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[MY TWO CENTS] Our review of Dirty Harry 4K is here, plus Shout! Factory launches its Hong Kong Cinema Classics label with The Jet Li Collection in Ultra HD!

31. [MY TWO CENTS] Our review of Dirty Harry 4K is here, plus Shout! Factory launches its Hong Kong Cinema Classics label with The Jet Li Collection in Ultra HD!

We’ve got four new disc reviews for you guys to start the new week, including... Stephen’s look at both the regular 4K Ultra HD and 4K UHD Steelbook versions of Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry (1971) from Malpaso ...

Created on 28 April 2025

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32. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Dirty Harry: Steelbook (4K UHD Review)

On August 1, 1969, The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, and Vallejo Times all received letters from an anonymous individual claiming responsibility for the murders of Betty Lou Jensen, ...

Created on 28 April 2025

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33. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Dirty Harry (4K UHD Review)

On August 1, 1969, The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, and Vallejo Times all received letters from an anonymous individual claiming responsibility for the murders of Betty Lou Jensen, ...

Created on 28 April 2025

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34. [BLU-RAY DISC] I’m All Right Jack (Blu-ray Review)

I must admit the Boulting Brothers’ I’m All Right Jack leaves this reviewer somewhat bemused. While it’s easy to imagine 1959 British audiences laughing in recognition at this satire of British capitalism ...

Created on 28 April 2025

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35. [BLU-RAY DISC] Burke and Hare (Blu-ray Review)

Burke and Hare is based on a series of sixteen murders committed in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland, by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to anatomy professor Dr. Robert Knox. Medical schools ...

Created on 28 April 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Arrow’s July has Cobra & Zombi 2, plus Fabulous Films’ Dark Star 4K, the Looney Tunes Platinum BDs are returning & the 2025 Projector Shootout results are in!

36. [MY TWO CENTS] Arrow’s July has Cobra & Zombi 2, plus Fabulous Films’ Dark Star 4K, the Looney Tunes Platinum BDs are returning & the 2025 Projector Shootout results are in!

We have some good title announcement news to close out the week here at The Bits. The big news is that our friends at Arrow Video have just unveiled their July slate of 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray titles. ...

Created on 25 April 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Fallout: Season One, Small Soldiers, Air America, new Imprint & Indicator titles, Sonic Prime & a new Jurassic World 4K Trilogy Steelbook

37. [MY TWO CENTS] Fallout: Season One, Small Soldiers, Air America, new Imprint & Indicator titles, Sonic Prime & a new Jurassic World 4K Trilogy Steelbook

We have five new disc reviews to share with you today, including... Stuart’s look at Waris Hussein’s Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970) on Blu-ray from VCI Entertainment and William Wyler’s ...

Created on 24 April 2025

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

Like many of Lucio Fulci’s horror films, The Beyond (aka ...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L’aldilà and 7 Doors of Death) opens with a prologue that may initially feel like a non sequitur when compared to the ...

Created on 24 April 2025

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39. [BLU-RAY DISC] Liberation of L.B. Jones, The (Blu-ray Review)

Longtime director William Wyler’s final film, The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970) faintly echoes Norman Jewison’s earlier In the Heat of the Night (1967) done not as well. The cast is good, and the film ...

Created on 24 April 2025

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40. [BLU-RAY DISC] Eel, The (Blu-ray Review)

Director Shōhei Imamura was in the twilight of his life and his career before the release of The Eel (aka Unagi) in 1997. He hadn’t made a film in nearly a decade and many of the projects he was involved ...

Created on 23 April 2025

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41. [BLU-RAY DISC] Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (Blu-ray Review)

Something of a lost Gene Wilder movie, Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970) was a relatively low-budget ($850,000) feature from a minor company, UMC Pictures, which distributed less than 20 ...

Created on 23 April 2025

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42. [BLU-RAY DISC] Borderline (1930) (Blu-ray Review)

Paul Robeson is best known for his roles in the films The Emperor Jones (1933), Show Boat (1936), and King Solomon’s Mines (1937). An actor and singer, he was a commanding presence on screen, but his career ...

Created on 23 April 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] A new Jurassic Park 4K Trilogy is coming, plus St Elmo’s Fire, Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault: V1 details, Freaky Tales, Lilly Wachowski Q&A & more!

43. [MY TWO CENTS] A new Jurassic Park 4K Trilogy is coming, plus St Elmo’s Fire, Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault: V1 details, Freaky Tales, Lilly Wachowski Q&A & more!

We’ve got two more new disc reviews to share with you this afternoon, plus a bunch of exciting announcement news. But first as always, those reviews... Stuart has taken a look at Bruce David Klein’s Liza: ...

Created on 22 April 2025

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44. [BLU-RAY DISC] As Above, So Below: Limited Edition (Blu-ray Review)

Like most modern found footage horror films, As Above, So Below owes a debt to The Blair Witch Project (although even that film owes a debt to the real godfather of the genre, Cannibal Holocaust). Given ...

Created on 22 April 2025

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45. [BLU-RAY DISC] Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (Blu-ray Review)

As its subtitle suggests, the entertaining and informative Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story is more a celebration than a probing documentary of performer Liza Minnelli. Dominating the film ...

