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181. [BLU-RAY DISC] Alaskans, The: The Complete Series (Blu-ray Review)

As far as Hollywood’s major studios were concerned, television was the mortal enemy from its dissemination in the late 1940s through the mid-1950s. They generally would not allow their contract stars to ...

Created on 10 February 2025

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182. [BLU-RAY DISC] Nora Prentiss (Blu-ray Review)

In film noir, certain elements appear again and again. One of the most prevalent is the femme fatale, a woman whose allure, influence, ambitions, and persistence lead a man to commit a crime or crimes. ...

Created on 10 February 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Dune: Prophecy, A24’s shop-exclusive Babygirl Blu-ray & 4K, BFI sets La Haine & Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood for Ultra HD & some context for Sony’s Panic Room UHD

183. [MY TWO CENTS] Dune: Prophecy, A24’s shop-exclusive Babygirl Blu-ray & 4K, BFI sets La Haine & Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood for Ultra HD & some context for Sony’s Panic Room UHD

We have a few more new announcements to share with you today, and a little bit of an update... First, A24 has just announced new A24 Shop-exclusive Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD editions of Halina Reijn’s Babygirl ...

Created on 06 February 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Tommy Boy 4K is official, plus Things to Do in Denver, Clint Eastwood 4K & Arrow error updates, Hans Zimmer delayed & the impact of new tariffs on disc prices

184. [MY TWO CENTS] Tommy Boy 4K is official, plus Things to Do in Denver, Clint Eastwood 4K & Arrow error updates, Hans Zimmer delayed & the impact of new tariffs on disc prices

We’ve got a couple quick items of announcement news for you all today, but first I wanted to let you all know that our Release Dates and Artwork section has been updated to include all the latest Blu-ray, ...

Created on 04 February 2025

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185. [MY TWO CENTS] Universal sets Wolf Man for 4K, plus the Saturn Awards, Mufasa, September 5 & more announcements!

Afternoon, Bits readers... and welcome to the first week of February! Tim is taking a much-deserved week off to spend time with his family, but we’ll have plenty of news content here and maybe a review ...

Created on 03 February 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Arrow’s April has Long Kiss Goodnight 4K & a V-Cinema Blu-ray box, plus Sony’s new Stripes 4K Steelbook, Career Opportunities & Sneakers in 4K, A Knight’s War & more!

186. [MY TWO CENTS] Arrow’s April has Long Kiss Goodnight 4K & a V-Cinema Blu-ray box, plus Sony’s new Stripes 4K Steelbook, Career Opportunities & Sneakers in 4K, A Knight’s War & more!

We have just a couple of quick things to report here at The Bits today, news-wise... First, Kino Lorber Studio Classics has just revealed that John Hughes’ Career Opportunities (1991) and Phil Alden Robinson’s ...

Created on 31 January 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Arrow UK sets Leone’s Dollars Trilogy for 4K, plus Paramount’s Section 31, Sony’s stand-alone Gandhi 4K Steelbook & 3-D Film Archive’s Bob Furmanek talks aspect ratios!

187. [MY TWO CENTS] Arrow UK sets Leone’s Dollars Trilogy for 4K, plus Paramount’s Section 31, Sony’s stand-alone Gandhi 4K Steelbook & 3-D Film Archive’s Bob Furmanek talks aspect ratios!

Three more new disc reviews are available here at The Bits today, including... Stephen’s look at Joseph Cates’s Who Killed Teddy Bear? (1965) in 4K Ultra HD from Vinegar Syndrome’s excellent and endlessly ...

Created on 30 January 2025

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188. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Who Killed Teddy Bear? (4K UHD Review)

Who Killed Teddy Bear? (or Who Killed Teddy Bear, as it’s actually styled during the opening credits) is a time capsule of a bygone era, thinly disguised as a sleazy exploitation thriller. It was a product ...

Created on 30 January 2025

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189. [BLU-RAY DISC] Edge of Eternity (UK Import) (Blu-ray Review)

Edge of Eternity (1959) is a potboiler enlivened by good direction from Don Siegel and excellent use of Grand Canyon locations. The picture seems to have been inspired by the success of crime/police procedural ...

Created on 30 January 2025

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190. [BLU-RAY DISC] Mr. Lucky (Blu-ray Review)

By 1943, Cary Grant had established himself as a major star with lead roles in the comedies The Awful Truth, His Girl Friday, and The Philadelphia Story and the Hitchcock thriller Suspicion. Grant takes ...

Created on 30 January 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] KLSC sets Donovan’s Reef & Sands of Iwo Jima for 4K, plus Moana 2, Paddington 2, Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague 4K, an update on Arrow’s Inglourious Basterds 4K & more

191. [MY TWO CENTS] KLSC sets Donovan’s Reef & Sands of Iwo Jima for 4K, plus Moana 2, Paddington 2, Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague 4K, an update on Arrow’s Inglourious Basterds 4K & more

Today’s new disc reviews here at The Digital Bits include... Stephen’s review of Michael Ritchie’s Prime Cut (1972) in 4K Ultra HD from Kino Lorber Studio Classics. Dennis’ review of Budd Boetticher’s ...

Created on 29 January 2025

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192. [BLU-RAY 3D] Domo Arigato (Blu-ray 3D Review)

Arch Oboler’s Domo Arigato is a little seen 1973 3D film that has rarely been screened to the public since its very brief and very limited release (with only two known screenings in 1973 and 1990). Arch ...

Created on 29 January 2025

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193. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Prime Cut (4K UHD Review)

Michael Ritchie’s Prime Cut may not be as well-remembered today as other Lee Marvin thrillers from the same period like Point Blank, but it’s just as much of a landmark American crime film. Prime Cut is ...

