upper West ...

Created on 24 February 2025

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