Created on 22 April 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Sinners, The Beyond, Shin Godzilla, more Eastwood films in 4K, King of New York & Caligula disc replacements, Screening Room AV projector shootout results & more!

46. [MY TWO CENTS] Sinners, The Beyond, Shin Godzilla, more Eastwood films in 4K, King of New York & Caligula disc replacements, Screening Room AV projector shootout results & more!

We have three new disc reviews to start the week out right for you this afternoon, including... Dennis’ thoughts on Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man (2025) in 4K Ultra HD from Blumhouse via Universal (with an ...

Created on 21 April 2025

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47. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Wolf Man (4K UHD Review)

Werewolves play a significant role in cinematic horror history, with Werewolf of London, The Wolf Man, The Curse of the Werewolf, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, and An American Werewolf in London among the ...

Created on 21 April 2025

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48. [BLU-RAY DISC] College Confidential (Blu-ray Review)

Until the ascent of Irwin Allen, Albert Zugsmith was Hollywood’s most alarmingly tasteless film producer. During his brief tenure at Universal-International, Zugsmith was assigned various projects, a handful ...

Created on 21 April 2025

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49. [BLU-RAY DISC] Belly of an Architect, The (Blu-ray Review)

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Created on 21 April 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] A New Restoration of Ben-Hur at the TCM Film Festival, plus Kingdom of Heaven 4K pre-orders, Just Friends BD replacement program, Freaky Tales & more!

50. [MY TWO CENTS] A New Restoration of Ben-Hur at the TCM Film Festival, plus Kingdom of Heaven 4K pre-orders, Just Friends BD replacement program, Freaky Tales & more!

Good afternoon, Bits readers! We’ve got some great release news for you today, but first we’re starting out with more new disc reviews… Tim has turned in his thoughts on Hanna-Barbera’s animated Magilla ...

Created on 17 April 2025

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51. [BLU-RAY DISC] Magilla Gorilla Show, The: The Complete Series (Blu-ray Review)

Hanna-Barbera Productions continued its streak of first-run syndicated cartoon extravaganzas with wacky anthropomorphized characters in The Magilla Gorilla Show, airing for three seasons from 1964 to 1966 ...

Created on 17 April 2025

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52. [BLU-RAY DISC] Chungking Express (Blu-ray Review)

Chungking Express unreels two parallel dramas in a wildly kinetic film whose inventive camera work, use of color, overwhelming sound design and brisk editing often dominate the simple stories being told. ...

Created on 17 April 2025

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53. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Café Flesh (4K UHD Review)

When Café Flesh was released in 1982, it stood out as being one of the most ambitious and unique adult films ever made, and more than four decades later, there’s still nothing else quite like it. It was ...

Created on 16 April 2025

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54. [BLU-RAY DISC] Cruel Sea, The (Blu-ray Review)

Arguably the greatest World War II naval film, The Cruel Sea (1953) eschews Hollywood war movie clichés and propaganda for an unusually realistic, deglamorized portrait of everyday wartime life. Based ...

Created on 16 April 2025

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55. [BLU-RAY DISC] Women on the Run (Blu-ray Review)

David Lai and Cory Yuen’s 1993 film Women on the Run exists at the uneasy confluence between Hong Kong’s “Girls with Guns” subgenre and the much harsher world of Category III films. The Girls with Guns ...

Created on 16 April 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Criterion’s July includes Barry Lyndon in 4K, plus Lionsgate Limited’s Kick-Ass art, a Sunset Boulevard 4K from Paramount, Space: 1999, Thunderbirds & more!

56. [MY TWO CENTS] Criterion’s July includes Barry Lyndon in 4K, plus Lionsgate Limited’s Kick-Ass art, a Sunset Boulevard 4K from Paramount, Space: 1999, Thunderbirds & more!

We have no less than SIX new disc reviews for you all to enjoy here at The Bits today, including... Stephen’s thoughts on Abel Ferrara’s King of New York (1990) and Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct (1992) ...

Created on 15 April 2025

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57. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] King of New York: Steelbook (4K UHD Review)

There’s no way to do justice to King of New York without getting into spoiler territory, so caveat emptor: there be spoilers here. Abandon hope, all ye that enter. Skip straight to the video section if ...

Created on 15 April 2025

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58. [BLU-RAY DISC] Firestarter Collection: Limited Edition (Blu-ray Review)

Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter was adapted by Mark L. Lester four years after its publication and released through Universal Pictures with a mild box office take, but poor critical reception. Lester, ...

Created on 15 April 2025

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59. [BLU-RAY DISC] Hi-Jack Highway aka Gas-Oil (Blu-ray Review)

A decidedly low-wattage French noir thriller, Hi-Jack Highway (1955) has a thin, mostly uneventful plot that, with minor alterations, could easily fit a 30-minute episode of Highway Patrol. Its lack of ...

Created on 15 April 2025

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60. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Basic Instinct: Steelbook (4K UHD Review)

Basic Instinct was Paul Verhoeven’s third American feature, one that moved him out of the realm of satirical science fiction and back into exploring the kinds of eroticism that had marked many of his previous ...

Created on 14 April 2025

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