Created on 29 January 2025

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194. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] April Fool’s Day (4K UHD Review)

In the wake of Halloween and Friday the 13th, there were a plethora of slasher films released with a myriad of storylines, killers, and varying qualities—from the bottom of the barrel to the surprisingly ...

Created on 28 January 2025

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195. [BLU-RAY DISC] Killer Is Loose, The (Blu-ray Review)

The Killer Is Loose brings to mind the adage “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” This noir thriller is a police procedural involving a bank robber’s obsessive drive to avenge himself against the cop ...

Created on 28 January 2025

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196. [BLU-RAY DISC] Monte Walsh (Blu-ray Review)

William A. Fraker (1923-2010) was a cinematographer whose impressive list of credits include Rosemary’s Baby, Bullitt, The Day of the Dolphin, Exorcist II: The Heretic, 1941, Sharkey’s Machine, Murphy’s ...

Created on 28 January 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Severin reveals Russ Meyer’s Motorpsycho & Up! in 4K, Shout!’s April slate, Yellowstone on Blu-ray & more, plus no... Sony is NOT quitting the Blu-ray business

197. [MY TWO CENTS] Severin reveals Russ Meyer’s Motorpsycho & Up! in 4K, Shout!’s April slate, Yellowstone on Blu-ray & more, plus no... Sony is NOT quitting the Blu-ray business

Our new disc review for today is none other than Stephen’s look at Wolfgang Petersen’s The NeverEnding Story (1984) in a terrific new 4K Ultra HD Limited Edition box set from our friends at Via Vision’s ...

Created on 27 January 2025

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198. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] NeverEnding Story, The: 40th Anniversary Limited Edition (4K UHD Review)

Wolfgang Peterson’s 1984 adaptation of Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story is a beloved family film that celebrates the power of the imagination, in no less imaginative fashion. Not only does it present ...

Created on 27 January 2025

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199. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Inglourious Basterds: Limited Edition (4K UHD Review)

Prior to Quentin Tarantino writing a fairy tale version of history in Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, his first stab at the idea was 2009’s Inglourious Basterds, which was derived from 1978’s The Inglorious ...

Created on 24 January 2025

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200. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Alphaville (4K UHD Review)

Jean-Luc Godard was eight films deep into his career when Alphaville aka Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (or Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution) hit theatres in France in ...

Created on 24 January 2025

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201. [BLU-RAY DISC] Hi-De-Ho and Boarding House Blues (Blu-ray Review)

“Race films” were the 500 or so films made for African-American audiences from roughly 1915 through the early 1950s, most of which are lost. These films featured all-black casts and played in black neighborhood ...

Created on 24 January 2025

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202. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Vampires: Collector's Edition (4K UHD Review

John Carpenter has been a lifelong fan of Westerns in general and Howard Hawks in particular, but while he’s made plenty of allusions to the master storyteller in several of his films, he’s only addressed ...

Created on 23 January 2025

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203. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Addiction, The (4K UHD Review)

An experimental film that hearkens back to Abel Ferrara’s early career with similarities to films like Ms. 45 and The Driller Killer, The Addiction is a totally cerebral and eccentric vision of an urban ...

Created on 23 January 2025

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204. [BLU-RAY DISC] Beast Within, The (Blu-ray Review)

Directed by Philippe Mora (Howling II and III) and adapted from Edward Levy’s novel by Tom Holland (Fright Night and Child’s Play), 1982’s The Beast Within is an oddball horror film that didn’t do well ...

Created on 23 January 2025

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205. [BLU-RAY DISC] Blood and Lace (Blu-ray Review)

Blood and Lace was released by American International Pictures in 1971. Like many horror films, it fell into obscurity for many years but built a small cult audience, at least among those who managed to ...

Created on 23 January 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] A24’s exclusive Sing Sing Blu-ray, HBO’s The Last of Us: S1 Steelbook, Mary and Max, Documentary Now, Bluth’s Anastasia (1997) in 4K Digital & more

206. [MY TWO CENTS] A24’s exclusive Sing Sing Blu-ray, HBO’s The Last of Us: S1 Steelbook, Mary and Max, Documentary Now, Bluth’s Anastasia (1997) in 4K Digital & more

Afternoon, friends! We have three new disc reviews for you today, including... Stephen’s look at Ramón Menéndez’s Stand and Deliver (1988) on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection. An update of ...

Created on 22 January 2025

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207. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Yojimbo / Sanjuro: Two Samurai Films by Akira Kurosawa (4K UHD Review)

If you’re looking for the no-fail, crafted-for-the-masses, mainstream Kurosawa film, Yojimbo is your go-to choice. It has all of the necessary ingredients for a thoroughly engaging movie experience. It’s ...

Created on 22 January 2025

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208. [BLU-RAY DISC] Stand and Deliver (Blu-ray Review)

Stand and Deliver is a potent tribute to Jaime Escalante, who helped to revitalize the teaching of mathematics in underprivileged communities. Escalante was born and educated in Bolivia, but he later emigrated ...

Created on 22 January 2025

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209. [DVD] Critic, The (DVD Review)

Movies about the theater take us backstage where the drama is often greater than on stage. The setting offers opportunities for many genres, from broad comedy (The Producers) to horror (Theatre of Blood). ...

Created on 22 January 2025

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210. [MY TWO CENTS] Universal makes Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu (2024) official for Blu-ray & 4K on 2/18, plus Sonic the Hedgehog 3, The Fall, Urotsukidoji & more!

Cheers, Bits readers! Here’s our latest batch of new disc reviews for today… Stephen has taken a look at Michael Mann’s The Keep (1983) in 4K Ultra HD from Vinegar Syndrome. Dennis has reviewed Robert ...

Created on 21 January 2025

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